Video Tutorials

Advanced Lens Blur v01 — Step-by-step guides to help you master this effect

How-To Tutorials

12 videos

Activate your Free Trial

1: Enter your email 2: Click "Start Free Trial" 3: Check your email, and click the verify link. 4: Back in the OFX, click "Download License".

Presets and Documentation

Learn to load the factory presets, and save your own custom presets too. Also - you can get to the docs from right inside the ofx.

Advanced Lens Blur Basics

This is really the only video you need to use this effect. The rest are the details. We'll go through the presets, and the main control, the blur radius.

Bokeh Pop

Make the bright bokeh shapes bright and poppy, or soft and subtle.

Falloff And Rack Focus

Different ways to control where the bokeh is applied on your image.

Swirly Bokeh - "Petzval" simulation.

Learn to use the Swirly Bokeh controls.

Cat's Eye Bokeh

Learn to use the Cat's Eye bokeh controls.

Optics - Astigmatism

Give your bokeh cirles a subtle bright edge from optical astigmatism.

Iris Blades

Make your bokehs simulate different numbers and shapes of iris blades.

Bokeh Occlusion - Automatic kernel animation

Sometimes, you might notice that bokehs have subtle motion in them, from shooting through trees for instance. This simulates that effect.

Cinematic Misalignment

Learn how to use this GPU intensive "broken lens" effect for creative looks.

Sampling - clean up issues, improve performance.

Advanced topic: Sometimes when doing extreme effects, you can get undersampling issues. There are a few ways to handle this that you can learn here.

Looking for written documentation?

Check out the detailed parameter reference and installation guides.

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