About AlphaRay Direct
AlphaRay Direct is the Plug-in Software for Adobe Photoshop that places images along objects.
AlphaRay Direct is able to place the figure (objects) along the texts or images (to use as a mask). Simply, that is all what AlphaRay Direct can do. However, the AplphaRay direct has inexhaustible settings, so the AlphaRay Direct reveals more of its features as you use.
AlphaRay Direct is also able to do layout the texts and the object that is placed along texts. Therefore, you can place the objects naturally and randomly. Moreover, AlphaRay Direct can place the shadow of the objects with highly functional settings. Furether more, your works will turn our very natra. AlphaRay Direct can place multiple objects, and is able to change the tone of the color automatically. Those setting is able to save as a style and you can load the style whenever you want.
How to use the AlphaRay Direct
* The images that placed by AlphaRay direct call "Object"
1.The Image placed along the text.
Please input the text, which you want to use in the "text tub."
The object will be placed by AlphaRay Direct along the text that you input in the text tub.
2. Use Current Layer as a Mask Image.
a. Object placement using mask image
The shape is made by Adobe PhotoShop's Pen tool, brush tool, pencil tool, or text tool can be used as a mask image. The AlphaRay Direct aranged image along the shape, which you made.
b. Object placement using path.
AlphaRay Direct can place the object along a path image, which made by Adobe Illustrator.
Settings
* The images that placed by AlphaRay direct call "Object"
1."Text" Tab
Please input the texts that you want to use with the AlphaRay Direct. The AlphaRay Direct places object along inputed text.
You can change the setting such as the text's size, aspect ratio, width, rotetion, space between letters, and spece between lines.
2. "Object" Tab
* The "object" is the image, which is placed by AlphaRay Direct.
In the "Object" tab you can set / w (transparency), s (shadow's density), x (shadows's horizontal position), y (shadow's vertical position), d (shadow's diffusion) of the object.
When you use the palette, you can use 8 objects at the maximum. You can changes the setting of the object's probability as an appearance for the object. For example, when you put 2 of start shaped object and 1 heart shaped object to the "image combo box" the probalitity of the appaearance for the objects are 2 star shaped objects by 1 heart shaped objects.
Moreover, you can choose the setting of the object's size, the space between the objects and the maxum tolerance of the objects.
3. "Property" Tab
The property tab changes property of the object randomly.
You can change the maximum range for the size, the horizontal position, the versical position, the rotation, the color tone, the color brightness, the color chroma, the transparency, the random seed of the objects. When you set the higher value, you can get the extreme changes for the objects. You can set the random pattern in the "Random Seed"
Capable Image format
Object Image (Arrang Image) :
JPEG(RGB), PNG（24bitRGB, TIFF(RGB), GIF
background Image：
RGB/CMYK (based upon Photoshop)
Save Image
Mac :JPEG,PNG,TIFF
Win :JPEG,PNG,TIFF,GIF
Product information
- Name
- AlphaRay Direct
- Price
- U.S.$ 159.00
- OS: Macintosh
- MacOS X 10.4.1 or later
- OS: Windows
- Windows Xp/Vista
- Adobe Photoshop
- CS/CS2/CS3/CS4 Compatible
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