Comments on: Photoshop plug-in puts artists on notice

Alien Skin's Snap Art 2 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements turns photos into virtual handmade art.

[7aji88]

I think you can do most (if not all) of these effects using Corel's Painter Essentials for 99$ and it will give you much more options. Also, you can get to some of these results using some of PS filters.

[happyslappy13]

pirate bay?

[umbrae]

Photoshop already has art tools which do this. Not sure what benefit you get for $200, but it better be significant.

[HomerJayRI]

Hey now!

[nate.reeves]

Or, since you're already in Photoshop - you could just correct the flaws (??) as opposed to muck up the image with some cliché'd looking filter. Save your money and learn how to use the built-in tool set.

[sotovkin]

Or even better is to learn how to paint! :)

If a human were to do the above, I would consider them more of a craftsman than an artist. An artist is there to show us something different; a new take on something or at least a distillation of what is there. It will be some time (though this time WILL come) before machines will be able to interpret life rather than mimicking it and make a statement.

[shinelikeitdoes]

these things are "fun" tools for your average user that thinks its "neat" to turn a photo into something resembling a painting, but alien skin should just create a website like piknik dedicated to playing around with photos for the average user to share on the internet. with only "fun" and passable results these filters are not serious tools for the arsenal of designers etc.

[dctech08]

forget that lame filter. check out the girl! nice....:)