overhead transparency simulation

[Mathew Fuller]

You have the right idea… you’ll just have to keep messing with it… some cases might call for overlay.. and others the color transfer mode… maybe even soft light.

Hard to say what would look best considering I’m not looking at your footage.

Final thing I will say is that desaturating or treating your underlying footage will make you color overlays stand out more.

The higher they fly… the much.
https://www.morecompletefx.com/reel.html

[Chris Wright]

color dodge with luma mattes and saturation mattes. I really like that commercial.

https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

I did a really quick test to see what would I do. Here’s a list:
CC Page Turn- obviously you go that too. I used this twice.
One for the top layer (multiply) that shows both Front and Back (77% opacity with grey bluish paper)and one for a precomp (dark grey layer with a mask that leaves only the feathered edges of the layer to show and a grey bluish layer at 30% opacity)- this Page Turn shows only on the back of the page- 16% opacity. This will give you a difference of texture and transparency for the back of the transparency gel and will better define the edges.
Then I used a blur, Hue/Saturation to lower the saturation for the reduced sharpness and colors from the image below and Light Sweep (on top- animated to match the turn)- all on adjustment layers with animated masks that match the Page Turn.
Parented all to a Null to be able to move the “gel” around.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

I have posted the result of my test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9dcRmA8KpE

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania

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[Brian Yarnell]

Try the Liquify effect under “Distort”. Sounds like you have the right base.

[Robert Paynter]

Rrecomposed your page turned layer and add a force motion blur effect to it. It could add some realism.