Spanki opened this issue on Jan 10, 2004 ยท 16 posts
Spanki posted Sat, 10 January 2004 at 5:03 AM
I used to do the same thing (blurr, then copy and change to screen), but I kinda liked the idea of separating the blur and sharpen between the 2 layers as the operations seemed tied more closely with the blending modes used (sharpen only the 'screened' portion of the image, and only blur the 'soft lit' portion). The actual final-image difference between the two methods may be indistinguishable... It's hard to argue with the results you've been getting Dash ;). As for the opacity, more often than not, I set them both to 50%, but (depending on the lighting used and the affect I'm after) I'll set the screen layer higher or the soft light layer higher. BTW, I generally render to size, but if I'm going to resize it in the end, I may do another full-screen sharpen before resizing too. Thanks for the comments.
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