If his computer is taking a long time to send the jobs to the printer, it may be that he is sending very large jobs, or jobs with large images that take a long time to render. The high priority will result in his jobs being printed before jobs from other users even if they are already queued to print.

If he is having to wait for other jobs to finish, you can set up a separate print queue on the server for him with a high priority and only give him permission to use it. Snap Art’s plug-in modules consist of 10 natural media: oil paint, watercolor, pencil sketch, color pencil, Pen and Ink, Stylize, Comics, Impasto, Pastel, and Pointillism.Are his print jobs taking a long time because he has to wait for other peoples' jobs to finish, or is his computer taking a long time to send the jobs to the printer? Within those categories are a multitude of pre-set variations (over 700 in all) that will likely be enough to satisfy most artistic whims. There are literally an infinite number of combinations.īut if they don’t, you can always create your own unique pre-sets that give you exactly the effect you want for each photo.

Like most Photoshop plug-ins, Snap art can be installed with a variety of Photoshop-compatible programs, including the two most recent versions of Photoshop, as well as with Elements ( ), or Fireworks CS4 ( ). Immeasurably convenient is the CS4 panel that you can download from Alien Skin’s Web site. While most plug-ins shut down after every use or canceled command (this one does too), having the panel visible and accessible or docked as part of an existing panel group saves you from the tedious chore of having to launch the plug-in from the Filter menu every time you want to try a new effect. You can preview your images in various sizes once they open in the plug-in: a fit in window size up to 1:1, which enlarges it to show actual pixels. You can adjust the plug-in window opening to have as large a working area as your monitor will accommodate. One problem with converting photos to paintings is that often the real image is lost in a sea of simulated brush strokes that represent, but do not depict, the actual picture you took this is especially true for portraits. Snap Art 2 now has a couple of ways to mitigate this loss of realism. In this version, most of the filters have photo realistic pre-sets that stylize and soften the picture without rendering it unrecognizable.

So for example, in the Watercolor category (and several other categories), there are four types of filters: Abstract (low realism), Landscape (moderate realism), Portrait (most realism), and Vignette and Canvas, which vignettes the picture (fading out the edges) and offers simulations of the image on different types of paper.

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