Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0

Introduction

Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in which includes filters for improving and enhancing photo’s color and tonal qualities. There are 60 effects in all, and each of these effects can be customized and even combined with other effects. The plug-in contains over 300 instant preset looks, effect combinations, and settings. You can also capture looks as presets, and re-use them on other photos The new portrait filters allow you to enhance skin, hair, eyes, lips, facial, and features.

Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is from Auto FX Software, a company based in Birmingham, Alabama, and Nashua, New Hampshire (both locations in the USA) which develops professional Photoshop Plug-In filters. Other Photoshop-compatible plug-ins from Auto FX Software are Photo/Graphic Edges, Mystical Lighting, Auto Eye, etc.

You can download a free trial version of Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 from the Auto FX Software.

My contact at Auto FX Software for this review was Patrick Sutton. Thank you, Patrick.

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How To Use

Follow these steps to use Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0:

1. Open any image in Adobe Photoshop.
2. Choose the Filter | Auto FX Software | Mystical 2.0 option, as shown in Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: Mystical 2.0
3. Doing so will open Mystical 2.0 interface, that you can see in Figure 2, below.
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   Figure 2: Mystical 2.0 interface
5. The interface is explained below:

A. Effects

6. This part of the interface provides all the 60 effects within the Select Effect menu. The other options in this section are File, Edit, and View.

B. Parameters

7. Depending upon the effect you choose from the Select Effect list, you'll get context sensitive properties here that allow customization and fine-tuning of various parameters.

C. Brush-On

8. Here you get options such as Brush-On which applies effect only to the place where you use the brush, Brush-Off, applies effect to the entire picture. Then there are options like Effect Mask, Effect Ellipse, etc.

D. Layer Palette

9. The effects applied on the image are stacked here, you can delete, clone any effect layer, and even add a new mask layer.

E. Brush Palette

10. In this palette, you can control the size, feather, and opacity of the brush and select different styles of brushes.

F. Preview

11. This area displays the changes that occur, as you select and fine-tune the effects.

G. Buttons

12. This section of the interface provides options including Original, which displays the picture without the effect. If you choose Select Layer Preset, this opens the Presets window, as shown in Figure 3, below.
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    Figure 3: Presets
14. Choose any presets effect and apply on the picture. The Save Layer Preset enables you to save the effect you had created, so it can be applied to other pictures.
4. Choose any effect from the preset or create an effect of your own.
5. Press OK to apply the effect to Photoshop document.

Here are some Before and After samples:

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Specifications

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