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Adjusting lighting in post-production

Adjusting lighting in post-production

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Adjusting lighting in post-production

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- [Instructor] With all of our AOV render passes added and stacked together, we can now change the lighting in post-production using the exposure effect on each one of these layers individually. Let's start from the background. I want to enhance the contrast of this backdrop a bit. Select the illustration HDRI production layer at the bottom of the composition. Go to the effect menu. To color correction and choose exposure. And that's a 32-bit effect. And we can adjust this all we want and we won't lose any image quality in our AOVs. Exposure is the brightness. If we click and drag on that and bring it down, we can see we're dimming that background relative to the foreground. I want the exposure to be just a little bit brighter than it was by default. So let's set exposure to 0.3. Offset is the black point. If we click and drag on that and bring it down, we can see that we're crushing the blacks. I want to bring the…

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