Glitterato

Glitterato is a lightweight plugin for Adobe Photoshop that was developed to help users such as graphic designers or ones who are interested in photo manipulation generate realistic star fields, cosmic clouds or nebulas within their projects.

Since it is not a standalone component, it requires a host application to be installed and executed on the target computer. In this case, the host application is Adobe Photoshop. To install the plugin, users need to extract the contents of the archive it comes packed in and move them to the Plug-Ins folder of Adobe Photoshop, usually located in C:Program FilesAdobe PhotoshopPlug-Ins.

It should be noted that the host program needs to be closed during the installation or restarted after copying the files so that it can load the plugin properly. Accessing the component can be done via the Plugins category from the Effects menu.

Glitterato's main window consists of two sections: Nebula and Stars, each of which encompasses various slider bar that can be adjusted to fit the needs of the users better. For instance, you can change the nebula's scale, texture, fibrousness, contrast or opacity and the stars' density, brightness, scale, depth and color. Users can generate a random result by clicking the dice button.