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Black Clip
Raising Black Clip applies a “lift” adjustment such that translucent areas of the matte (gray areas
when viewing a high-contrast highlight) are pushed towards black. The range is 0 to 100, with 0
being the default setting.
Before/after raising Black Clip
White Clip
Lowering White Clip applies a “gain” adjustment such that translucent areas of the matte (gray
areas when viewing a high-contrast highlight) are pushed towards white. The range is 0 to 100,
with 100 being the default setting.
Before/after lowering White Clip
The Many Ways to Invert a Key
Sometimes, you’ll need to isolate a subject or range of values in an image, and then make a
change to everything else. One way to do this is to add an Outside node after the node in
which you’ve created the key. This lets you make one set of adjustments to what you’ve keyed,
and another set of adjustments to everything outside the key.
If you just need to make a simple adjustment, you can invert the key from within the Qualifier
palette. However, there are three other ways to invert a key.
 The Qualifier Invert button: Clicking this control simply inverts the key being
generated by all of the controls within the Qualifier palette.
 Key Palette Qualifier Invert: The Qualifier Invert control within the Key palette provides
another control with which you can invert the key that’s generated by the Qualifier
palette.
 Key Palette Output Invert: The Output Invert control within the Key palette is notable
because it inverts the sum of all keys applied within that node. For example, if you’re
using a Qualifier in conjunction with a Window, the two invert controls mentioned
previously will only invert the Qualifier key; the Window key remains unaffected.
However, using the Output Invert control inverts the overall combination of the Qualifier
key and the Window, all together.
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