There's a new plug-in in town. Buena Software has made available Au Naturel for After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Combustion. The software is a collection of effects that allows you amazing control over your image footage. With
new plug-in, you could have effects that look like they might have been done in camera.The First Effect… The first of
effects is
Adjust Exposure effect. This is a combined brightness/contrast effect that allows
users to adjust exposure. Users will be able to preview how much adjustments are made, as well as
end result.
With Au Naturel's 32 bit floating point linear RGB color space,
results from applying
effect to a layer often yield more natural effects.
The Second Effect… The Directional Blur effect allows users to constrain
blur to a particular angle. An added bonus in this plug-in lets
user utilize
two blur effects to change how
edges of
frame are interpreted. Instead of
soft edge that reveals your underlying layers, users can mirror
edges or simply repeat
edge pixels.
The Third Effect… The package includes a Levels effect that is an applications levels control but allows users to utilize values outside of
minimum and maximum pixel value range. The Levels control also lets users to make adjustments on one or more of
color channels or alpha channel. For that matter, many of
effects in
collection allows
users to make adjustments on individual channels that lead to some very interesting and powerful results.