A quick and easy way to isolate and alter the bright areas of your layer. Hotspots allow you to select and modify the brightest areas of your image, based on a user-defined brightness threshold.
- Threshold: Sets the brightness threshold on which the effect is based. Only areas above your Threshold setting will retain detail.
- Threshold Add Color: All areas of the image below the threshold level will be filled with the color you select here. By default the color is black, which can be useful for isolating the hot spots in your image for compositing purposes. For example, you could duplicate your footage, apply Hot Spots to the top copy, then set the blend mode of the top copy to Screen to blend the results of the Hot Spots effect onto the original copy of the footage below it.
- Saturation: Adjusts the intensity of the colors in any areas brighter than the Threshold.
- Brightness: Alters the brightness of all areas in your footage which are brighter than the Threshold.
- Smooth Source: Applies a blur to the source image before calculating the threshold, which is useful for smoothing the transition areas around the threshold and removing graininess in the result.