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Digital anarchy color sampler plugin
Digital anarchy used to have a plugin called color sampler bundled with its Anarchy toolbox.
Since RedGiant started selling Anarchy toolbox in TextAnarchy 2.x, this plugin seems to have disappeared from the bundle?Has the utility of this plugin become redundant (that RG discontinued it?) with the new features in AE CS3/4?
In other words is there a “built-in way” of sampling color from a layer or a footage to drive expressions like the way color sampler could do? -
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i haven’t used color sampler, but there is an expression that may help you out….
sampleImage([coordinates x,y], [sample size x,y])
coordinates are just the 2d point coordinates to define the point that you want to sample on an image. sample size is the size of the area taht you wan to sample expressed in width by height.
as an example, you could add the color expression control effect to an image/footage layer in your comp. also add a new null to your comp. then add and expresion for the color value of the effect and add this expression:
target = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).position;
sampleImage(target,[1,1])the color chip on the effect should return the color value of the image at the point where the ‘null 1’ layer is. as reposition the null within the comp, the color sample should change to the new color value that is being sampled.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Wow! Thanks Kevin.
For some reason I was not getting a result by using a null.
So I used the lens flare effect as described by dan ebberts on his website. (Taken there by link from adobe AE expression help on SampleImage.With this expression and intensity of flare down to 0%, I am getting the result.
target=thisComp.layer(“cellDeath.mov”);
target.sampleImage(target.effect(“Lens Flare”)(“Flare Center”),[1,1]);
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