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Unleash your creativity with Boris FX Optics. Transform your photos with cinematic effects, creative looks, and pro tools designed to make every image stand out. Fill out the form below to get started with your 14-day trial.

Latest Release

Optics Features

The latest release gives photographers more creative freedom with expanded plugin support, authentic film effects, handcrafted textures, particle presets, enhanced AI tools, color grading, and updated Sapphire effects.

AI Masking & Isolation

Optics features masking and paint tools powered by machine learning to replace backgrounds, isolate effects, or fix and touch up pixels.

Stunning Lighting Effects

Choose from a wide range of customizable lens flares, lighting effects, and gobos โ€” and save your favorites as presets.

Color Grading

Fine-tune every color with intuitive hue, saturation, and luma controls for precise, professional color grading.  

Authentic Film Stock Emulation

Recreate authentic physical optical camera filters with vintage film stocks, color grading, and lens & diffusion effects.

Particles

Add photorealistic smoke, fire, rain, snow, sci-fi elements, and more with Particle Illusionโ€™s high-end 2D & 3D particle generator. 

Borders and Backgrounds

Give every portrait the perfect finishing touch with handcrafted backdrops and borders. Includes florals and tintype looks.

How it Works

Get started with your free trial in minutes.

Submit the form above and you will receive an email with instructions and a link to download the Boris FX Hub.

Sign in with your Boris FX account. If you do not yet have an account, click Create Account to set one up.

After launching the Boris FX Hub, choose "Request an unrestricted trial of Optics after installation."
Choose to install the Particle Illusion Emitters library with your Optics trial. This includes 2500+ effects like smoke, dust, sparkles, rain, bubbles, and more!

You can choose to open Optics as a standalone application or with one of the following hosts:

Photoshop: select the Filters tab โ†’ Boris FX, โ†’ Boris FX Optics.

Lightroom: Edit in - Boris FX Optics

Affinity: Open/select the image โ†’ go to Pixel โ†’ Filters โ†’ Plugins โ†’ Boris FX โ†’ Optics.
Capture One: Open/select the image โ†’ go to Image โ†’ Edit With โ†’ Boris FX Optics.
Apple Photos: Double-click the photo โ†’ click Edit โ†’ click the โ€ฆ icon โ†’ choose Boris FX Optics. You must open the Optics standalone application at least once before Optics will appear as an option inside Apple Photos

 

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