Light It Up with 3D Lens Flares, Glitters, and Volumetric Lighting VFX. Add stage lights, spotlights, and volumetrics. Generate 3D lens flares and sweeps. Add sparkle with glitters, glares, and glints. Includes 21 filters & 300+ presets.
For editors familiar with the Boris Continuum family of plugins, there is Boris Continuum Lights which is compatible with Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion. It offers the user lens flares, glares, and volumetric lighting. Continuum Lights is helpful in creating transitions.
One of the most intensive and complete plugin suites available is Genarts Sapphire. It has versions that run on almost all professional platforms on the market today. Genarts Sapphire is complete with numerous effects including ones for lens flares and volumetric lighting. Combining these effects with others in the suite allow the editor to create complex looks, all within a single interface.
jQuery(document).on('hometech.adsDefined', function() googletag.cmd.push(function() headertag.display("div-gpt-ad-1020-200-1"); );); --> Knoll Light Factory For Photoshop; Creative Lens Flare For Your ImagesAnthony L. Celeste Jan 1, 2008 There are literally thousands of plug-ins available for Adobe's Photoshop, from expensive applications created by major software vendors to freeware created by part-time graphic programmers. However, seldom does a plug-in have as close a relationship to Photoshop as Red Giant Software's Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop. The plug-in was created by Photoshop co-creator John Knoll, whose credits also include that of Visual Effects Supervisor for several Star Trek and Star Wars movies.
Knoll Light Factory is focused on creating lens flare effects, one of the most commonly used effects in both photography and film. Lens flares have probably achieved their high degree of popularity because they can occur naturally when photographing or filming any scene that contains a light source, such as the sun (#1). Using software to create a lens flare effect in a photo not only adds brightness and color, but also reinforces a natural look and feel to the photo, since the effect could easily have occurred on its own as a refraction of light off of the camera's lens.
Lens Flares And The Sun
One of the most common uses for a lens flare is to enhance the effect of the sun in a photo (#5). Since lens flares are created by an interaction between a light source and a camera lens, using lens flares with the sun (the single most used light source) is a natural fit.
Yes! Ever since I heard about J.J. Abrams' behavior on the set of Star Trek (where he would shine a bright flashlight from just out-of-frame into the camera lens to create spectacular, anamorphic lens flares), I've been dying to give that a go as well for stills (obviously, this technique would be only effective for interior set-ups).
A collection of 46 custom Knoll Light Factory 3.0 presets inspired by the spectrum of lens flares found in Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Thrid Kind ('77), including alien craft, spotlights, flashlights, transportation and off-camera light bleeds.
Knoll Light Factory is an Adobe Photoshop plugin for creating lens flares and other lighting effects. While you could create many of the same effects by hand in Photoshop, Knoll's preset-based approach is much faster and more intuitive. If you want to add digital light effects to your images, this is one of the best ways to do it.
Adding post-production flares work best when there is a clear and defined light source either in, or near the edge of, frame with which to motivate the drama-creating flare. When Theon kneels on the beach, with sunlight just breaking over mountains, is clearly a moment that could've used a little flare, and they head back.
One thing we know for certain is that the lens itself is wide open since we see no aperture blades at the edge of the flares, which tells us that the scene, although shot in daylight, was dark on set and required a wide aperture. Or that they shot with NDs. Or that the flare was added in post.
Neat new tool Bang generates procedural muzzle flares for gunfight scenes
The new feature in VFX Suite 2 is Bang, a nifty procedural muzzle flare generator that Maxon acquired from original developer Quarterlight Pictures, aka compositor and VFX supervisor Christian Lett.
The widespread use of solar-reflective roofing materials can save energy, mitigate urban heat islands and slow global warming by cooling the roughly 20% of the urban surface that is roofed. In this study we created prototype solar-reflective nonwhite concrete tile and asphalt shingle roofing materials using a two-layer spray coating process intended to maximize both solar reflectance and factory-line throughput. Each layer is a thin, quick-drying, pigmented latex paint based on either acrylic or a poly(vinylidene fluoride)/acrylic blend. The first layer is a titanium dioxide rutile white basecoat that increases the solar reflectance of a gray-cement concrete tile from 0.18more to 0.79, and that of a shingle surfaced with bare granules from 0.06 to 0.62. The second layer is a 'cool' color topcoat with weak near-infrared (NIR) absorption and/or strong NIR backscattering. Each layer dries within seconds, potentially allowing a factory line to pass first under the white spray, then under the color spray. We combined a white basecoat with monocolor topcoats in various shades of red, brown, green and blue to prepare 24 cool color prototype tiles and 24 cool color prototypes shingles. The solar reflectances of the tiles ranged from 0.26 (dark brown; CIELAB lightness value L* = 29) to 0.57 (light green; L* = 76); those of the shingles ranged from 0.18 (dark brown; L* = 26) to 0.34 (light green; L* = 68). Over half of the tiles had a solar reflectance of at least 0.40, and over half of the shingles had a solar reflectance of at least 0.25. less
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