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Dealing with the lighting hotspots
Possibly the first thing we will want to do here is deal with the lighting hotspots that are
currently present in our image. We did say that we could have handled this in V-Ray
itself by means of its Color mapping controls, which would have essentially clamped
all the super bright (any brightness value higher than 1.0) at around the 1.0 mark.
Unfortunately, the color-mapping modes in V-Ray also affect other colors in the
rendered image, shifting them around to a greater or lesser extent depending upon
the particular mode chosen. Given that fact and taking into account that we can do
exactly the same thing here in After Effects both very simply and with a much greater
level of control, you will hopefully see why we are using this particular approach.
To do that, let's perform the following steps:
1. Over in the Effects & Presets panel, type HDR into the search field as shown
in the following screenshot:
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