![]() Optics 2021 arrives packed with plenty of cool new tricks as well, like a new Halo filter (found under Diffusion/Blurs), and 75 Emmy award-winning Sapphire filters borrowed from the high-end Boris FX visual effects software used by countless feature films and television shows. Optics 2021 makes it easy to add gobo-style shadows and reflections for a dramatic effect. ![]() ![]() One noteworthy difference: the standalone app can’t directly open PNG or HEIC files, which otherwise work fine via Photoshop. ![]() Whether standalone or plugin, the familiar UI works largely the same, with Color, Diffusion/Blurs, Film Lab, Grads/Tints, Image, Lens, Light, Render, and Stylize categories across the bottom (plus slots for saving customized or favorite settings), a bank of presets for the selected category displayed at right, plus layer, masking, and opacity controls in the left-hand sidebar. There’s seriously so much good stuff here, seasoned shutterbugs who work with Optics daily will probably never use them all. The exhaustive lineup includes emulations of classic color and black-and-white still photo film stocks, hundreds of gobo-style lighting effects for adding subtle textures, window frames, foliage, and other natural anomalies, plus dozens of color grading presets from Academy Award-winning motion pictures. ![]() Why limit yourself to just one Instagram-style filter? With Optics 2021, you can add multiple filters, each on their own layer. ![]()
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