Masking with the Vanishing Point Filter
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 running time 16:03
Deke McClellan guest hosts to demonstrate gradient masks using the Vanishing Point filter.
Segments
Deke McClellan finishes the Vanishing Point project
Deke McClellan is back to finish last week's project using the Vanishing Point filter. We focus on the sign, "lynda.com/deke" and learn to make the lighting look more realistic rather than flat. Deke uses a white Drop Shadow with the blend mode "Screen" with an Outer Glow.
Linear gradient masks
We get a recap of last week's work in the subway scene that used the Vanishing Point filter, and Deke shows us that the job isn't done. We need to use masks to fix the reflection of the wall artwork. In this example, use a linear gradient in your mask. The black area hides parts of your layer, and white invokes opacity.
Gradients turned to masks with Vanishing Point
With just a linear gradient, mask still doesn't look like it has the right perspective. Delete the mask we tested with. Therefore, we will apply the masking in Vanishing Point using a separate pre-made gradient image. Create a new layer, then launch the Vanishing Point filter. The existing grids will show, and paste in the gradient image. Drag the gradient to the desired position. Apply the changes, and fill a new layer with black - this will merge with the gradient, and will become the mask.
Highlights
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Automatically Generated Transcript
May not be 100% accurate" War."
" This episode of pixel perfect you brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. She's sort it will be -- onward to show where all kinds of things can happen. On today's show we haven't beat back he's gonna finish the job that way guys don't get the idea he's got to finish a job. Itself. Exposed dunaway talked about today's background look at this thing was sent to us by two acts media and Marcos -- but the thing."
" Inner Powell but hey that's of those he's going on there. Beautiful background I don't know why it affected his dream for me but it very colorful looking background and because you're gonna do welcomes and taken there. They've got that from the -- It could mean it's one that's don't make up yeah that's myself up yet. The boy start. That's thank our sponsors godaddy.com. Makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server choose one of three popular plans or selector on Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the code pixel four when you check out to save an additional 15% and the order of 75 dollars or more. It's at all these deals go to revision3.com. Forward slash GoDaddy you'll see all of the pixel perfect GoDaddy deals and coats. Some restrictions apply yadda yadda you know suicide but these -- get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. -- Netflix sponsored pixel perfect with Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. 80000 including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start for as little as four dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out that www. Netflix.com. Ports that it's a perfect yes you do have to do that -- WWW. When used as code. Okay now. Back to the show. So last week we had the Photoshop gods on the show to show us some cool stuff and he's backed the finished job because he's been quite finished it last week so. Speak come on over here. Earned my friend Gary -- project. Managers are very good thing I math principles to look like."
" All right so we added it just distance just to run through some details here. We now let's go and -- these guys do -- we had done this this grimy subway scene from my sock photo. I went ahead and do you know good to washed away Alden defects in the scene using vanishing point mayor calls managing point -- that we are using. I end disk are you know I don't even know why this is here because that anything -- and god does and that's corporate and I think you know everybody to feels battery in there. Insulated from graffiti in -- subway and that we have this URL that they added that this is -- they just pasted into vanishing point and you know what I wanna quadrillion that's what it is and -- you know it's the plug was an educational one -- because here's why. If I do if I turn off those layer fax it just check this out this go and zoom in here. It just ends up looking like and a sharp -- and it doesn't look like it's matching the seasonal. And the layer affects even though you I think people frequently just think of them as being like drop shadows you dissenting and -- have yeah. But these this is the Toronto I've got -- had a going to checking and check out what it does the going to those offer moment I've got an article fact that helps us Madison idea. Sandra Matthew's life here but it's the drive -- really makes it work without a glows like it's the flawed -- you know it's an even glow around lenders. This structure gives us a little bit of a directional fact notice that right there being a pop out like that exactly and I'm just right I'm just random access the the lights themselves in of the colored lights and everything. I'll just gonna double click on my -- seconds we can see it. I've got the drive deficit to screen."
