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_The Maxwell Action creates two adjustment layers to allow you to adjust the intensity or color of each emitter separately._
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The Maxwell Action creates two adjustment layers to allow you to adjust the intensity or color of each emitter separately.
If you would like to make any adjustments in the intensity or color of one specific emitter (just like you do in Maxwell Render with the Multilight feature), you should select the emitter layer and execute the “Maxwell Layer Adjustment” action. Open the Actions palette, select the “Maxwell Layer Adjustment” in the “Maxwell Actions” group, and click the “Play Selection” icon at the bottom of the Action palette to execute the action.
A new layer group will be created automatically containing your emitter layer, and a couple of adjustment layers will be applied to it, named “Intensity” and “Color”, to allow you to control the intensity and color of that particular emitter.
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For a more precise color adjustment, a more complex “Channel Mixer” adjustment layer could be used, rather than the provided Hue-Saturation-Lightness color control. Simply disable the Color adjustment layer and assign a “Channel Mixer” adjustment layer to get a more precise per-channel color adjustment.
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Use the Exposure slider to adjust the emitter intensity, and the Hue slider to adjust its color.
As Adobe Photoshop cannot manage the spectral information from Maxwell Render images, the Color adjustment layer can only mimic the high precision spectral changes that Maxwell Render performs, so this poses some limitations. The Color adjustment action performs a hue-saturation change, so it is not possible to change the color of a pure white emitter. In this case (and in general with pure white, grey or black desaturated emitters), we strongly recommend replacing the “Color” adjustment layer with a more complex “Channel Mixer” adjustment layer. The “Maxwell Layer Adjustment” action has been tested in Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5.
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