High Pass and Coloring
Posted on 06. May, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects
Ever missed the High Pass filter in After Effects? Watch this tutorial to learn how to build your own and get a few ideas on how to use it.
Click here to watch the video tutorial
If you’ve worked with High Pass filter before than you already know how amazing this tool is for sharpening, color grading, masking and many many others. I’ve seen many threads on many forums where people where asking how to move this wonderful Photoshop filter into After Effects, because it doesn’t come with one. Since I was also in need to use it several times in my video productions I decided to look into how it works and build one myself.
So here we are. After watching this tutorial you will learn two easy ways of building your own High Pass filter in After Effects. Above that you will learn a few tricks on how to use it.
This tutorials uses growing elements from Evolution design elements collection. Go to videocopilot.net to get your own copy.
Photos used in this tutorial come from sxc.hu. By the time they were downloaded, they were licensed as royalty free, and were free to use in any way you like (standard restrictions). Just to make sure, go to sxc.hu right now, or just click here to read the Standard restriction agreement.
Download: Tutorial project file (After Effects CS3)
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Paul
06. May, 2008
Good job as usually!
But where are growing elements from videocopilot.net? ;)
Maltaannon
06. May, 2008
I’ve put the wrong one in. Sorry. Clear your history and cache and try refreshing the site with the tutorial. The correct version is already on the server. Enjoy.
Frank C.
07. May, 2008
Thanks once again for another great tutorial. I’m not sure if I have a use for this but it is still much appreciated. I especially like the application of this effect to the flourish and text.
Maltaannon
07. May, 2008
Thanks a lot. Just play with it. Try different blending modes. Try it over a video, photo, illustration, color and grayscale, try in on 3D generated graphic. You’ll me amazed how often it helps to sell the final effect.
Vinnie
09. May, 2008
Awesome Tutorial as usual! Thank you so much!
ribaao
09. May, 2008
muito bom esse efeito barabens
Mark
09. May, 2008
Hey Genius-M, Its just Superb, Awesome tutorial. Thankyou so much.
Take Care
Mark
RC Flash
11. May, 2008
Very Very Good!!
Thanks
vman
12. May, 2008
Cool. There are some techniques with using High Pass Filters in Photoshop in creating the “Dave Hill Photography” look. Now that you’ve come up with this cool Filter.. I wonder if we can pull off this look in Motion?? I’ll have to tinker :)
http://www.davehillphoto.com/
http://www.diyphotography.net/creating-that-dave-hill-look
UmairVFX
12. May, 2008
Awesome my friend awesome!!!!
nice dude nice one this one is more better way to color correct the video and put cinema looks… amazing :)
I love it
Best of Luck
polakfr
14. May, 2008
Great great job maltaannon ! for this tuto and all the others ;)
Keep Going this ‘otherWayOfDoing’ the Tuto
bye
Peter
17. May, 2008
Nice one!
In case anyone is interested, here are my favorite applications for a highpass filter: First, you can make skies and clouds significantly more dramatic by applying the highpass filter in overlay mode with relatively high radii. As with the sharpening, an unsharp-mask like filter will work just as well.
And second, if you invert the highpass filtered layer and then put it over the original image in overlay mode, you get a very nice softening filter instead of a sharpening one. It looks a lot more like photographic promist-type soft focus filters than a regular box blur or a gaussian blur, and best of all, it preserves sharp edges quite well.
TGD
26. May, 2008
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dps
08. Jun, 2008
Very amazing.
I have just recetnly discovered your page here through stumble upon. Im very impressed! You have a great wealth of knowedge and id like to thank you for sharing with us!
CristalCube
28. Aug, 2008
Like always, great tutorial, thanks for that George.
Greetings. CC³.
Daluz
18. Feb, 2009
Ok, you said lets creat a “preset” and join all the layers in one ” How in the world do I do that?
Maltaannon
18. Feb, 2009
Dude! It’s in the tutorial!
Daluz
19. Feb, 2009
When you selected the 3 layers and join then all you do that by creating a pre-compose?
Maltaannon
19. Feb, 2009
I’m not sure what you are asking about. There are no precomps in this tutorial. If you didn’t get something just watch it again, or rephrase your question. Thanks.
deepak
01. Feb, 2010
thank u for all ur help, ppl like u make this world smile a lil more, i learned everything from the web when it comes to AE, and uy site is a blessing.
i read somewhere about the technicolor / 3 and 2 color strip, can v do this in after effects ?
thank u :)
Valerie
05. May, 2010
You just saved me a bunch of time! This preset is incredibly helpful – thanks!
-@deafcarr0t
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