Tired of using overlays or stock footage in your photo editing? Use the Optics plugin inside Photoshop or Lightroom to generate your own custom effects!
In this video, Colin Smith from popular training resource, PhotoshopCafe shows how he has incorporated Optics into his workflow to produce realistic smoke and fire effects. Covering the Particle Illusion category, which was introduced in Optics version 2022.
Discover how to use Mocha Pro’s 3D camera solver with AI masking and Sapphire’s UltraZap to replace a background in 3D. Design director John Dickinson...
Mocha Pro and After Effects: Background Swap
Nick Harauz shares why Looks — new in Optics 2025 — is a great option to easily customize and save multi-layer effects and quickly apply them to any p...
How to Save Multiple Optics Effects as Looks
Product manager Martin Brennand shares how to track multiple sides of a 3D moving object and solve it as one and what you should consider when tackli...
Mocha Pro: Grouping Tracks for Moving Objects