Phantasm v3

5 reviews for Phantasm v3

1. 

   4 out of 5

   samblumer – 15th April 2016:

   I now seem to use this plugin on a daily basis. It does so many things. And all of them are fantastic.
   The halftone generator is peerless. I would like the halftone feature to offer “auto mask” and allow me to tick on or off a mask for the object being screened. That would save me an extra step of creating the mask to clean up the edges when needed. The only request in all it can do. Pretty dang cool if you ask me.

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     nick – 15th April 2016:

     Thanks Sam! Yep – auto-generating masks has been on a to-do list for some time. In the meantime, the blog article Constraining a Phantasm vector Halftone was published to help with current work-arounds.

2. 

   3 out of 5

   Mike – 28th June 2016:

   I tried the trial and it seems that Phantasm’s capabilities should be a built in feature of Illustrator. Paying $80 more dollars for features that should be standard seems excessive so I unfortunately can’t justify the purchase 🙁

3. 

   2 out of 5

   Ben – 12th November 2016:

   You made what Adobe can’t make and what you made is so expensive. paying more than $15 is not reasonable for this plugin.

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     nick – 13th November 2016:

     Sorry you feel that our pricing is higher than you’d anticipate. Taking into account the time-savings immediately possible for any professional creative workflow and the quality of implementation (functionality, UI, full integration, immediate support of all CC releases, etc.) it’s a cost we have tried to keep to a minimum without jeopardising future developments. Please try the 14 day free trial fully in your everyday workflow and see how much time it can save you… and what this financially translates to. Thanks!

4. 

   5 out of 5

   Gabe – 15th November 2016:

   Illustrator has added many whimsical, useless features to its software over the past few years that seem marketed toward casual or amateur users, or features that seem useful as ideas but are poor in practice (looking at you, Adobe Libraries). These additions are fully in keeping with Adobe’s desire to become a profitable software giant to its shareholders: Adobe has other things in mind besides improving their products, evidenced by their slow adaptation of features from companies they have cannibalized and emphasizing things like the Symbol Sprayer instead of improving precise object selection. This process is similar to the way in which car companies add minor adjustments (more cupholders, automatically locking doors…) to new models without improving things like driver visibility or handling.

   Astute, however, is producing plugins that truly expand the possibilities of Illustrator within the primary software itself, and it is doing so without relying on entirely different types of software (e.g. Rhino / Grasshopper, Photoshop). Phantasm is the singlemost important of these plugins. It is essential for those who are working heavily with color adjustments in Illustrator and it is, truly, peerless for halftones. Universal color adjustments which are otherwise tedious through native Illustrator methods become familiar and intuitive with Phantasm. This is a very useful tool for illustrators. For general graphic design the software makes playing with image manipulation a lot of fun. The number of controls can seem intimidating at first, but is increasingly rewarding with practice over weeks (or months). A 14-day trial simply will not show you everything. It is worth the money.

   Bonus: Phantasm halftones can also be applied with great results to vector graphics, even gradient meshes. (This is also true of Stipplism, another essential).

5. 

   5 out of 5

   Devin – 28th November 2016:

   I recently started working with a screen printer to help them achieve faster turn around on designs. This plugin paid for itself before my free trial was even up!