Magic Bullet PhotoLooks 1.5 (PC)
Available now at Software4Students.ie
Whether you shoot in the studio or on location, Magic Bullet PhotoLooks is a powerful new application that lets Irish students manipulate and experiment with light while preserving essential photographic detail. Use it with Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture or on its own.
Sophisticated presets and customizable tools make it easy to control lighting conditions and create stylized effects. Students can get up and running right away with tools inspired by their real-life experience with your camera. Take your photos from ordinary to a tropical beach or desert sunrise, or use effects like shutter streak or bleach bypass for edgier looks. Set the right mood for portraits, candid wedding or graduation shots, commercial or fine art photography.
Key Features:
• Supports Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture
• 64 bit compatibility provides significant performance gains
• Save time and money with over 100 stylized looks for photos
• Shoot images with confidence that you can adjust the lighting later
• Create your own photographic looks quickly and easily
• Tools inspired by your real-world experience with your camera
• Ships as both a Photoshop plug-in and a stand-alone version
Magic Bullet PhotoLooks Features
Designer's Interface
Designed for professionals, the PhotoLooks workspace balances ease of use with the power of 36 distinct Look Tools that emulate how light is captured on photographic film.
Do It Your Way
Go beyond presets and create your own sophisticated looks by creating a chain of exposure, lighting, color, and lens effects that imitate the real-world path of light through a camera.
The Power of HDR
HDR processing and 32-bit support yield true-to-life results and ensure that extreme values are not clipped.
Live Editing
PhotoLooks never throws away data allowing you to experiment and create stunning effects for your photos.
Auto-Shoulder Feature
Sophisticated tone mapping compresses the bright values of HDR images to make them viewable or printable.
100 Unique Looks
Inspired by both classical photography and the film industry, the 100 included looks range from simple exposure and film process emulation to radical color changes.
Look Theater
Browse the looks library automatically, using your own images as a starting point.
Freedom and Versatility
LooksBuilder works as either a Photoshop plug-in or a standalone application, allowing you to save memory and work more effectively.
Blazing Speeds
GPU acceleration delivers real-time playback with many Looks.
Hands-on Model
Use either a trackball or trackpad for instant manipulation of a tool's controls.
Get Large
Work with large high-resolution images on standard hardware, or get radically faster speeds with the latest NVIDIA GPU acceleration.
Before & After Picture Examples
System requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
* This software can be purchased and used by students only.
Windows
• Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit
• Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
• Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit
• Intel or AMD processor 1.6 GHz or higher
• 2 GB of RAM
• 15GB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
PhotoLooks runs in Adobe Photoshop only and supports the following versions.
• Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.1
• Adobe Lightroom 2, 3
• Aperture 3
Please note that PhotoLooks does NOT support Photoshop Elements or other products that support the Photoshop plug-in specification.
Host Application Compatibility
Adobe Photoshop
| Host Application Compatibility |
Photoshop CS3 |
Photoshop CS4 |
Photoshop CS5 |
| Windows 7 64-bit |
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| Windows 7 32-bit |
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| Windows Vista 64-bit |
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| Windows Vista 32-bit |
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| Windows XP |
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X |
Adobe Lightroom
| Host Application Compatibility |
Lightroom 2 |
Lightroom 3 |
| Windows 7 64-bit |
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| Windows 7 32-bit |
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Apple Aperture
| Host Application Compatibility |
Aperture 3 |
| Windows 7 64-bit |
X |
| Windows 7 32-bit |
X |
| Windows Vista 64-bit |
X |
| Windows Vista 32-bit |
X |
| Windows XP |
X |
| Windows XP |
X |
- Compatible with All Host Application Versions
X - Not compatible with the Host Application
Video Cards
PhotoLooks recommends specific graphics card capabilities to provide acceleration of the PhotoLooks preview in LooksBuilder. Without the correct card, the software will run, but the speed will be much slower.
Magic Bullet PhotoLooks supports a wide range of cards from both ATI or NVIDIA. For ATI cards, we require a 9600 XT or greater, or an X series card starting with the X700 series. Cards with greater model numbers and at least 128 MB of RAM can run the Looks engine.
For NVIDIA cards, we support the 7300 model and higher or QuadroFX 1300 and up. Cards with higher model numbers and a minimum of 128 MB of RAM can run PhotoLooks. For users working with larger images, we require that the video card have at least 256 MB of RAM. In all cases, we suggest using the latest video drivers for your graphics card.
Rendering
With LooksBuilder, you can try Looks as a real-time color correction adding and removing tools without the need to worry about slowing down your workflow. LooksBuilder creates a proxy version of your image to make it quicker to work. When you click Ok, the app returns control to Photoshop and Photoshop uses the CPU exclusively to render the final image. This method allows for fast interaction for trying out presets while giving you the ability to render images of virtually unlimited size in Photoshop.
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