Overview

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Creative Star and Lighting Effects

Topaz Star Effect™s creates unique star and lighting effects by manipulating and enhancing the appearance of various light sources found within your image. With a variety of fully-customizable effect options for modifying light sources, you can easily add a creative or dramatic flare to lights or reflective surfaces to focus more attention on those point.

This fun and easy-to-use plug-in simulates traditional photographic star lens filters (also known as cross-screen filters), giving you the ability to digitally create dazzling starbursts, light enhancements and much more.

Topaz Star Effects™ Highlights

• Includes a variety of star effect presets for a quick and creative 1-click workflow
• Star type selection - choose from options like traditional, starburst, cross star, hollywood star and more
• Mode selection which allows for star effect extraction from your base image
• Automatic light source detection
• Selective brush for quick and easy inclusion and exclusion of light sources
• Ability to stack a variety of star effects via the "Apply" button
• Fully customizable - with added adjustment controls for color, temperature, secondary spikes, glow and ring flare
• No loss of contrast - like with traditional glass filters

Benefits

Essential Light Source Control

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Topaz Star Effect™s pairs powerful light source detection capabilities with an easy-to-use selective star brush, making it faster and easier for you to create effects. The advanced detection algorithm automatically seeks out the light sources in your image and then offers you the ability to quickly control how many of the detected sources are affected using the Threshold slider. The included selective brush offers more flexibility, allowing you to individually select more light sources to add or remove your effect from - in just a single click. Then using the sliders in the Main Adjustments, Color Adjustments and Additional Effects tabs, you can control the appearance and characteristics of your effects.

Flexible and Customizable

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Star Effects™ features the most comprehensive enhancement toolset available, allowing users to create both natural, realistic effects and more artistic, graphic effects. Compared to other star-creation tools, Star Effects™ includes a selective brush; an apply button for star stack-a-bility; and more adjustment options: star type, glow, ring flare, color controls and more - all rolled into one easy-to-use program.

Star Type - Includes: traditional, burst, cross, hyper, hollywood, north and vector. Star Brush - Selectively add/remove additional light sources. Main Adjustments - Controls effect size and intensity. Color Adjustments - Controls effect color characteristics. Additional Effects - Allows you to add finishing effects.

The versatility possible in Star Effects™ is great for enhancing a variety of image types including: jewelry bling/sparkle, night scenes, cityscapes, shimming water and reflective surfaces, star and eye twinkle, astrology, sunbeams and more.

Effect Extraction

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Topaz Star Effects features two modes (Combined and Stars Only) for previewing and processing your created effects. The Combined mode allows you to see your base image and the applied star effects. The Stars Only mode allows you to view just your added star effects (on a black background) without your base image.

You also have the option of saving just the created star effects – just make sure that the Stars Only mode is selected before you click the OK button. This is great for creating your own unique and customized backgrounds.

Try a 30-day free trial of Topaz Star Effects today, or buy now for $29.99!

Examples

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Star Effects Tutorials

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Topaz Star Effects makes it easy to create brilliant star and lighting effects.
Check out some of the available Star Effects tutorials to help you get started.

Featured Tutorial:

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

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Accolades

Have you tried Topaz Star Effects? Let us know what you think!

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  Ron Martinsen's Photography Blog by Ron Martinsen

  "This is a neat little product that on the right photo (like Chicago above) you just say “wow, how did it know where I wanted my sparkles”. It just works! It’s way easier and faster than Photoshop, and all sorts of flare options are available.... "
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  Edith Levy Photographyby Edith Levy

  "I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to play around with the beta version this week and this really is a handy tool to have in your post processing arsenal of tools... "
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  In the Desert by Larry Schaibley

  " Look at the two photos below -- have you ever wondered why sometimes you get these star effects on the brighter lights in a photograph? It all has to do with the aperture of the lens... It's much simpler to add them using a Topaz plug-in..."

Try a 30-day free trial of Topaz Star Effects today, or buy now for $29.99!

Specifications

Before installing Topaz Star 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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