Photography can be art. Both in technique and image production. But you can bring a stand-out artistic flair to any photograph using PostworkShop Pro. It has over 400 independent filters which can transform your photography into a unique and signature image, suitable for either web- or print-based applications.
Whether you have an idea to emulate the grand masters of painting, create a thoroughly modern cartoon or manga look, simply want to experiment with different colorations or textures, or want to work with the same principles as apply to conventional drawing, etching, painting, etc., but with digital freedom, the unique toolkit which is PostworkShop Pro makes any of these schemes possible. With unlimited scope and variation.
How to get started? Try using our filter Styles one at a time, for auto painting, simulated sketching, an illustrative look, and so on. Not satisfied yet? Then use the Styles in blended combinations, image layer upon image layer. Not quite what you can imagine? Then switch to our new manual brushwork tools – for simple retouching or more complex and supplementary manipulations, to add emphasis to your subject. Not sure that your input image is the best starting point? Then use our unique and brand-new browser to choose a photograph or illustration from Fotolia’s entire online stock catalog. You are the artist, PostworkShop Pro just makes it easy.
Written by Steven Johnson
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- Over 400 pre-built image manipulation Styles, for finely-detailed image rendering, with no size limitations (when using the 64-bit Mac and Windows applications)
- Use the Styles singly, or in combinations - develop and save your own Styles
- Access the entire Fotolia online stock image collection – over 12 million royalty-free photographs and illustrations – with integrated transactions (via a user account)
- A streamlined workflow – use the Adobe® Photoshop® plug-in
- Manual painting – as a seamless, freestyle addition to the auto-paint mode, with pressure-sensitivity support for graphics tablets
- Photo-sampled cloning, or retouching – all with a newly expanded set of custom brushes and a full control of transparency
- Make or import your own Brushes
- Use the batch processing options, for consistent renderings and animations
- Work with multiple image objects – for montage effects and schemes
- A multilingual GUI
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS - 10.4/10.5/10.6 INTEL ONLY 32 bit and 64 bit
- Buy with BitsDuJour's promotional coupon code and get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase PostworkShop Pro Edition it may be used indefinitely.
- PostworkShop Pro Edition is licensed per user, so if more people are going to use PostworkShop Pro Edition you will need to purchase additional copies.
- Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
- Online license activation is required with a hardware footprint, and 3 installations per footprint. what's this?
- Upgrades to future versions of the software will require additional payment. Installing a new version may overwrite the existing version and invalidate your license key.
- Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
- 30 days return policy.
- Review the Full License details for downloading and installing this software.
- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “As soon as I got PostworkShop, it became by favorite CG application. Even after two months of intense work, every time I start it, I face thousands of new possibilities. PostworkShop is always a new and fresh adventure.”- Boris Andonovski (CG artist)
- “What really makes PostworkShop stand out is the way that it lets you combine filters. In particular, you can both chain and, far more usefully, layer effects and creatively combine them using blend modes and opacity. This is absolutely crucial to artistic effects in particular where you might want to, say, distort the image, reproduce it using artistic brushes, overlay an outline and combine the results with halftoned shading.”- Tom Arah, PCPro.co.uk
- “PostworkShop shows a canny ability to provide almost every creative approach through what can be considered an intuitive interface. Layer styles are essential to its success and all 400+ presets (categorized and sub-categorized, including Graphic Arts, Painting and Drawing) can be applied in multiples. Up until this point, artists – especially of the Photoshop variety – will be forgiven for thinking it a pretty standard application. But there is much more under the hood to discover, especially in its 64-bit Pro edition.”- Digital Artist, Imagine Publishing, July 2011
- “I am emailing you to congratulate you on a truly outstanding software product. PostworkShop is the program I’m wishing I had discovered long ago. The way it renders my landscape images is truly beautiful. This is far and away the best program of its type that I’ve worked with.”- Peter Walton (professional photographer)
- “Instantly add some traditional artistic flair to your images. The PostworkShop software is all about artistic image manipulation and it doesn’t get much easier than this. If the styles on offer don’t reach your exact requirements there is a style editor where the perfect solution can be designed from scratch. Quick, simple and effective software for creating a host of artistic styles, with the option to add bespoke effects.”- Advanced Photoshop, Imagine Publishing, August 2011
- “One of the major ways this program radically differs from other programs that allow the user to create various image styles is that you can combine different styles in layers and use the same type of blending and layer opacity options that you find in Photoshop. This adds a tremendous amount of flexibility. The improvements in version 2 are numerous, as are the new features and enhancements. This program is fun and easy to use with excellent results.”- Paula Sanders (professional photographer)
- “As a digital artist I'm very pleased with the results I've seen in my explorations of PostworkShop, it certainly makes the grade as a primary tool for pushing my photography and other digital compositions into new and exciting directions. Three thumbs up! I'm feeling inspired :^)”- Scott Chitwood, Rampant-mac.com
- “Mixing the effects is what creates the newest and most original paintings.. Definitely go for the PRO version and skip the others. You are going to want all the power this program has to give.”- Marilyn Sholin, Pixiq.com
- “PostworkShop Pro is the tool you need if you want to transform regular photos into genuine works of art - even if you lack artistic talent. The application makes available an extensive set of filters which can be applied in layers over regular images.”- Softpedia.com
- “What I like most about it is that it's fun. Start a new project, load in an image and hit the filters until the little man in your head says "Ooo, I quite like that!" and save it. Job done.”- Grewulf.net