Auto FX DreamSuite Series One & Two - Design Tutorials

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Auto FX DreamSuite Series One & Two

Auto FX DreamSuite Series One offers a variety of powerful visual effects that allow you to create stunning images and artwork. DreamSuite lets you achieve a range of realistic results that are difficult or impossible to obtain using any other software – it allows you to digitally replicate many special effects that print designers often have to produce by hand.
You can crease, crumple and crackle digital images in a manner so realistic that it is almost as though you've been able to reach into your computer screen and manipulate your images with your own hands.

Unique Visual Effects
The other visual effects that DreamSuite One offers are really quite unique – for instance, Chisel allows you make text appear as if it was carved or hammered from stone, while Dimension X lets you create 3-D metallic bevels.
It also offers several incredibly realistic effects, though admittedly they are fairly limited in scope – for example, Instamatic replicates the appearance of a classic, white Polaroid frame around your image, while Tape creates realistic renderings of Scotch, duct and masking tape, among others, that can be applied to your image.

Unique & Friendly Interface
Like many of Auto FX's offerings, DreamSuite includes a stand-alone imaging application as well as a highly integrative Photoshop plug-in.

DreamSuite works with both Windows (98 and later) and Macintosh (OS 9 and OS X) and requires at least 128MB of RAM. However, 256MB or more is recommended for optimal use.
Using their unique Smartlayers technology, DreamSuite allows you to combine masking, photos, effects and color correction layers together in a single document. Unlimited undo/redo functionality lets you go back and rework brush strokes, effect settings, object transformations and more.

DreamSuite Series One Includes 18 Visual Effects
DreamSuite was designed to offer an infinite amount of variation into the effects to avoid a "canned" look. Here is a list of the included effects.

35mm Frame - Put your photos into 35mm slides and create collages of your work

Dimension X - Over a dozen unique depth bevels, shading, glassy reflection & more

Photo Border - Add stylized borders around your photos and overlap collages

Chisel - Unique hammered, chipped and dented depth bevel effects

Focus - Simulate soft focus, zoom, rotated, and motion focus effects

Photo Depth - Add depth to your photos by fraying, denting and crimping

Crackle - Simulate photo-realistic aged photo cracks and crackled surfaces

Hot Stamp - Add punch to your type and graphics with roughened edges, blends and melded glows

Photo Tone - Blended sepia tones, focal glows and mottled backgrounds

Crease - Interactively bend and crease your photos for unique depth looks

Instamatic - Surround your photos with a photo-realistic instamatic frame

Putty - Bend, twist, enlarge, push, reshape, squish and reform your images with bezier tools

Cubism - Add artistic cubed shapes to your photos and backgrounds

Liquid Metal - Brush and paint with liquid mercury, melted gold and other metals

Ripple - Interactive photo-realistic ripples, waves, water surfaces

Deckle - Rip and tear your photos to give them a torn deckled appearance

Metal Mixer - Blend metal surfaces together for a mix of unique depth effects and metal blending

Tape - Photo-realistic masking tape, transparent, duct, sports and other tape types

Auto FX DreamSuite Series Two

Auto FX DreamSuite Series Two isn't so much as an upgrade of its popular Series One program as it is an expansion, offering 12 new visual effects ranging from plastic wrap to filmstrip. Fully compatible with DreamSuite Series One, Series Two installs into the same DreamSuite interface to increase the number of effects you have at your creative disposal.

With Film Grain, you can realistically replicate the appearance of traditional high-grain print film in your digital images. Puzzle Pieces lets you turn your digital image into a puzzle, with pieces that you can move around and layer. You can create film-strip effects for individual images using Film Frame Art, which you can then layer together to create a collage-type design.

DreamSuite Series Two Includes 14 Visual Effects
DreamSuite Series Two effects focus on enhancing photographs. Here is a list of the included effects.

2 1/4 - Photo-realistic 2 1/4 film frames with unique translucency

FilmFrame Art - Combine images together using 2 1/4, 4x5 and 35mm filmstrip collages

PlasticWrap - Make elements in a photo look like they are pressing against a sheet of plastic

4 x 5 - Photo-realistic 4 x 5 film frames with unique translucency.

Mesh - Weave together strips of photos in a creative mesh effect

Puzzle Pieces - Turn your photos into puzzles with realistic pieces you can move around and layer

Dreamy Photo - Give your images a soft, diffused and dreamy appearance

Mosaic - Turn your images into hand crafted mosaic tiles for a beautiful look

Tile - Cut and stack your photos into squares, circles, triangles and other shapes for a unique layered appearance

FilmGrain - Simulate traditional high-grain films for stunning enhancements

PhotoPress - Press photos down into the background scene for a distinctive look

Wrinkle - Apply photo-realistic wrinkles and depth shading to your photos

FilmStrip - Add multiple photos to strips of developed translucent film with photo-realistic shapes

PhotoStrips - Slice and overlap image strips to form unique visual effects that add interest to any image

Summary
Combined with Series One, Auto FX's DreamSuite has produced a collection of highly realistic and inimitable effects that stand out from the pack. Designed to empower your creativity, DreamSuite offers unlimited design possibilities for both the beginner and the seasoned professional. If you require any or all of these effects, this program is unbeatable in terms of its simplicity and affordability – it does what it claims to do and does it quite well. This is a sweet set of plugins that will make any graphic designer happy.

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