User Manual

Isolation Controls
The Isolation controls let you choose which highlights in the scene generate visible glow and
patterns. The effect of these controls can be directly monitored by setting Select Output to
Isolated Source.
 Color Mode: A pop-up menu that lets you either choose to keep the colors of the
different highlight regions that generate glow, or treat them all as grayscale brightness
only (color controls later can change the effect). Grayscale is faster to process, but
Color can result in some brilliant effects.
 Brightness: Sets the threshold at which highlights are isolated.
 Gamma: Lets you shape the isolated highlights.
 Smooth: Lets you blur details in the highlights that you don’t want to be pronounced.
 Color Filter: Lets you choose a particular color of highlight to isolate (an eyedropper
lets you select a value from the Viewer).
 Operation: Lets you adjust the resulting Isolation matte (options include Shrink, Grow,
Opening, Closing) with a slider to define how much.
Aperture Controls
The Aperture controls let you define the shape and texture of the resulting glow this
plug-in creates.
 Iris Shape: Lets you choose a shape that determines how many arms the star pattern
will have. Options are Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, and Octagon.
 Aperture Size: Lets you alter the resulting diffraction pattern alternating between more
of a star shape at higher values and a stippled wave pattern at lower values.
 Result Gamma: Lets you adjust how pronounced will be the glow that appears
between the arms of the star patterns that appear.
 Result Scale: Lets you alternate between pronounced star patterns at high values and
more diffuse glows at low values.
 Blade Curvature and Rotation: Let you alter the softness and orientation of the arms of
each star.
 Chroma Shift: Lets you introduce some RGB “bleed” into the glow.
Compositing Controls
These controls let you adjust how to composite the glow effect against the original image.
 Normalize Brightness: This checkbox scales the brightness of the glow to a naturalistic
range for the image. Also, when Normalize Brightness is enabled, the Aperture
Diffraction effect will keep to a consistent overall brightness as the scene changes.
 Brightness: Lets you adjust the intensity of the glow effect.
 Colorize: Lets you tint the glow effect using a Color control that appears when Colorize
is raised above 0.
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