Adobe Image Foundation Toolkit Prerelease 2 is now live on Adobe Labs. If you haven’t heard of it yet, the AIF toolkit is the tool for creating your own filters for use with Flash Player Astro. The most exciting part of the refresh are two Flash-specific enhancements.

The toolkit can now produce bytecode files (.hbc for now). While you can’t do much with them right now, these are the compiled files that Flash Player will use to render the pixel shader. The other enhancement is support for some new filter features that are going to be supported in Flash. While they were originally not allowed in the Flash profile, you can now use conditionals to make more complex filters than before.

To see some of the filters that have already been built by the community, take a look at the Hydra Gallery.