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  • overlapping opacity layers yikes

    Posted by Dawud Ali on December 8, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    hi guys

    i need some advice regarding overlapping opacity layers.

    scenario:
    i have about 3-4 ‘overlapping’ black layers which i want to fade in from mid opacity to nearly full opacity e.g start at 60% then finish at 93%. AND i want them to seem as if they are one image

    Problem:
    the areas were the different layers overlap they appear darker which makes sense when working with opacity BUT i want to make them appear seeming-less even in those overlapping areas
    please if possible and any useful online tutorial explanation

    tnaks in advance :[

    Dawud Ali replied 15 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Dawud Ali

    December 8, 2010 at 11:13 pm

    doh!wow urber fast response tahnks

    i forgot to mention they are moving layers so is there a better way on cs5 when working with complex shapes and movement, were i could tell Ae i want you to see these as the same object and tell it to ignore overlapping areas??

  • Dawud Ali

    December 9, 2010 at 1:05 am

    ok i need look up track matting now tnks

  • Michael Szalapski

    December 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    Track matte info here.
    Alternatively you could precomp your black solids and do the opacity change on the precomp.

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  • Dawud Ali

    December 9, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    track matte worked but that would be much simple
    🙂 tnks

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