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Digital Film Tools Updates Film Stocks 1.5
18 June 2013
The film emulation game is heating up with Digital Film Tools' update of its Film Stocks to version 1.5. That's the third release this month, following DxO FilmPack 4 and Alien Skin Exposure 5.
Among the more important features of the new release is GPU acceleration. "We have been working hard over the last several months to produce a GPU-accelerated version of Film Stocks and are finally ready to release it," noted Marco Paolini, founder and president, Digital Film Tools. "We have implemented OpenCL as our method of acceleration and most modern graphics cards can take advantage of this technology. In most cases, users will see dramatic speed increases while rendering."
We've reviewed FilmPack 4 and Exposure 5. We'll kick the tires on Film Stocks 1.5 shortly, too.
Meanwhile, see the press release below for more details.
Digital Film Tools Revs Up Film Stocks 1.5
Simulate 288 photographic and motion picture film looks at lightning rendering speeds with GPU acceleration in Film Stocks 1.5
LOS ANGELES -- Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, has announced that its Film Stocks plug-in is now GPU-accelerated, making it the fastest-rendering version yet. Existing Film Stocks customers will receive this upgrade at no charge.
Film Stocks offers a wide range of preset looks as well as the necessary controls to create analog film stock presets from scratch, including color correction, curves, colored filters, sharpness, diffusion, vignettes and film grain. Apply one of the many presets and customize the settings or create interesting looks and simulations and save them as presets to use in the future or share with colleagues.
"We have been working hard over the last several months to produce a GPU-accelerated version of Film Stocks and are finally ready to release it," comments Marco Paolini, founder and president, Digital Film Tools. "We have implemented OpenCL as our method of acceleration and most modern graphics cards can take advantage of this technology. In most cases, users will see dramatic speed increases while rendering."
Film Stocks Feature Highlights
- 288 analog photographic film presets
- Select from Agfa, Fuji, Ilford, Kodak, Polaroid and Rollei color and black and white film stocks
- Choose from a wide range of historical photographic processes
- Achieve the skewed color look of cross processing
- Apply Lo-Fi photographic looks from Lomo and Holga toy cameras
- Age your images for a vintage effect with the look of faded films
- Create your own film stock presets
- Layering system for multiple film stock application*
- Sophisticated yet easy-to-use masking tools*
- Add a vignette to any preset
- Modify images with presets or sliders
- Quickly search for presets
- 32-bit image processing
- Multi-processor acceleration
- GPU Acceleration
*Photo plug-in versions
Availability and Pricing
The Film Stocks photo plug-in is available now for $95. If installed on the same machine, one license will run in the following applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture.
The Film Stocks video/film plug-in is available now for $195. If installed on the same machine, one license will run in the following applications: Adobe After Effects CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and up, Apple Final Cut Pro 6/7/X, Avid Symphony, Media Composer, Newscutter and Xpress Pro.
For more information, examples and downloads please visit: http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/filmstocks/.