Its pitch shifter uses a granular engine that adds an interesting “gritty”, “glitchy” character to the sound that works particularly very well for ambient music. And if these built-in effects don’t provide exactly what you need, just use the send/return sockets on the back panel to insert your own! You can also shape the sound in endless ways by adding filter, distortion, amplitude modulation, and phaser effects into the signal chain. Photon has a highly configurable routing that allows you to reverse the signal flow between the reverb and the pitch shifter. Their effect combined a reverb with a pitch shifter in a feedback loop, but Photon can do so much more!

The core software costs $49.99 the add-on packs cost $29.99 each.Photon is a variation of the classic “shimmer” effect that was popularised by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in the early 1980s. ParticleShop is available now for Photoshop and Lightroom CS5 and above, Photoshop Elements 13 and 14, and a number of Corel’s own tools, running on Windows 7 and above or Mac OS X 10.9 and above. In addition, ParticleShop’s set of core brushes has been extended, giving 11 in total and there are six new commercial add-on packs, each containing a further 15 brushes. There is also a new F-X Effects system: a set of image-deformation brushes that “bulge, diffuse, push, pull, pinch twirl” an underlying image. To that, the update adds the dynamic speckle system introduced in Painter 2016, which does what the name suggests, creating strokes made up of discrete spots of colour for “luscious smears and pointilist looks”.

New dynamic speckle and image-distortion systems The technology, originally introduced in Painter 2015, enables users to create a range of effects including light trails, sparks and smoke, with the results resembling those of standalone tools like Flame Painter. The update, which doesn’t have an official version number, although it’s listed as 1.5 in the patch notes, adds new speckle and image-distortion brushes, along with a set of new commercial add-on brush packs.īased on the same particle painting technology as Corel Painterįirst released in 2015, ParticleShop is based on same particle brush technology used in Corel Painter, the company’s flagship 2D painting application, Corel has updated ParticleShop, its particle painting plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom.

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