Machine Wash Washed out look Filters

[Joseph W. bourke]

I’m not aware of any AE filter that will do the job, but if you know Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop at all, and are willing to spend a half day, you can create all of the overlay styles that are in the Machine Wash sets. As a matter of fact, you can probably find quite a few of them as textures, on the web, copyright free. A good place to start might be a 3D site that offers free textures. Once you download a texture, convert it to a greyscale and kick up the contrast so that you can get usable luminance values to make an alpha channel.

To create them yourself, just download some of the grunge brushes that are free on the Adobe website (you do have to create a login and username) at:

https://share.studio.adobe.com/axBrowseSubmit.asp?t=11

and then start scribbling! Just paint with black on a white background, and when you get the file into AE, use the luminance of the image to punch out an alpha, and adjust the level, maybe adding a color layer in between to add some of the color as in the Machine Wash filters. You’ll get much better results if you have a Wacom pen tablet that lets you set brush sensitivity and size as you draw.

I must say that they are are really cool idea, but it’s not something you can’t do yourself with a bit of work and some creativity. Have fun!

Joe Bourke
Art Director / WMUR-TV

[Twinke]

Good Ideas, Thanks for the tips.

[Mike Clasby]

This should work in AE if I see your sample right.

Three layers:

Texture layer
A jpg I downloaded from https://www.mayang.com/textures/ also https://www.imageafter.com/textures.php

Size (adjust to get the look you want, if layer is larger than comp, most textures are larger)
Threshold to turn the Image into B&W

Solid Layer (Color of your choice)
Ctrl Y (choose Color)
Set the Mode in the TrkMat to Luma Inverted

Your Footage Layer
The Logo or whatever you want to Washerize

Adjust the Threshold in the top layer to bring out the strength of the texture.

[Twinke]

Thats right on for the texture, how do I wash out the color?
What do you think about using color balance < grey photo filter > density 99% on the footage Layer?
Open to ideas of a different way besides just droping the saturation down.

[Hemanth Kumar]

try roughen edges u might not get the same effect but would be close

regards
Hemanth