Alien Skin Bokeh
Submitted by mitch on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 01:36.
Alien Skin Bokeh is a Photoshop CS3/CS4 plug-in filter for quickly adding selective focus (bokeh) and vignette effects to photographs. Digital photographers can add simulated bokeh effects for well-known lens. You can use the full range of Photoshop selection tools or the Radial and Planar tools in Bokeh to control just where its effects are applied.
Alien Skin Bokeh is also compatible with recent versions of Photoshop Elements and with Corel Paint Shop Pro X2.
You can download a 30 day free trial. The free trial is full-feature.
http://www.alienskin.com/downloads/getmail1.asp
Download size (KB):
7,150
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Interest in Lens Blur Tutorial?
I read a thread on Photography-on-the.net the other day asking about a tutorial on using Lens Blur in a realistic way.
Should I expand on the discussion on the Alien Skin Bokeh review with detailed tutorial on using Lens Blur with Depth aps and the Gradient tools for a relaistic effect? I was thinking of a PDF tutorial followed by a video tutorial.
Re. Interest in Lens Blur Tutorial
I wrote a .PDF tutorial. A video tutorial will follow.
http://www.thelightsright.com/ReducingDOFWithPhotoshopCS4
Enjoy! And, please remember to leave a comment.
Good basic description
Mitch, this is a somewhat bare bones review. I know that you are familiar with other packages that do similar things. I use NIK and it has several tools to do this well. I am not sure which of the packages is better, but I find NIK very satisfying. Vignetting is well represented in several NIK filters and a bare bones version is also in photoshop. Adding bokeh is not explicit in NIK, but combination of low tonal contrast and one of the soft focus filters or "glow" produces good effects.