JixiPix – Macinations

October 19, 2021

🎨 Some fun with Portrait Painter from JixiPix 🖼

Another really fun tool from JixiPix is Portrait Painter. As the name suggests it takes a photo and gives it the look and feel of a painting complete with brush strokes, stroke length, canvas texture, and color palette. As with other JixiPix tools, there is a series of Presets available. Those can give great results or can be a starting point. Using the sliders for the different strengths and lengths, you can turn a landscape image into a painting. For example, trees and clouds will have a brushed effect. The Eiffel Tower will have a suitable painted effect. Hard edges and crisp lines will be blended together to give a textured look. I’ve tried quite a few apps and plugins to achieve a painted look, including Corel Painter. They aren’t bad, but I think Portrait Painter gives the best results and is far cheaper than any other choice out there. Portrait Painter by JixiPix

October 15, 2021

👩‍💻 Some fun with Spektrel Art from JixiPix 🖼

Spektrel Art is one of my favorite tools from JixiPix. It turns images into interesting works of art by saturating the colors, blending and blurring lines, and creating texture patterns that give any image a unique look. From their website: Spektrel Art features a Light and Dark style. The light one glimmers and gleams with white tapered light, and the dark one creates a stark contrast of black intersecting lines. Each style allows you to exaggerate them with glowing color and soften or smooth the art form for a variety of out-of-this-world fun and imaginative imagery. Depending on the preset, images and details can be made lighter or darker. Lines details can be extended, or blurred together. Images can take on a neon or glow effect or can be darkened to create deep details and lines. The result is an image that looks familiar but in a new way. For example, night scenes become more vivid and detailed. Lights will […]

October 12, 2021

🎃 Some fun with Hallow’s Eve from JixiPix 👻

With the festive Halloween season almost upon us, it’s time to get into the spirit of things. See what I did there? This includes dressing up the desktop with some fun wallpaper. One tool that comes into play is Hallow’s Eve by JixiPix. It’s a simple tool for giving images a Halloween look, but there’s a bit more to it. While things can get a little over the top when selecting their Presets, it actually has 3 very cool features that make it a fun graphics tool. First, you can change the “Tone” of an image. The typical scenario would be to use blacks, browns, orange, blue, green, red, etc, to create a “cast” over the image. This darkens the image and gives an ambient feel. Dark blues cool the image down and make it look like night time. Browns give a sepia tone feel to age an image. Red gives a sinister aspect. Select a color and the image […]

August 12, 2021

⌘ Batch processing images, even when it’s not supported

This is exactly why I love working with the Mac. With the power of macOS and Keyboard Maestro all sorts of magic is possible. I’m a huge fan of the apps/plugins from JixiPix, especially Spektrel Art and Portrait Painter. To that end, I want to process several hundred images, but the JixiPix apps don’t support batch processing. Fear not, with a little help from Keyboard Maestro, it’s possible to write a macro to handle the job with 99% accuracy. This does take a very small amount of prep work. Spektrel Art needs to be open with an image. A preset needs to be selected. Under Preferences, the Last Saved Location option needs to be checked. And at least one image needs to be saved in the output location. Then within Keyboard Maestro, the macro runs like this. Using the For Each Item in Collection action in Keyboard Maestro, get a list of all the files in the folder. Open that […]

March 17, 2021

Another Festive JixiPix Sale

Perhaps it’s for St. Patrick’s Day, or Spring in general, but it’s time for another festive sale on JixiPix Software. I’m a fan of the JixiPix standalone apps, and Affinity Photo plugins, especially Spektral and Portrait Painter. You can have so much fun and create great fantastic photo effects. And if you missed out on the last sale, here’s another chance. Save 30% on all Mac & Win Products and Bundles with code: CEL30 at JixiPix.com

🎨 Some fun with Portrait Painter from JixiPix 🖼

👩‍💻 Some fun with Spektrel Art from JixiPix 🖼

🎃 Some fun with Hallow’s Eve from JixiPix 👻

⌘ Batch processing images, even when it’s not supported

Another Festive JixiPix Sale

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