--------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - AE PowerEffects for - - - - A r t E f f e c t - - - - Version 1.x and 2.x - - - - - - Author: Simon Brett Edwards - - © 1997 HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Crystallise ~~~~~~~~~~~ This breaks the image up into a mosaic of coloured pieces. Controls: Size 2 to 100 Controls the size of the resulting pieces. Rough 1 to 4 This can be used to vary the resulting image. A setting of 1 gives the standard crystallise which closely resembles the original image. Settings of 2 or higher give a rougher looking result that quite often contains small circles of colour. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: CRYSTALLISE SIZE/K/N,ROUGH/K/N -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pointise ~~~~~~~~ This redraws the image as collection of artistice dots. It can also redraw the image as a collection of spheres which look like molecules. Controls: Spacing 1 to 100 Controls the amount of space between each of the dots. Radius 1 to 100 Controls the size of each of the dots. Molecular This checkbox turns on molecular where spheres are drawn instead of dots. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: POINTISE SPACING/K/N,RADIUS/K/N,MOLECULAR/K -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fish Eye Lens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Applies a fish eye lens to the image. This makes the image look like it is being viewed through the peep hole in a door. Controls: Angle 1 to 90 Controls how strong the effect is. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: FISHEYELENS ANGLE/N -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extract Detail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This highlights all of the fine detail in the image. Controls: Size 1 to 25 Controls how large the detail that is highlighted should be. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: EXTRACTDETAIL SIZE/N -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- False Colour ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This recolours the image by swapping the colour channels in the original. Controls: Red Red Use the red colour channel for the result's red. Green Use the green colour channel for the result's red. Blue Use the blue colour channel for the result's red. Green see above Blue see above Negative Red Negate the result's red channel. Negative Green Negate the result's green channel. Negative Blue Negate the result's blue channel. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: FALSECOLOUR RED/K,GREEN/K,BLUE/K,NEG_RED/K,NEG_GREEN/K,NEG_BLUE/K The RED, GREEN and BLUE arguements take one of "RED", "GREEN" or "BLUE" to specify which colour channel to use. The NEG_RED, NEG_GREEN and NEG_BLUE arguements take "ON", "OFF", "YES" or "NO" to specify if it should be negated or pass through. Example: FALSECOLOUR RED="BLUE" GREEN="RED" BLUE="GREEN" NEG_RED="YES" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halftone ~~~~~~~~ Converts the image to two colours an artistic pattern. Controls: Pattern Circles Use a pattern of circles. Squares Use a pattern of squares. Horizontal Lines Use horizontal lines for the pattern Vertical Lines Use vertical lines the pattern. Pyramid Use a pyramid pattern. Diamonds Use a diamond pattern. Bricks Use a brick pattern. Size 1 to 128 Controls how big the pattern used should be. Colour 1 White Use white for the first colour. Black Use black for the first colour. Red Use red for the first colour. Green Use green for the first colour. Blue Use blue for the first colour. Yellow Use yellow for the first colour. Cyan Use cyan for the first colour. Magenta Use magenta for the first colour. Foreground Use the current foreground colour for the first colour. Background Use the current background colour for the first colour. Colour 2 see above ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: HALFTONE PATTERN/K,SIZE/K/N,FORE/K,BACK/K The PATTERN arguement can be one of the following "CIRCLES", "SQUARES", "HORIZONTAL LINES", "HORIZONTAL", "VERTICAL LINES", "VERTICAL", "PYRAMID", "DIAMONDS" or "BRICKS". