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To create an additional, unconnected input on a Parallel Mixer node:
Right-click a Parallel Mixer node and choose Add One Input.
Ordinarily, the RGB input of every Corrector node that’s connected to a Parallel node is
connected to the output of the same node. This results in a stack of nodes that take the same
state of the image as their input. This makes it easy to apply multiple secondary operations
without worrying about whether or not a change to one will affect the keys of the others.
Further Parallel nodes can be added as you wish
with each using a common source
If you add another node in parallel, the Parallel Mixer automatically adds another input. You can
have as many nodes in parallel as you need.
The adjustments made by all nodes that are connected to a Parallel Mixer are combined
equally, regardless of which nodes are highest. In the following example, a separate
overlapping window is applied by each of three nodes in parallel.
The Parallel Mixer blends all input nodes together
As you can see in the image at right, the three tints created by the overlapping windows are all
mixed together equally; the colors blend with one another as if they are optically mixed. Most of
the time, this is exactly what you want when you’re blending overlapping naturalistic
coloradjustments.
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