Knoll Light Factory 3.0 for Adobe Photoshop allows you to design photo-realistic or enhanced lighting effects. This Photoshop lighting effects plugin adds flare and sparkle to any photograph or image, giving photographers and digital artists a unique tool for their commercial work.
Knoll Light Factory was originally designed by Photoshop co-creator John Knoll to generate Photon Torpedoes in the Star Trek movies. Knoll Light Factory provides the Photoshop lighting effects tools to design and add extremely realistic lens flares. The individual flare elements can also be used to create vibrant graphics that go beyond the typical lens flares found in Photoshop.
Easily construct natural light by combining 17 elements that occur in real life when photographing lights and bright objects. Other features model lights, add glows to existing objects and create enhanced lighting effects. The lights can be as realistic or fantastical as your imagination. When you think of all the great digital simulation Photoshop tools available to create realistic images, it is certainly time to simulate realistic lens flares. Enter Knoll Light Factory 3.0!
Some of the exciting features in Knoll Spark Pack 3.0 include:
* New User Interface: The UI has been redesigned for ease of use, including previews of light presets and access to editing functions in one window. * Real-Time Preview: The main Preview Window now supports real-time manipulation, as well as the ability to resize and zoom in/out. * 100+ Light Presets: There are now well over 100 great places to start when looking for that special flare. * 16-bit Color Support: Light effects now render out to higher bit depths, which reduces banding and outputs better looking glows and gradients. * Mac Intel and 64-bit Windows compatible: Full support of all of the new operating systems and religious preferences. * Obscuration Layer: Use a grayscale mask to partially obscure the lights, and make more realistic effects when lights are being partially blocked by an object. * Tint Layer: Use a separate layer to change the flare color for easier compositing on complex images. * Randomize Feature: A Randomize button and slider let users organically discover fun new effects. * Undo Functionality: Multi-level undo allows for an improved workflow when designing lights.