Eyeon Fusion Master Class 106B Alternative Mask Inputs Video Lecture | Eyeon Fusion: A Practical Hands On Course - Professional Skills

in this tutorial we'll focus on some
alternative mask inputs - fusions
standard effect mask input the effect
mask is available on most tools the mask
input you're about to work with is only
available on a couple of tools let's
begin by adding a text plus tool to the
flow right click on the flow add tools
creator text plus with the text tool
selected go to the controls and enter
the word fusion in the text box within
the controls view the text tool in one
of the display views increase the size
of the text until encompasses most of
the image now switch to the text plus
tools shading tab scroll down and locate
the color control open the color wheel
and set the color of the text to yellow
add a glow effect this time let's add
the tool through fusions add tool script
press control spacebar this opens up the
add tool script and type in the letters
GTL o/w this filter is the tools and now
you can select the Enter key which adds
the glow tool to the composition and it
connects it to the selected tool which
in this case is a text plus tool if your
text plus tool was not selected prior to
adding the glow tool you'll have to
manually connect it to the glow drag the
glow effect node into the display view
alternatively press the number one key
which also loads the left viewport
take a look at the glow tools controls
and increase the glow size and glow
strength with the sliders until you see
something that looks like the glow that
you see here this applies a very strong
glow to our text what we would like to
do is use a rectangle mask to isolate
the glow to cover just one of the
letters have a look at the bottom of the
display view and note the toolbar that
you find here
there are several toolbar buttons that
are related to masks as you hover your
mouse over each one you can see what
kind of masks they're related to the
first is a polygon mask the second is a
b-spline the third a bitmap a paint mask
a wand a rectangle and ellipse click on
the rectangle mask button to
automatically add the mask to the
selected tool select the rectangle mask
and adjust its size and control and
position it covering the letter F view
the rectangle mask in the second
viewport this can be achieved by
selecting number two on the keyboard the
mask is applied to the glow after the
glow has been processed what that means
is that the glow renders across the
entire image and then the white portions
of the mask are used as a window through
which we can see the glow the remainder
of the mask the portion that is black we
see just the original input of the tool
however know how hard the edges of our
mask if we zoom into the image by
holding down the left and middle mouse
button and click dragging we can see how
hard the edges chopping away at our glow
if we pass through or bypass the
rectangle by using ctrl P on the
keyboard we see the original glow and
the result after the masking there is a
second type of mask available called a
pre mask a pre mask works by applying
the mask first and determining which
pixels will receive the effect note on
the glow tool there's a second free
input in gray
this is the glow mask disconnect the
rectangle mask from the effect mask or
the blue effect mask input and reconnect
it to the gray input on the glow tool
now notice the difference in the image
the glow is now applied to all the
pixels in the F and the glow can extend
beyond the edges of the rectangle mask
if necessary the rectangle mask no
longer chops off the glow fusion tools
that contain pre masks are listed in the
description below this concludes our
brief tutorial on alternative mask
inputs our next video will cover effect
masks in much more detail going into
specific details on polygon and b-spline
effect masks as always for the most
up-to-date descriptions and details on
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