Bokeh-Manual.pdf

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our beta program for giving us valuable

feedback, suggestions and for engaging in stimulating technical discussions, especially:

Robert Barnett, Josh Carter, Gerin Choiniere, Ryan Churcher, John Covington, Joe Drivas, Phil

Luks, Taran Morgan, Steven Parke, Rich Rector, Eric Schneider, Jeremy Schultz, Ricardo Serpa,

Klaus Shuler, David Singer, Uwe Steinmueller, Scott Stulberg, Tony Sweet, Richard Vallon

Table of Contents

Welcome to the World of Bokeh........................................................................................... 3

What is Bokeh?................................................................................................................... 3

Installation (same for both Macintosh and Windows).............................................................. 4

Activation ........................................................................................................................... 4

Other Sources of Help ......................................................................................................... 4

User Interface Overview ....................................................................................................... 5

A: Title Bar.......................................................................................................................... 5

B: Tabs ............................................................................................................................... 5

C: Navigation Thumbnail ...................................................................................................... 5

D: UpToDate Message Indicator............................................................................................ 5

E: Ok and Cancel................................................................................................................. 6

F: Preview Tools (only one at a time is active) ........................................................................ 6

G: Split Screen Preview........................................................................................................ 6

H: Preview Area................................................................................................................... 6

I: Focus Region Controls ...................................................................................................... 6

J: Mouseover Help .............................................................................................................. 6

K: Progress Bar and Magniication Indicator .......................................................................... 7

Menus................................................................................................................................ 7

Preferences........................................................................................................................... 8

UpToDate............................................................................................................................ 8

Preview Background............................................................................................................ 8

Favor Memory or Speed ...................................................................................................... 8

Disable Output On New Layer .............................................................................................. 8

Keyboard Shortcuts ............................................................................................................. 9

Settings Tab .......................................................................................................................... 10

Loading Settings ................................................................................................................. 10

Saving Settings ................................................................................................................... 10

Modifying Settings............................................................................................................... 10

Bokeh Tab ............................................................................................................................. 11

Region and Blur Controls ..................................................................................................... 12

Reset Region Controls ......................................................................................................... 13

Bokeh Amount .................................................................................................................... 13

Aperture Controls ................................................................................................................ 13

Vignette Tab .......................................................................................................................... 15

Welcome to the World of Bokeh

What is Bokeh?

In photography, bokeh (derived from the Japanese ボケ味) refers to the visually distinctive

character of the out-of-focus areas of a photograph. Alien Skin’s Bokeh plug-in is a realistic

lens simulator that allows you to alter the depth-of-ield of a photograph after it has been taken.

It can also be used to simulate tilt-shift and vignetting effects commonly used by photographers

to draw the viewer’s attention to certain areas of a photograph. The following highlights the

major features of Bokeh:

Easily create tilt-shift effects (e.g. Lensbaby) using the built-in radial and planar

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Create distinctive bokeh highlights using different diaphragm shapes.

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to fancy heart-shaped highlights.

Use natural vignetting to simulate real lens effects (e.g. Lomo) or creative vignetting

Plenty of creative controls to simulate many types of bokeh from smooth creamy bokeh

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to focus the viewer’s attention to any region in your photograph.

Ability to save, recall and share your favorite Bokeh settings.

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region shapes.

Simulate realistic depth-of-ield effects by importing selection masks from Photoshop.

Installation (same for both Macintosh and Windows)

Shut down your graphics host program (usually Photoshop).

Run the installer found on the CD or that you downloaded.

You will be asked to enter the username and password of an account with administrator

privileges. If you don’t have administrator privileges, talk to your IT gal or consult your Mac OS

or Windows manual.

After the license agreement screen, you will see a list of compatible graphics programs on your

computer. Choose one and click OK. If you want to install into another graphics program, run

the installer again.

Activation

Bokeh has an activation system that works just like the one in Photoshop. Until Bokeh is

activated, each time it starts it will ask you to activate. Activation is a very quick and easy

process in which Bokeh lets our activation server know that your license code is in use. This

only needs to be done once. Bokeh does not talk to our activation server again after it has been

activated. No personal information is sent other than the license code.

You can use Bokeh for up to 30 days without activating. After that, Bokeh will stop working until

you activate it.

You can have Bokeh activated on up to two computers at once, so you can have it on both your

laptop and desktop computers. If you ever get rid of your computer, don’t forget to deactivate

Bokeh irst! You can do that by going to the menu entry Help>Deactivate . Then you can

activate Bokeh on a new computer.

Other Sources of Help

This manual is just one of many sources of help for Bokeh. Once you start Bokeh, check out the

Help menu for links to lots of helpful parts of our web site, including video tutorials. The video

tutorial on getting started is a great one to watch before you run Bokeh for the irst time. Also

watch the text at the bottom of the Bokeh window to learn about whatever your cursor is near.

User Interface Overview

The next few sections give detailed info on what every control in the Bokeh user interface does.

Screen shots are randomly from a Macintosh or Windows computer, whichever was handy at

the time. All the gizmos are in the same places and behave the same way on both platforms.

They are just more shiny on the Mac.

Below is a screen shot of the Bokeh user interface with the Settings Tab selected.

A: Title Bar

The title bar displays the currently selected setting.

B: Tabs

The Settings Tab lets you quickly select a preset or one of your saved custom settings. The

Bokeh and Vignette Tabs let you manipulate every aspect of the ilter. Each tab is described in

detail in later sections.

C: Navigation Thumbnail

Click and drag the movable red box to quickly move the preview around your image.

D: UpToDate Message Indicator

When you see this visual cue, you have a new message from Alien Skin Software. Click here to

open a web page containing the message. UpToDate messages are usually announcements of

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