{"id":81,"date":"2004-06-22T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2006-06-21T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T16:19:30","slug":"third-party-ps-plug-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/third-party-ps-plug-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-Party PS Plug-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t use any third-party Photoshop Plug-Ins such as Eye Candy, Xerofex, etc, they do have a bad name for &#8220;cheating&#8221; the graphics.  To me, this is not exactly true because Plug-Ins are created to <i>assist<\/i> you completing the graphics, not becoming the center of attention like many thought.  There&#8217;s no such thing like one click = finished piece.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to use third-party Plug-Ins, go ahead! But.. make sure that applied plug-ins only steal less than 10% of attention in finished piece. The more attention it steals, the more amateur it looks.  If you don&#8217;t want it to look too generic, customize the applied graphic separately by smudging, lowering contrast\/saturation, etc until to a point where they doesn&#8217;t look too &#8220;plugins-ish&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t use any third-party Photoshop Plug-Ins such as Eye Candy, Xerofex, etc, they do have a bad name for &#8220;cheating&#8221; the graphics. To me, this is not exactly true because Plug-Ins are created to assist you completing the graphics, not becoming the center of attention like many thought. There&#8217;s no such thing like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}