Digital Anarchy Knoll Light Factory 3.02 for Adobe Photoshop

Create your own lighting effects. Knoll Light Factory 3.0.2 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. Platform:Windows 2000, Win XP Home, Win XP Pro, Vista (32/64) bit. Host Apps: Photoshop 7.0 +higher, including CS4. Photoshop Elements 3.0 + higher.

Knoll Light Factory is designed to create lens flares and other lighting effects, including lasers, explosions and suns. The most common use in photography is to enhance lights such as lamps, streetlights, sky elements, or candle flames. However, many designers also use Light Factory to create sparkling or glowing lights from scratch. Light Factory was originally written by John Knoll, the co-creator of Photoshop, to create the Photon Torpedoes in Star Trek First Contact.

Inside Light Factory, a user can choose from 19 different flare elements, then layer those elements to create the desired light effect. Almost any real life camera lens can be matched, or the Photoshop filter can generate completely original settings, and save out a preset for later use. Powerful functions include the ability to obscure the light with a grayscale mask; a real-time interactive preview; and 16-bit support for smoother glows and gradients.

Version 3.0 introduces a complete redesign of the user interface, with a simplified layout, new functions, a quick Preview Window, and preview thumbnails for light presets. The Light Editor has been integrated into a single interface that can be moved and resized to the user’s workspace. An additional 50 light presets give users additional pre-made effects that range from naturalistic to dramatic.

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.