• Adobe After Effects

  Anyone know how this colour editing effect can be achieved?

  Posted by Richard Henley on January 12, 2014 at 6:47 pm

  Hi, I want to achieve a colour effect like this:

  

  or this:

  

  Any ideas? Something to do with alpha channels perhaps?

  Cheers,

  Richard

  Joseph W. bourke replied 12 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mathew Fuller

  January 12, 2014 at 7:21 pm

  They are 2 different techniques.

  One looks like the “invert” effect added to footage.

  The other is a transfer mode on a layer probably. Duplicate your footage on top of itself and on the top layer start going through the different transfer modes like difference, color etc.

  Also you can change the hue and colors of your top layer and mess with the transfer modes as well.

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  Todd Kopriva

  January 12, 2014 at 7:36 pm

  I agree that the first probably started with the Invert effect.

  For the second, I’d start with the Colorama effect.
  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7b66a.html

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  Joseph W. bourke

  January 12, 2014 at 9:51 pm

  That second effect could probably also be accomplished with the Tritone effect, which maps colors to the brights, mids, and darks:

  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS2E4DBF61-3721-413c-A549-121DD9BC4284a.html

  As Todd said above Colorama will do it as well, with more levels of control.

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