Backdrop Designer - plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and other compatible products, allowing you to create a variety of backgrounds. The program consists of six hundred harvested textures that can be mixed, set with built-in light and shadow effects. Will be useful especially for photographers working on portraits, posters, etc.

Backdrop Designer is designed to create backdrops, scenery and other elements of the background. The program works as a plug-in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements. As an independent application operation is not guaranteed. This is explained quite simply. Itself a set, the texture is not of much value. Zest is to stretch the background image to the finished portrait, based on pre-existing selection region. The last operation can be performed only in the graphical editor. And the cause of it is convenient module Backdrop Designer.

Adobe Photoshop contains a group of tools Filter, which cause most of the plugins. No exception and Backdrop Designer. It runs from the menu Digital Anarchy, named in honor of the application developer.
In a plugin has a huge number of built-in backgrounds, you just have to choose only one that you like, a little play around with the settings of light and shade and get a photo that looks like a professional studio, despite the fact that it was originally made can be anywhere.

The program has a very specific design, the interface requires some development and adaptation. The first thing that catches your eye - is the automatic deployment of the working module window to full screen. Windowed mode does not exist. You can only change the size of the central window, inside all the basic application management tools.

The right side of the title bar are buttons for controlling the operation of the module. The first of these changes the mode of drawing textures. It determines the quality. Three options. Only the first, fast mode provides a more or less decent speed. The other two are working very slowly. 3000x2000 image normally painted over a minute on a computer with an Athlon 2500 +.

From the second button with a picture of a question mark is expected to call up help. But no such luck. It's just a window About. Inside it displays links to web-pages of documentation to the program. No local help.

The next button on a print of a rectangle, the manager opens the scene settings. This is very useful, if not, an indispensable tool in the early stages of studying the program. With it you can immediately see the many options for the final texture, made with a certain artistic conception. Button with the cross can save the current settings to a separate software installation. Checkmark to apply the current settings of the image, and diagonal cross closes the module.

From the above it can be concluded that the button labels do not match the generally accepted in the Windows rules. This implies the development of some complexity Backdrop Designer. It is not that you need to learn a lot, but in the fact that many of the habits, skills are out of work because of a non-standard management of the application.

The program, which has not passed the registration procedure for all textures adds a watermark to address our home page. This suggests that up to the date of purchase of the product, its real, commercial use is not possible.

In the central part of the preview window, the module is the corrected document. You can catch the mouse over any of the corners of the window and change its size in arbitrary limits. Depending on the user's choice, the location and all the other controls. Their number remains the same, but with an increase in the preview window, they are more convenient, not napolzaya each other.

Backgrounds assembled from two components. The first of these is the art texture directly to the major creative idea. It is added to the irradiance map, the rule imposing shadow. Formally, it is a black-and-white texture, which, mingling with the main color counterpart, creates a full, voluminous picture.
Use Load the windows of choice of both types of textures. All the elements of the lists are divided into groups according to subjects. For each texture you can see and adjust service information presented in plain text.

The Edit button is texture editing tools. They are partially repeated for both of their types, but there are also many differences. In both cases, you can adjust the degree of alteration textures and blur. This is necessary for realistic way out of the zone of field in portrait photography. Aperture optics and longer focal length allows more background blur, which can be reflected in the adjustments Backdrop Designer.
Next are independent settings for each type of texture. The basic pattern can move them shade, adjust color saturation and brightness. Coverage maps do not contain color, and, for him, allowed to change the brightness and contrast.
Changing textures can be flexibly configured with a special menu that is a button with a radiation badge. When mixing can adjust color, transparency, card size and light gradients, sounds, layers, scale, shear and rotate textures.

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