PHOTO EDITING & IMAGE EFFECTS
Easily add blockbuster-worthy effects and looks to your photos with Optics. The toolbox, created by Academy Award-winning effects artists, delivers Hollywood film-quality lighting and lens effects, curated film looks, and realistic particle creation to photographers and digital artists.
Highlights include over 180 filters and 1000s of gorgeous presets in 10 categories: Color, Diffusion/Blurs, Film Lab, Grads/Tints, Image, Lens/Distort, Light, Render, Stylize, and Particle Illusion.
Optics is available as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom and a standalone application.
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Particle Illusion Update
Particle Illusion adds even more creative features to elevate motion graphics workflows.
FAST AND CREATIVE PHOTO MANIPULATION
Optics features a robust layer-based compositing interface and powerful, flexible masking tools. Tackle everything from simple photo editing to full image manipulations to designing and generating custom assets and graphics.
The Best Lighting Effects
Explore the largest collection of procedural lens flares, lighting, gobos, and particle effects for photography. Just say no to stock footage elements. Quickly design, edit, and save your own libraries of presets of favorites with Optics.
Combine and build your own library of presets and favorites. Everything in Optics is procedural for creative control.
Artist Tested. Hollywood Proven.
Optics gives you access to the same plugins and filters regularly used on the most popular films and TV series with the addition of top tools from the Boris FX Suite.
Add Lens Flares, Light Rays, Ultra Zap (lightning), UltraGlow, Light Leaks, and many more effects from our Emmy Award-winning Sapphire collection, or retouch skin easily with Continuum’s Beauty Studio.
Stunning Particle Creation
The Particle Illusion category is a fast and easy-to-use particle engine that creates unique effects and elements.
Particle Illusion features 1700+ particle presets to enhance photo editing, including Smoke, Fire, Water, Sparkles, Explosions, Dust, Sci-Fi, and more. Learn more about Particle Illusion.
You can also create and export cinemagraphs — photo animations — using Optics in Photoshop, Lightroom, or the standalone application.
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Physical Camera Characteristics
Optics is the only Photoshop plugin that emulates the physical characteristics of optical camera filters, whether it’s historical film stocks, color grading, or lens and diffusion effects.
Add beauty and depth to your digital images with diffusion filters like Mist, Fog, Net, Halo, and more.
Masking and Paint Tools
Optics features powerful masking and paint tools to replace backgrounds, isolate effects, or fix and touch up pixels.
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Ambient creates light without a defined source and contributes to the overall brightness of a scene without casting shadows. ...
Ambient Light
Atmospheric Glow is a glow style mega-filter that brings instant atmospheric looks to an otherwise flat scene. ...
Atmospheric Glow
Auto Adjust
Beauty Studio was designed to automate the process of eliminating wrinkles, pores and other undesirable blemishes from facial skin tones. ...
Beauty Studio
Black and White converts color images to black and white simulating the look of Black and White photographic filters. ...
Black and White
Blurs the image with individual horizontal and vertical controls. It’s fast, high quality and blurs outside the frame which removes the dark inward...
Blur
Diffuses and blurs distracting backgrounds while keeping a center spot in focus. The center spot can be moved, sized and the amount of blur can be co...
Center Spot
Chromatic aberration is caused by a lens having a different refractive index for different wavelengths of light and is seen as fringes of color aroun...
Chromatic Aberration
Color Correct manipulates hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, gamma, temperature, cyan/magenta, red, green and blue values of the overall image an...
Color Correct
Color Gradient colors and or darkens only a portion of the image giving you the ability to simulate any Color Gradient filter. Presets for your favor...
Color Gradient
Color Infrared simulates infrared filters used in conjunction with infrared sensitive film or sensors to produce very interesting false-color images ...
Color Infrared
Tints the image using presets for common photographic filters except for a center spot which retains normal color. The center spot can be moved, size...
Color Spot
Using multiple colors, Colorize Gradient colorizes the image according to the image’s brightness values. ...
Colorize Gradient
Cross-processing is a photographic technique where print film (C41) is processed in the set of chemicals usually used to process slide film (E6) or v...
Cross Processing
Curves adjusts the entire tonal range of an image by changing the shape of RGB, Red, Green or Blue curves. Curve points can be adjusted throughout th...
Curves
Day for Night simulates a technique used for shooting exteriors in daylight made to look like they were photographed at night. Typically, it involves...
Day for Night
DeBand removes banding artifacts from an image by smoothing pixels in banded areas while retaining detail. ...
DeBand
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