AV Bros. Page Curl Pro is a filter plug-in (8bf) for Adobe Photoshop and compatible hosts.

This plug-in has the ALL NEW and unrivalled engine that lets you not only bend the image, using two type of bending (curling and folding), but also texturize it (using the bump maps), orient it in 3D space (including the perspective distortions) and obtain total control over the process of lighting the image (including the option of dropping inner shadows).

We consider AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.0 as the multi-purpose plug-in that may be used not only as the page bender, but also as the Texturizer, Lighting lab, etc.

The User Interface of AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.0 is extremely convenient and has some unique features that make your work with the plug-in both very efficient and pleasant at the same time.

Here are some key features of "AV Bros Page Curl Pro":

· The ability to create both the turning page effect (Page Curl) and the folding page effect (Page Fold) (collectively – bends).
· The Multi-bend option: the ability to create several bends within the single session of the plug-in.
· The ability to orient the page in 3D space.
· The ability to specify the desired level of the perspective while orienting in 3D space.
· The ability to work with arbitrarily-shaped images (non-rectangular, with full or partial transparent areas, etc.)
· Switching the direction (Upward or Downward) of page curling or folding.
· Adjusting the opacity of the whole page.
· Adjusting the cross-opacity of the page.
· The ability to flip the content of either side of the page.
· Swapping the content of the page's sides.
· The ability to choose between two lighting modes: the Simple and Advanced modes.
· Adjusting the level of the shading in the Simple Lighting mode
· The ability to texturize either side of the page by using the grayscale images (called Bump Maps). As a Bump Map you can use either your document's channels or any file.
· The ability to adjust the existed Bump Map inside the plug-in. The following adjustments are available: Blur, Level, Flip Vertical and Horizontal. And you can also Invert (black to white and vice-versa) the existing Bump Map.
· The ability to make the bent part of the page to be outside the page's initial boundary.
· The ability to make the bent part of the page to be cut into the remaining part of the page.
· The ability to create the "non-complete" page curling effect by adjusting the turn Limit.
· The presence of a transparent area under the curled or folded part of the page.
· Multi-level Undo option.
· Supporting images in RGB, CMYK and Grayscale color modes.
· Specifying the quality of the surface rendering, including the Auto Mode.
· Exporting the result of the render as a PSD file. (Including current Color Profile provided by the host.)
· Fast and high-quality preview
· Saving and loading settings of the plug-in.
· The ability to record scripting parameters and be automated by them (Scripting-aware).

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Ambient Light Auto-Adjust option has been added: for the first time you can preserve some areas of the page from changing their colors while lighting the page. This possibility is very important in many cases. For example, if you bend a cut out part of the image, set the light source(s), drop the internal shadows, etc. and you need the non-bent area of this part to remain the same after applying the plug-in for further seamless cutting into the main image.
· Now you can export the result of the render not only to a PSD file, but to a PNG file too! This is very important for further operating with the render result in the hosts other than Photoshop, because a PNG is a widely supported format.
· The saving and loading settings of the plug-in option has become the cross-platform: now you can easily transfer the project created on the computer under the Mac OS X operating system onto another one under the Windows operating system or vice versa.