User Manual

 Color Filter: Lets you choose a particular color of highlight to isolate (an eyedropper
lets you select a value from the Viewer).
 Operation: A pop-up lets you adjust the resulting Isolation matte (options include
Shrink, Grow, Opening, Closing), and a slider lets you define how much.
Global Controls
The Global controls let you quickly and easily adjust the overall quality of the Lens Reflections
effect using a centralized group of parameters.
 Global Brightness: Lets you raise and lower the level of all reflections. Lowering
brightness is a good way to make a large lens reflection effect more subtle, although
images with small lens reflection effects may benefit from being a little brighter.
 Global Blur: Lets you defocus all reflections. This is another good way of making lens
reflection effects of all kinds more subtle.
 Anamorphism: Lets you deform the reflection elements to simulate an anamorphic
lens’ stretching effect.
 Global Colorize: Lets you adjust the color intensity of the reflections, either intensifying
the color of all reflections or desaturating it.
Presets
A Presets pop-up provides a number of different settings to get you started. Selecting a preset
populates the Reflecting Elements parameters below, at which point you can customize the
effect to work best with the image at hand. It’s highly recommended to customize these effects
to suit the type of highlights in your image, in order to get the best results.
Reflecting Elements
There are four groups of Reflecting elements, each with identical controls. This lets you create
interactions combining up to four sets of reflections. The controls found within each group are
as follows.
 Brightness: Lets you adjust the intensity of that reflection.
 Position in Optical Path: Lets you shift the reflection according to an element’s position
in the lens. Practically, this means that positive values will enlarge an inverted reflection
based on the highlights, while reducing values toward 0 will shrink the reflection, and
pushing this into negative values will invert the reflection and pull it into the opposite
direction as it begins to enlarge again. A value of –1 positions the reflection right over
the highlight that creates it.
 Defocus type: Lets you choose what kind of blur to use, choices include Box blur,
Triangular blur, Lens blur (the most processor intensive), and Gaussian blur (the default).
 Defocus: Lets you choose how much to blur that element.
 Stretch: Lets you give the flare an anamorphic widescreen look.
 Stretch Falloff: Lets you taper the edges for a less uniform stretching effect.
 Lens Coating: A pop-up lets you choose common colors such as purple, green, and
yellow that correspond to different anti-reflective lens coatings, as well as a selection
of other vibrant colors. Defaults to none. When you choose any other option, a color
control and eyedropper let you manually choose a color or pick one from the image.
A Colorize slider lets you vary how much to tint the reflection by the selected color,
although setting Colorize to 0 lets the flare take its color from the source highlights of
the image, which can sometimes give you the most interesting look.
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