Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Smoothing out the edges of a jagged mask, part of Designing a Retro-Style Superhero.
…So here I am looking at my initial mask.…Problem is, if I go ahead and zoom in to 100% by pressing Ctrl+1 or Cmd+1 on a Mac.…And I might even zoom in a little further on this guy's hair and ear.…You can see that we have some very jagged transitions.…And that's because, for the most part, except for that hand painting that we…just did, all of the pixels inside this mask are either black or white.…What we need to do in this movie is smooth those transitions.…And we're also going to turn our silhouette into an independent layer.…
So, the first thing we're going to do is take this threshold…20 channel that I created in the previous movie and I'm going to…create a copy of it by dragging it and dropping it…onto the little Page icon at the bottom of the Channels panel.…It's very important that you're working inside this same panel…because after all, every alpha channel is a flat, layerless image.…With the copy selected, I'll go up to the Filter menu.…And this is a great way to smooth any alpha channel, incidentally.…
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6/30/2014- Turning a person into a silhouette
- Adding power and motion with Liquify
- Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools
- Creating a dramatic background
- Adding grill lines and flames
- Inserting talk balloons
- Creating a custom comic font
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome37s
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1. Turning a Person into a Silhouette
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2. Making the Silhouette Fly
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3. Painting the Body and the Face
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Hand-painting the face8m 56s
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4. Creating a Dramatic Background
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5. Adding the Grill Lines
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6. Drawing Hands
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7. Adding the Flames
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8. Every Composition Needs Refinement
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9. The Monologue and Talk Balloons
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10. Creating a Custom Font
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Conclusion
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Until next time1m 20s
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