Lighting plugin package is the first in the new Simulate series of products

Digieffects, a developer of
popular visual effects software plugins today announced that it
has shipped Simulate: Illuma, a plugin package offering a
specialized collection of effects plugins for creating light
and glow effects.

Simulate: Illuma includes the following effects:

– Halo: An easy to use bloom/blur effect with color channel
control.
– Lightracer: Enhances visible light sources, particularly in
dark settings as well as providing options for creating unique
image looks.
– Radiance: The stuff of dream sequences…gentle glow with a
versatile set of tools including intensity and threshold for each
individual color channel.
– Photogust: Fast and effective point emanation blurs.
– Luminus: Just the right glow is easy to achieve with lots of
control including multiple effect blend modes.

Simulate: Illuma is the first plugin package in the Digieffects
Simulate series of plugin packages. Simulate: Camera and
Simulate: Pyro are due to be released later this summer.

“We have several new plugin packages in development at
Digieffects. Simulate: Illuma is the first of several new
releases slated for 2008 to follow Damage which we launched in
March and is now one of our best-selling products”, says Robert
Sharp, President of Digieffects.

Simulate: Illuma, as with all Digieffects software launched
after January 2008, has the following two unique features
which will appeal to customers.

– Randomizer: The Randomizer is part of the Digieffects custom
User Interface. When clicked, multiple parameters within the
interface will simultaneously adjust causing completely new
results. Once a customer sees a look they like, they can use
that as a starting point and manually tweak the parameters to
achieve a specific effect. This serves as a massive timesaver
for our time-pressed customers.

– Presets: The unique aspect of the Digieffects presets is
their portability. Once you’ve saved your effect parameters,
these can be moved between supported host applications.

Simulate: Illuma is immediately available directly from
Digieffects and its resellers. It has an MSRP of $99.00.