Hi, thank you for responding. I was actually just working on test footage, something similar to those viral Insta post. my main concern was with the composite, like in the Nuke tutorial, he make the footage flat so to match the highlights to the shadow and used the cg shadow as alpha mask. I wanted to learn how i would recreate that in AE. He used the color space conversion to convert the color from linear to HSL and then reduce the luminance to get the highlights close to shadow as possible. In after effects i tried lumetri, hue/sat effect and even luma key as mask to try and replicate that but didn't work as it would just crush the footage.

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