[David Lincoln brooks]

Thanks, Emily! I will try that.

[David Lincoln brooks]

Thanks, guys. I’ll try your counsel!

Dave

The only things which matter in life are Art and Children. (Georges Seurat)

[David Lincoln brooks]

Thanks so much, Jonathan.

[David Lincoln brooks]

Since I posted this request, I have studied some tutorials on Beauty Retouching, and now I “get” the concept of the Adjustment Layer.

I appreciate now that Adjustment Layers are not merely a “trick”, but rather a whole new way of using Photoshop. As I’ve been using P’SHOP since 1998, I had failed, along the way, to appreciate that Adjustment Layers— and using a seemingly infinite stack of them in the Layers palette— constituted a new workflow for a detailed project.

[David Lincoln brooks]

Well, yes, I DO hear ya, Dave…

On that same beef, I didn’t always think the VEGAS 2D Drop Shadow always gave me the effect I was looking for, but couldn’t control it as precisely as I would’ve liked…

Maybe importing a PSD— with your Drop Shadow present in one of the layers—- is currently the way to go if you are “anal” about getting the shadow to look “just so”.

DLB

The only things which matter in life are Art and Children. (Georges Seurat)

[David Lincoln brooks]

Any video track’s event can be given a Drop Shadow (dark semi-halo on any two adjacent sides of an object, designed to give the impression of “protruding” towards the viewer’s space).

On any video track, click the tiny TRACK MOTION icon.

It will bring up a palette in VEGAS where, in the lower lefthand corner, you will spy a tick-box which says “2D Shadow”.

Ticking it active will immediately add a Drop Shadow to that particular event.

The color, size, location, intensity, etc. of the Drop Shadow can be controlled in the choices which then pop-up.

If a track’s event has been Masked, the resulting masked object will display the 2D Drop Shadow effect.

Good luck!

[David Lincoln brooks]

Thanks, guys.

This post is actually old now, and soon after asking this question, I figured out how to use VEGAS’s native drop-shadow function to get the effect I wanted…

But I certainly appreciate the contributions!

Thanks, Dave

The only things which matter in life are Art and Children. (Georges Seurat)

[David Lincoln brooks]

I don’t understand what you have to do…. to make BORIS show up anywhere within the VEGAS environment….

Help?

D.

[David Lincoln brooks]

Thanks, Douglas.

The CHROMA KEYER has worked problem-free for me in nearly every occasion.

The one instance in which I got sketchy results, was when the picture within my color mask was so multi-colored… that literally no color I chose for my surrounding key worked well. )-:

In keying any color, I also removed pixels within my desired picture (because ROYGBIV, and B&W, were all present in my picture).

Perhaps there mnight be a trick to this that I am still unaware of…

Thanks, DAVE

[David Lincoln brooks]

It sounds like your Chroma Key is not fully adjusted?

Those MIN and MAX settings have to be tweaked “just so”, and sometimes there is only one teeny-tiny perfect setting for them. Not tweaked just right, they will cast a transparent glow on your layers below…

You’re not using White as your “keyed-out” color, are you? That’s a pretty difficult RGB setting to use, I’d say.