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Original Image
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After play with Eye Candy 6 Animal Fur
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The filters in Eye Candy 6 are split in two categories:
Text and Selection Filters:
- Including Corona, Backlight, Motion Trail, Smoke, Fire, Chrome, and more...
Texture Filters:
- Including Animal Fur, Brick, Metal, Squint, Wood, Weave, and more...
Of course, I won't be going through everything available here in this review, but only those things that I really liked. You can see a full list of the filters and examples of them on the Alien Skin site, here.

Eye Candy 6 Squint Filter
Now, the Squint Filter was a bit tricky for me to get the hang of using. And in actuality, none of the presets got me close to what I was hoping for with the above picture, so I explored on my own enough to find out what I needed to do, and found that subtle adjustments yield cool results. And this brings me to another item I should mention about the Eye Candy 6 interface, and that is that each adjustment control will display tooltips on rollover. This certainly helped in using the Squint filter.

Eye Candy 6 Swirl Filter
The Swirl Filter used in the above image was wacky-cool fun. And the following images are some tests with textures. The first two are my tests, and the Eye image was courtesy of the Alien Skin site. It was just too cool to show how far you can go to create, using multiple effects, so I had to include it.
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Eye Candy 6 Chrome Filter
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Eye Candy 6 Rust texture and Drip Filter
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Example from the Alien Skin website showing further combined filter use
And lastly, I had to have a little play with smoke effects... My little sister may kill me for this one ;)

Endnotes
This set of filters is really wonderful and fun to use. The interface is well-designed and offers plenty of help along the way. Aside from that, the uses of many of these filters will certainly come in handy over and over again, and would be nice to have in your arsenal when needed.
Now, even though I had mentioned earlier about the panel access not being supported yet in Photoshop CS5, Alien Skin has assured me it is being worked on for the next update. Not really a huge deal to me, as you can still just as easily use it from the drop-down. So, my only real gripe might be the price. Don't get me wrong, it is a great set here, with a lot of work that went into these effects. But, if you're on a tight budget, you might want to consider how much you'll use these before purchase. Have a thorough look at the examples on the Alien Skin site and try a demo for yourself. Definitely recommended.
Price: $249.00 (USD)
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows users must have at least a Pentium 4 processor or compatible and Windows XP or later. Apple Macintosh users must have a PowerPC G5 or Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.5 or later. A monitor with 1024x768 resolution or greater is required.
For more info, please visit:

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