Natural Filters from Au Naturel

Written by Granny's Mettle


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. Withrepparttar new plug-in, you could have effects that look like they might have been done in camera.

The First Effect… The first ofrepparttar 107479 effects isrepparttar 107480 Adjust Exposure effect. This is a combined brightness/contrast effect that allowsrepparttar 107481 users to adjust exposure. Users will be able to preview how much adjustments are made, as well asrepparttar 107482 end result.

With Au Naturel's 32 bit floating point linear RGB color space,repparttar 107483 results from applyingrepparttar 107484 effect to a layer often yield more natural effects.

The Second Effect… The Directional Blur effect allows users to constrainrepparttar 107485 blur to a particular angle. An added bonus in this plug-in letsrepparttar 107486 user utilizerepparttar 107487 two blur effects to change howrepparttar 107488 edges ofrepparttar 107489 frame are interpreted. Instead ofrepparttar 107490 soft edge that reveals your underlying layers, users can mirrorrepparttar 107491 edges or simply repeatrepparttar 107492 edge pixels.

The Third Effect… The package includes a Levels effect that is an applications levels control but allows users to utilize values outside ofrepparttar 107493 minimum and maximum pixel value range. The Levels control also lets users to make adjustments on one or more ofrepparttar 107494 color channels or alpha channel. For that matter, many ofrepparttar 107495 effects inrepparttar 107496 collection allowsrepparttar 107497 users to make adjustments on individual channels that lead to some very interesting and powerful results.

Your Own Digital Portfolio

Written by Will Barrow


Creating an impressive portfolio is a must in today’s highly competitive creative market. A crucial ingredient to penetratingrepparttar cutthroat competition is an efficient and credible presentation of yourself, talent and samples of your work. The portfolio isrepparttar 107478 key.

DT&G Magazine’s conversation with Cynthia Baron has got me thinking that using a digital portfolio is a good way to sell myself. Baron has said that digital portfolios enhance your chances of being qualified for employment. Withrepparttar 107479 context it has been discussed, I see her point and agree that it is true. There is a high probability that your work will be reviewed by many people and that in itself is a bonus since it is a free advertisement of your work thereby increasingrepparttar 107480 likelihood of you being hired. Plus, having more people know about you andrepparttar 107481 quality of your work. Another important issue that was tackled wasrepparttar 107482 increased accessibility of digital portfolios as opposed torepparttar 107483 traditional type. Geography will no longer be a factor. Potential clients or employers can have a preview of your work atrepparttar 107484 same time with you eliminatingrepparttar 107485 likelihood of incurring huge costs in mailing samples. Efficiency is greatly increased allrepparttar 107486 while improving your sphere of influence.

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