Mystical Lighting lets anyone apply photo-realistic lighting and shading effects to digital images. With this software you can enhance the ambiance of your images and improve its beauty. Mystical Lighting includes 16 visual effects, over 400 presets for instant results and an infinite variety of looks.

Mystical Lighting also includes powerful features such as layers, unlimited undo's, 400 instant one-click effects, masking and dynamic effect controls that make exploring and applying effects very fun and easy to achieve studio quality results.

Photo Realistic or Surrealistic Results

Mystical Lighting allows you to use light and shading in either a photo-realistic manner or as a visual effect for surrealistic results.

In the Sky Fairy example to the left Mystical Lighting effects were used to generate the mist, rainbows, fairy dust, streaming light, highlights and shading in this scene.

Mystical Lighting SMARTLAYERS^TM allow you to combine different effects together in the same work session. Light and shading blend and interact with each other to generate incredible results.

Powerful tools like Light and Shading Brushes give you the ability to selectively apply light and shading with infinite degrees of control over opacity, tonal range, size and blending.

Surface Light was used in the example below to cast the lighting on the models face with unparalleled photo-realism.

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Use Mystical Lighting in conjunction with Photoshop Actions and you can perform batch processing tasks to numerous images in one easy to apply session.

Integrated Support For Photoshop

Mystical Lighting features complete support for Adobe Photoshop versions 4.0 and higher - including Photoshop CS. This includes integrated support for layers and transparency features.

Mystical Lighting even saves to the Photoshop .psd file format with transparency intact. As you are working on your designs inside the Mystical Lighting plug-in or application version you can save out copies of your work as Photoshop .psd native files.

• •   Supports Photoshop Actions
• •   Supports Photoshop Layers
• •   Supports Photoshop's Last Filter Command
• •   Saves and Loads Adobe Photoshop native .psd files
• •   Works as a Photoshop plug-in filter or as a stand alone application
• •   Supports Photoshop Transparency
• •   Easy to access in Photoshop under the filter menu

Mystical Lighting Features

Mystical Lighting is a robust application that includes a host of high-end professional level features to make your job easier and more productive.

Unlimited Undo

With unlimited undo capability you can work and then quickly undo to correct mistakes and go back as far as you like. Brush strokes, transformations, control changes, effect settings, layer creation and reordering - everything can be undone using this feature.

SMARTLAYERS™

Mystical Lighting includes full support for layers. These SMARTLAYERS^TM work together to create new looks and communicate with each other to pass lighting and shading information to other effects. By combining and reordering different layers on the palette you can generate new visual results. Light Caster's streaming sunlight can blend into Wispy Mist showing highlighted mist, for example.

• •   Save Layer Presets that you can use again and again. Layer      Presets recreate the effects from dozens of layers and rebuild all      the layers around your new image.
• •   Layer cloning allows you to make an exact copy of the layer      including all controls
• •   Add an unlimited number of new layers
• •   Reorder, turn on/off, delete any layer
• •   Layers work together to combine results
• •   Quick Mask layers let you share a common selection area for      multiple effects
• •   Add photo / adjustments / effect and mask layers

Ethereal and Light Brush were used to enhance the wedding picture above. The Light Brush was used to enhance and colorize the photo below.

Control Interrupts

As you adjust controls the effect updates itself automatically. An intelligent control interrupt system allows you to interrupt the effect if it is updating itself.

Advanced Preview System

Mystical Lighting's adjustable preview features a 1600% marquee zoom capability with built in panning support. Previews can be shown in Proxy mode so they render blazingly fast regardless of the image size.

Save and Replay Effects with Visual Presets

Save and replay your effect settings for instant results. Presets are Resolution Independent so you can get the same results while working on any sized file. Presets are saved in a Visual Preset Catalog with thumbnails showing you previews of the preset effects. You can save effect presets or layer presets. Effect presets alter just the effect while layer presets capture and replay an entire set of effects and build all layers needed to generate this look. Both effect and layer presets save in a visual catalog.

Memory Dots

Click a memory dot on the interface and Mystical Lighting remembers your current settings. You can explore with your design ideas and come back to where you were with a single click.

Dynamic Image and Effect Transformation

Effects and images can be freeform transformed multiple times with no loss to quality as Mystical Lighting always stores and works from the original image when generating effect layers. Everything is written dynamically so the user works in a true non-linear fashion and can go forward or back by adjusting the controls.

File Open and Save Support

Mystical Lighting features file loading and saving support for: .psd, .tif, .bmp, .jpg, .png file formats. Saving in Photoshop format will export the effect layers into a single transparent layer in a Photoshop native document. Both the stand-alone application and plug-in versions support file saving.

Click to see the larger version of this example and see how the light can be easily feathered through the tree leaves using the Light Feather brush.

Special thanks to Dave Johnson for the beautiful cover photography and illustration work on the 'Fairy Wood' commission shown above.

Help on Demand

Mystical Lighting features a help system that lets you get up and running with ease. To understand how a control works hold your mouse over the controls for a few seconds and a floating window appears that contains comprehensive detailed instructions about the control. This powerful feature gives you instant access to control information without the need to look in a manual or use a separate help system that takes you away from the task at hand. The Mystical Lighting tool tips are fast and efficient to use.

Customize the Interface to Your Liking

Choose from over a dozen interface flavors and desktop textures and your interface will instantly change to match your preferences.

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Included with Your Mystical Lighting Purchase

• •   16 Professional lighting and shading effects
• •   Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in
• •   Stand alone version of Mystical Lighting
• •   You get both Mac and Windows versions on the CD
• •   Presets for instant visual solutions
• •   Easy to follow User Manuel and Guides
• •   Outstanding technical and customer service

Mystical Lighting works as both a plug-in and as a stand alone application for Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista or Power Macintosh systems running OS 9.0 or higher. Mystical Lighting runs native under all versions of OS X.

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Training Video Series

Includes two hours and thirty minutes of training that teaches you how to apply lighting, shading, shadows, and work with the software to achieve the best results on your images.

$29.00(USD) - Physical or Online Training Center Version

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System Software We Support

Macintosh Classic 9 and all versions of Macintosh OS 10 under which we run native. We do support the latest Mac OS variations including Tiger.

For Windows we support Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP/Vista. We include both the Mac and Windows versions on the CD-Rom physical version of our products.

Applications our Plug-ins Support

All plug-in versions of our software support Adobe Photoshop 4.0 - CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0 or higher, Corel Paint Shop Pro 7.0 or higher, Corel Photo Paint 9.0 and higher as well as Corel Draw 9.0 and higher.

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