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Matte Sponge
Sometimes in the Primatte operation, a 100% opaque, foreground area (all white) becomes
slightly transparent (gray). To clean those transparent areas, click the Matte Sponge button and
scrub over the transparent pixels. All the spill-suppression information remains intact.
Restore Detail
Clicking Restore Detail and scrubbing over background regions in the viewer turns completely
transparent areas translucent. This operation is useful for restoring lost hair details, thin wisps of
smoke, and the like.
Make Foreground Transparent
When this button is selected, the opaque foreground color region sampled in the viewer
becomes slightly translucent. This operation is useful for the subtle tuning of foreground
subjects, which are otherwise 100 percent covered with smoke or clouds. It can be used only
one time on a particular color. For a more flexible way to thin out a color region, and to be able
to take multiple samples, use the Matte (-) tool.
Spill(+)
Clicking the Spill(+) button returns the color spill to the sampled pixel color (and all colors like it)
in the amount of one Primatte increment. This tool can be used to move the sampled color more
in the direction of the color in the original foreground image. It can be used to nullify a
Spill(-) step.
Spill(-)
Clicking the Spill(-) button removes from the sampled pixel color (and all colors like it) in the
amount of one Primatte increment. If spill color remains, another click using this operational
mode tool removes more of the color spill. Continue using this tool until all color spill has been
removed from the sampled color region.
Matte(+)
Clicking the Matte(+) button makes the matte more opaque for the sampled pixel color (and all
colors like it) in the amount of one Primatte increment. If the matte is still too translucent or thin,
another click using this operational mode tool makes the sampled color region even more
opaque. This can be used to thicken smoke or make a shadow darker to match shadows in the
background imagery. It can only make these adjustments to the density of the color region on
the original foreground image. It can be used to nullify a Matte(-) step.
Matte(-)
Clicking the Matte(+) button makes the matte more translucent for the sampled pixel color (and
all colors like it) in the amount of one Primatte increment. If the matte is still too opaque, another
click using this operational mode tool makes the sampled color region even more translucent.
This can be used to thin out smoke or make a shadow thinner to match shadows in the
background imagery.
Detail(+)
When this button is selected, the foreground detail becomes less visible for the sampled pixel
color (and all colors like it) in the amount of one Primatte increment. If there is still too much
detail, another click using this operational mode tool makes more of it disappear. This can be
used to remove smoke or wisps of hair from the composite. Sample where detail is visible, and
it disappears. This is for moving color regions into the 100% background region. It can be used
to nullify a Detail(-) step.
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