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326 Glimmerglass®, Bronze • Description GLIMMERGLASS®, BRONZE GLIMMERGLASS® Glimmerglass® Softens fine details in a unique manner, while adding a mild glow to highlights. Bronze Glimmerglass® Same as Glimmerglass® but combined with a warming filter. Before Glimmerglass® After Bronze Glimmerglass® After Dfx User Guide • Go to the Glimmerglass® / Bronze Glimmerglass® Tutorial on page 100 to see how the filters work. Category HFX Diffusion. Controls Copyright © 2008--www.iofoto.com Blur Fine image details are smoothed by softening the image based on a selection with areas of detail being retained by using an edge detect.
Glimmerglass®, Bronze Glimmerglass® 327 • Edge Edge detail lost as a result of the blurring is restored through the use of an edge detect. Brightness Determines the brightness of the edge selection. Blur Blurs the edge selection. Opacity Determines the opacity of the edge detail added back to the image. Selection A selection is used to smooth image details. Go to the Selection section of Common Filter Controls on page 254 to see how the Selection controls work. Mist The Mist controls add a mild glow to image highlights. Brightness Sets the intensity of the mist. Blur Sets the softness of the mist. Color Correct Go to the Color Correct filter on page 277 to see how the Color Correct controls work. Warming Applies a warming filter to the image. Go to the Warming section of Common Filter Controls on page 257 to see how the Warming controls work. Note: The Warming controls are only available in Bronze Glimmerglass®. Dfx User Guide •
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Dfx User Guide
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ABOUT US About Us 3 • Tiffen has
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Books Click on a closed book to exp
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Apple Aperture 1 Install Dfx using
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To deactivate Dfx: 1 Select License
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Points, Pro-Mist®, Rack Focus, Rad
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HFX Diffusion 1 Black Diffusion/FX
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Lens 1 Blur 2 Chromatic Aberration
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GENERAL TUTORIALS General Tutorials
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3 Click on one of the categories in
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General Tutorials 21 • 5 Click on
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General Tutorials 23 • 6 Click th
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Viewing and Comparing Layers In add
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You can now compare the before and
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View One Layer while Editing Anothe
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3 Click on a parameter name in the
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Select a filter and preset that cha
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Applying a Selection Mask to a Laye
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Position 100, Range 25 Original Pos
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Applying a Path Mask to a Layer A P
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Applying a Snap Mask to a Layer The
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General Tutorials 43 • 6 Alternat
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General Tutorials 45 • 9 Click th
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Applying a EZ Mask to a Layer EZ Ma
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The strokes should be near the boun
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General Tutorials 51 • 9 If you s
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When drawing a filled trimap, the b
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The area inside of the blue, unknow
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General Tutorials 57 • 13 If ther
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General Tutorials 59 • 5 Resize t
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To change how the active mask is co
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General Tutorials 63 • 2 Click an
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FILTER TUTORIALS Filter Tutorials 6
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Black Diffusion/FX® / Gold Diffusi
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Bleach Bypass Bleach Bypass is a fi
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Center Spot Center Spot diffuses an
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Close-Up Lens Simulates close-up le
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Color-Grad® Color-Grad® can trans
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Color Spot Tints the image using pr
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Day for Night Day for Night simulat
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Defringe Purple or blue fringing ar
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Go to the Grad section of Common Fi
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11 You can also use the Texture > D
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In some of the filters, a selection
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Edge Glow Edge Glow isolates lines
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Eye Light Creates a targeted light
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11 Change your View to Output to se
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12 Change your View to Output to se
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Flag / Dot Flags and Dots are recta
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Gels Photographers, cinematographer
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In the case of a person’s face, a
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Gold / Silver Reflector Gold and Si
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Filter Tutorials 105 • 8 Adjust t
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Haze / Sky Haze Reduces excessive b
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In the case of a person’s face, a
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The Selection > Range parameter has
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Ice Halos Ice halos are created whe
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Infrared Infrared simulates infrare
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Kelvin Degrees Kelvin is the standa
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Lens Distortion Lens Distortion cor
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The default selection settings are
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12 Click the Done button to apply t
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ND-Grad The ND or Neutral Density G
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10 Increase the Selection > Range c
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Old Photo Images are treated to loo
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Ozone The Ozone filter allows you t
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Pencil Pencil converts your image t
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Polarizer The Polarizer creates a d
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Pro-Mist® This popular motion pict
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12 Click the Done button to apply t
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Rainbow Recreates arced rainbows of
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10 Change the View selector from Se
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Selective Saturation The saturation
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Smoque® Mechanical smoke generator
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Soft/FX® / Warm Soft/FX® Softens
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Split Field Split Field splits the
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Star Six point star patterns are ge
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Strip Grad Strip Grad colors only a
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Three Strip / Two Strip Three Strip
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Tint Tints the entire image with a
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Vari-Star Variable multi-point star
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Vignette A vignette, or soft fade,
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14 Increase the Selection > Blur pa
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X-Ray Simulates the look of X-Ray i
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Viewer The Viewer is where images a
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Parameters When the Parameters tab
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Effect The Effect window shows all
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Toolbar The Toolbar contains variou
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Sashes By clicking and dragging the
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Combo Box Adjustment Combo boxes al
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Edit Preview Size Dfx works at a ma
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Default Layout The interface is con
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VIEWER Viewer 185 • The Viewer is
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The View/Compare icon in the Effect
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Horizontal Split Comparison Compare
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Magnifier When the Magnifier is sel
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Viewer Keyboard Shortcuts Viewer 19
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Wrap Filters Certain filter categor
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Presets for most filters have been
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Preset Pop-up Menu Right-click over
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Reset to Defaults Resets all of the
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Ranges, Toggles, and Color paramete
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EFFECT Effect 205 • The Effect wi
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Clicking on the image thumbnail in
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Drag and Drop Layers The ordering o
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Drag and Drop Masks Masks can be co
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Adjusting Toolbar Controls When cer
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Add Mask Using the Add Mask icon in
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Outer Blur The path is blurred outw
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On-Screen Controls Corner Points Th
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On-Screen Controls Radius The un-bl
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Create a Path Create a path by clic
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Point Editing Pop-up Menu Right-cli
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Workflow Using a coarse to fine edi
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Mark Foreground Click the Mark Fore
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Add additional FG and BG lines as n
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Once a stroke has been drawn, Snap
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EZ Mask EZ Mask is an easy to use i
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• The strokes should be near the
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Brushes Paint Foreground Click the
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To set the paint overlay opacity: 1
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Selection Mask Selection masks can
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Cyan A selection is created based o
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Black Clip Blacks in the selection
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To set the brush size: 1 Click on t
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COMMON FILTER CONTROLS Common Filte
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Scale Scale X The horizontal scale.
