Magic Bullet Looks

Selective Tools

Exposure	Contrast	Black & White	Gradient	Grad Exposure
Spot Exposure	Fill Light	Spot Fill	Shadows/Highlights

Exposure modifies the amount of light passed to the next tool. The light value is calibrated in stops like a camera exposure control and can be adjusted by up to +/-16 stops.

• Stops: With a 1.0 gamma, each positive stop doubles the amount of light while each negative stop halves it.

Contrast offers a simple film response or S-curve contrast adjustment with control over the midtone (inflection) point for the contrast curve.

• Contrast: The amount of contrast.
• Pivot: The midtone (inflection) point of the contrast curve, for all three channels on a 0 to 1.0 scale.
• Exposure Compensation: Corrects for any resulting changes in overall exposure.

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Black & White removes all color.

• Color Wheel: Gives you control over tone shifting where the color wheel controls the balance of tones used to create the final black and white output.

Gradient adds a colored tint, like a matte box gradient, with control over color, falloff, and strength. On-screen overlay controls let you position the effect easily.

• X1, Y1, X2, Y2: Establishes the positions of the gradient's start and end.
• Falloff: Weights the gradient toward one end of the gradient or the other.
• Strength: Specifies the extent to which the effect is applied.
• Exposure Compensation: Corrects any resulting changes in overall exposure.
• Color: The color of the filter, which is typically bright and saturated.

Grad Exposure applies exposure adjustment in a soft rectangular area with rotation and falloff controls.

• Stops: With a 1.0 gamma, each positive stop doubles the amount of light while each negative stop halves it.
• X1, Y1, X2, Y2: Establishes the positions of the gradient's start and end.
• Falloff: Weights the gradient toward one end of the gradient or the other.
• Color Balance: Tints the exposed regions.

Spot Exposure controls the light in a circular area of the image with onscreen adjustments for size and position.

• Stops: With a 1.0 gamma, each positive stop doubles the amount of light while each negative stop halves it.
• Center X and Y: The center of the blur region (and the least blurred area) expressed as percentage offset from the image center.
• Radius: Size of the area outside of which the blur operation is at full strength.
• Aspect: Controls the aspect ratio of the vignette. At a value of 1.0, the vignette is circular. At 2.0, it is twice as wide as it is high. Use this parameter for precise control, or just grab the handles at the edges of the vignette to reshape it.
• Spread: Threshold/softening region that feathers the radius.
• Falloff: Sets the median point between the Radius and Spread.
• Invert: Inverts the exposure area.
• Color Balance: Tints the exposed regions.

Fill Light lightens and tints the shadows to bring out detail in the darkest areas of an image.

• Fill: Extent to which the Light Color is added to the scene.
• Light Color: Color used to illuminate shadow areas.

Spot Fill works like the standard fill light control, but adds circular area control for finer control of the effect with on-screen adjustments for size and position.

• Fill: Extent to which the Light Color is added to the scene.
• Radius: Size of the area outside of which the blur operation is at full strength.
• Spread: Threshold/softening region that feathers the radius.
• Falloff: Sets the median point between the Radius and Spread.
• Light Color: Color used to illuminate shadow areas.

Shadows/Highlights provides control over the brightness in the shadows/highlight regions of your image.

• Shadows: The Shadows slider controls the brightness of shadow regions in the image. The value range is from -1 to 1. The default value of 0 does not affect the shadows or dark regions of your image. Moving the slider to a positive value brightens the image’s shadows without altering the perceptual contrast level of the shot. Moving the slider to a negative value will remove brightness from the image’s shadows.
• Highlights: The Highlights slider controls the brightness of the image’s highlight regions. The value range is from -1 to 1. The default value of 0 does not affect the image’s highlights. Moving the slider to a positive value brightens image highlights without altering the perceptual contrast level of the shot. Moving the slider to a negative value will remove brightness from the image’s highlights.