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Page 1 of 2 Xero plugin SparklesI first released this one just before Christmas 2003. It has lots of quirks and limitations, but can be quite useful nevertheless. If you want a serious, industrial-strength starmaker that can cope with high-resolution images, take a look at Quasar! If you're happy with small stars on web-resolution images, then give this one a try.' Installation Unlike the other Xero plugins, this one uses a configuration file called default.spk, which must be present in the same directory as the filter itself. To install the plugin, copy both sparkles.8bf and default.spk to you host's plugins directory in Photoshop. If the filter reports that the configuration file is missing when you run it, please make sure that the default.spk file is in the same directory!
Controls Main colour Click this button to select the main colour to be used. Highlight colour If the 'use highlight' checkbox is ticked, certain parts of each sparkle will be coloured with this colour rather than the main colour. The parts affected are those defined to be the brightest for each sparkle. Sparkle style This drop-down list offers a selection of sparkle shapes; the list is in ascending order of size (approximately, anyway). The shapes are defined in the default.spk file, in plain-text format. Those of an adventurous nature may wish to experiment with this file, adding custom sparkle shapes - but back up the original first! The filter may crash (possibly taking your host program with it) if you make an error in the format. For the record, the file contains, for each shape: |