" So it's not shadow right to drop glow exactly that's what's going on the bigger difference between shadows in shadows in your glows. Is -- on the directional. And in shadows are correctional. Facility where others can't ones that just when you see them to dwell in the URL of course I mean we had to do about it that. Here's a gates and here's the beauty this is what we did last show I was I added these these these images here that I could opt out and did a perspective crop removed him from paying. And now they look almost like a backlight so they acted as glowing effect that we have here in the subway. And and I -- the reflections now the problem with these reflections. Which were great demonstration of look at flop yeah yeah. They're probably these reflections is that it's hard reflection it just baying goes we don't just ends all of a sudden and there's no reflection of the ceiling and this would naturally dissipated just adapted the reflections gonna decline away no matter how highly polished floors that is gonna decline. Now I can go ahead and reduce the capacity of the seem a little bit except I have the wrong layers like that with -- looked reflections. Reduce that capacity but it's still ending suddenly right dislocations we need a mask. Now the problem I'll just set this back to hundred since we can see the -- working here. Drag this -- I wanna make sure it's time on this image as we Camby. The problem. With adding just a layer mask the straight layer mask which is ultimately what we're gonna do let's make this little -- the -- heading straight layer mask. "
" Is Australia go ahead and add this layer mask here. Just likely get a missile -- Layer -- is saying here go in and do that what you see the tip you -- adhere and a layer mask and you just click on it passed later."
" It's a blank basket first and very typical thing that you do with masks if you grab your gradient tool. And in my case -- is set to realise that back to Linear and we've got his black to white -- going on now. You know masking my goodness you know -- And it but I'm originally anyway immense work purchased -- refresh your memory area got the bit that's black in a mask is to not hide. The layer breast and is gonna invoke transparency white in the mask is going to invoke capacity whatever level capacity would have going to right now we have entirely land mass."
" As a thumbnail so everything's okay but fiery drag with this gradient tool like so just drag Apple press the shift key just to. Make sure it's in just entirely vertical. Then we're gonna get this effect break here so it's just a black to white gradient here in sight the layer mask. But what that means is get rid of that for a moment actually minutes switch to full screen for a moment here ago. What that means. Is that look at this we've got we've got the thing dissipating like this but over here Atari --"
" Artists that we're missing the perspective of the same the math is not matching the perspective now this is something that even folks who are really familiar with mass struggle with. Because especially with range you don't have any gradient same valid wacky grange you can choose from here. They don't have a gradient that's going to basically go out like that it's gonna swing into view. So -- we need to do is we need to create a gradient in advance and taken into vanishing point -- add perspective there if things go right. And then we'll turn that into mass so this is a pretty strange technique I'm about to show you go to work viewpoint. So let's see let's see if it makes sense here I'll start."
" I just get rid of this layer mask. By dragging eldest dragons is Christian here to get rid of it we wanna delete not applies to let's go into because of my applied rioted. Permanent messed up the way but the effects days exactly. So I've created this gradient in advance on a separate layer this guy right here he's gonna serve as a mask which is a black to white gradient we're gonna take it into vanishing point. The -- match this area right there. So all start off. Buying. Commander control clicking. On the slayer right there just disliked it Britain and they'll go out to the many -- the last shall be only way to bring things into vanishing point is a copying -- added. And we'll -- copy command C controls the an alternative after the don't want them anymore we'll go back through one of reflections ultimately I will get rid of that selection just command dear controlled leak. Right when a new layer we just -- even those can be a layer mask we can't popping directly into layer mask at this point we're gonna create a new layer. And the thermal just Clinton astute. So the little new layer icon down there at the bottom layers proud we got to -- on call I don't care what it's also got to the filtering him but we do want it to be a new layer so that we can modify in the penalty museums right. Alright so go up to the filtering you choose vanishing point. And we've already got our perspective grid setup here actually last time around I mean this guy taller so go and do that again this is just plain that I created in advance of."
