Digital Anarchy announced the full compatibility of its Knoll Light Factory plug-in with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Windows Vista 64-bit (x64). Photoshop CS4 64-bit is streamlined to take advantage of the faster performance and better memory handling that Vista x64 supports. Digital Anarchy’s Knoll plug-in, which enhances the lighting in Photoshop images to produce dramatic or natural effects, takes advantage of that speed and performance increase with version 3.0.2.

Jim Tierney, president of Digital Anarchy, explains, “Photoshop CS4 is a big release for Adobe, and Vista x64 offers the potential for greatly accelerated performance. The performance bar keeps being raised with the ever-increasing size of digital images and incredible but processor-intensive new CS4 features like Smart Filters. Making certain that our entire product line for photo manipulation performs well in Photoshop CS4 has been an important priority for us.”

Digital Anarchy’s other Photoshop products have been fully tested to support Photoshop CS4 in both Mac and Windows 32-bit environments. These Digital Anarchy plug-ins will be updated for the Windows 64-bit environment in the first quarter of 2009.

Knoll Light Factory 3.0.2 for Photoshop CS4

• Improved performance: Version 3.0.2 supports 64-bit Windows (Vista x64).
• Better usability: Version 3.0.2 has UI improvements and bug fixes.
• Photorealistic lighting effects
• Real-time preview: The main Preview Window now supports real-time manipulation, as well as the ability to resize and zoom in/out.
• 100+ light presets
• 16-bit color support: Light effects now render out to higher bit depths, which reduces banding and outputs better looking glows and gradients.
• Mac Intel compatible: Full support of all new operating systems.