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High-contrast mattes: Introduction

High-contrast mattes: Introduction - After Effects Tutorial

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High-contrast mattes: Introduction

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- We've had a thorough look at green screen, but green screen's not always the answer. Sometimes you don't have a green screen or you're trying or remove something that you can't cover with a green screen, like the sky. In cases like that, rather than just fall back to hand selecting and rotoscoping, you do have another option. It's not going to generate quite the level of edge detail in most cases, but high contrast or hi con mats are mats that you create just by studying the image and its individual color changes and finding contrast that allows you to make a selection. There are also some other tools and after effects that will help refine that result and make it often pretty good and certainly good enough for something like a sky replacement, as we'll take a look at in this section.

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