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To add tools to your composition:
1 Hit the tilde (~) key or click the middle-mouse button to display the Gate
UI.
2 Swipe through the east gate, and select the Composition folder from the
Tools tab.
3 Select the Blend & Comp tool located at the bottom of the tools tab.
4 Drag and drop the tool onto the connection line between the Radial
Ramp tool and the main output node.
The connection line highlights when the tool is over the line; when you release
the tool, it will be added between the two nodes and automatically connected.
This is the default workflow with composition tools; if you add a composition
tool to a connection line or a node in the Schematic view the tools output
will be connected to the compositions back or B input. Looking at the Blend
& Comp tool, you will see that there are several inputs.
Bring your cursor over the inputs; the input beneath the cursor will be
highlighted and the name will appear.
Move your cursor over each input and you will see that there is the front,
the back, the matte and the masking input.
Bring your cursor over the BG land output on the right side of the node
and it will be highlighted.
Click and drag on the highlighted output.
Drag the cursor over the front input of the Blend & Comp and the front
input will be highlighted.
Release the cursor and the output of the BG lane node will be connected
to the front input of the Blend & Comp.
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