Spot Focus
Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects
Recreate the Edge Softness filter as seen in Red Giant Software’s amazing plugin – Magic Bullet Looks. Animate your focus area, change it’s width and softness, and save it as a preset for later use. Quick and easy.
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 third out of four tutorials that will be focused on recreating some of my favorite filters from a great color correction tool – Magic Bullet Looks.
In this very short tutorial you will see how to take the technique from the previous tutorial and modify it to create a circular spot focus instead of a linear swing tilt. Make sure to check out the Uses of the Circle tutorial. This technique comes directly from there. Enjoy!
Download: Spot Focus Preset (After Effects CS3)
20 Responses to “Spot Focus”
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PhSn
22. Jul, 2009
nice tut dude ;)
Eran Stern
22. Jul, 2009
worthy one – just for the clamp expression alone :)
Jerzy Drozda Jr
22. Jul, 2009
You should check out the preset. Even more expressions in there. Just thought to make it more universal.
Peter
24. Jul, 2009
Maltaannon you have a really big fan base, and I can also see the great Eran Stern and I read Aharon Rabinowitz also talking about your accomplishments. Great Job. Keep it up
Andrewe
22. Jul, 2009
Ha! You did use the circle effect :P
Jerzy Drozda Jr
22. Jul, 2009
Yyyyyyyes Sir I did. Now try to figure out how I’ll do the Shutter Streak.
Andrew
23. Jul, 2009
Let’s see… fast blur (vertical only, lots and lots of it, + repeat edge pixels), and the same light sweep as last time. :) That should do it
Jerzy Drozda Jr
23. Jul, 2009
Try it and let me know on facebook fan page. You can even upload your results there.
Tommy
23. Jul, 2009
great tut. thnx! something i will use pretty often…
Anthony
24. Jul, 2009
This is really cool!
VinhSon
26. Jul, 2009
Excuse me, great video tutorial, I’ve been looking for ages for something like this, may I ask what screen recorder you are using? Email me if you can :)
Thanks, keep up the great work!
Manuel
31. Jul, 2009
Thanks a lot Jerzy, this looks great and ain’t that difficult to accomplish, I’ll post in your facebook page my results! Greetings from Argentina!
spyvspy aeon
18. Aug, 2009
Really great, loved the simplicity, thanks a lot for sharing.
archa
25. Sep, 2009
i didnt see the project file with stuff. There’s not here, is it?
gantico
07. Oct, 2009
Hi Maltaannon,
your tutorial shows (in a very smart and inspiring way) how to get a quick effect with a very fast rendering, but the result could be even more interesting using Lens Blur.
Fast blur faded in this way has a kind of “soft focus” collateral effect, because the blurred part of the image is progressively fading in opacity but not in the radius of blurriness.
To simulate a real lens behavior, giving a more realistic depth of field, Lens Blur filter is really amazing. It doesn’t fade opacity but it reduces progressively (you just need to create a proper map) the radius of the blurriness.
Unfortunately it’s quite processor intensive…
You might consider to create a follow-up tutorial with Lens Blur option. I’m sure that if you do it, you will invent another of your cool tips&tricks (don’t tell me that you can do it with just one layer, without a separate depth of field map layer!!!)
Keep on rocking with your site!!!
Cheers from Italy.
:-)
Klas
29. Nov, 2009
Great tutorial, very uesful.
Yeah using the LensBlur created really nice results aswell, but was render heavy. Thanks for the tip.
пapaзит
12. Dec, 2009
+1 к предыдущему комментарию :)
ali
22. Dec, 2009
thx man for sharing
Becham
27. Dec, 2009
И как это автору не жалко столько времени на написание статей тратить, мы конечно очень благодарны, но вот я лично на такой альтруизм не способен :)
vindey
28. Dec, 2009
useful!
i like it!
the lenburs created a nice work!