Hatchery filter plugin

Hatchery for Windows image editors

Hatchery is a versatile filter packed with unique art effects. Hatchery's texture engine specializes in spots, lines and crosshatching, and the most useful ways to vary them. Convert your pictures to pencil, ink, paint and other media, in styles from pointillist, impressionist or Van Gogh swirls to modern and novel effects.

Features:

• Memory spots for temporary storage of settings
• Save your favorite settings as presets, organized in categories
• Over 350 factory presets supplied
• Lots of controls to adjust effects, organized into Basic and Advanced sets
• Basic control set for adjusting presets to suit the picture
• Advanced control set for adjusting every aspect of the pattern
• Fully illustrated documentation

Controls are arranged in three panels:

• Color adjustment - brightness, contrast, saturation, quantizing, blur, gradient effects, paper and masking
• Pattern scale and definition - ripple width, frequencies, directions and modulations
• Octaves - combining patterns for crosshatching, textures or extra density

Hatchery trial version (2.5MB):

Hatchery purchase price: US$ 39

What makes Hatchery unique

Unlike some plugins that have only a few variations in their art effects, Hatchery is all about flexibility. There are no hard coded effects in Hatchery, just one supertexture that does everything.

• Adjust the pattern frequencies and directions to be constant or add some randomness
• Add variation based on the intensity or contours of the image
• Use a single pattern or combine layers for crosshatching or more diverse patterns
• Patterns can produce simple spots or lines, richer textures or mimic natural media
• Patterns can modify the image colors or use gradients to replace or blend with the image

Here are some examples: six presets showing pencil effects, and seven presets with paint, pen or texture effects.