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

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Lighten your footage using the Additive category

Lighten your footage using the Additive category - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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

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Lighten your footage using the Additive category

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- Imagine you have several flashlights, and you're projecting lights of different colors from each one. You point at a white wall and start mixing the lights that come from these flashlights. Well, the additive category works like that. Open sequence 5.4. We are now looking at the Lighten blending mode, and this is how this blending mode works. It takes the values of both the top pixels and the underlying pixels, and it takes the lighter of the two values. Place your play head on top of the first set of clips and notice how the colors look. Do the same with the second set of clips. You can now make the top layers invisible by clicking on this eye icon. Now you can see the difference in brightness between the first bottom clip and the second bottom clip. The first one is much lighter than the other one which is why we can see more of the original shot. You can see how only the pixels of the underlying shot that made it through are the ones that are lighter than the top graphic. It's…

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