Reference / Effects / Colour
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Photo filter
Photo filter is a Colour effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Photo filter adjusts the temperature of a shot the same way coloured glass in front of a camera lens would.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filter | Dropdown | Warming filter (85) · Warming filter (LBA) · Warming filter (81) · Cooling filter (80) · Cooling filter (LBB) · Cooling filter (82) · Red · Orange · Yellow · Green · Cyan · Blue · Violet · Magenta · Sepia · Deep red · Deep blue · Deep emerald · Deep yellow · Underwater · Custom | Warming filter (85) | - |
| Colour | Colour | Each channel 0 to 4, scene-linear | 0.85, 0.35, 0.05, 1 | - |
| Density | Slider | 0 to 100 | 25 | Per cent |
| Preserve luminosity | Checkbox | On or off | On | - |
| Mix | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
| Matte | Layer | Any layer in the composition | None | - |
| Invert | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Channel | Dropdown | Luminance · Alpha · Red · Green · Blue | Luminance | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Colour is editable while Filter is set to Custom.
- Matte scales Density per pixel: white holds the full Density of glass in front of the lens, black none. Invert reads that matte inverted.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Filter: which preset filter colour to use.
- Colour: used when Filter is set to Custom to pick custom colours.
- Density: how intense the effect is.
- Preserve luminosity: preserves the brightness of pixels when altering colour.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.
- Matte and Invert drive the strength of the effect from another layer’s brightness; see Effects.