From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX
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Use Mask Tracker for color correction - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX
Use Mask Tracker for color correction
- In this lesson I'm going to demonstrate a very standard adjustment that a colorist makes to a shot that compositors often don't but probably should. I'm reasonably happy with my basic adjustment here. The selections aren't perfect and everything's not just the way it should be, but the basic balance between exterior and interior seems okay to me. However, if I squint my eyes I really notice something very clearly which is that the background and foreground stand out a lot more than the actual talent, the person in the shot who is in fact the focus. So that background really pops behind her. And even though we do notice her there she does not currently pop. Now to fix this I'm going to use the mouse tracker and I'm going to do it in a way that colorists would do whether they're in After Effects or another piece of software. So to start I'll just create an ellipse mask. Now be careful, I've got a shape layer. So select the layer first. And then just draw a mask... right around the…
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Essential 1: Know how to match5m 24s
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Essential 2: An overview of moving selections7m 22s
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Prevent alpha channel fringing2m 4s
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Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing4m 26s
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Essential 4: An overview of what makes an image cinematic3m 35s
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Push adjustments hard for drama and intensity6m 23s
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Essential 5: An overview of color correction1m 56s
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Use Mask Tracker for color correction4m 10s
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Essential 6: Know how to comp fire6m 37s
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Add heat ripple and glow8m 54s
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Create convincing screen transparency3m 31s
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Essential 7: Develop a "good eye" to go further1m 51s
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