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Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node

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Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node

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- The layer mixer node's really cool, because it allows us to take multiple inputs and combine them to a single output. But it's not exactly clear how useful is that exactly, Patrick, and it's really only when we start combining them with shapes that that really starts becoming useful, so we'll be looking at using the layer mixer node with shapes later on, but right now I want to show you another reason to use the layer mixer node, and we're gonna go with this shot from our hero shots timeline that we've been building, and remember, one of the things we noticed about this particular shot is just how dark it is. Earlier, we used our three way color wheels in order to brighten up, using the gamma control, and brighten up this image. That's one way of doing it. Oftentimes, doing it that way, you end up lifting up all the noise of the image, because sensors, camera, digital cameras tend to have a lot of noise buries in the shadows, and on a shot this dark, you'll end up pulling that noise…

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