" Few planes going on here did better just matching the perspective of the same. Let's now. Go -- and import the gradient into the scene in the -- way you do that you know showing him -- have any commands that are available -- all dimmed. Which is misleading because the -- command actually works. You just have to press control or command be murder case that kind of place fears crossing came in good."
" There it is now as soon as I could drag it in to the scene. Okay this is this sometimes happens this is interesting so congress decides to do this. And you never know -- vanishing point out that doesn't make any sense to me because -- was appear being nice and horizontal and now turns into vertical thing. Right so what we gotta do you end -- running into this just."
" Zoom way out and then I'm gonna go ahead and switch to the transform tool right there. And and if you move your cursor outside. Of the frame there we're gonna get a rotate. I'm taking a deep breath as I do this because you can get sperling Harley we're gonna drag it down like a big -- don't agree that moment that there. And I'm gonna -- the -- It or constrain the angle so that we the -- getting increment to 45 degrees essentially so now I've got a ninety degree rotation. And wait for."
" Pray a little bit of course senate worked all right let's zoom in a little. And actually let's have mapped. Zoom back and forth endlessly a go ahead and now drag what do these coroner handles until we get this in the place. I obviously want this guy would want to be is the entire width of the scenes they'll do this number here. Eventually we'll get something that I'm looking for now. The the big problem I have at this point. Is who's on top of black black and that's gonna back. I don't let the want to adopt. To go back to our good friends flip and flop it becomes an indication of why they're not predictably can't just say you know at the horizontal flipped towards the horizontal. Words of vertical flip that would be so you just gotta try these things a try a flop and see if that works. And I was and that didn't do a damn thanks apparently he's the wrong checkbox -- it and then not try flip. And there -- have -- her body stunning Hoosier buddy flip all right so going to move this -- this location there I think this is about our industry to make sure gathering place to post a quick look at. Here is about the right size actually look at that guy he needs to be further -- there aren't. -- Control T and PC just make one distancing him. -- so now we've got. This thing at once to be a mask biting down -- can't just take hidden dragon in there Kansas -- put it in the where the -- slot should be. So what we need to do instead is we need to turn this into his selection this is where this gets a little hairy. And I'm gonna do my best to make -- access -- put their reflections. What we like is we just want light go into black everything else to be black because this is gonna serve as a mask. And I think this'll cervix that they do it so I'm going to press command shift and control -- down on the PC which makes -- it let's call those black. And then I will fill it with black like my background color right now interest all right so command delete. Or Ctrl+Del this case and lacks the background if there was the foreground we do an option or alt delete a rights announced black. Now we go to details -- worry channels pellet. That thank you very much they were here okay there's details -- now thing is when you're working with masks. You live in -- channels aren't as an alpha channels are everything but anything can be -- on the fly RG BR UB composite can be -- do. If you press command T Tolkien PC and it clicked on Mac guy and I just loaded that -- election. So we have white going to back black as a selection right there go back. Go -- now -- And it will go back to layers palate. We'll get rid of these guys they've served their purpose we go to reflections and watch this we turn this selection into masked by clicking on it. And we have this nice. Dissipating. The reflection that's going on here of course at this point I would wanna reduce the capacity migrated tools like this thought is going and reduce capacity -- so you. And something along those plants there let's go ahead and zoom in shift tab those nasty talents away and this is the effect that we ultimately half."
" From it's realistic instead of going away the reflection that's a good he finished the job he did it. That's -- sound of the voice and I'm I'm good to do anything to upgrade. Top guys guys there's not a lot of different steps and I was really important but created a little mask and how to go and -- and so it into the channels the channels are important little feature we've had a whole. But just shows on Giles told me is I'm from there and not come back and do some awesome and I would be honored that the utility to abuse -- it. So it's out of that. Now is that anything you'd like to see and it shows that you can't figure out at work whatever. So leaving Gaza the -- at revision3.com. And also you check out the form that revision3.com. Well its last four months. They can join discussions -- about the do whatever you wanna talk about. And maybe an influence a future show thanks again the media and mark of three of us. Back."
