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  • overexposure

    Posted by Enginn Heima on October 11, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    I’ve got a simple question.

    I want to overexpose a window in my shot. So I pick my window with a qualifier and tweak my qualifier before boosting the highlights. All works as planned, but now I’d like to bring these highlights a bit down WITHOUT bringing back ANY details from outside the window. How do I do this?

    Enginn Heima replied 7 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Marc Wielage

    October 12, 2018 at 5:48 am

    Well, you could let the window blow out, then bring it down using the Soft White Clip control, or with Log Gain, or with the Highlight control. A lot depends on what you’re trying to do and the nature of the overexposure.

    In some cases, pulling a key on the window and then adjusting only that can work; in others, you might have to augment this with a tracking mask.

  • Enginn Heima

    October 12, 2018 at 10:00 am

    Thank you Mark for taking the time to reply to my post.

    I think I got somewhere screwing around with the soft clip high settings…

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