From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Removing objects with After Effects, part 1

Removing objects with After Effects, part 1

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

Removing objects with After Effects, part 1

which is so cool, so powerful, and it comes in handy no matter what genre of film that you're working on. So first we're going to talk about clone stamping, this is a really interesting technique you might be familiar with if you're used to Photoshop. I don't know, it was dumb. So these little power balls are here, and we want to get rid of those cause those are really obvious. And there's some like, lines coming down here and of course these areas right here. So this shot is what we're going to be working on in this tutorial so lets go over to the Static Clone composition here and talk about using the clone stamp tool. I'm going to zoom in here, and I'm going to get the clone stamp tool here, and what I need to do is double click on this layer to open up the layer panel so if your viewer says composition over here, that's not right, it's not going to work. You've got to go over to the layer panel to get this to work. Now, we've already looked at this shot, we know that we use a Luma…

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