Knoll Light Factory 3.0 : Photoshop Lighting Effects

Natural or enhanced Photoshop lighting effects.

Knoll Light Factory is designed to create lens flares and other Adobe Photoshop lighting effects, including lasers, explosions and suns. The package can create many different effects depending upon your desired result and the time you have to experiment. Knoll Light Factory can generate 100's of different Photoshop lighting effects. This control further the creative abilities of photographers and designers to enhance existing images or create original works.

Create suns, lamps... or sunlamps?

Inside the Photoshop plugin, you can choose from 19 different flare elements, then layer those elements to create the desired lighting effect. The plugin contains controls for applying the premade flares that ship. Alternately, it has a custom flare editor that lets you create and edit your own custom lighting effects.

The most common use of Knoll Light Factory in photography is to enhance lights such as lamps, streetlights, sky elements, or candle flames. However, many designers also use Knoll Light Factory to create sparkling or glowing lights from scratch.

Be creative or technical. Or both.

Artists are always looking for new creative opportunities. Knoll Light Factory offers a great way of painting with light, when you need to add some flare and sparkle to an image.

Almost any real life camera lens can be matched, or the Adobe Photoshop filter can generate completely original settings, and save out a preset for later use. Powerful functions include the ability to obscure the light with a grayscale mask; a real-time interactive preview; and 16-bit support for smoother glows and gradients.