![]() ![]() You can take an image and turn it into a constellation of stars with the Constellation filter. I would have liked it if there had been a control to just radiate it from the top, side, or back of the image. It can radiate from the whole image or from the center of the image. The Electrify filter radiates from the image. This filter has been tremendously improved since Xenofex 1 and I found it gave very realistic results. The following are screen captures of some of the many choices to create lightning. There are many controls to use to create and fine tune the bolt of lightning. Also, the beginning and ending points of the lightning can be designated. It can be created on its own layer so that it can be manipulated afterwards if desired. Xenofex 2 has improved how it creates lightning. Adding lightning to an image can look very artificial. However, they were not built on top of each other in the program but had to be done one at a time. To show how three of the filters work in Xenofex 2, I used Stain with the ring effect selected, Crumple, and the new Burnt Edges. The default for the Xenofex 2 preset has the stain having an irregular edge while in Xenofex 1 it had a straight edge. The above shows the stain filter using the coffee preset as a default. While the difference in the filters cannot be seen from the above image, one can tell that there are more variations possible with Xenofex 2 than there were with Xenofex 1. They have, also, added more flexibility to the filters. ![]() Filters can be launched from Fireworks’ filter menu without problems.' Alien Skin has modernized the interface and made it more user friendly.
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