From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs with Photoshop After Effects Flixel and Cliplets
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Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part one
From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs with Photoshop After Effects Flixel and Cliplets
Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part one
- Now that we've got the looped footage combined with the still image it's time to make a mask. Remember, as you were designing using other tools or thinking about your cinemagraph, ultimately, some of the motion was meant to be static. What we're going to do is slowly reveal the other information. Let's start with this overlook here and I'm going to knock out some of the green here in the left. Now, to do this I'm gonna take the pen tool. The pen tool can be used to add points. For example, I can click to define a mask. And make a basic selection. You'll note here that what we're doing is putting back in a freeze frame. Now, in this case, I actually want to reverse the mask. So, if I pres M for the mask properties I could tell this area to not add but rather subtract. And this makes it easier to understand. You'll see that there's a freeze frame and this area has been knocked out. The key is to flip the mask to subtract not add. Now, if we drag through it works pretty well except you…
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Loading a movie into After Effects2m 6s
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Loading an image sequence into After Effects1m 26s
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Adjusting frames rates and retiming clips in After Effects4m 42s
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Duplicating and reversing a clip to make a loop in After Effects3m 30s
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Splitting a clip to make a loop in After Effects4m 57s
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Compositing the frozen image with motion4m 18s
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Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part one4m 34s
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Creating and refining masks in After Effects: Part two3m 54s
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Color correction and enhancement6m 29s
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Exporting a movie-based animation from After Effects4m 51s
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Converting to a frame-based animation from After Effects3m 1s
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Combining After Effects and Photoshop to create a GIF file1m 55s
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