Tutorials - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 491

Fig. 12.32
6. Click on the Parallel node. Right-click on it and choose “Morph
into Layer Mixer Node” in the contextual pulldown menu. (Or
you can shift-L to create a Layer Mixer node directly.) In the con-
textual menu, under Composite Modes. You can choose several
options, but I like Add and Screen the best. Screen is a little more
subtle. Add gives it some attitude. Remember that if you don't
quite like what you're seeing, you can go in to the individual
nodes and do some tweaking. For example, the highlights are too
blown out for me, so I'll go back into the first node (the Curved
one) and lower the highlights.
7. Festa says he takes a bleach bypass look—which is already con-
trasty and layered with black and white—and combines it with
another layer of black and white. We'll add a bit more coolness to
the additional layer.
8. Right-click on the “grid space” in the Node Graph ( Figure 12.34 )
and choose Add Node > Corrector from the contextual menu.
9. Right-click on the Layer Mixer Node and choose Add One Input
from the contextual menu. You'll notice that there are now three
little dots (inputs) on the left side of the Layer Mixer Node.
10. Click on the top left dot on the newly created Corrector node
(which looks like a rainbow colored globe) and drag back to the
input bar on the far left side of the node graph. Release it when
the line turns solid white.
11. Click on the top right dot on the Corrector node and drag it to
the newly created input dot on the Layer Mixer node. Your node
graph should look like Figure 12.34 .