Table of Contents Preface..........................................................................................................................................................................................1 Contact Information........................................................................................................................................................1 License Agreement.........................................................................................................................................................1 Copyrights.......................................................................................................................................................................1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................................................................2 What's New In This Version...........................................................................................................................................5 Loading a Spark..............................................................................................................................................................5 Browsing and Selecting Presets......................................................................................................................................6 Editing and Designing Lens Flares and other elements..................................................................................................6 Resolution options...........................................................................................................................................................8 On Fields options............................................................................................................................................................8 Redraw modes.................................................................................................................................................................8 Undo & Load Defaults....................................................................................................................................................9 Cropping..........................................................................................................................................................................9 Adding Noise................................................................................................................................................................10 Colorspace Controls......................................................................................................................................................10 GPU Acceleration.........................................................................................................................................................10 Online documentation...................................................................................................................................................11 Aborting a Spark process..............................................................................................................................................11 Pixel aspect ratios..........................................................................................................................................................11 Customizing Sparks......................................................................................................................................................11 Updating v9 Setups to v10............................................................................................................................................12 Known problems...........................................................................................................................................................13 Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................................................................13 Effects.........................................................................................................................................................................................14 Aurora...........................................................................................................................................................................15 AuroraComp..................................................................................................................................................................18 AutoPaint: HairyPaint...................................................................................................................................................21 AutoPaint: Pointalize....................................................................................................................................................23 AutoPaint: Sketch.........................................................................................................................................................24 AutoPaint: SketchBumpy..............................................................................................................................................26 AutoPaint: VanGogh.....................................................................................................................................................28 BandPass.......................................................................................................................................................................30 Beauty...........................................................................................................................................................................31 BeautyMask..................................................................................................................................................................35 BleachBypass................................................................................................................................................................39 Blur................................................................................................................................................................................41 BlurMask.......................................................................................................................................................................43 BlurChannels.................................................................................................................................................................45 BlurChannelsMask........................................................................................................................................................47 BlurChroma...................................................................................................................................................................49 BlurChromaMask..........................................................................................................................................................51 BlurDirectional..............................................................................................................................................................53 BlurDirectionalMask.....................................................................................................................................................55 BlurMonochrome..........................................................................................................................................................57 BlurMonochromeMask.................................................................................................................................................59 BlurMotion....................................................................................................................................................................61 BlurMotionMask...........................................................................................................................................................63 BlurMotionCurves........................................................................................................................................................65 Blurs: EdgeAwareBlur..................................................................................................................................................67 Blurs: EdgeAwareBlurMask.........................................................................................................................................69 BokehLights..................................................................................................................................................................71 BokehLightsMask.........................................................................................................................................................74 BrushChalk....................................................................................................................................................................78 Sapphire Plug-ins v10.0 for Autodesk systems i Table of Contents Effects BrushChalkMaskComp.................................................................................................................................................81