Alien Skin Bokeh 1.0.0.174

Alien Skin Bokeh 1.0.0.174




Finally, you can manipulate focus just like fast expensive lenses with Bokeh, Alien Skin's lens simulator Photoshop plug-in. Bokeh can draw attention to your subject by manipulating focus and depth of field after the shot has been taken. From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette, Bokeh provides many techniques for realistic blurring and altering the mood of a scene.

Bokeh is the only software that accurately simulates the distinctive blurring and creamy highlights of real lenses. Terence Tay, Bokehs designer, performed careful experiments with lenses famous for their bokeh highlights, such as the Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 II and the Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8. The result is a photo-realistic look, in contrast to the unnatural blur from other software.

Bokeh gives photo-realistic distinctive blurring and creamy highlights. Get creative with full control of a radial sweet spot and vignetting, just like expensive tilt-shift lenses. Bokeh can even render heart-shaped highlights!
Bokeh can draw attention to your subject by manipulating focus and depth of field after the shot has been taken. From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette, Bokeh provides many techniques for realistic blurring and altering the mood of a scene.

Alien Skin Software Bokeh are compatible with the 64-bit version of CS 4, but all of our other plug-ins must be installed into and run from the 32-bit version of CS 4. All future product releases and full version upgrades will be 64-bit compatible.





Bokeh provides creative controls to accentuate photographs and focus the viewers attention anywhere you want. In these examples, Bokeh was used to make the backgrounds fade into the distance. This is like going from an f/22 aperture to an f/2.8. However, Bokeh is even better at this than a real lens because you can choose which objects to blur





Distinctive Bokeh Highlights



The most distinctive features of out-of-focus areas of a photograph shot by a real physical lens are the highlights. These highlights take on the shape of the lens aperture. Bokeh gives you all the creative controls you need to manipulate highlight shape from stars to hearts to the creaminess of the highlights.





Tilt-Shift Effects






The tilt-shift effect is a part of the professional photographers arsenal. Whether you are a portrait or landscape photographer, Bokeh gives you the same effect without cumbersome lens changes. So, you can focus on capturing the best photograph at the moment and make creative focus decisions after the shot has been taken.

Accurate Lens Simulation
We performed careful experiments with lenses famous for their creamy bokeh, such as the Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II and the Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8. The result is a photo-realistic look far superior to those produced by other software.

Vignette
A vignette is the darkening at the edge of a photo caused by limitations of real lenses. This effect can be simulated by Bokeh for artistic effect or to get the same look found in low-end Lomo cameras. The results can be subtle or obvious as in these photographs



More info:

Code:

http://www.alienskin.com/bokeh/index.aspx

Check out the tutorials page! It has several short lessons That can be watched or downloaded
That explain each of the filters and that shows how to apply/use them.

Code:

http://www.alienskin.com/tutorials/index.aspx

Very helpful, especially to those new to the program

Host requirements
Bokeh is a plug-in and will require one of the following host programs:
*Adobe Photoshop CS3 or later
*Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 or later on Windows
*Adobe Fireworks CS4
*Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

System requirements
Macintosh:
* PowerPC G5 processor or Intel processor
* Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
* A monitor with 1024x768 resolution or greater
* 1024 MB RAM
Windows:
* Intel Pentium 4 processor (or compatible)
* Windows XP or later
* A monitor with 1024x768 resolution or greater
* 1024 MB RAM

Recommended System Requirements for Windows and Macintosh:
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
* RAM: 2 GB

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/218579963/Parade_Pics_08.rar