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4 About this Guide • ABOUT THIS GUIDE This User Guide is a reference for the Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite. You can read from start to finish or jump around as you please. This guide is available in On-Line help and Acrobat PDF format. Trademark Recognition Black Diffusion/FX®, Black Pro-Mist®, Bronze Glimmerglass®, Color-Grad®, Glimmerglass®, Gold Diffusion/FX®, HDTV/FX®, HFX® Star, Nude/FX®, Pro- Mist®, Smoque®, Soft/FX®, 812® Warming, Warm Black Pro-Mist®, Warm Pro-Mist® and Warm Soft/FX® are trademarks of The Tiffen Company, LLC. All other product names used in this manual are the properties of their respective owners and are acknowledged. All other references to trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. On-Line Help Navigation Previous / Next Click on the Previous or Next icons to navigate through the help topics. Show Navigation If you don’t see the Table of Contents displayed on the left side of the screen, click on the Show Navigation icon at the top left of the screen. Dfx User Guide •
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Page 1 and 2: Dfx User Guide
Page 3: ABOUT US About Us 3 • Tiffen has
Page 7 and 8: Apple Aperture 1 Install Dfx using
Page 9 and 10: To deactivate Dfx: 1 Select License
Page 11 and 12: Points, Pro-Mist®, Rack Focus, Rad
Page 13 and 14: HFX Diffusion 1 Black Diffusion/FX
Page 15 and 16: Lens 1 Blur 2 Chromatic Aberration
Page 17 and 18: GENERAL TUTORIALS General Tutorials
Page 19 and 20: 3 Click on one of the categories in
Page 21 and 22: General Tutorials 21 • 5 Click on
Page 23 and 24: General Tutorials 23 • 6 Click th
Page 25 and 26: Viewing and Comparing Layers In add
Page 27 and 28: You can now compare the before and
Page 29 and 30: View One Layer while Editing Anothe
Page 31 and 32: 3 Click on a parameter name in the
Page 33 and 34: Select a filter and preset that cha
Page 35 and 36: Applying a Selection Mask to a Laye
Page 37 and 38: Position 100, Range 25 Original Pos
Page 39 and 40: Applying a Path Mask to a Layer A P
Page 41 and 42: Applying a Snap Mask to a Layer The
Page 43 and 44: General Tutorials 43 • 6 Alternat
Page 45 and 46: General Tutorials 45 • 9 Click th
Page 47 and 48: Applying a EZ Mask to a Layer EZ Ma
Page 49 and 50: The strokes should be near the boun
Page 51 and 52: General Tutorials 51 • 9 If you s
Page 53 and 54: 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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COLOR CORRECTORS Color Correctors 2
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adjustments will affect only those
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Green Exposure Adds or subtracts gr
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Brightness Adjusts the brightness o
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Color The Color parameter sets the
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Hue Adjusts the hue in any non-blue
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Mode Print to Slide Simulates the e
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Moonlight Color The Color parameter
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a greater amount of fog being remov
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Range Increases or decreases the ra
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Grad Use a gradient for the depth s
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Brightness Sets the intensity of th
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DOUBLE FOG Double Fog 301 • Descr
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Add The glow is added to your image
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Screen The edge glow is combined wi
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Selection Presets A selection is cr
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Blur Sets the softness of the light
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Screen The mist is combined with th
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FLAG / DOT Flag / Dot 317 • Descr
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FOG Fog 319 • Description The Fog
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GELS Gels 321 • Description Photo
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GamColor CineFilters CineFilters ch
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Grad Gels can optionally use a grad
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Glimmerglass®, Bronze Glimmerglass
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Screen The glow is combined with th
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Size The Size parameters control th
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HALO Halo 335 • Description Halo
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Sky Reduces UV light, haze and is p
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HDTV/FX® HDTV/FX® 339 • Descrip
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HFX® STAR HFX® Star 341 • Descr
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North Star HFX® Star 343 • Vecto
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HIGH CONTRAST High Contrast 345 •
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INFRARED Infrared 349 • Descripti
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KELVIN Kelvin 351 • Description D
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LENS DISTORTION Lens Distortion 353
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LIGHT / GOBO Light / Gobo 355 • D
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Rosco Gobos The Rosco range present
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Displacement Displaces the gobo by
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Gobos Category The gobos are organi
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Blur Sets the softness of the gobo.
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Category Special Effects. Looks: Bl
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Modules fields. Each of these field
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Post Color Correct Post Color Corre
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HiCon 1 A high contrast black and w
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Basic A simple film look that doesn
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Faux Film Faux Film attempts to giv
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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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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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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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