• Adobe After Effects

  Adjustment Layer with Blur and Feathered Mask, Feather Doesn’t Show up

  Posted by Terry Stone on April 23, 2008 at 8:30 pm

  Hi everyone,
  I’m working on a major school project which is due in a few days and i’m stuck on something. I’d appreciate any advice.

  Basically, I have an adjustment layer with the fast blur effect on it. I’ve set up the adjustment layer as a way to blur parts of the background. I also added a mask on the adjustment layer with a feather so that the part of the layer closer to the foreground is sharper. However, even though i’ve added a mask to the adjustment layer, my comp doesn’t show the result of the feather – it’s as if the feather isn’t there at all.

  And advice would be greatly appreciated!

  Francis Battaglia replied 13 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  April 25, 2008 at 5:09 am

  Adjustment Layers only work with Effects. Masks do not cut through onto its lower layers. That’s if I understand your issues correctly.

  There could also be a possibility that your feather is set to too high a value.

  Having said that, try this –

  Apply your feathered masks on a Solid. Place this Solid as the topmost layer with its Blending Mode set to Stencil ALpha. This may do the trick for you.

  Cheers
  RoRK

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  Francis Battaglia

  April 18, 2013 at 1:59 am

  You can also pre-compose / pre-comp that top layer with the blur, and then add the mask within the pre-comp.

  Cheers
  Francis

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