Optics is the first update to the software in almost a year, Boris FX having skipped from Optics 2022.5 to Optics 2024 in the version numbering: there was no Optics 2023. Optics 2024: particle masking, plus filters from Sapphire and Continuum It is available as a standalone application, and a plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom.
Boris FX discontinued DFT itself in 2021.
The product is a renamed version of Digital Film Tools’ DFT, which Boris FX acquired in 2019, expanded with filters from Sapphire.
Making VFX-style effects available to Photoshop and Lightroom usersįirst released in 2020, Optics is pitched as providing “visual effects for photographers”. The update adds eight new filters from Sapphire and Continuum, Boris FX’s collections of effects plugins for compositing and editing software, plus the option to mask particles. Boris FX has released Optics 2024, the latest version of its software for applying cinematic effects to still images.