User manual

Effects

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Lighten

Darken

Hardlight

Softlight

Screen

Overlay

These modes will be familiar to Adobe Photoshop users.

Managing Layers and Effects

Re-ordering Layers

You can re-arrange any layers and effects that you have added to the effects

tree, not including the default 'effects', 'base', or 'master' layers.

Effects are processed top-down as they appear in the effects tree,

so by re-ordering effects you are changing the order that they are

processed in.

By default, any user effects that you add are placed above the colour

correction layers in the 'effects' layer. If you want to be able to place user

effects in-between the colour correction layers, you just need to add them as

layer effects instead. These two options are covered in the adding effects

section.

To re-order a layer :

1. Select the layer (it is highlighted)

2. Hold down the mouse left button and drag the layer up/down the

effects tree (an orange guideline appears)

3. Release the mouse button when repositioned correctly.

4. When you've reached the place where you want to place the layer

simply let go of it with the mouse. All the other layers will