Overview of Looks Interface
When you apply Looks 2 to an image, the Looks interface appears. Looks provides hundreds of color treatment presets with one click, but no 'look' is applied by default. The left side of the screen has the Looks Drawer which contains the gallery of presets. The right side of the screen has the Tools Drawer that let you use related tools to manipulate the color treatment.
Use as plug-in or standalone
The Looks 2 interface opens as its own window, either as a plug-in or as a standalone application.
Use as Application: You can launch Looks as a stand-alone application and get the same functions. Just double click the Looks application to open its interface. Open an image through the File> Open Image menu, then render your color design with the Save Image command. Read about Menu items.
Use as Plugin: When you apply Looks in a host application, a new window launches separately from the host application interface. When you click Ok to apply Looks to your image, you are brought back into the host app, and you can immediately continue to work on the image file.
Applying Looks as a plug-in
When you apply Looks 2 as a plug-in, you will see an interface in the host application's Effects window.
Edit button: This button launches the Looks interface. Looks will take over the screen and use the current frame in your application as the base image.
Tool display: The icons that display next to the Edit button are contextual. They preview the tools that are applied in your current Looks project.
Register button: Use this button to enter your serial number or get purchase information to buy a license. See the Serial Number page for more information.
Power Mask: This bonus plug-in will isolate color changes that you create in Looks with a rectangular or elliptical shape that you can animate. All hosts share this same set of controls and most of the controls behave identically across After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro. Read more about Power Mask.