" Okay. That incredible background. And you know if you want your behavior is that it is big green screen beautiful green. There's a creative reflecting on your face. The kind of martian looking. Anyway -- you like your stuff to replace as green screen. Send -- your designs to at revision3.com. And your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels. No deviations from that twelve it was a blank pixels and they JPEG file. Thank you for watching the show I'll see you again next time and maybe that's a problem we sit and play to a kind of cool stuff. See you next week."
" And."
" War."
" This episode of pixel perfect you brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. She's sort it will be -- onward to show where all kinds of things can happen. On today's show we haven't beat back he's gonna finish the job that way guys don't get the idea he's got to finish a job. Itself. Exposed dunaway talked about today's background look at this thing was sent to us by two acts media and Marcos -- but the thing."
" Inner Powell but hey that's of those he's going on there. Beautiful background I don't know why it affected his dream for me but it very colorful looking background and because you're gonna do welcomes and taken there. They've got that from the -- It could mean it's one that's don't make up yeah that's myself up yet. The boy start. That's thank our sponsors godaddy.com. Makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server choose one of three popular plans or selector on Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the code pixel four when you check out to save an additional 15% and the order of 75 dollars or more. It's at all these deals go to revision3.com. Forward slash GoDaddy you'll see all of the pixel perfect GoDaddy deals and coats. Some restrictions apply yadda yadda you know suicide but these -- get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. -- Netflix sponsored pixel perfect with Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. 80000 including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. The Netflix plans start for as little as four dollars and 99 cents and as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out that www. Netflix.com. Ports that it's a perfect yes you do have to do that -- WWW. When used as code. Okay now. Back to the show. So last week we had the Photoshop gods on the show to show us some cool stuff and he's backed the finished job because he's been quite finished it last week so. Speak come on over here. Earned my friend Gary -- project. Managers are very good thing I math principles to look like."
" All right so we added it just distance just to run through some details here. We now let's go and -- these guys do -- we had done this this grimy subway scene from my sock photo. I went ahead and do you know good to washed away Alden defects in the scene using vanishing point mayor calls managing point -- that we are using. I end disk are you know I don't even know why this is here because that anything -- and god does and that's corporate and I think you know everybody to feels battery in there. Insulated from graffiti in -- subway and that we have this URL that they added that this is -- they just pasted into vanishing point and you know what I wanna quadrillion that's what it is and -- you know it's the plug was an educational one -- because here's why. If I do if I turn off those layer fax it just check this out this go and zoom in here. It just ends up looking like and a sharp -- and it doesn't look like it's matching the seasonal. And the layer affects even though you I think people frequently just think of them as being like drop shadows you dissenting and -- have yeah. But these this is the Toronto I've got -- had a going to checking and check out what it does the going to those offer moment I've got an article fact that helps us Madison idea. Sandra Matthew's life here but it's the drive -- really makes it work without a glows like it's the flawed -- you know it's an even glow around lenders. This structure gives us a little bit of a directional fact notice that right there being a pop out like that exactly and I'm just right I'm just random access the the lights themselves in of the colored lights and everything. I'll just gonna double click on my -- seconds we can see it. I've got the drive deficit to screen."
