Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:01 am
I had the same reaction when first getting on resolve (at v8), but what i've done in the meantime is use overlay and lower the post mix gain of the node feeding the layer node to around 50% (or to taste) since softlight is really just a softer version of overlay. Hope that helps.
**Any post by me prior to Aug 2014 was before i started working for Blackmagic**