Creating a user shape for vignetting – Apple Color 1.5 User Manual
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To rotate the vignette
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Right-click or Control-click any of the four corners of the vignette and drag to rotate it to
the left or right.
To adjust the softness of the vignette
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Middle-click and drag to blur the edges of the vignette.
This adjustment modifies the Softness parameter. The degree of softness is visualized in
the Previews tab with a pair of concentric circles. The inner circle shows where the edge
blurring begins, and the outer circle shows where the edge blurring ends, along with the
shape.
Animating Vignettes
One of the most common operations is to place an oval over someone’s face and then
either lighten the person, or darken everything else, to draw more attention to the
subject’s face. If the subject is standing still, this is easy, but if the subject starts to shift
around or move, you need to animate the vignette using keyframes so that the lighting
effect follows the subject. For more information on keyframing, see
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Another option is to use the motion tracker to automatically track the moving subject,
and then apply the analyzed motion to the vignette. For more information, see
Creating a User Shape for Vignetting
The following procedure outlines how you use the User Shape option in the Shape pop-up
menu of the vignette controls.
To use a user shape for vignetting
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Open the Secondaries room, click one of the eight Secondaries tabs to select which
secondary operator to work on, and then select the Vignette checkbox to enable the
vignette controls.
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Choose User Shape from the Shape pop-up menu.
The Shapes tab of the Geometry room opens, with a new shape in the shapes list to the
right, ready for you to edit.
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Chapter 10
The Secondaries Room