From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background
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Slam to test the match - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background
Slam to test the match
In this lesson, I'm going to show you a technique commonly used by professionals to evaluate a composite. And the control allowing you to do so, that's never far from your cursor in After Effects. So here we have the scene as we left it in the last lesson. It's technically well matched. But there are a few flaws yet to be exposed. Now, that word, exposed, is apt here. Because we're going to use this exposure slider found at the bottom right of the comp panel in order to reveal some of what's hiding in the details. I'll just zoom in here by the cube. And as I raise this exposure slider by just rubbing on the text, all kinds of detail that wasn't previously visible becomes readily apparent. For example, I can see that the blacks, which I was really pretty happy with, actually are nowhere near as dark as they are on the bicycle. I can see a lot of grain in the background, which is something we will learn to match later in this course. And if I back out and lower the exposure, it becomes…
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Prepare for an extreme match2m 29s
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Match levels with proportions6m 1s
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Slam to test the match3m 10s
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Develop an eye for saturation1m 57s
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Desaturate with Tint2m 47s
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Why isn't color matching automatic?4m 9s
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Straddle compositions with an expression control3m 1s
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