Overview

Your Virtual Camera Bag

Simulate realistic filters and lenses for unique focal point
flexibility and creative focus effects in your images.

Topaz Lens Effects brings all of your camera lenses and filters (and even those you don't have yet) together in a powerful and easy-to-use plug-in, eliminating the need for additional and expensive equipment, while providing unparalleled editing flexibility. The diverse range of effects made possible by virtual simulation of common lenses, filters and specialty cameras make it easier than ever to change or emphasize focal points, adjust depth-of-field, add vignettes, balance color tone, create miniature scenes and so much more.

Lens Effects Highlights

• Explore, experiment with and apply 29 effects and over 200 presets
• Bokeh, (blur) to minimize undesired backgrounds and foregrounds
• Filter characteristics like color tone, fog, reflector and more
• Flexibility to enhance or change your focal point
• Creative focus effects like motion, miniatures and dual focus
• Depth-of-field adjustments with depth map and Smart Brush
• "Apply" button to stack effects and create customized looks
• Separate controls for adjusting background and foreground details
• Enhanced sharpening algorithm, grain, quad toning and vignettes

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Flexibility After the Shot

Traditionally, most lens and filter effects are interposed at the time of the shot. However, Lens Effects extends the functionality beyond your camera, giving you the convenience and flexibility to add any number of filter, lens, hood and specialty-camera adjustments after the shot. This type of control helps simplify your shooting process by simulating the abilities of your camera equipment inside of Photoshop. Lens Effects offers a more effective way to explore the many benefits that traditional lenses and filters offer - in just a click.

Benefits

The Power of Many in One

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Cameras, lenses and filters are a necessary part of your camera bag. As a photographer, you need an arsenal of capable tools that will not only help improve and enhance, but also extend your creative abilities. Now it's easier and faster than ever to achieve selective focus and ensure that your viewers see your image how you envisioned it. The value in digital lens simulation is that you get a wider range of effects and capabilities that offer convenience and flexibility of being applied during post processing.

In addition, there is no degradation to the image which can typically result from glare, lens flare, dirt, dust and lens aberration. Also, by adding your lens and filter effects during post-processing, you eliminate the need for expensive lenses and equipment. Explore some of the creative possibilities achievable with your images using Lens Effects...

Accurate Depth of Field Adjustments with Smart Brush

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The new Smart Brush is used to create depth maps, which allow you to control how the Bokeh (blur) will be applied to your image. Using the Smart Brush, you can identify the relative distance of near to far objects (black to white). This type of control makes it easy to select (or change) any focal point within your image and put the emphasis where you want it.

Also integrated in the Smart Brush is a Gradient Brush tool and a color selection tool. With the Gradient Brush, you can easily create smooth gradients in your Depth Map by simply brushing (click and drag) across your image. The color picker is a convenient tool which allows you to select the depth value based and paint in any area of the image using that selection.

Once your depth map is created, you can uses it to adjust focal point, depth of field, foreground blur, background blur and blur creaminess. Use the sliders to indicate the effect type, location, strength and transition in your image.

• When creating bokeh effects you will use the Smart Brush to create depth maps - allowing you to select any focal point within your image and put the emphasis where you want it.


• Depth Map indicates the relative distance of objects in the image. Nearer objects should be painted in black, middle objects gray and farthest should be painted white.


• Increase the background blur slider to create the bokeh effect. Then add additional vignette, filter, sharpening, grain, color enhancements or creative effects to focal selection or to background.

All-Inclusive Workflow with Unlimited Customizability

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Topaz Lens Effects introduces a variety of new features designed for convenience and to help streamline your workflow.

• Lens Effects includes 26 camera, filter and lens effects and over 170 preset that can be combined countless ways for a wide range of creative effects.

• Lens Effects introduces a new category called Effects, which helps manage your presets, organizing them by camera, filter and lens type.

• With the new "Apply" button, you can apply multiple effects and presets during the same work session - without having to exit the program and relaunch.

• Includes basic adjustment tools for brightness, highlights, contrast, saturation, color tone, sharpening, grain and more - for a comprehensive workflow.

Try a 30-day free trial of Topaz Lens Effects today, or buy now for $79.99!

Examples

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Lens Effects Tutorials

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Topaz Lens Effects makes it easy to achieve the look of speciality lenses, cameras and creative filters.
Check out some of the available Lens Effects tutorials to help you get started.

Featured Tutorial:

Visit our Learning Resource Center to access additional Lens Effects tutorials and documentation.

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Accolades

Have you tried Lens Effects? Let us know what you think!

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  SydsPix by Lady Syd

  "The Topaz Lens Effect plug-in is a great plug-in, but then I am a big Topaz fan and use most of their other products on a daily basis. The thing I like best about Topaz is that they keep the price down so for most people it is very affordable and makes Photoshop faster and more fun. "
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  Bright Hub by Michele McDonough

  "You don't have to be a professional photographer to become addicted to camera lenses. Once you start experimenting with different ones, it’s easy to get hooked – but it’s a pretty expensive addiction to feed…one way to experiment with different lens effects without going broke at the camera shop is to use “virtual” lenses "
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  Photoframd by Photoframd

  "Chances are you have walked through some complex Photoshop tutorials to create these hot lens effects. Well, Topaz Labs now makes it easy to create these same realistic effects with just a few clicks."
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  Garmahis by Garmahis

  "A a great, easy to use plugin which gives you great creative control over your pictures. The new features make it a versatile must-have tool for everyone who wants to give their photos the unique feel that analogue photography brought to the table."
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  Frontal Lobbings by Terrance Lam

  "Overall the ability to paint my bokeh is much better than Photoshop's built in filter option...The fact that this can turn your more inexpensive lenses into a more expensive BOKEHish lens might be something that is worth consideration."
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  Frontal Lobbings (Part 2 - Bokeh) by Terrance Lam

  "For something that is software based, it certainly does a pretty bang up job of simulating something that only more expensive lenses, a larger format camera, or only in my imagination can."

Try a 30-day free trial of Topaz Lens Effects today, or buy now for $79.99!

Specifications

Before installing Topaz Lens Effects, please refer to our system specifications to verify that your system
meets the minimum requirements - as recommended by our development team.

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