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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite
Vendor: The Tiffen Company
Purpose: Professional quality filters to simulate optical glass filters, lab processes, and other effects
Description
Tiffen Dfx is one of the most extensive sets of filters you can buy, with simulation of
popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, matte
generation, color correction, and a whole host of others. The software has support for
both 8- and 16-bits-per-channel processing. They come in various editions for both
stills photography and film/video use.
Among the filters are Black Diffusion/FX, Black Pro-Mist, Bleach Bypass, Blur, Bronze
Glimmerglass, Center Spot, Chromatic Aberration, Color Compensating, Color
Conversion, Cool Pro-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 Diffusion/FX, Gold
Reflector, Grain, Halo, HDTV/FX, Lens Distortion, Light, Light Balancing, Low
Contrast, Mono Tint, ND-Grad, Night Vision, Nude/FX, Old Photo, Pro-Mist, Rack
Focus, Radial Exposure, ReLight, Rosco Gels, Selective Color Correct, Selective
Saturation, Sharpen, Silver Reflector, Smoque, Sunset/Twilight, Telecine, Temperature,
Three Strip, Ultra Contrast, Vari-Star, Vignette, Warm Soft/FX, Xray, and many more.
Tools are available within the package to apply multiple filters in a layering process,
together with batch processing facilities. The product is also available as a plug-in for
Apple’s Aperture and always requires a three-button mouse.
Comments
Developed originally by Digital Film Tools (and called 55mm, after the standard filter
size in film and TV), Dfx consists of fully professional tools that many photographers
find indispensable. Designing a poster for a horror film? Try the Day-for-Night filter
and turn daylight to moonlight just like they do in Hollywood. Got a portrait with a
plain background? Add a lighting pattern to it with the Light filter to simulate the
shadow cast by a window (there are 565 patterns to choose from in the GAM library—
www.gamonline.com—which comes with the plug-in). Bearing in mind that the Light
plug-in was once sold separately ($50), the whole set is an exceptional value.
Version: Tiffen Dfx (2008)
Plugs into: Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Avid Editing, and Discreet systems
OS: Windows XP Pro, XP Home, and Vista; Mac OS X 10.4 and above (not supported in
Apple’s Rosetta emulation mode)
RAM: 1GB (2GB or more recommended)
Supported file formats: RGB formats
Price level: Stand-alone edition approx. $200, Photoshop plug-in edition approx. $300