Greyscale/Color Question

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:27 pm

All righty... For my newest AMV, I want to have a grayscale background, with one character colored, while moving. Will I have to (witch I'm sure I will have to) edit each frame with Photoshop, or is their an easier way?

hydrax · Post by **hydrax** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:00 pm

It would depend on the background you’re getting the colored object from(different techniques could be applied depending on simplicity or complexity of it). Your best option is masking frame by frame...

If the character in front is going to repeat the same movement, if they're running across the screen, then you can use the same layer, I guess, if you’re going to work in PS.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:08 pm

You could also do the masking in After Effects instead, but that would still require changing the mask for every frame in which the character moves, so I don't know how much easier it'd be than the GIMP route.

By the way, I always recommend the Pen tool (paths) for any such masking job. They're about the most flexible and useful way to do it that I know of; for example, you can take a path on one frame and drag it onto the next frame, then change a few points to meet the character's new position instead of having to redraw the whole path from scratch...

reddragon_syndicate · Post by **reddragon_syndicate** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:01 am

From what I hear the guide for the pen tool is being tested soo maybe not much longer it'll be out.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:49 am

I was afraid of that.... Anyway, thanks.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:28 pm

the pen tool tutorial will likely never be released.
i was beta testing, and lost contact with the who was making it. he stopped coming around here.

here it is though. likely good enough
http://www.umbrellavideo.com/files/Pen% ... torial.pdf

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:37 pm

If the character in question is colored differently from the rest of the scene you can use a color-pass effect to color them while the rest of the scene remains in gray-scale. Experiment with a few layers in AE if that's not the case and you can usually come up with something decent.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:33 am

Minion wrote:the pen tool tutorial will likely never be released.
i was beta testing, and lost contact with the who was making it. She stopped coming around here.

That would be DriftRoot. Current status of the Pen Tool Tutorial: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=77980

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:54 am

osnap, didn't see that he was back :O

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:55 am

errrr she