Mystical lighting plug in

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Leen Koper
Jun 29, 2003
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Anyone familiar with the Mystical lighting software from AutoFX? I’m particularly impressed by this image:

< http://www.autofx.com/mystical_lighting/mystical_lighting_fi les/shading_brush_lg.jpg>

But can’t this be done as well -before I spend my $ 300- by using the burn and dodge tools?

I tried to do this before on this image
<http://www.fotografieleenkoper.nl> >huwelijk >page 10, image #7. I used these tools to create sunspots; dodged them a little and painted over with just only a little yellow.
Could it be done better with this software?

Leen
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Ray
Jun 29, 2003
Leen

AutoFx softwares produces very nice results (I have Dreamsuite Gel Series and a friend of mine have Mystical Lighting). You can acheive stuff that would otherwise take long hours or would be nearly impossible to acheive. But…

They are a p… in the b.. to use 🙂 For example, they use "memory dots" to save a state. But, once you go back to a certain state, that precise memory dot is erased. You need to set it back. Annoying behavior. Many of their functionnalities use the paint tool. Now, you paint a line, wait for the software to apply the effect on the line, and look at result after that. You don’t like ? Undo the line, completely. Sometimes, it’s annoying because you’d have liked to re-do only a small portion of a long path. And unless you’re a real master of mouse (or the pen if using a tablet), it’s very difficult to break a path in several smaller strokes and still have a very straight line.

Ray
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Phosphor
Jun 29, 2003
Leen,

Wise choice! If all you were interested in was the shading brush, I didn’t see anything you couldn’t do well enough with just the standard dodge and burn tools and a little care. Even with the shading brush, you still need to make the artistic decision of what to darken and lighten and how much. So, I don’t know that it buys you much.

The memory and meal will be a good investment.

Bob
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Chuck Snyder
Jun 29, 2003
Leen, I don’t want to do that! It was about a year ago that such an offer surfaced and quickly disappeared. A few of us jumped in quickly, though. But it may never happen again…..

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