• Adobe After Effects

  Simple Masking Problem

  Posted by Lewis Lloyd on October 24, 2014 at 1:08 pm

  Hi guys, I think I’m just being stupid, but I’m trying to mask out both images in this Daguerrotype to use as an overlaid frame for 2 videos. So I want to get rid of the 2 girls and have a transparent background, so I can stick some videos in there.
  I’m sure it’s the simplest of tasks, but when I put 2 masks on the same image it reveals the other side if it’s inverted or vice versa. Makes sense really. What obvious method am I not understanding here? Any suggestions much appreciated! Thanks!

  Lewis

  

  Lewis Lloyd replied 11 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  October 24, 2014 at 2:30 pm

  Don’t invert your add mask, instead make it a subtract mask

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

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  Lewis Lloyd

  October 24, 2014 at 2:57 pm

  I worked it out!
  Locked the first mask and changed the blending mode on the other one and it was fine.
  Hope nobody wasted 30 seconds reading this!

  🙂
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  Lewis Lloyd

  October 24, 2014 at 2:58 pm

  Thanks Thomas!
  I didn’t see your post till now, but worked it out in the meantime!
  Thanks for your time!

  🙂

  Lewis

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