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Color Dodge Alternatives?
AE CS5 – I have two solid color vector objects, imported from illustrator. They come together to partially overlap (venn diagram). I want the overlap to be negative space, or white. Color Dodge is the concept I need, but After Effects handles that blending mode differently than Illustrator. Any suggestions?
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Basically, is there any blending mode that completely knocks out the intersection between two shapes? Or one that makes the intersection pure white?
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That would not be “blending”. That would be adding or subtracting masks. Import the illustrator file as masks. Set one to add, the other to subtract. You may also need to import them both as layers and masks. This probably isn’t the only way to do it either.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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There are also ‘add’ and ‘subtract’ blend modes. But these work with the colors present in the image instead of full on (‘white’) or off (‘black’) as in masks.
Basically, blend modes may or may not give you the result you want depending on the color of the circles in your venn diagram. You may have to adjust colors selectively to create the result you want, or you can rely on masks or shape layers based on the AI paths as suggested by Cory.
Darby Edelen
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This is brilliant. Thanks Dave!
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