Newby and useless please help: silhouette/masks

[Antoni Jones]

Hi,

Select the layer of your band. Go to Effect/Color Correction/Hue & Saturation. Bring the “Master Saturation” property down to -100 (drag slider all the way to the left), this will give a black and white image. Bring the “Master Lightness” property down to around -78, this gives the appearance of a silhouette. Then goto Effects/Color Correction/Levels. You can then crush any black in the image by dragging the appropriate slider (usually the left hand slider) you can see how much black is in the image because it will show a graph under the black part of the spectrum. If you don’t want the image totally black you can bring some definition back by fiddling with Levels also since all the details of the image are still there.

-Regards

[Jim Kanter]

The Threshold effect turns everything to black or white pixels (depending on the luminance). Fast, easy way to get silhouettes.

You can also use Levels for more control.

Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com