hosts wrinkles

[Ross Mcdowell]

hi there,

depending on his motion, if it is fairly static you can just track his face and then create an adjustment layer + mask that will blur out his skin and remove the wrinkles. or you can maybe use a color selection and select the skin tones and blur them. definately go for something along the lines of blurring…

i am really sorry for the vague answer, if no one else replies by tomorrow i can promise you a better and fuller reply (its 5am i need to get to bed)…. but maybe my vague reply this will spark an idea that will lead you to solving your problem 🙂

Best,

Ross McDowell
Animation Student

[Mark]

I would perform the chroma key, then precompose that layer, selecting to move all into the precomp(option in precomp dialog box).

Next, I would use the good old instant sex method of Trish and Chris Meyer….that is, duplicate the precomp, on the top layer add Gaussian blur (10-15), Now use a transfer mode on the top layer…I like soft light, but it really depends on what works for the shot…Now you will want to precomp those two layers, so as not to affect the underlying layers while you perform color correction on this layer (obviously the transfer mode will affect the color correction of your original media).

This method should enable you to soften out the image, without making it too blurry….

Regards

Mark

Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
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[David Bogie]

But you want to preserve the original clip’s alpha!
Once you start modifying the clip, you also apply your blurs to the alpha unless you really know how to control that stuff.
Suggest you make a separate alpha-only render pass when you export the chromakey footage.

bogiesan

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[Chris Wright]

there’s a tut in videocopilot which shows how to remove freckles without any motion tracking. You could use this method and use a box blur.