Digital Film Tools

Film Stocks Review
By Richard Harrington

This past week I had a chance to get reacquainted with one of my longtime favorite (but obscure) image plugins. The aptly named Film Stocks plugin from Digital Film Tools simulates the look of many classics. In fact you’ll find 288 different color and black and white stocks that match photographic film stocks, motion picture stocks, and historical photographic processes.
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Film Stocks v1
By Erik Vlietinck

With its advanced masking capabilities, layers with blend modes, histogram, and more than 60 adjustment parameters, the Film Stocks plug-in looks more like a complete image editor than a film simulation filter.
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20 best Photoshop plugins - Ozone
By Sam Hampton-Smith

Energize your photo editing projects with this life-saving selection of the best Photoshop plugins.
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DFT's Film Stocks Brings Analog Charm to Digital Images
By Mike Pasini

If you'd like to apply a film look to your images to distinguish them from the perfection of digital captures (we say with tongue-in-cheek), you've got a lot of choices these days.
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Adding Beautiful Rays of Light to Your iPhone Images
By Nicky Sanford

Taking photographs of the sun’s rays can be a “by chance” shot for many people. Sometimes the sun’s rays show up in your photo as an extra bonus and you may want to give them a bit of a “boost”. Other times, you just might want to add a cool effect to an existing photo. This is where the Rays app, by Digital Film Tools comes in handy. The app will cost you $.99, but if you take a lot of photos and enjoy editing, it is well worth the buck.
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Digital Film Tools: Film Stocks
By: Al Caudullo 3DGuy.tv

Using this plug in on After Effects is an easy process. I imported my footage and created the comp and put it on the timeline. Then i just open the plug in and the look that I want from the list and drag it on to the clip and output in the format that I need. That’s it, it is really just that easy. And they results are spectacular. I use Digital Film Tools Film Stocks religiously. I wholeheartedly recommend that you use it on all of your projects.
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iPad Photography App: Rays: Adorama Photography TV
By Mark Wallace

Adorama Photography TV presents Rays for the iPad. This week Mark shows you an easy-to-use iPad photography app from Digital Film Tools that allows you to create light ray effects quickly and easily. Watch as Mark demonstrates how you can add a dramatic effect to your photos.
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Film Stocks Color/Film Grain Filter Review
By Bill Stiteler

The Holy Grail for those shooting in digital video is to make your footage look “more cinematic;” that is, to make it look like you shot it on film. There are several tricks to getting a film look, like shooting at a lower frame rate or using a DSLR that gives you depth of field control. Or using Final Cut effects to make your crisp HD file look like you shot it with a 40 year old 16mm camera.
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Review: Digital Film Tools Film Stocks Plug-in
By Photoshop Pro

Film effects are incredible — from Polaroid to Fujichrome's Velvia 50 slide film (one of my lifetime favorites), to Kodak and Ilford and the rest. And that's to say nothing of all the black and white effects like cyanotypes and albumin!
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Review: Digital Film Tools Film Stocks Plug-in
By Paula Sanders

Using combinations of blending modes, different filters at varying opacities as well as working with the filter's parameters, you can create very subtle or very obvious changes to the image.
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Review: Digital Film Tools Film Stocks v1.0
By Erik Vlietinck

With its full-width interface, magnifier, histogram, adjustment parameters, layers and blending features, and its masking capabilities, the Film Stocks plug-in looks more like a complete image editor than a film stocks simulation filter for Photoshop, Aperture, Avid Media Composer, and Final Cut Pro (but not X — yet). Film Stocks is by far the most complete filter for changing a photo’s look-and-feel I’ve come across.
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Review Film Stocks Plug-in!
By Tyson Robichaud Photography

A great bang for the buck plugin, and beautiful union of cost and quantity compatible with Photoshop (CS3 and later), Aperture 3 and Lightroom 3 (or all three programs on the same computer) for all you digital photographers.
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Perpetualvisions.com: Review reFine
By Paula Sanders

ReFine by Digital Film Tools is a plug-in for both photos and film/video. I will be reviewing it as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5.
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Review: DFT reFine Software Plug-in
By Marla Meier, Editorial Director

The reFine plug-in from Digital Film Tools is designed for photographers, videographers and editors. who have the support of Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture , Adobe After Effects CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and up, Apple Final Cut Pro 6, 7 and X, Apple Motion 5 and Avid editing systems.
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Review: EZ Mask
By JOHN LOBBAN

EZ Mask is capable of extracting almost any object in an image, even when those objects have hair detail, reflections or smoke.
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Layers Magazine: Review Photocopy
By David Creamer

PhotoCopy is an interesting, one-trick wonder plug-in that is easy to use. Essentially, it adjusts an image’s brightness, color, tone, detail, grain, and texture to match either a built-in preset or another loaded image.
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MacWorld UK: Review Photocopy
By Duncan Evans

Taking a more artistic approach to toning and texturing images, PhotoCopy transfers the key components of a classic image, film or process.
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DigitalFilms: Review Photocopy
By Oliver Peters

Like guitarists searching for the perfect tone, editors are constantly looking for tools, tips and tricks to give their images a signature look. The newest tool in this elusive quest is PhotoCopy from veteran plug-in developer Digital Film Tools. DFT developed the original 55mm and Digital Film Lab filters, which became part of the Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite.
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Digital Photo Buzz: Photocopy

PhotoCopy is an application that can be used as a plugin within Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Apple’s Aperture. When you purchase the software you are able to use it on any of these applications. This program basically is a filter applied to your image that replicates the look of certain famous pieces of art (or movies) such as Van Gough’s Sunflowers or Imogen Cunninghams Two Sisters. It’s like presets for your editing that are based off famous works of art.
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Shutterbug: Plug-In Of The Month

Digital Film Tools introduced PhotoCopy, a plug-in that uses a reproduction of a printed or graphic work to process a new image that is formed by the action of proprietary image analysis, color, texture, and light. Whether it’s a still or moving image, the key attributes are copied from the original and applied to your photograph.
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Outback Photo: Mac App Store Pick: PhotoCopy
By Uwe Steinmueller

We know the company Digital Film Tools for some years now and found their tools always very interesting. Their main background is effects work for movies and they also created the Tiffen Dfx filter toolset. PhotoCopy is a fun to use application. The basic idea is to match your photos with the look of other (known) paintings, photographs, movies or processes.
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Review: Digital Film Tools PhotoCopy
By Oliver Peters

This plug-in offers a unique approach to image alteration.
Like guitarists searching for the perfect tone, editors are constantly looking for tools, tips and tricks to give their images a signature look. The newest tool in this elusive quest is PhotoCopy from veteran plug-in developer Digital Film Tools. DFT developed the original 55mm and Digital Film Lab filters, which became part of the Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite.
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Review: Digital Film Tools PhotoCopy
By twistedtreephoto.com

I must confess I am software junky. I have tried out almost every Photoshop plug-in I can find. Many are useless; and some are useful as they can simplify making complex adjustments. And then there are those that change the way you think, inspire you to take your photography in a new direction. For me PhotoCopy is one of those inspirations. From now on when I am out taking pictures I will be looking for images that I can use PhotoCopy’s light, color, and texture enhancements on. For my style of fine art landscapes, I favor the “Paintings” presets for color work, and the “Photographs” and “Processes” presets for converting color images to black and white.
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Review: Digital Film Tools PhotoCopy
By Brady Betzel

Immediately upon installing the video/film or still image license of PhotoCopy, you will notice that the plug-in is installed on multiple software programs with a single activation. The still image version will run on Adobe’s Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Lightroom, as well as Apple Aperture. On the video/film side, it will run on Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editing systems.
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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