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A favorite pastime at fairs and theme parks is watching with fascination as caricature artists create fast hand-drawn cartoon renditions of visitors delighted. Few men of such acute artistic talent. A California software developer that is changing with the release of Caricature Studio 5.0 New Photo Suite, the embodiment of 5 popular caricature software utility that creates the cartoon and the art of novelty from normal images. Originally released in 2006, the version 5.0 has become an impressive array of tools that now includes software wizards caricature, with head, body, face exchange, animation, web-cam capture green screen, and more.

Caricature Studio 5.0 was designed for ease of use with a familiar Windows interface. Many tools such as resizing, zooming, brush and others will be familiar to Windows users. Besides the great caricature effects software, there is a library of clip art and templates for building projects. The old Western-style "wanted" posters and parody magazine covers can be conjured, in minutes, ready for printing. Packet filters with Caricature Studio will include the provision of a comic style and color effects to make caricatures of "hand drawn" look. The software also supports the popular Photoshop plugin format that offers endless possibilities for image manipulation. In addition to the caricature of art, can also add dialog bubbles and text boxes anywhere on the image to produce comic style panels and photo to cartoon effects. The head on the body and tools face-sharing means that you no longer have to be an expert in Photoshop to create great celebrity fakes.

Version 5.0 not only a great cartoon software. It has also transition into the professional arena with new utilities designed for live news events photo vending. These include the live capture support for digital SLR cameras, and a display mode which produces a slideshow of images designed to show the product and attract customers. The promoter, novelty Photo Software, LLC offers business packages for those wishing to use Caricature Studio applications and retail trade. Moreover, a new feature picture overlays offers over 100 templates for the parody magazine covers, posters and picture frames.

So how well does it work? Surprisingly good. Even for the artistic challenge, it is very easy to produce comic images quickly from regular images.

Adults and children are Caricature Studio entertaining and useful. It can be used to create a variety of custom art for greeting cards, wedding announcements, birthday invitations and sales flyers. Support includes file details how to embellish t-shirts, mugs, posters and mouse pads with his caricatures for gifts truly custom. Webmasters can create custom avatars and web graphics. The original version published in 2006 received wide acclaim from the shareware site editors. Returning users to find version 5.0 far surpasses its predecessor in terms of features, functionality and image quality.

Caricature Studio 5.0 Novelty Photo Suite is available both as a digital download and on CDROM. To see comprehensive list of features, image examples, videos and more about this caricature software, visit the company's website: http://caricaturesoftware.com

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