From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)

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Darken your footage using the Subtractive category

Darken your footage using the Subtractive category - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)

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Darken your footage using the Subtractive category

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- Imagine you have paint on a palette. If you mix different colors, they will tend to get darker, unless of course, you add white paint, in which case, the color tends to get lighter. This category works kind of sort of like that. Let's go ahead and open Sequence 5.3. Let's go ahead and position our play head on top of the first set of clips. Select the top clip and now let's change this blending mode to Darken. Darken will show whichever pixel is darker. The one from the pixels above, or the one from the pixels below. As you can see, most of the clip turns blue, however this doesn't mean that you cannot further adjust this. Because this blending mode is based on Luma information, let's add the ProcAmp effect to both clips, to the top one and to the bottom one. If I select the top clip and I change the brightness values, as the clip becomes brighter, more and more of the blue clip shows through. If I make it darker, it only shows up in the lighter areas. I'm gonna go ahead and reset…

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