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  • Beginner Question (Advice Sought)

    Posted by Lloyd Paul rivers on January 22, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    Hi have a project coming up and i have decided to make a documentary style self portrait. I wanted to show me looking up at the sky and have my life in images and pictures appear and disappear,is the best way to sell the effect just to add a elipse mask to the picture or video,adjust the feather and change the blend mode to overlay? im going for a very stylized end look, i wanted it looking dream like.

    im new to after effects so i thought id ask.

    Many Thanks
    Lloyd Rivers

    Lloyd Paul rivers replied 14 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    January 23, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    I agree with Dave. Plan out exactly how you want it to look and then it will be a lot easier to work out how you go about getting it to look that way. It’s no good shooting at a wall and then painting a bullseye where you hit; to be succesfull, we need a target to shoot at first.

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  • Lloyd Paul rivers

    January 23, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    would never have thought of this so im very great full for the advice.

    Many Thanks
    Lloyd Rivers

  • Lloyd Paul rivers

    January 23, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    I can visualize what i want but being an inexperienced after effects user i wouldn’t know how to achieve the desired effect.

    great feed back as always though 🙂

    Many Thanks
    Lloyd Rivers

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