Welcome to DaveyJJ's online catalogue of Snap Art
filters.
Snap Art is a plugin created by the folks at
Alien Skin Software that, in their
words, "creates beautiful, natural media artwork in a
single step. Render any image in an unlimited variety
of real-world art styles including oil paint, pencil
sketch, pen & ink, comics, and more. Great for
stylizing photos or graphics, Snap Art works without
laborious hand editing and is more versatile than
Actions or brushes." Snap Art works in Photoshop and
other image editing programs on both Mac and PC
platforms.
Snap Art organizes its filters into ten different
"categories" (common types of art media, shown in the right
menu) and each category has between 20 and 40 preset
brushes. The brushes also allow the user to modify many
setting for the brushes; things like stroke width,
saturation, brush type, edge and colour enhancements, and
dozens of others. The nice thing is that the settings are
organized into a handful of easy-to-understand tabs in a
well thought-through interface, and also use simple
language to describe their function. Modified brushes can
be saved as new custom brushes and exported for others to
share and use.
This reference site shows each of the
several
hundred Snap Art brushes on a single 1000 x 875
pixel image. You'll find
every one of the basic
settings shown in each of the ten main categories so that
I've provided a complete visual overview of the all the
standard Snap Art brushes.
The large brush images pop open to full size in a separate
browser window when you click on them. They were saved out
of Photoshop at 85% quality with standard "Save for Web"
setting in Adobe RGB mode and average 200+Kb each, so be
patient if you're not on a high speed connection. Feel free
to right click and save the larger images for your own use
and reference.
The site also features a printable PDF showing eight of my
favourite brushes within each category. You can download
the file from the
Download page.
I'll also feature the best user-created filters on the site
so if you've created a fantastic filter with Snap Art, feel
free to download the base image from the
Download page, apply your filter, and
email me back the result as a JPG file saved at around
80% quality. I'll post the best of them (aka my
personal favourites) on the
User Created page and even link to your
site and/or your email if you'd like.
Thanks to TomW at Alien Skin Software for encouragement and
permission to create this site and the PDF version for the
Snap Art community of users. Alien Skin's Snap Art forum
can be visited by
clicking this link. This was a lot
of work so if you wanted to drop a line to say thanks,
that'd be appreciated.