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Aurora is the only Photoshop plug-in that gives Photoshop
users true digital nature effects within Photoshop. Faster and more
versatile than clip art and much faster and easier than Photoshop,
Aurora specializes in water, sky, and lighting for outdoor scenes.
Aurora 2 offers sky, clouds, water, sun, moon, stars, haze, and
both volumetric and ambient light. Click
here for more details.
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| I own Aurora 1, what’s new in Aurora
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Aurora 2 has a lot of great new features
and an improved user interface.
From the Sun Tab, Aurora lets you add one or more moons and
has a sun with an animating corona. The Clouds feature has been
divided between two sections and now lets you easily make common
clouds. New puffy low-flying volumetric clouds has been added
with a brand new look. In the Water Tab you can now go underwater,
with light shining from above!
Aurora 2 has an in-plug-in preview and a zoom tool to let you
take a close look without rendering.
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| I need a really sci-fi scene – can
Aurora handle it? |
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Definitely. We let you add in multiple suns and
moons, defining the color . You can change the water color and
properties as well as add haze effects and colored lights. Clouds
can change their luminosity ability and you are not limited
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| I do high-volume production, what kind
of time saving tools do you have? |
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Aurora 2 has several preview render modes that
let you save processor power while working. You can also save
off presets that you like. You can even save the random seeds
so you get the same effect twice.
Since a surround scene is generated, you can easily modify a
360 degree picture or a group of successive pictures so they
all match. With Aurora, it's easy to make Sky Domes.
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| Does it take a lot of skill or time to
use Aurora? |
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Using presets and the variation wizard, you can
have your first picture done in 5 minutes. Simply mask out where
you want the water and sky to appear, load up Aurora and select
a preview you like, then go to the Variator and have it randomized.
You’re done!
You can learn more about the many features when you wish to
produce more custom scenes.
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| I like a lot of control – how much
do I get? |
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There are over a hundred buttons, sliders and
input boxes. Turn on the advanced interface and have fun! Everything
is very customizable. You can duplicate exactly any effect you
like. Choosing the X and Y length of a wave, Cloud Obertones
and their reflective color, and the size of a sun in the sky
and at dawn are just a few examples of the control you can achieve.
Don’t worry though – if you don’t want
that much control just keep the basic interface selected.
It uses all of the power of Aurora and makes it simpler.
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