Apple's expansive photo editing and management tool, Digital Film Tools (http://www.digitalfilmtools.com ), with the release of Power Stroke, Light! and Ozone for Aperture 2.1, affirms its on-going commitment to bring innovative new products to the imaging marketplace and offers greater reach in the digital imaging software market.
Power Stroke, designed with the creative workflow of digital photographers, graphic designers and artists in mind, introduces a simple, interactive stroke-based interface to quickly and intuitively perform targeted adjustments. Regions of interest are isolated by drawing a few simple brush strokes with adjustments then made only in those areas, instead of meticulously selecting regions or hand-painting masks. Multiple corrections and effects can can be assigned to Stroke, such as recoloring or desaturation, color correction, colorization of black and white images, blur, fill light for dimly lit image areas and diffusion/glow. Power Stroke produces, using patented algorithms, high-quality results at a fraction of the complexity and computational cost of previous techniques. Gestural selection, colorization and image adjustment, at last, have been combined into one natural, fast and easy process.
Just as if you were adding light at the time of shooting, Light! allows photographers, designers and artists to add light to a scene where none existed before. Using the entire pattern/gobo library created by GAMPRODUCTS, INC. realistic lighting and shadow were introduced. These same exact patterns, normally used in front of lights during photography, can now be applied digitally to the entire image or inside a selection. Including trees, stones and brick, sky and stars,natural elements, holidays and symbols, foliage, fences and openings, cityscapes and towns, Christmas, breakups, blendables, clouds, fire and water, flags, flowers, moons, religion, signage, spirals, spotlights and pinspots, structures and sets, themes, vignettes and windows, there are 565 patterns to choose from.
Ozone is a unique filter that allows photographers, designers and artists to manipulate the color of an image with incredible flexibility and accuracy. Digital Film Tools, inspired by Ansel Adams' Zone System for still photography, has created "The Digital Zone System". The Digital Zone System, to reproduce the infinite palette of colors, tones and brightness of the world around us, takes the spectrum of image values and divides them into 11 discrete zones. With Ozone, the color and brightness of each zone can be independently adjusted until you've painted a new picture. All zones can be adjusted and viewed in context and you don't have to commit to the adjustments until all zones are corrected.
Digital Film Tools brings together the unbeatable combination of superior motion picture visual effects veterans, software designers, video editors and photographers. You have a recipe for success if you add three Emmy Awards and experience in creating visual effects for hundreds of feature films, commercials and television shows.
