• Adobe After Effects

  soften edges

  Posted by Dotan Baytman on December 6, 2006 at 9:58 am

  i have a rectengular banner and i need to make it less rectengular
  meaning to soften the edges a little something like the rounded rectebgular in photoshop
  masks doesnt look good enough any ideas?

  Dotan Baytman replied 19 years, 5 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Joshua Ferg

  December 6, 2006 at 11:45 am

  Try duplicating the layer a few times, scaling up or down sizes and blurring to taste.
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  Mylenium

  December 6, 2006 at 2:57 pm

  Copy & Paste a rounded corner rectangle (aka bullnose mask) from Photoshop to AE as a mask, then use feathering on the mask shape.

  Mylenium

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  Alexander Gao

  December 6, 2006 at 2:58 pm

  Why don’t masks look good enough? I would think it would work very well, if you made a rectangular mask a little smaller than your banner and then just feathered the edges a little bit… no?

  Thanks,
  Alexander Gao

  “When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”
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  Iancorey

  December 6, 2006 at 7:02 pm

  Two options.

  Place the image in a comp, double click the mask tool. Twirl out the mask settings and set the Mask Expansion to negative.

  OR

  Use Simple Choker in Effects > Matte.

  Hope it works!

  ian
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  Dotan Baytman

  December 6, 2006 at 10:05 pm

  Thanx guys the negative expansion and feathering works fine
  can you explain the matte choker part?

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