User Manual

Glow
A sophisticated, soft glow effect that’s highly customizable with only a few key parameters.
 Select Output: Lets you preview the image with different stages of the glow effect
applied, viewing the Shiny Regions, the isolated Glow Alone, or the Glowing Image.
 Shine Threshold: Defines the luminance level at which glow is triggered to appear on
the image.
 Spread: Defines how far out shine extends from areas of the picture that trigger it.
 H/V Ratio: Lets you adjust the proportion of horizontal to vertical spread, allowing you
to create “streaky” shine that extends farther in a particular dimension.
 Relative Spread Red/Green/Blue: Lets you adjust the spread within each color channel
by a different amount, simulating a kind of chromatic aberration in the glow.
 Brightness: Adjusts the intensity of the glow effect.
 Colorize: A color picker and eyedropper let you choose a color with which to tint
theglow.
 Glow framing: Lets you choose what happens when shine hits the edge of the
frame, whether it’s amplified by “Reflect in Camera” or whether it’s moderated by a
“Vignette”effect.
 Composite Type: Lets you choose a composite mode to use to blend the glow effect
with the image. Defaults to Screen, which is good for gentle glows. Add lets you
create hotter, more intense glows, while other composite modes let you create other
variedeffects.
 Opacity: Lets you adjust the transparency of the glow effect and is a fast way of
“easingoff” of a glow that you otherwise like, but that’s too intense for the shot at hand.
Lens Flare (Studio Version Only)
Simulates different kinds of lens flares resulting from the interplay of light through an aperture of
selectable shape bouncing within layered optical elements in a lens. Lens Flares are completely
computer-generated, so they’re always created at your project resolution, whether it’s 1080 or
8K. Four groups of controls give you a lot of ways to customize the presets to create your
own effect:
Lens Flare Preset
You can choose a type of flare from the Lens Flare Preset pop-up. If you manipulate the controls
to create your own effect, this pop-up switches to Custom.
Select Output
The Select Output pop-up lets you switch among the following viewing options:
 Final Image: (Default) Shows the lens flare composited against the current clip.
 Flare Elements Alone: Shows the isolated flare, making it easier to adjust.
 Source Mask and Magnified Source Mask: Let you see the mask created by the Light
Source Masking controls below, which is used to limit the lens flare that’s created.
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