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Improve detailed edges with Refine Soft Matte

Improve detailed edges with Refine Soft Matte - After Effects Tutorial

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Improve detailed edges with Refine Soft Matte

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- After Effects includes a tool to refine detailed edges called Refine Soft Matte. For cases where you're forced to create a crude matte that includes fine detail, things like foliage or hair, it can be worth a look. So let's take a look at it. So where we left this is the edges are a little chunky. We've softened them as much as possible with Extract, maybe not as much as possible, but reasonably. In another lesson we looked at Refine Hard Matte, that one's designed for hard masks, Refined Soft Matte is for fine detail. Now, you might have noticed it took a moment, and that we now have a filled in area. But the first thing to do is take a look at the edge region. And, like all of these effects, it's set pretty high to begin with. So the first thing we're going to do is come way back on that. And we'll see it exit those gaps. So we wanna be somewhere down in there, it looks like it's covering all the edges. Now when we go back, we see actually a pretty pleasing result overall. At…

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