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lens Flare ~~~~~~~~~~ The Lens Flare filter lets you create many different and varied lens flare effects from the standard photography lens flare effect through to stars and other artistic effects. The main part of the effect is the bright center. The effect can also have a number of bright rays coming out from the center. These rays can be random postions and lengths or in uniform positons around the center of the effect. Finally, the effect can also have a ring or halo surrounding the lens flare. Some good presets are provided which make good starting points for designing your own effect. Controls: X The x position of the center of the effect. Y The y position of the center of the effect. Size 1 to 200 The size of the effect relative to the size of the image Bright 1 to 200 How bright the main effect should be. Colour White Use white as the flare colour. Red Use red as the flare colour. Green Use green as the flare colour. Blue Use blue as the flare colour. Yellow Use yellow as the flare colour. Cyan Use cyan as the flare colour. Magenta Use magenta as the flare colour. Foreground Use the current foreground colour. Ray Number 0 to 100 The number of rays. Ray Type Random The rays will be random lengths and positions. Uniform The rays will uniform lengths and positions around the center. Ray Width 1 to 100 The width of the rays. Ray Bright 1 to 100 How bright the rays should be. Halo Radius 0 to 100 The radius of the halo relative to size of the main effect. Halo Width 0 to 100 The width of halo. Halo Bright 0 to 100 How bright the halo should be. Presets Nuclear Preset resembling an explosion. Shine Reflection from a bright surface. Spotlight Flare resembling a bright studio light. Star 6 pointed star and halo. Sun A standard photographic style flare. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: LENSFLARE X/K/N,Y/K/N,SIZE/K/N,BRIGHT/K/N,COLOUR/K,RN=RAY_NUMBER/K/N, RT=RAY_TYPE/K,RW=RAY_WIDTH/K/N,RB=RAY_BRIGHT/K/N, HR=HALO_RADIUS/K/N,HW=HALO_WIDTH/K/N,HB=HALO_BRIGHT/K/N The COLOUR arguement can be one of "WHITE", "RED", "GREEN", "BLUE", "YELLOW", "CYAN", "MAGENTA" or "FOREGROUND". The RAY_TYPE arguement can be either "RANDOM" or "UNIFORM". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lightning ~~~~~~~~~ This lets you add lightning and electricity effects to your images. Controls: Glow 0 to 100 Controls how big the glowing part surrounding the lightning should be. Colour White White lightning. Red Red lightning. Green Green lightning. Blue Blue lightning. Yellow Yellow lightning. Cyan Cyan lightning. Magenta Magenta lightning. Foreground Use the current foreground colour. Direction Left-Right Lightning goes from left to right. Right-Left Lightning goes from right to left. Top-Bottom Lightning goes from top to bottom. Bottom-Top Lightning goes from bottom to the top. Turn Angle 0 to 45 Controls how curved the lightning should be. Lines Width 1 to 100 Controls how width the lines used to draw the lightning should be. Lines Length 2 to 100 Controls how long each line should be. Branch Amount 0 to 100 Controls the amount of branches the lightning should have coming from the main part. Branch Length 1 to 500 Controls the maximum length of the branches. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: LIGHTNING GLOW/K/N,COLOUR/K,DIRECTION/K,ANGLE/K/N,WIDTH/K/N,LENGTH/K/N, BA=BRANCH_AMOUNT\K\N,BL=BRANCH_LENGTH\K\N The COLOUR arguement takes one of the following "WHITE", "RED", "GREEN", "BLUE", "YELLOW", "CYAN", "MAGENTA" or "FOREGROUND". The DIRECTION arguement takes either "LEFT-RIGHT", "RIGHT-LEFT", "TOP-BOTTOM" or "BOTTOM-TOP". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patchwork ~~~~~~~~~ This redraws the image as a patchwork quilt made of individual squares. Controls: Size 2 to 256 This controls the size of squares. Bevel 0 to 100 This controls how big the bevel edge on each square should be. Variable If this checkbox is set then squares are drawn so that they appear to have different heights. ARexx Interface (ArtEffect 2.0+ only) Command Template: PATCHWORK SIZE/K/N,BEVEL/K/N,BRIGHT/K/N,VARIABLE/K The VARIABLE arguement takes either "YES", "NO", "ON" or "OFF".