Digital Film Tools

Power Stroke
By Erik Vlietinck

The Aperture 2.x plug-in for people who like to paint adjustments, and colour and light effects onto restricted areas of an image, using brush tools, must be Power Stroke by Digital Film Tools. This plug-in allows you to play with colour, light and common photo adjustment tools.
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Digital Film Tools Ozone
By Erik Vlietinck

Ozone is a plug-in for Aperture, one that works with the Ansel Adams zone system.
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Using Power Matte: Rotoscoping Unmasked
By Rev. John Jackman

Digital Film Tools Power Matte may save you hours of tedium.
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Generating mattes for After Effects
By Jim Geduldick

If you are like me and every other user of After Effects, then you will be doing your fair share of masking and generating mattes for your compositing work in After Effects. I have been using Digital Film Tools products for a number of years and they have a few plug-ins for After Effects, Photoshop, Avid and Final Cut Pro that are extremely helpful.
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Tiffen and Digital Film Tools partner to launch Dfx digital filter software

Tiffen, the world’s premier manufacturer and distributor of award-winning Tiffen filters and other photographic accessories in collaboration with Digital Film Tools, a leading visual effects developer to the motion picture, television and professional still imaging markets, is proud to announce the online availability of its Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite software at tiffen.com.
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DFT Ozone: Colors a la carte
By Uwe Steinmueller

Correcting colors and tones in an image comes in the end down to selectively tune them. Our classic method was using Photoshop Hue/Saturation as outlined in this article. But there are quite a few cases where you want much more control and still would like to avoid painting masks.
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PC Photo Editors’ Choice Awards
By The Editors

30 of our favorite new products and technologies for 2006.
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Doing it in Camera....Digitally
By Mike Seymour

Digital Film Tools is a set of powerful photographic plugins for Photoshop, Final Cut, Avid and Autodesk products. While some plugins tend to be 'eye candy', 55mm and the other DFT plugins simulate photographic effects and filtering extremely accurately.
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55mm Digital Optical Filters
Photoshop Filters
by Ken Stone

Almost since the beginning of photography, photographers have been putting special glass filters on their cameras to change some quality or aspect of the image striking the film.
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55mm Plug-In
Gain High-Level Effects Quickly And Easily With Photoshop And Other Image-Processing Programs
By Rob Sheppard

Plug-ins are useful accessories for your image-processing program. These small software programs work within the main program, using the host to do marvelous things with your images. Since plug-ins come with many different functions, you have to examine them carefully to see if they fit your needs.
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55mm v4.0
By Mario Georgiou

Digital Film Tools is a company which specializes in creating practical tools for digital imagers and Creatives. 55mm is a suite of plug-ins which in essence replaces many of the typical glass filters photographers are likely to use in their day to day shooting.
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Digital Film Tools 55mm
by John Virata

Digital Film Tools has released an update to its 55mm digital optical flters. These are digital filters that plug into Adobe Photoshop and emulate the effects created by traditional glass camera filters, specialized lenses, film grain, matte generation, and chemically-based optical lab processes.
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A Plethora of Plug-Ins and A Peck of Programs
By Ned J. Soltz

Let's take a quick look at two packages from Digital Film Tools. 55mm 3.0.1 has been out for a while now and is an update to DFT's successful earlier versions. 55mm is one of the most unique packages available for FCP/AE (and also comes in Avid version) due to its emulation of various glass filters which you could have put over your lens before shooting, but obviously did not.
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Digital Film Tools 55MM 3.0
Photographic and effects filters for Adobe Photoshop
By David Nagel

We've reviewed a few of Digital Film Tools' plugins for Adobe Photoshop in the past, all of which have been solid examples of photographic effects filters. But the company's latest suite, 55MM 3.0, simply dwarfs all of them. It includes not only improved version of the filters in 55MM 2.0, but also several new ones, plus two plugins that were previously only available separately--Light! and Ozone--both of which were fine plugins in their own right.
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Keying 4:1:1 Footage
By The Rev. John Jackman

With the right lighting techniques and keying software, you can pull a good matte from any digital video format, even DV.
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DV Magazine Rating: 4 Diamonds
Digital Film Tools zMatte Review
By The Rev. John Jackman

3rd Party Plug-ins: Keying
Going outside the After Effects box
By by Stephen Schleicher

I really like and appreciate the keying plug-ins found in Adobe After Effects 5.5 Standard and Production Bundles. Nearly every single green screen or blue screen composite that I have done over the last two years, has been completed with the keying capabilities Adobe has included in the application. However, for some people, spending any length of time making adjustments to the built in plug-ins may be too much time taken from the post process. For those times, you may want to go outside the box and take a look at some 3rd party keying plug-ins.
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The Quest For Film-Look
Two Surprising Plug-Ins for FCP and After Effects
By Ned J. Soltz

Since the earliest days of DV, the question will never go away: "How can I make DV look like film?”
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Digital Film Tools Light! 1.0
Lighting effects plugin for Adobe Photoshop
by David Nagel

The compositing and effects possibilities in Adobe Photoshop are virtually limitless. However, your time is not, and some techniques in Photoshop can take up quite a bit of it. We've looked at several tools recently that try to consolidate and automate functions in Photoshop to save you time--an underrated virtue for any piece of professional-level software. Today we take a look at one that simplifies the process of lighting effects and light compositing into one easy to use interface--Light! from Digital Film Tools.
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Digital Film Tools 55MM Glass Filter Simulation Plug-ins

A versatile set of tools for Avid, After Effects, Commotion and combustion
by Paulo de Andrade Sr. Producer Digital Media Net

When Digital Film Tools sent us the announcement that they were releasing 55MM, I knew that it would be a very practical package and I was anxious to test it. It lets you fix, in post, problems that you may encounter in production - especially if you needed a specific glass filter that wasn't available at the time of shooting. Plus you can simulate many common glass filters such as mist.
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Digital Filmmaking Part 2 - Color Correction
Making Your Video Look Like Film
by Paulo de Andrade Sr. Producer Digital Media Net

We continue our series with the first of a sequence of articles on making video look like film. This time we focus on color correction techniques, one of the most important elements of the whole process.
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