" So it's not shadow right to drop glow exactly that's what's going on the bigger difference between shadows in shadows in your glows. Is -- on the directional. And in shadows are correctional. Facility where others can't ones that just when you see them to dwell in the URL of course I mean we had to do about it that. Here's a gates and here's the beauty this is what we did last show I was I added these these these images here that I could opt out and did a perspective crop removed him from paying. And now they look almost like a backlight so they acted as glowing effect that we have here in the subway. And and I -- the reflections now the problem with these reflections. Which were great demonstration of look at flop yeah yeah. They're probably these reflections is that it's hard reflection it just baying goes we don't just ends all of a sudden and there's no reflection of the ceiling and this would naturally dissipated just adapted the reflections gonna decline away no matter how highly polished floors that is gonna decline. Now I can go ahead and reduce the capacity of the seem a little bit except I have the wrong layers like that with -- looked reflections. Reduce that capacity but it's still ending suddenly right dislocations we need a mask. Now the problem I'll just set this back to hundred since we can see the -- working here. Drag this -- I wanna make sure it's time on this image as we Camby. The problem. With adding just a layer mask the straight layer mask which is ultimately what we're gonna do let's make this little -- the -- heading straight layer mask. "
" Is Australia go ahead and add this layer mask here. Just likely get a missile -- Layer -- is saying here go in and do that what you see the tip you -- adhere and a layer mask and you just click on it passed later."
" It's a blank basket first and very typical thing that you do with masks if you grab your gradient tool. And in my case -- is set to realise that back to Linear and we've got his black to white -- going on now. You know masking my goodness you know -- And it but I'm originally anyway immense work purchased -- refresh your memory area got the bit that's black in a mask is to not hide. The layer breast and is gonna invoke transparency white in the mask is going to invoke capacity whatever level capacity would have going to right now we have entirely land mass."
" As a thumbnail so everything's okay but fiery drag with this gradient tool like so just drag Apple press the shift key just to. Make sure it's in just entirely vertical. Then we're gonna get this effect break here so it's just a black to white gradient here in sight the layer mask. But what that means is get rid of that for a moment actually minutes switch to full screen for a moment here ago. What that means. Is that look at this we've got we've got the thing dissipating like this but over here Atari --"
" Artists that we're missing the perspective of the same the math is not matching the perspective now this is something that even folks who are really familiar with mass struggle with. Because especially with range you don't have any gradient same valid wacky grange you can choose from here. They don't have a gradient that's going to basically go out like that it's gonna swing into view. So -- we need to do is we need to create a gradient in advance and taken into vanishing point -- add perspective there if things go right. And then we'll turn that into mass so this is a pretty strange technique I'm about to show you go to work viewpoint. So let's see let's see if it makes sense here I'll start."
" I just get rid of this layer mask. By dragging eldest dragons is Christian here to get rid of it we wanna delete not applies to let's go into because of my applied rioted. Permanent messed up the way but the effects days exactly. So I've created this gradient in advance on a separate layer this guy right here he's gonna serve as a mask which is a black to white gradient we're gonna take it into vanishing point. The -- match this area right there. So all start off. Buying. Commander control clicking. On the slayer right there just disliked it Britain and they'll go out to the many -- the last shall be only way to bring things into vanishing point is a copying -- added. And we'll -- copy command C controls the an alternative after the don't want them anymore we'll go back through one of reflections ultimately I will get rid of that selection just command dear controlled leak. Right when a new layer we just -- even those can be a layer mask we can't popping directly into layer mask at this point we're gonna create a new layer. And the thermal just Clinton astute. So the little new layer icon down there at the bottom layers proud we got to -- on call I don't care what it's also got to the filtering him but we do want it to be a new layer so that we can modify in the penalty museums right. Alright so go up to the filtering you choose vanishing point. And we've already got our perspective grid setup here actually last time around I mean this guy taller so go and do that again this is just plain that I created in advance of."
" Few planes going on here did better just matching the perspective of the same. Let's now. Go -- and import the gradient into the scene in the -- way you do that you know showing him -- have any commands that are available -- all dimmed. Which is misleading because the -- command actually works. You just have to press control or command be murder case that kind of place fears crossing came in good."
" There it is now as soon as I could drag it in to the scene. Okay this is this sometimes happens this is interesting so congress decides to do this. And you never know -- vanishing point out that doesn't make any sense to me because -- was appear being nice and horizontal and now turns into vertical thing. Right so what we gotta do you end -- running into this just."
