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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
frames, and 3.0 for those who want greater control or need to work on images for animation,
video, film, or print.
With Depth of Field Generator PRO, you can simulate all the different kinds of bokeh
effect that are normally caused by the individual shape of a lens’s aperture: pentagonal
highlights from apertures with five blades and round highlights from those with seven or
eight blades. It also provides depth-mapping tools so that you can create hand-made depth
maps for photographic images, emulating a technique used in 3D computer graphics.
Comments
For creating out-of-focus effects, Depth of Field Generator PRO has no equal. It even
lets you add different types of spherical aberration to your artificial bokeh and has an
advanced pixel grain-rendering engine for simulating grain and noise in the defocused
image areas. The plug-in, which is PC-only, is supported by online tutorials and a forum.
Version: Depth of Field Generator PRO 1.5 and 3.0 (2008)
Plugs into: Photoshop 4.0 or higher
OS: Windows 2000 and XP (no Mac compatibility)
RAM: 256MB (recommended)
Supported file formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and TGA
Price level: Version 1.5 $30, version 3.0 $60
Address: richard@richardrosenman.com
www.dofpro.com
Focus Extender
Vendor: Reindeer Graphics
Purpose: Pro-level blending tool for combining images to create greater depth-of-field
Description
Focus Extender allows you to create images with extended depth-of-field (DoF). It lets
you combine a series of photographs, selecting the in-focus area from each one. The result
is a single in-focus image that can be used in science for analysis and measurement.
Focus Extender plugs into both Photoshop and Image-Pro Plus image processing and
analysis software from Media Cybernetics. It is especially useful for close-up photography
where DoF is limited. Actions are fully recordable so that you can treat other images
in a similar fashion.
Comments
An expensive tool, Focus Extender justifies its price by being very accurate. Aimed primarily
at scientists and engineers, it is not intended for the general photographic market.
Version: Focus Extender 1.0 (2008)