ChromAberration
Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects, Products
Learn to create the effects seen in Magic Bullet Looks. Split RGB channels, simulate chromatic aberration, animate the chaos. All in one tutorial.
Click here to watch the video tutorial
Some time ago I wrote a note on my Facebook Fan Page about upcoming tutorials. I’m happy to announce that the day has come – the tutorials are recorded and all will be released soon. This is the first out of four tutorials that will be focused on recreating some of my favorite filters from a great color correction tool – Magic Bullet Looks.
Back in February 2009 I wrote a blog post about Separating RGB Channels. I thought that it would be a great example of what Adobe Pixel Bender technology can to – it’s simple and quite useful. Useful plugins don’t have to be very complex – it’s quite the opposite - it’s mostly simple and small things that make our everyday tasks easier.
With this tutorial I give you RGB Splitter plugin (CS4) totally for free, but I’ve got something extra for those of you who would like to support me and help me keep this site running.
Download: Maltaannon's RGB Splitter PBK (After Effects CS4)
RGB Channels Bundle that consists off ChromAberration – a Pixel Bender plugin for creating real chromatic abberation, and a nice CE RGB Playground that utilizes the free RGB Splitter in a way that makes it extra easy and fun to play with RGB channels of your footage.
Get RGB Channels Bundle (CS4) for only 14.90 USD
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AndrewYY
14. Jul, 2009
Instead of using Math.abs(), you could’ve just used -= since you already knew it was a negative number.
Jerzy Drozda Jr
14. Jul, 2009
True, but that made more sense to me. Logically. If I’d read the code some day later I would scratch my head about that “-” sign. Math.abs() say’s it all. Just a matter of preference. Good suggestion though.
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14. Jul, 2009
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illd
14. Jul, 2009
Very well done, the tutorial and the Plugin. Its so sad that there is no plugin for CS3 – I would get it rightaway!
Anyway, thank you for explaining in detail, it wont be to hard to rebuild it on cs3.
PL
15. Jul, 2009
Hello, nice as usual !
Sorry if you have already answered this but, when you type on your keyboard, it show up on top right, it’s automatic ? I tried with camtasia studio but nothing, you are using witch software to capture ?
And thank you for the plugin, very usefull.
Jerzy Drozda Jr
15. Jul, 2009
http://maltaannon.com/blog/keysnatcher/
PL
15. Jul, 2009
Haaaa thank you ! Great !
Jerzy Drozda Jr
15. Jul, 2009
Just corrected the dead video link in that KeySnatcher post. I am working on the official release so that everyone can use it.
Navarro Parker
16. Jul, 2009
Just picked up ChromAbberation last night. So much nicer than trying to wire up a DIY solution. It supports 32pbc and is incredibly fast!
At that price, it’s ridiculous not to have it a part of my must-have handy tools.
Zach
16. Jul, 2009
Just got the plugin, I cant wait to try this out!
Rob
16. Jul, 2009
Got a nice project coming up, hopefully I’ll be able to use this for something on that job. Can’t wait!
Shkaa887
16. Jul, 2009
RGB Channels bundle is so worth it! Buy it, I’m using it loads now! :)
crash
17. Jul, 2009
buddy you have a logo done for Change please as he razdrozhaet and reluctance to enter your web site
Youssef Sarhan
28. Jul, 2009
I like what you did with making the channels seperate more the further out from the point-of-origin, it would be nice if we could control the size of the fade the radius if you will, of the point of origin. Right now I’m duplicating and applying a oval mask.
What do you think?
Jerzy Drozda Jr
28. Jul, 2009
That is not the first request like that. I will look into the second edition of ChromAbberation plugin that will have this feature. As for the manual solution – you have to use a mask or a Circle effect with a stencil alpha blend mode – just like in the Spot Focus tutorial.
corass
31. Jul, 2009
sorry but where can I found ChromAbberation plugin?!
Jerzy Drozda Jr
01. Aug, 2009
There’s a green “Buy Now” button below the article.
Mike
02. Aug, 2009
Happy Birthday big guy…you need to visit Florida!!
hopefully all goes well for you today and I personally hope you get a real kool zippo lighter for your birthday …maybe ingraved (JD-AE-2009) would be nice huh!!
Jerzy Drozda Jr
02. Aug, 2009
Thanks a lot Mike. Guess what… I already have a nice zippo lighter with my company logo ingraved on it. Got it from my friend exactly a year ago. It’s black and soooo cool. Or should I say hot?
Fabio
03. Aug, 2009
Hey Thanks to give me a chance to win this plugin… i tried it, and it’s very cool!!! ;) Have a nice day!! :)
Saluti dall’italia
Hafeez
05. Sep, 2009
totally unrelated!!! but I wanted to say that I loved your interview with John Dickinson. All your facial expressions in the interview shows up as a snapshot in your Blog picture :)
You are truly inspiring.
PS: Also you didn’t finish the story of the client who came with a bad footage for the time lapse thing?
FLIPPER
29. Dec, 2009
How I must install this plugin? :S
Chand
09. Mar, 2010
Hi dear sir,firstly sorry 4 ma English. I’m Chand from Sri-Lanka. Tnx 2 u’r tutorials. I’m following a multimedia coz in ma home country. I’m da best student 4 AE & 3D MAX. I’m a poor gay…. any way… I’m happy. ok den.. bye…