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6 Installation • INSTALLATION Adobe Photoshop 1 Install Dfx using your installation CD. or 2 Download Dfx at www.tiffen.com 3 Double-click on the file that was downloaded and run through the installation process. 4 When prompted, select your Adobe/Photoshop/Plug-Ins folder as the installation location. Note: If you are running a program other than Adobe Photoshop, you will need to select the Plug-In folder for your application. 5 Start Photoshop and load an image. 6 From the Filter pull-down menu, select Dfx v2 from the Tiffen filter group. A dialog box pops up when you run Dfx. 7 If you purchased the software, select Activate Dfx and follow the instructions. or 8 Select Request Trial Activation (Internet Required) and click Next to receive a fully functioning version of Dfx for the specified trial period. At the end of the trial period, Dfx reverts to a limited demo mode. or 9 Select Run in Demo Mode and click Finish. Note: In Demo Mode, a watermark is superimposed over the image. Dfx User Guide •
Apple Aperture 1 Install Dfx using your installation CD. or Installation 7 • 2 Download Dfx at www.tiffen.com 3 Double-click on the file that was downloaded and run through the installation process. The default installation location is the /Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-ins folder. 4 Start Aperture and load an image. 5 From the Images pull-down menu, select Edit With > Tiffen Dfx v2. A dialog box pops up when you run Dfx. 6 If you purchased the software, select Activate Dfx and follow the instructions. or 7 Select Request Trial Activation (Internet Required) and click Next to receive a fully functioning version of Dfx for the specified trial period. At the end of the trial period, Dfx reverts to a limited demo mode. or 8 Select Run in Demo Mode and click Finish. Note: In Demo Mode, a watermark is superimposed over the image. Dfx User Guide •
Page 1 and 2: Dfx User Guide
Page 3 and 4: ABOUT US About Us 3 • Tiffen has
Page 5: Books Click on a closed book to exp
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
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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
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Page 47 and 48: Applying a EZ Mask to a Layer EZ Ma
Page 49 and 50: The strokes should be near the boun
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Page 53 and 54: When drawing a filled trimap, the b
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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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