Sapphire Innovations is a software house dedicated to bringing excellent contentware and add-ons to the software market, PC and Mac. Plugins for Photoshop... nozzles for Painter, tubes, grains, patterns, borders and edges, and Illustrator plugins..

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The following products are available or soon to be available via various graphics reseller sites or via CD from Sapphire itself. They are for PC and Mac unless stated

Innovations 1 - Plugins for Photoshop (PC)

Nozzles Pack 1 - For Painter/Painter 3D/PainterClassic/Detailer

Sapphire Pack 1 - For Illustrator 8

Star Edges - Frames for PhotoFrame, Photographic Edges, and Photo-Paint 9

Cog Edges - Frames for PhotoFrame, Photographic Edges, and Photo-Paint 9

Sparkle - Flash Libraries for Flash 4

Tubed - Tubes for Paintshop Pro 5 and 6 (PC)

Spray Pack 1 - Spray files for Photo-Paint 8 and 9 (PC)

Grainy - Grains for Painter/Painter3D/Painter Classic/Detailer

Paper Textures 1 - Paper Textures for Paint Shop Pro 5 and 6 (PC)

Tapestry 1 - Patterns For Painter/Painter3D/Painter Classic/Detailer

Tapestry 2 - Patterns For Painter/Painter3D/Painter Classic/Detailer

Xa-Fills 1 - Fills for corelXara(PC)

Xa-Fills 2- Fills for corelXara(PC)

Innovations 1.5 - Plugins for Photoshop (PC)

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These filters were created using the excellent filtermeister filter. To obtain more info about this filter please visit the www.filtermeister.com site.

These effects only work, like the Filter Factory ones, in RGB.

If you have any suggestions to how we can improve our products or the manual, if there is something that is hard to understand or badly stated, please contact us and we will try to update it for the next update of the manual.

The plugins appear not to appear in the plugin menu of certain applications - this may or may not depend on the number of other plugins you have - certainly as more and more plugins come available certain limits on plugins within apps seem to be more and more breached. A solution perhaps might be to include the plugins in sub folders and then bring in as required from those sub folders. Of course, the plugins might not be supported by the app - why?? who knows, possibly PhotoshopTM 3 support only?

The preview - to see a true view of the effect, please display at 100%

It should be noted that some of the silders appear to do nothing. They do: sometimes they might just cancel out so if 20% of red is added to Red and then 20% is removed by another slider the screen will probably remain the same. Likewise some of the sliders only work when certain combos are set and at present do not fade away if that command is modified (I hope in future to add that feature!)

There are no presets. Yes, I would love to put that feature.. hopefully next version. Also a reset feature would be nice.. and .. and..

Designed by Andrew Buckle, and are copyright, 1999-2000 of Sapphire Innovations.

Apps supported - Photoshop 5+ for Windows 95, 98, and NT. Other apps also appear to load the plugins such as Ultimate Paint, Painter 6, Bryce 4, Illustrator 8, Paint Shop Pro 5 and 6, etc. but these are not supported apps (the list is probably endless, even a few years ago the number of apps mentioned in the Filter Finesse book was huge).

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