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Picture masks over background
Okay, I don’t know how best to describe this question, so I thought I’d just show you what I created in Photoshop and what I’d like it to look like in PPro. Basically I have a moving background and I want to display images on top of that with some (text) quotes. The images themselves are straight forward portraits. However, I’d like to apply a ragged edge mask to them, and also a highlight. A Photoshop sample is visible here: https://www.yeehaw.net/Quotes-Test.jpg
Do I have to edit each picture and add the ragged edge and glow to them then import them into PPro, ontop of the moving background, or is there some clever way of somehow using a mask that then gets applied to the pictures as they’re dropped onto the time line?
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4 Replies
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Do you have After Effects ? The problem here is that you can’t really apply a layer on top of the picture without covering the curtain. So, applying a mask on a curtain with roughened edges is really the easiest way to achieve it (that I can think of). Then, just lay the pictures behind that animation. Make sure you render as RGB+alpha (screen Cap and project below)
If you don’t have After Effects, I’ll see if I can post a short looped version.https://www.kaptis.com/media/web/curtain.zip
Cheers,
Vince
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BTW, I guess if you could create a roughened edged alpha in Photoshop thick enough to cover the picture’s edges, you might be able to make it work too…
Vince
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Hi Vince,
I have AE demo which also has the Cycore plugins as a demo, so I can’t really use them. However, I can still create the curtain in AE and color it in PPro, so that’s not that big a deal. I have to create a clip that’s roughly 4 minutes long anyway, so since the AE demo only gives me 5 seconds, I’ll be stitching a bunch of those together in PPro.
I will try your project files and see what I can achieve with that. The one thing I see different is that I don’t have a highlight on the edges like I did in Photoshop. Not sure if I can get that in AE as well. Otherwise, I’ll have to think of something else (such as manually editing all the images in Photoshop first then placing then in PPro. Ugh)
Anyway, thanks for the reply.
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For the highlight, you can either add the glow effect, or change the color in the Roughen Edges effect.
Vince
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