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Lighting darker places of a scene
Hi!
I’m trying to light a scene with an artificial object.
So far the only viable method that i have found was using a glow with an adjustment layer, which i masked out with a small circle. I linked the adjustment layer’s position to the object. While this works perfectly for some scenes i have a problem with one scene. In this scene there’s massive smoke/fog floating around, and since the glow works based off of threshold it always makes the smoke glow. Is there any other method to solve this? Like something that uses minimum and maximum thresholds? Is there an option or blending mode that i’m missing? -
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I’m having some difficulty understanding what you’re asking for.
If you’re asking what I think you’re asking, you could use Colorama to make the bright areas black and the dark areas black and the midtones white and use that layer as a luma matte.Or, perhaps a bit of rough rotoscoping in a precomp would do it.
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I want to “light” the scene based on the lightness of the rock so that the light looks more natural and uneven. The only effect that i found which can do this is glow, with ~50% threshold. But this method doesn’t work for this scene because there is semitransparent smoke flying infront of the rocks, which picks up the glow because it is lighter.
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