• Adobe After Effects

  how to pull tricky key – thin dark lines on grey ?

  Posted by Daniel Crooks on September 25, 2009 at 8:37 am

  hi people

  I have some footage of a kite where the grade i want to use pushes the light grey sky pretty much to pure white, yet I want to preserve (and ideally enhance) the thin black lines of the strings. I’m having real difficulty working out a way to do this. Due to the graduation in the sky I can only pull a good key on a very small section at a time. I’ve tried all number of keys, mattes and blending modes. If it was only a few frames I’d probably start painting but the shot is almost a minute long !

  Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

  I’ve attached a jpeg with the raw image, the intended grade + a hi-con to show the ‘strings’ and the graduated background that are there in the file.

  cheers../daniel

  

  Daniel Crooks replied 16 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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