COMPANY: Digital Film Tools | URL: www.digitalfilmtools.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $245
			Digital Film Tools 55mm is the definitive set of digital optical filters meant to simulate popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects–all in a controlled digital environment with either 8 or 16 bits per channel processing. Version 7.5 introduces an interface overhaul, making it possible to access every filter in the suite and its variations/parameters quickly. Live previews of each effect are also displayed. The set of plug-ins includes: Black Mist, Black and White, Blur, Bleach Bypass, Center Spot, Chromatic Aberration, Color Compensating, Color Conversion, Color Correct, Color Grad, Color Infrared, Color Spot, Cool Mist, Cross Processing, Day for Night, Defog, Defringe, Depth of Field, Diffusion, Double Fog, Dual Grad, Edge Glow, Enhancing, Faux Film, Flashing, Fluorescent, Fog, F-Stop, GamColor, Gels, Glow, Gold Reflector, Grain, Halo, Infrared, Kelvin, Lens Distortion, Light!, Light Balancing, Low Contrast, Mist, Mono Tint, ND Grad, Night Vision, Old Photo, Overexpose, Ozone, Pencil, Photographic Filters, Polarizer, Printer Points, Rack Focus, Radial Exposure, ReLight, Rosco Calcolor, Selective Color Correct, Selective Saturation, Silver Reflector, Skin Smoother, Soft Effects, Split Field, Split Tone, Star, Streaks, Strip Grad, Sunset/Twilight, Telecine, Temperature, Three Strip, Tint, Two Strip, Ultra Contrast, Vari-Star, Vignette, Warm Black Mist, Warm Mist, Warm Soft Effects, X-Ray. 55mm 7.0 added 12 new filters as well as tuning existing filter algorithms. Chromatic Aberration, Color Infrared, Cool Mist, Defringe, Double Fog, Edge Glow, Old Photo, Pencil, Split Tone, X-Ray, and the new Two Strip and Three Strip filters are just some of the highlights of 55mm 7.0. The Three Strip and Two Strip plug-ins were created under the direction of Academy Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato, who used the process to great effect in The Aviator. The Technicolor Two Strip process was the first stab at producing color motion pictures and consisted of simultaneously photographing two black and white images using red and green filters. This look creates an odd but pleasing hand-painted look where faces appear normal and green takes on a blue-green quality, while the sky and all things blue appear cyan. Chromatic Aberration: Chromatic aberration is caused by a lens having a different refractive index for different wavelengths of light and is seen as fringes of color around the edges of the image. This fringing is removed by un-distorting the individual color channels. Color Infrared: Color Infrared simulates infrared filters used in conjunction with infrared sensitive film or sensors to produce very interesting false-color images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance. Cool Mist: The Cool Mist filter creates atmosphere by reducing contrast and glowing highlights in combination with a cooling filter. Defringe: Purple or blue fringing around overexposed areas is a result of sensor overloading in video as well as digital still cameras. Defringe isolates and removes the various types of color fringing. Edge Glow: Edge Glow isolates lines and edges in an image and then adds glow only to these areas resulting in a stylized look. Fog: The Fog filter creates a soft, misty atmosphere over the image and glows highlights. Old Photo: Images are treated to look like a variety of historical photographic processes including Cyanotype, Kallitype, Light Cyan, Palladium, Platinum, Sepia, Silver, Silver Gelatin and Van Dyck. Pencil: Pencil converts your image to a pencil sketch. Split Tone: Shadows, midtones and highlights can be individually tinted with the Split tone filter. Three Strip: Known and celebrated for it ultra-realistic, saturated levels of color, the Technicolor Three Strip process was commonly used for musicals, costume pictures and animated films. It was created by photographing three black and white strips of film each passing through red, green and blue filters on the camera lens and then recombining them in the printing process. Our Three Strip filter was created under the direction of Academy Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato. Two Strip: The Technicolor Two Strip process was the first stab at producing color motion pictures and consisted of simultaneously photographing two black and white images using red and green filters. This look creates an odd but pleasing hand-painted look where faces appear normal and green takes on a blue-green quality, while the sky and all things blue appear cyan. Our Two Strip filter was created under the direction of Academy Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato. X-Ray: Simulates the look of X-Ray images. GENERAL CHANGES -Mac Classic (OS9-Below) is no longer supported. However, Mac Classic versions of 55mm v6 can still be downloaded. -Filters have been categorized according to function. -Whatever you are viewing in the Photoshop preview window when you hit OK will now be rendered. -Lens Distortion can now be viewed at a 1:1 zoom ratio. DELETED PLUG-INS -Selection. The equivalent of the Selection plug-in can be accomplished by applying Selective Color Correct and setting the View to Selection. -Warm Cool: The equivalent of the Warm/Cool plug-in can be accomplished by applying Temperature and adjusting the Temperature slider. RENAMED PLUG-INS -Color Temperature renamed to Kelvin -Fast Blur renamed to Blur -Fog to Double Fog FIXED BUGS •Light in Photoshop wasn't properly being applied to layers. If you applied to a lower layer, the top layer showed up in the preview window and got applied to the lower current layer. •In the Photoshop version of Light, if the Light>Shape Blur was used, the result in the Preview window did not match what was applied to the image. •Fixed a Photoshop tiling problem when using high blur setting in the Fast Blur plug-in and the Gaussian setting. •Patterns could not be found in the Diffusion, Light and Vignette plug-ins when using the Macintosh version of Autodesk Combustion. •The Warm Soft Effects warming effect clicked off when the Opacity was moved from 0 to 1 and slowly came back on when the Opacity was moved towards 100.