Adding a new background – Adjusting Color and Mood
With the mask tracked, you’re ready to add drapery to the scene. Color-correcting using Auto Contrast Although the background is now less bland, the contrast of the drapes doesn’t quite …
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Using the mask tracker – Adjusting Color and Mood
The mask tracker transforms a mask so that it follows the motion of an object or objects in a movie. It’s similar to the face tracker you used in the …
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Adjusting contrast – Adjusting Color and Mood
The Auto Contrast effect adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors. It maps the lightest and darkest pixels in the image to white and black, and then redistributes the …
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Detecting scenes in a composition – Adjusting Color and Mood
The video includes three scenes, which you need to edit independently. You’ll rearrange the order of the scenes, change the length of each, apply different color corrections, replace the background …
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Creating the composition – Adjusting Color and Mood
You’ll create a new composition based on the Collectibles movie file. After Effects creates a composition named Collectibles and opens it in the Composition and Timeline panels. Previewing your project …
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Getting started – Adjusting Color and Mood
Lesson overviewIn this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:• Use Scene Edit Detection to create separate layers from a clip.• Adjust hue and saturation to correct color.• Track …
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Extra credit – Using the Roto Brush Tool
Tracking faces The face-tracking feature in After Effects makes it easier to track a face or specific facial features, such as lips or eyes. Previously, tracking a face required roto …
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Adding animated text – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You’re nearly done. All you need to do is to add the animated title between the bird and the background. A new text layer named Reflections appears in the Timeline …
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Changing the background – Using the Roto Brush Tool
There are many reasons to isolate a foreground image from a background. You may want to replace the background entirely, moving the subject to a different setting. Or you could …
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Freezing your Roto Brush tool results – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You’ve put a fair amount of time and effort into creating the segmentation boundary across the entire clip. After Effects has cached the segmentation boundary so it can recall it …
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