What it does
How to install
Controls
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Wavy Color
What it does
Wavy Color creates color gradients and recolors pictures.
How to install
Illustrated installation instructions are online.
To use this software, you need a paint program which accepts standard Photoshop 3.02 plugins.
Just put the plug-in filter into the folder where your paint program expects to find it. If you have Photoshop, the folder is Photoshop:Plugins:Filters or Photoshop:Plug-Ins. You must restart Photoshop before it will notice the new plug-in. It will appear in the menus as Filters->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color.
Most other paint programs follow a similar scheme.
If you have Paint Shop Pro: you have to create a new folder, put the plug-in filter into it, and then tell PSP to look there.
PSP 7:
Choose the menu File-> Preferences-> File Locations... and choose the Plug-in Filters tab. Use one of the "Browse" buttons to choose the folder that contains the plug-in.
The plugin is now installed. To use it, open any image and select an area. From the menus, choose Effects->Plug-in Filters->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color.
PSP 8, 9, X, and XI:
Choose the menu File-> Preferences-> File Locations... In the dialog box that appears, choose Plug-ins from the list. Click "Add." If you are using PSP 8 or 9, click "Browse". Now choose the folder that contains the plug-in.
The plugin is now installed. To use it, open any image and select an area. From the menus, choose Effects->Plugins->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color.
Controls
When you invoke Wavy Color, a dialog box will appear:


Quick start
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Never mind the controls. Just click the dice.
For those of you who are really interested, there are three groups of controls, each of which corresponds to a RGB/CMY pair for the color channel. The controls influence a sine wave that's used as a toning curve. The top control adjusts the frequency of the wave. The next control adjusts the wave's phase. The last two controls adjust the zero shift and amplitude of the wave. Clipping is prevented by tying the amplitude to the zero shift.
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dice
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Other controls
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Dice The dice choose a random effect. Click as much as you want to
see different effects.
Reset Gives you the "factory settings."
Export to PSD Renders the result to a a .psd image file, which can have custom dimensions.
Glue mode popup menu Lets you combine the result with the underlying image in various ways. Modes other than "normal" produce special effects. The next-glue button advances to the next glue mode.
Info Briefly explains of the controls.
Make Gallery Builds a web page showing all the presets in a folder that you choose.
Send to photo manager Sends the result to iPhoto (on Macintosh).
Plus, % and minus buttons: These zoom the preview in and out. Drag the preview
to move it.
Load preset Boss Emboss comes with some presets, which are files containing
settings. To load one, click this button and browse for a preset
file.
Save preset When you make an effect you like, click this button to save the
settings in a file.
Undo backs up one step.
OK Applies the effect to your image.
Cancel Dismisses the filter, and leaves the image unchanged.
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dice

reset

export to PSD

next glue

info

make gallery

send to photo manager

load preset

save preset

undo
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Memory dots
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Although you can save your settings permanently to files, you can also stash settings in memory dots.
Click an empty dot to stash the current settings in it.
Click a full dot to retrieve its settings.
Hover the mouse over a dot to see what it contains.
Option-click to erase a dot on Macintosh.
Right-click to erase a dot on Windows.
If a dot is orange, your are currently using that dot's settings.
Dots remember their contents until you erase them. If you'd rather make a temporary dot that forgets when you exit the plug-in, control-click it. Temporary dots are square.
When you start the plug-in, it puts the starting settings in a temporary dot. That way it's easy to start over without exiting.
On Mac, you can drag-and-drop settings files from the central memory well.
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memory dots
 empty
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 current
 temporary
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Version History
Version 1.4 May 2008
Adds convenience features to the interface. The Mac version is resizable.
Version 1.35 June 2007
Fixes a Macintosh problem where the plug-in could have bad settings or crash when installed on a machine for the first time.
Version 1.3 February 2007
Universal binary for Macintosh. Works as a Smart Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh. Fixes a Windows problem where the plug-in wouldn't remember its registration when it was installed in one user account but activated in another.
Version 1.2 June 2005
More glue modes. Faster. Larger previews in the file chooser.
Version 1.1 May 2004
More glue modes. Works with 16-bit-per-component color.
Version 1.04 December 2003
Recordable as a Photoshop action.
Version 1.02 September 2003
Adds more glue modes and the next-glue button.
Version 1.0 March 2003
The first release in this form.
The Furbo Filters were originally developed by Craig Hockenberry. |
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Questions
Answers to common technical questions appear on the support page.
For bug reports and technical questions about the software, please
write to support@flamingpear.com .
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