COMPANY: Digital Anarchy | URL: www.digitalanarchy.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $149
		Create your own lights! Knoll Light Factory 3.0 adds flare and sparkle to any photograph or Photoshop image, giving photographers and digital artists a unique tool for their commercial work. Designed by Photoshop co-creator John Knoll, Light Factory was originally created to generate Photon Torpedoes in the Star Trek movies. 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 effects. The lights can be as realistic or fantastical as your imagination. Light Factory provides the tools to design and add extremely realistic lens flares. The individual flare elements can also be used to create vibrant motion graphics effects that go beyond the typical lens flares found in other applications. Flares are frequently used to create a special effect. Directors may test a variety of lenses to find one with a particular look to suit their style or provide a particular effect for a single shot. It is a misconception that lens flares are ‘mistakes’. Lens flares are the result of photographing bright lights either on film or video. When you think of all the great digital simulation tools available to create realistic images, it is certainly time to have tools to simulate lens flares. Enter Knoll Light Factory 3.0! Great features of Knoll Knoll Light Factory is designed to create lens flares and other lighting effects, including lasers, explosions and suns. The package can create many different effects depending upon your desired result and the time you want to put into designing. Control over creative flare Light Factory gives you control over the look of 100's of lighting effects, and further the creative abilities of photographers and designers to enhance existing images or create original works. Inside Light Factory, you can choose from 19 different flare elements, then layer those elements to create the desired light effect. The plug-in contains controls for applying the premade flares that ship. Alternately, it has a custom flare editor that lets you create and edit your own custom effects. More than a flare The most common use of Light Factory 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. Artists are always looking for new creative opportunities. Light Factory offers a great way of painting with light, when you need to add some flare and sparkle to an image. 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. New features in version 3 Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop allows you to design photo-realistic or enhanced lighting effects. 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. Improving and speeding up the workflow was a major emphasis for version 3.0. The Light Editor has been integrated into a single interface that can be moved and resized to the user’s workspace. The shipped presets have been doubled to get you quickly started. New and improved features •100+ Light Presets: Over 50 new light presets give you additional pre-made effects that range from naturalistic to dramatic. •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. •16-bit Color Support: Light effects now render out to higher bit depths, which reduces banding and outputs better looking glows and gradients. •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. •Compatible with Mac Intel, 64-bit Windows: Support for Intel Macs, Photoshop CS3, and Vista 32- and 64-bit systems