Urgent help needed with masks and removing shadows
by Martin Banks
on
Aug 25, 2006 at 1:00:14 am
hi,
I'm doing a project for a client, which envolves removing shadows and blemishs from a white studio shoot. I have been animating masks to remove the shadows, it's taking a while, and also now AE isn't letting me add masks to the layers of footage! :(
I also tried to do some clone stamping too, but I didn't know whether you can paint each frame individually, so it has left me with a white blob where i did the cloning. Can you paint it on individual frames? Would the other option be to use vector paint like this?
If anyone has any suggestions on how to get over these problems, or an even easier/better way to remove the shadows (they are light greyish colour against stark white) then it would be very very greatly appreciated. I hope someone can help!
Thanks,
Martin.
Re: urgent help needed with masks and removing shadows by Mark Val on Aug 25, 2006 at 4:02:06 am
I would use Mask on Layers Ctrl-Y and put the layers the same color as your bkg.
Did you try to boost the Gamma to turn the White ... Whiter ?!
Paint StampTool is a pain in the ass when you have long footage cause you have to playn with the timing. You can paint directly on the footage with it but watch your Filters order.
Re: help needed with masks and removing shadows by Andra on Aug 25, 2006 at 8:32:15 am
Could you post a few screenshots? Preferably tiffs or high-quality jpegs or something.
I'm no expert, but I'd like to see the problem for myself and try some possible solutions.
Re: help needed with masks and removing shadows by Steve Drew on Aug 28, 2006 at 6:15:22 am
If all you need is to make the white & near white stuff perfectly white, you could also duplicate your shot, crank a levels effect to give you a black and white hi-con version of your scene, then use that as a luma matte on your original layer. It should give you transparency wherever there is white or almost white. Then simply slap in a white solid to fill all the holes and wallah! Done. You may need to tweak edges or soften the matte layer with blur or something to suit your shots.
Hope this helps - as it's bloody quicker than cloning it all!
Re: urgent help needed with masks and removing shadows by David Wagner on Aug 27, 2008 at 5:36:39 pm
You can also try using the color key filter and maybe monkey around with the color tolorance - edge thin - edge feather sliders. see what happens. Also, and this is very time consuming depending on how long the footage is, you can save your footage as a film strip file and pull it into photoshop. You'll have to fix it a frame at a time. Very time consuming and hard to see the results until you pull it back into AE.
