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Tiffen Dfx newsletter
August 2012
Upcoming News and Events
for more info on Photoshop world click here- http://photoshopworld.com Tiffen at Photoshop World Conference & Expo -September 5th-7th, 2012-Booth 523
Come see us at PSW at the beautiful Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. We are excited as we are busy lining up our Presenters to demo Dfx and Dft software along with our Tiffen product line. We have NAPP Educator and Author- Matt Kloskowski, signed up for Wednesday September 5th at 3:15pm for a Dfx workflow presentation. Past notable PSW presenters have included Richard Harrington,Editor and Motion Graphic Artist and award-winning Photographer- Eddie Tapp, just to name a few ! More speakers will be announced shortly.
Don’t forget about our WEBINAR WEDNESDAYS !
We are presenting specialized workflow series in DFX and DFT software.
On August 22nd at12pm EST, we bring you ‘Better Keying from Production to Post’ with Richard Harrington of Rhed Pixel and Marco Paolini -VFX artist and Developer of DFT and DFX software. Check our upcoming schedule and previously recorded webinars here:
Tips and Tricks
Dfx can give you limitless creativity. Wouldn’t it be great if you can share it ?
This Month’s Tip- creating and sharing a Dfx set up file and EZ Mask.
Start with your image and begin your workflow. Dfx works in layers, similar to Photoshop. Perhaps you want to have your model to have a soft diffusion, choose your soft diffusion filter in current layer 1. In layer number 2- you decide to mask the model and isolate her out of the background, you can use one of our masking tools, in this case we used EZ mask because it is so easy ! (see tutorial on masking and EZ mask- http://www.tiffensoftware.com/tutorials) create the mask and then invert it. So now you are working on the background. We chose a light modifier effect ( we used gobo ) that now goes onto the back ground. Wow… and with the mask on , it appears behind th e subject !! The next step, now in layer 3, drag and drop the mask you created ( no need to create a new one !!) from layer 2 into this new layer, put a gel filter on the back ground, we used a deep blue. Viola’ you have created something special !! Taking a look at the interface, in the 3 layers …you have a 3 filters and 2 masks. Go to menu bar, click on file> save set up – name the .dfx file and save. The .dfx file is your Dfx digital recipe file !
Use this recipe to accompany your image and send to your colleagues or friends that have Dfx v3 Photo plug-in or Standalone. Now you can share your recipe. The recipient of the .dfx file can now simply replicate all your steps in their Dfx, once they open the image and go to file> open set up and bring the .dfx file in. Now that everything is in, it can be edited further if desired. We will have more to tell you about set up files and how they can be used in our Apps and our video /film plug in… stay tuned for next time !
If you have a tip or trick you would like to share for DFX, DFT or our Tiffen mobile apps, please write us at webinars@tiffen.com
Do you know about our MOBILE APPS ?? Cool fx , Photo fx for the iPhone/iPod and Photo fx Ultra for the iPad, available through iTunes-
check them out here: http://www.tiffensoftware.com/products/iphone-ipad-apps
We also sell Digital Film Tools software- have you check their products out yet ?
