Knoll Light Factory : Photoshop Lighting Effects

Control over the Lighting Elements.

Knoll Light Factory 3.0 offers controls that let you create, edit, and animate your own custom Photoshop lighting effects. Each light element comes with its own set of Element Parameters. The parameter list is contextual; it will change based on the element that you have chosen.

Example of parameter list.

For instance, here is the parameter list for the Aperture Reflection light element. When you use this element, as you drag the light source to the edge of the frame, you’ll see streaks coming off the side. They look a little like a fireworks fountain. That's Apature Reflection!

Do Core checkbox.

Turns on the inner color, producing a multi-colored lighting effect.

Brightness & Scale.

These options combine to set the overall ‘strength’ of the effect. Lower settings will have the effect fading off quickly, higher settings will have sharp white streaks of light.

Spread.

This sets how much the effect fans out. This is basically an angle setting causing the streaks to fan out wider from a single point… or not. Remember, this can go higher than 50.

Noise.

Determines how ‘streaky’ the lighting effect is. Do you have a soft glow coming off the edge or sharp streaks? The higher the Noise settings the sharper the streaks and the more of them there are.