Knoll Light Factory allows you to create an unlimited number of lighting effects and lens flares with a level of precision and control

Knoll Light Factory 2

Professional Lighting Effects

Light Factory was created by John Knoll, co-author of Adobe Photoshop and a Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic. Knoll Light Factory includes 25 individual lens filters that allow you to design a wide array of light effects from simple flares to glows to a photon torpedo.

Tracking at Your Command

Light Factory delivers an unprecedented amount of control over the look of your light effects by combing simple elements like glows, stars, fans and spike shapes. Each filter has global controls for the brightness, size, color, and angle of the overall effect. You can use the sophisticated auto track control to add a light effect to a point in a composite. You can also quickly show or hide light effects as the light source moves behind a layer using the Obscuration control. With Light Factory 2, the realistic motion blur features have been updated to work in 16-bit mode.

Light Factory Spectacular - Sparkling Particles

Light Factory Spectacular lets you apply light effects to multiple individual points on a layer. With Light Factory?s mult-point locator, applying glittering and shimmering effects as particles has never been easier. NOTE: Light Factory Spectacular is not available ElectricImage versions of the product.

Tutorials

The manual contains nine tutorials that were originally created and written by John Knoll. The text uses the first person because it was written by John.

You will do the following effects:

Air Knoll
Angle Animation
Explosion
Police Bar
Really Big Corp
Saturn
Stained Glass
Tree

System requirements and compatibility

Application:

Adobe After Effects 5.0 (5.5 or later for Mac OS X)
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (7.0 or later for Mac OS X)
Apple Final Cut Pro 3
Electric Image Universe 5 (Mac only)

System:

Mac OS 10.2 and Windows XP Support Knoll supports both Mac OS X 10.1 and later as well as Mac OS 9 and is certified for Windows XP. Knoll Light Factory should not be used in Classic Mode.