Wed Apr 24, 2019 2:38 pm
No, just leave the Merge in Normal mode and turn down the Alpha Gain slider.
Another way to get a simple Add is with the ChannelBooleans node, but remember to set Alpha to Do Nothing because you generally don't want to add that.
To clarify the screen thing: It's a blend mode invented to get around the limitations of 8-bit int images, where you can't simply add things together without the risk of going above 1 (or 255 in Adobe-speak). The trouble when using screen in floating-point is that if you have sources that do go above 1, the blend works opposite the way you'd expect. Let's suppose, for example, you want to combine two images where parts of them have a value of 1.25:
1 - (1 - 1.25) * (1 - 1.25) = 0.9375
You likely wouldn't want to combine two bright sources and get a dimmer one in return, right? Given this behavior, it's better to just delete screen from your brain—it only works in a color mode you don't want to use in Fusion.
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