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OVERLIGHT

OverLight is a lens flare and light leak texture plug-in that makes it easy to apply washed-out glows and lens flares to your footage.

Presets

Apply any of several common light patterns to your compositions with OverLight's convenient presets. Find these via the blue Open Dashboard... button or the Choose a Preset... button below it.

Once you select a preset, its name will automatically populate the OverLight Preset drop-down menu field. Alternatively, you can simply pick a preset from this pull-down and sidestep the Presets pop-up.

As with all other Universe tools, you can modify or create an OverLight look and then save it under its own name by pressing the Save Preset... button.

Modify the Effect

• Choose from the Blend Mode drop-down to select the blending mode used to composite the OverLight result over the original input image. To give a sense of how these modes can impact images, check out the following image using the Beam preset with Screen (left, default), Color Dodge, and Luminosity (right) blending.
  
• Shifting the Opacity slider down from 60 (the default) will lower the overall transparency of the OverLight effect on the layer. Increasing this control toward 100 intensifies the effect.
• Brightness increases the brilliance of glowing areas.
• Use the Saturation slider to change the OverLight color's intensity. Bring it below 100 to desaturate the overlaid preset.
• The Hue color picker works in tandem with the Hue Intensity control to change the overall color of the OverLight preset. Turn up the Hue Intensity control beyond 0 to see the Hue control's effect. In the following comparison, we use the Sparkle preset, beginning with all default values save for Brightness being set to 40 (left). We used the Hue eyedropper tool to sample the model's hair, then we increased Hue Intensity to 70 (right). Notice how the warmer tone brings back detail obscured by the default effect and unifies the subject with her surroundings.
  
• The Flicker control adds realistic flicker, pulsing, and movement to the overlaid lens flare and leak.
• Flip Light Leak changes the OverLight effect's position to further customize and vary the effect. Select from Vertical, Horizontal, or Both options.