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title: "SSS Channel"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VRAYHOUDINI/113280219/SSS%20Channel"
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The Subsurface Scattering Render Element stores subsurface information calculated from BRDFSSS2 materials.  


## **Overview**

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## **Attributes**

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## **Common Uses**

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The Subsurface Scattering Render Element is useful for changing the appearance of SSS items after rendering in a compositing or image editing software. In the example, the scattering color is changed to red using the SSS RE. See the render before and after compositing.




## **Compositing Formula**

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The SSS Render Element is added to the Beauty render to form the final image.

![image](media://87680f30-c00f-4a1d-96fb-46e67abc9452)