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Utlimatte: Adjusting density and shadows

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Utlimatte: Adjusting density and shadows

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- After you have the overlay adjusted for the best coverage of the backing screen the next step is to use the matte tool to adjust the matte density. The matte density is adjusted with the matte tools and the density tab. The matte tools allow you to select pixels from the screen, while the density tab allows you to adjust the density parameters. We'll start by setting the viewer to the alpha channel so we can see our matte, and turn the viewer gamma way down. So we can see we've got some transparency here. This should be a solid matte. So, the way we fix that is we come up to the matte plus tool meaning increase the matte density, and do an alt+command click and drag, and voila! Next, we'll turn the viewer gamma up so we can take a look over here at the umbrella, which we wanted some transparency. So, if I'd like to increase the transparency, I will then select the matte minus tool, and again alt+command click in order to say, "Reduce the density of the matte in this area." Okay, I'm…

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