Cheers for digging into that Kent and getting back to me, much appreciated. ill have to watch that going forward.
sounds like an overexposure of sorts if they’re coupled together when its blending the white part of the mask and oversaturating the input image, another one to add to the toolbelt of gotchas 😉
tried to read the HarkyMan blog, think he put it together back in 2008, but went waaay over my head, heh.
http://www.harkyman.com/2008/08/21/new-compositor-mix-types/