Mood lighting
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Mood lighting is a Stylise effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Soft pools of light are laid over the picture, warm where a pool lands and cool between them, and the contrast is lifted under them. The pools are a noise field, repeatable from a seed. Drift moves through the field rather than redrawing it.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intensity | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Light colour | Colour | Each channel 0 to 4, scene-linear | 0.98, 0.72, 0.42, 1 | - |
| Shade colour | Colour | Each channel 0 to 4, scene-linear | 0.1, 0.16, 0.34, 1 | - |
| Scale | Slider | 1 to 4000; higher | 900 | Pixels at composition size |
| Drift | Dial | Any angle; snaps every 45° while a modifier is held | 0° | Degrees |
| Contrast | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 115 | Per cent |
| Seed | Seed | Any whole number | A fresh random seed per instance | - |
| 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:
- Matte scales Intensity and Contrast per pixel: white lights and grades in full, grey more gently, black leaves the picture alone. Invert reads that matte inverted.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Intensity: how far the light pulls the picture either side of neutral. At 0 only Contrast is left.
- Light colour: the colour of the light inside a pool. A mid grey changes nothing.
- Shade colour: the colour of the light between the pools. A mid grey changes nothing.
- Scale: the size of one pool.
- Drift: one full turn moves the pools on by one of their own widths.
- Contrast: a scale about mid-grey, as Contrast applies it.
- Seed: which arrangement of pools this instance lights with.
- 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.