by
David Nagel
Executive
Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com
Sapphire Innovations
has released six new sets of addons for Adobe Photoshop. Sapphire
Displacer Vols. 1 and 2 are collections of displacement effects,
which can be used to displace the entire image or apply to layers
or to a select or displace text or individual letters. They can
alszo be used to create glass distortions, textures, etc. They
can also be stacked to create effect combinations.
Displacer Vol. 1 includes a variety of styles, from blurry to
the rough to the lined. There are 350 displacement maps in this
set. Vol. 2 focuses more on inset-, contoured- and line-based
jarring displacement maps. There are 160 displacement maps in
Vol. 2.
The company has also released four new volumes of patterns for
Photoshop. Each one includes 80 patterns at either 250 x 250 or
300 x 300.
Both the patterns and displacement maps require Photoshop 6. Patterns
cost $24.95 for Vol. 1 and $12.95 each for vols. 2 though 4. The
displacement maps cost $19.95 each. All sets are available for
Macintosh and Windows. For more information, visit http://www.sapphire-innovations.com.
