Getting Up to Speed with Boris FX Optics 2022

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Getting Up to Speed with Boris FX Optics 2022

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lessons: 15 Course Lessons

duration: 1hr, 48min

published: 2022

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Getting Up to Speed with Boris FX Optics 2022

with Erik Kuna

Get your visual effects on! Join Erik Kuna as he gets you up to speed with Boris FX Optics 2022, a plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom Classic as well as a standalone program. Boris FX has been a leader in visual effects for video and now for stills. In this class you’ll learn how to perform color grading, lighting effects, light leaks, particle generations, and more using Boris FX Optics. Starting from Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, Erik takes you step-by-step through different example workflows, from basic to more and more advanced, to help you create photographs that more closely match what you saw in your mind’s eye or even your imagination when the photo was created.

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lesson 1: Introduction (free course preview)

The instructor introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

2min, 3sec

lesson 2: Who Can Benefit from Boris FX Optics

Everyone can benefit from using Boris FX Optics and you can keep it as simple or as complex as your skills can handle.

2min, 26sec

lesson 3: Interface Orientation

Get oriented to the Boris FX interface.

3min, 24sec

lesson 4: Downloading and Installing

Get started with the nuts and bolts of installing Boris FX Optics.

3min, 53sec

lesson 5: Getting Photos into Optics

Learn how to get your photos into Boris FX Optics.

5min, 52sec

lesson 6: Workspace Essentials

Learn how to make use of the workspace.

12min, 48sec

lesson 7: Basic Effects

Working through examples, Erik shows the steps to start creating basic effects in Optics.

7min, 26sec

lesson 8: Next Level Effects

Building on the previous lesson Erik demonstrates how to create a new range of effects.

9min, 42sec

lesson 9: Photoshop Smart Object Workflow

Erik demonstrates a landscape photo workflow that goes through Photoshop to get to Optics.

11min, 24sec

lesson 10: Lighting and Light Leak Effects

Using a new landscape photo, Erik demonstrates how to apply different light leak effects.

8min, 2sec

lesson 11: Creative Additional Elements

Learn how to add creative elements to a photo.

3min, 55sec

lesson 12: Adding Fog and Particle Effects

Learn how to accentuate existing elements as well as add in completely new elements.

8min, 42sec

lesson 13: Milky Way Edit

Building on what we’ve learned so far, Erik demonstrates a workflow he used to enhance a Milky Way photo.

16min, 23sec

lesson 14: Working with Masks

Erik demonstrates how to create a mask in Photoshop, send it to Optics, and use the mask to layer in effects.

11min, 51sec

lesson 15: Recap

Erik wraps up the class with some closing thoughts to help you move forward on your own.

1min, 6sec

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meet Erik Kuna

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Erik is the Vice President of Operations for KelbyOne, and a passionate rocket launch photographer. His goal is to create images that help educate people about the space industry, and inspire them to learn more about the beauty of space exploration. His passion was ignited in 2015 by seeing the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster land successfully. He felt like from that moment, he had to be part of documenting and capturing the beauty and inspiration of spaceflight and has never looked back. He has recently pushed his work farther by working with Plotaverse to heighten his images with motion.

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