" Zoom way out and then I'm gonna go ahead and switch to the transform tool right there. And and if you move your cursor outside. Of the frame there we're gonna get a rotate. I'm taking a deep breath as I do this because you can get sperling Harley we're gonna drag it down like a big -- don't agree that moment that there. And I'm gonna -- the -- It or constrain the angle so that we the -- getting increment to 45 degrees essentially so now I've got a ninety degree rotation. And wait for."
" Pray a little bit of course senate worked all right let's zoom in a little. And actually let's have mapped. Zoom back and forth endlessly a go ahead and now drag what do these coroner handles until we get this in the place. I obviously want this guy would want to be is the entire width of the scenes they'll do this number here. Eventually we'll get something that I'm looking for now. The the big problem I have at this point. Is who's on top of black black and that's gonna back. I don't let the want to adopt. To go back to our good friends flip and flop it becomes an indication of why they're not predictably can't just say you know at the horizontal flipped towards the horizontal. Words of vertical flip that would be so you just gotta try these things a try a flop and see if that works. And I was and that didn't do a damn thanks apparently he's the wrong checkbox -- it and then not try flip. And there -- have -- her body stunning Hoosier buddy flip all right so going to move this -- this location there I think this is about our industry to make sure gathering place to post a quick look at. Here is about the right size actually look at that guy he needs to be further -- there aren't. -- Control T and PC just make one distancing him. -- so now we've got. This thing at once to be a mask biting down -- can't just take hidden dragon in there Kansas -- put it in the where the -- slot should be. So what we need to do instead is we need to turn this into his selection this is where this gets a little hairy. And I'm gonna do my best to make -- access -- put their reflections. What we like is we just want light go into black everything else to be black because this is gonna serve as a mask. And I think this'll cervix that they do it so I'm going to press command shift and control -- down on the PC which makes -- it let's call those black. And then I will fill it with black like my background color right now interest all right so command delete. Or Ctrl+Del this case and lacks the background if there was the foreground we do an option or alt delete a rights announced black. Now we go to details -- worry channels pellet. That thank you very much they were here okay there's details -- now thing is when you're working with masks. You live in -- channels aren't as an alpha channels are everything but anything can be -- on the fly RG BR UB composite can be -- do. If you press command T Tolkien PC and it clicked on Mac guy and I just loaded that -- election. So we have white going to back black as a selection right there go back. Go -- now -- And it will go back to layers palate. We'll get rid of these guys they've served their purpose we go to reflections and watch this we turn this selection into masked by clicking on it. And we have this nice. Dissipating. The reflection that's going on here of course at this point I would wanna reduce the capacity migrated tools like this thought is going and reduce capacity -- so you. And something along those plants there let's go ahead and zoom in shift tab those nasty talents away and this is the effect that we ultimately half."
" From it's realistic instead of going away the reflection that's a good he finished the job he did it. That's -- sound of the voice and I'm I'm good to do anything to upgrade. Top guys guys there's not a lot of different steps and I was really important but created a little mask and how to go and -- and so it into the channels the channels are important little feature we've had a whole. But just shows on Giles told me is I'm from there and not come back and do some awesome and I would be honored that the utility to abuse -- it. So it's out of that. Now is that anything you'd like to see and it shows that you can't figure out at work whatever. So leaving Gaza the -- at revision3.com. And also you check out the form that revision3.com. Well its last four months. They can join discussions -- about the do whatever you wanna talk about. And maybe an influence a future show thanks again the media and mark of three of us. Back."
" Okay. That incredible background. And you know if you want your behavior is that it is big green screen beautiful green. There's a creative reflecting on your face. The kind of martian looking. Anyway -- you like your stuff to replace as green screen. Send -- your designs to at revision3.com. And your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels. No deviations from that twelve it was a blank pixels and they JPEG file. Thank you for watching the show I'll see you again next time and maybe that's a problem we sit and play to a kind of cool stuff. See you next week."
" And."
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Episode 140 - Masking with the Vanishing Point Filter [Discussion]
Deke McClellan guest hosts to demonstrate gradient masks using the Vanishing Point filter.
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