[Thomas An.]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of any commercial (or not) photoshop plugins that do exactly what the Maxwell Glare filter does ?

[markps]

You can use The GIMP. (www.gimp.org)

On fiilters you'll find the sparkle filter...

here are a few examples...
http://www.york.ac.uk/services/cserv/sw ... l#examples
http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/tutorials/holiday-twinkles/



Cheers!

Hi all,

Does anyone know of any commercial (or not) photoshop plugins that do exactly what the Maxwell Glare filter does ?

[Thomas An.]

Thank you for these links.

... it doesn't look right though. For example Maxwell would not do sparkles like that on the candle flame (a camera wouldn't do that either)

[markps]

Yeah it is indeed a bit exagerated... but we don't know if it would look better changing the filter's settings. You could give it a try though it is free. This is the only filter I'm aware of.

I think on that image he used the sparkle plugin to make the glare and the supernova plugin to manually make the flairs. that's why the flairs look artificial

[markps]

Although the crapy test image.. This glare seems much more natural. Using only the sparkle filter.

[Hervé]

Try here with diffuse glow

http://www.richardrosenman.com/software/downloads/

I made a special post for other people..

[Thomas An.]

@ Herve: Thanks for the link... I am checking it out ... but .. it is not it (it doesn't do what Maxwell does)

@Markps: Thanks Mark, I will check out Gimp (have to install the program sometime). Would you know if Gimp plugins run in photoshop ?

PS. I am checking the Andromeda scatterlight .... its close ... but no cigar
http://www.andromeda.com/main/scatterlight.php

[kirkt]

Thomas An. - you may also want to give the RADIANCE <pfilt> command line app a try. Here is the man page:

http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/man_html/pfilt.1.html

Here are the specific command line options regarding star diffraction patterns:

-h lvl Set intensity considered ``hot'' to lvl. This is the level
above which areas of the image will begin to exhibit star
diffraction patterns (see below). The default is 100
watts/sr/m2.

-n N Set the number of points on star patterns to N. A value of
zero turns star patterns off. The default is 0. (Note that
two passes are required for star patterns.)

-s val Set the spread for star patterns to val. This is the value a
star pattern will have at the edge of the image. The default
is .0001.

-a Average hot spots as well. By default, the areas of the pic-
ture above the hot level are not used in setting the expo-
sure.

kirk

[iker]

Thomas, I don't know if you can still buy it but have a look to the "Genesis V2 Pro" plugin for photoshop, so interesting...for me it was the best plugin for special lighting effects in photoshop.

There's an old review at:
http://www.creativemac.com/2001/04_apr/ ... o-full.htm

...the official site was http://www.futurefantastic.com , but this site has change into another business

I think I have the demo (I need to check it ), PM if you want to try it.