reviews

CreativePro.com (Rating: 9.5 out of 10)
This glowing review of Eye Candy couples detailed descriptions of each filter with stunning example images. A “fantastic selection of natural, real-world effects and textures”, Steve Caplin concludes.

Mac360
In this review, Kate MacKenzie describes the new features found in Eye Candy 6. She concludes that “Eye Candy’s filters let you take simple images and create, with a click or two, absolutely amazing results.”

MacUser
“[Eye Candy brings] greater ease of use, faster operation, and an overall slickness that makes it a pleasure to use,” Steve Caplin writes in this glowing review. “Eye Candy remains the single most useful Photoshop add-on bar none.”

Blogcritics
T. Michael Testi is a photographer that uses Eye Candy for his website design work. “I really like how easy it is to use Eye Candy 6 right out of the box,” he writes. “If you want a tool to really create eye-popping graphics, then you really want Eye Candy 6.”

Bitwise Magazine
Huw Collingbourne says it all in this one comment, “Alien Skin’s latest version of its Eye Candy suite enhances some of its best-known Photoshop-compatible filters and adds a new user interface that makes it easier than ever to find and apply presets to create stunning graphic effects in moments.”

Digital Media Artists Group (Rating: 5)
After spending many hours addictively playing with Eye Candy, Mark Comfort comes up for air to write this great review and show us his flair with Eye Candy. He writes, “Alien Skin's Eye Candy 6 provides the workflow speed along with a great deal of variety, flexibility and ease of use.”

Merlin John
“Creative choice is limited only by imagination”, Hugh John writes in this review of Eye Candy where he describes the multitudes of effects that Eye Candy filters can create.

Community MX (5 out of 5 rating)
“Alien Skin's Eye Candy 6 does have some very nice realistic filters that can be applied to your work really fast with great looking results,” says Darren Winder. He shows off his design work using Eye Candy’s filters on the last page of his review.

Alaska Apple User Group
As a long-time Eye Candy user, Randy Brandon writes about what he likes in Eye Candy 6. “Without any doubt, the folks at Alien Skin have been hard at work putting some amazing and innovative effects together in this version,” he writes. “This is what special effects should really be: simple to use and a whole lot of fun!”

About.com
Liz Masoner provides a quick overview of what Eye Candy can do. With the huge number of presets, “Eye Candy 6 makes the effects much quicker and simpler to achieve”, she writes.

here are some great reviews of Eye Candy 5:

Professional Photographer Magazine Hot¹ Award Winner
"The Professional Photographer magazine Hot¹ Awards represent a must-have list of this year's hottest, most sought-after new products. Selected by a panel of working professional photographers, the awards are chosen based on innovation, overall quality and value for price. In its seventh year, the Professional Photographer Hot¹ Awards are one of the biggest product competitions in the industry, representing 60 categories of gear from a couple hundred different companies."
- Jeff Kent, Special Hot¹ Awards Editor / Editor at Large Professional Photographer magazine

MacReview.com
"The Perspective Shadow, Glass, and Bevel filters alone are worth the price of admission..." - Mark Starlin

Photoshop User Magazine
"Of the seven classic filters, Chrome and Glass remain my favorites." - Dave Huss

C'T Magazine
"Due to the variety of effects in Impact, Nature, and Textures, I recommend purchasing the complete Eye Candy 5: Bundle." (translated from German)
- Gerald Himmelein, Issue 18

Graphics.com (5 out of 5 stars)
"Generates high-quality, photo-realistic visual effects with many customizable options." - Sue Chastain

MacUser UK Magazine (5 out of 5 mice)
"Eye Candy 5: Impact is a near-perfect set of real-world filters that will delight designers. If any filter set deserves to be called 'essential', this is it."

bitwise Magazine (bitwise recommended)
"Overall, I have to say that Eye Candy 5 : Impact is mighty impressive." - Huw Collingbourne

Plugs n' Pixels
"I love the way Alien Skin products can be used on blank images to create entire imaginary worlds, as well as enhance existing images!" - Mike Bedford

Shutterbug Magazine
"Impact is especially designed for digital photographers, web content creators and graphic designers who need the ability to create attractive, rendered graphics." - Ron Eggers

Apfelgeruechte.de
"I give it an A grade for the interface, presets and the effects." - Ralph Freibeuter

Macworld Magazine (Rated 4 out of 5 mice)
"If your work involves commercial art or marketing, Eye Candy 5: Nature's creative possibilities and ease of use make it a bargain." - Macworld Staff

Shutterbug Magazine
"Plug-in of the month!" - Joe Farace

How Magazine (Rated 4 out of 5 stars)
"Each filter can thus create a wide range of effects, many with a remarkable degree of photo-realism." - Stephen Beale

AAUG (4.5 Moose rating)
"The new Render in New Layer and the Show Original buttons are two upgrades that are simply great to have at my fingertips." - Randy Brandon

Free Photoshop
"Well, dance on your desk! Alien Skin has finally come out with...'Nature' and it's really sweet."

Perpetual Visions
"This plug-in, like its precursor, Textures, has more possibilities than can be imagined...I think, it makes an excellent addition to ones bag of tricks."

GraphicDesign.com (Best of 2004)
"Graphic designers, digital photographers and Web or multimedia content creators will appreciate Nature's versatile and beautifully rendered effects." - Fred Showker

digital Media Designer
"On its own, the Eye Candy 5: Nature set is a pretty full-featured collection of filters, with that user-friendly Alien Skin interface we've come to know and love over the years." - David Nagel

Spectrum
"...the first iteration of Eye Candy 5 shows awesome utility and lots of promise; I can't wait to see the next two." - David Duberman

MacUser UK
"3D modelers will delight in the ease with which they can now generate both natural and man-made textures, and we can expect to see fur and lizard-skin lettering adorning magazines and websites in the months to come." - Steve Caplin

About.com (5 out of 5 stars!)
"With ten texture filters and countless customization options, Eye Candy 5: Textures gives you an infinite variety of unique, seamless textures for your projects." - Sue Chastain

creativepro.com
"Eye Candy 5 also packs a tremendous number of pre-defined settings for each filter, giving you an instant collection of textures, each of which can be further refined with your own customizations." - Ben Long

Graphics Unleashed
"Considering the quality and ease of use, those who love being creative in Photoshop, or other comparable image editors, will find much to enjoy here." - Kurt von Behrmann

DIGITAL Photographer magazine
"Numerous photo-realistic effects.... Improved user interface is a plus; with easier-to-use settings management tools."

MacReview
"Alien Skin has another winner in Eye Candy 5: Textures. Those who work a lot with textures will find it indispensable, and at 99 bucks, even those who only use it occasionally will still get their money's worth." - Mark Starlin

Free Photohsop
"Throw out all the others. Alien Skin's Eye Candy 5 Textures is here!"

MacMerc
"Awesome. Best performance in an Alien Skin product I've used thus far. Filters are very well done from the occasional cowlick in the fur filters to the dotty details in the wood grain. It's not just eye candy, it's really good eye candy." - Rick Yaeger

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