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Position Selects the values to be i
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Falloff Radius The blurred edge rad
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Color Sets the color of the light t
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Contrast Adjusts the contrast of th
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Controls Black Diffusion/FX®, Gold
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Gaussian A slower, higher quality g
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Center Spot / Warm Center Spot 269
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CHROMATIC ABERRATION Chromatic Aber
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CLOSE-UP LENS Close-Up Lens 273 •
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Page 279 and 280: Green Exposure Adds or subtracts gr
Page 281 and 282: Brightness Adjusts the brightness o
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Page 291 and 292: Moonlight Color The Color parameter
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Page 301 and 302: DOUBLE FOG Double Fog 301 • Descr
Page 303 and 304: Add The glow is added to your image
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Page 309 and 310: Selection Presets A selection is cr
Page 311 and 312: Blur Sets the softness of the light
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Page 317 and 318: FLAG / DOT Flag / Dot 317 • Descr
Page 319 and 320: FOG Fog 319 • Description The Fog
Page 321 and 322: GELS Gels 321 • Description Photo
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Page 335 and 336: HALO Halo 335 • Description Halo
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Page 339 and 340: HDTV/FX® HDTV/FX® 339 • Descrip
Page 341 and 342: HFX® STAR HFX® Star 341 • Descr
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Page 345 and 346: HIGH CONTRAST High Contrast 345 •
Page 347 and 348: Brightness Sets the intensity of th
Page 349 and 350: INFRARED Infrared 349 • Descripti
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Page 353 and 354: LENS DISTORTION Lens Distortion 353
Page 355 and 356: LIGHT / GOBO Light / Gobo 355 • D
Page 357 and 358: Rosco Gobos The Rosco range present
Page 359 and 360: Displacement Displaces the gobo by
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Page 365 and 366: Category Special Effects. Looks: Bl
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Page 373 and 374: Basic A simple film look that doesn
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LOW CONTRAST Low Contrast 377 • D
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MONO TINT Mono Tint 379 • Descrip
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ND-GRAD ND-Grad 381 • Description
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NIGHT VISION Night Vision 383 • D
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Additional Controls Grain Grain Siz
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Color The Color parameter sets the
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Kallitype A silver-iron method for
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HSV The HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value
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OZONE Ozone 393 • Description The
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Hue Zones are created using the ima
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Gamma Adjusts the gamma of the zone
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PENCIL Pencil 399 • Description P
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Light Balancing Light Balancing fil
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POLARIZER / WARM POLARIZER Polarize
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PRO-MIST® Pro-Mist® 407 • Descr
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Warm Black Pro-Mist® Same as Black
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RACK FOCUS Rack Focus 411 • Descr
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Selection A selection is used to cr
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Spot A radial gradient is used to l
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Normal The rainbow is added to the
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RELIGHT ReLight 419 • Description
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Light Source Blend The light source
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Saturation Adjusts the saturation o
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Average A selection is created base
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Range Increases or decreases the ra
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Blur Blurs the selection. No Blur B
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Midtones Saturation Adjusts the sat
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Controls Color Amount Determines th
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Screen The smoke is combined with t
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Range Controls the range of values
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Category HFX Diffusion. Blur Sets t
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Brightness Sets the intensity of th
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Position There is an on-screen cont
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Range Controls the range of values
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STAR Star 447 • Description Six p
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STREAKS Streaks 449 • Description
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STRIP GRAD Strip Grad 451 • Descr
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SUNSET/TWILIGHT Sunset/Twilight 453
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THREE STRIP / TWO STRIP Three Strip
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Red Smooth Blurs the red selection
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Tint Mode Sets the color model that
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Position Selects the shadow values
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Blend Determines the blend mode to
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VIGNETTE Vignette 465 • Descripti
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WATER DROPLETS Water Droplets 467
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Type Corona A corona has a bright c
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Selection A selection can be used t
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X-RAY X-Ray 473 • Description Sim
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BLEND MODES Blend Modes 475 • Ble
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Lighten Compares two images and tak
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Path Mask Point Editing Shortcuts K
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