When you want to control how color flows throughout your Shine effect, the Colorize control group is your place to do it. You’ll notice that Shine offers Colorize options in one-, three-, and five-color gradient schemes. If you’re in doubt about the number of colors in use with Shine’s numerous presets, just keep your eye on the number of enabled eye droppers and the colors to their left.
In the following image pair, note the impact on an original image (left) once we apply Shine (right). This is with a 2D Source Point Type, a Ray Length of 5.0, no Boost Light, and the Source Point moved to the top of the window opening.
Now see what happens when we take those values and use the Colorize… control’s pull-down menu to select Sunset from the preset list.
You’ll see that Sunset is a three-color preset. As with all Colorize settings, you can use an enabled eyedropper or color sample to change the shadow for a particular luminosity range. For example, say you want to deepen the above example’s shadows more toward violet. Just click on the Shadows color sample and use the Shadows pop-up window like so:
For handy reference, below are Shine’s main three-color gradient presets. When you select one, the Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows controls will populate. You may then update the colors if you wish.
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| Fire | Mars | Chemistry |
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| Deepsea | Electric | Spirit |
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| Aura | Heaven | Romantic |
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| Magic | USA | Rastafari |
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| Aqualight | Sunset | Flashlight |
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| Backlight |
When you select one of the five-color gradient presets, all five colors populate, including the Mid High and Mid Low controls.
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| Elegant | Radioactive | IR Vision |
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| Lysergic | Rainbow | RGB |
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| Technicolor | Chess | Pastell |
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| Desert Sun |
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| Jatte | Edvard | Starry Night |
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| Harvest | Forest | Desert Shadow |
The Base On... pop-up menu selects what channel provides input to the effect and is active in all colorizing modes except None. The choices are:
Alpha Edges may need a pinch of explanation. This feature controls the thickness of your alpha channel edges. Selecting Alpha Edges enables the Edge Thickness slider at the bottom of the Colorize group. This becomes much easier to see when you turn Source Opacity down to 0 and increase Light Boost (we used 10.0), as shown below.
