SAE Magazine 13-2

142 Production & Know How // Vintage Look with Adobe After Effects 10. You can use a vignette to further enhance a composition. This will give the film a professional look and will draw viewers’ eyes to the middle of the image. Again, create a Black Solid using a right mouse click; name it VIGNETTE. Then mount an oval shape within the image using the Ellipse Tool (Q), adjust this by double clicking and then manipu- late the transform points until the oval mask touch- es all edges. Then select the mask MASK 1 in the layer window and click on the arrow in front of this. Tick the Inverted box and turn the Mask Feather until there is a smooth transition from the middle of the image to the edges. Finally select a small value for the Mask Opacity because the vignette will only be perceived subconsciously and should not sit in the foreground. Otherwise the vignette would serve no purpose and would irritate the viewers. Pay at- tention to the layers’ Mode at the end. The three Fractal Noise layers should have Add as the mode. The vignette should act as an overlay on top of the other layers. Adobe Dynamic Link is a useful connector wit You can use it within th ample, import various Af Photoshop and Illustrat Pro file. In addition yo individual layers within t saves a lot of time an easier to handle. Instagram Is a Smartphone app, w cally improve images. I the Polaroid look from a has also spilled over int gram took a significant u network integration whic The author Lorenz Töpfer works as lowbudgetmusicvideos. with After Effects, in ord qrcode for “Fernweh” video These are the 10 recomm achieving a nice vintage e We recommend that you miere Pro so that the two Either use the Adobe Dyn ated composition in Adobe Adobe Dynamic Link is a v lot of RAM and with less p dering time can be very lo If you open the compositio

SAE Magazine 13-2

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