Hey everyone!
This is John Dickinson from motionworks.net back with another Sapphire tip for you.
In this quick tip, we're going to take a look at a couple of examples of how the built-in
Mocha Tracker can help you pinpoint exactly where you want your Sapphire effects to be
applied to a shot.
And the first example is using Sapphire beauty.
I'll just switch Sapphire beauty on.
You can see I've already applied it to the layer and notice when I turn it on that the
eyes, and the eyebrows, and the nostrils, and the lips, and the hand, and the hair are
all unaffected that's because I'm using Mocha.
And if I click on show Mocha only, there's the matte that I created inside of Mocha.
So I'm going to click edit Mocha and we'll go and take a look.
So we have one for face, I have one for the hand, and I have one for the lips.
If I click on face and we have a look at the layer matte, you can see there's my matte.
Now I'm thinking I might want to do something with the lips a little bit later.
So I'm actually going to save this track by choosing file, export project and name this one
lips and save.
Now back in After Effects.
I'm just going to uncheck show Mocha only.
I just want to make a few adjustments to the S-beauty effect.
You can see everything's looking really quite soft, probably a little bit too soft, and
one of my favorite features is pore size.
If I just increase the pore size slightly that can make the skin look a little bit more
natural.
It's really easy to be heavy-handed with the blur and that can really make the skin look
unnatural but adjusting things like pore size can really help.
I could also probably drop the saturation slightly-- the skin is quite saturated.
And this doesn't need any glow so I'll take glow brightness right down to zero.
That looks a bit more natural now.
Okay, so before I have a look at the lips, I just want to attack these pimples and to
do that we can use Sapphire blur.
And once again, I already have it applied.
So let me just turn that on and here, I've got two masks; one for this upper spot and
one for the lower spot-- and you can see I've just tracked those.
Super easy to track using Mocha.
Now what might be also nice is to create a mask for these two freckles so I might just
quickly do that now.
Just build that mask very quickly.
Select everything and just pull the handles in just to round that out.
Now rather than tracking that again, I can actually link it to a track I've already done.
So I'll name this one freckles and you can see here under link to track, I can choose
another layer so I'm going to choose upper spot.
Now if I just drag through, you can see that's linked to the other track and I haven't had
to do any extra work and there you can see that's removed all of those spots.
It's looking a little bit too soft so you can come in and we can adjust the settings
slightly.
Mixed with source is often a good one in this case.
You don't want it to be so flat that the pores completely disappear but you don't want it
to be too little that you see the spot maybe something like that.
Okay, so we've got the spots fixed up.
Now let's look at the lips.
Now for this, I want to use S-gamma so I'm going to apply the S-gamma effect and adjust
the gamma red just bring that up and you can see it's affecting the entire shot at the
moment.
And also, offset the darks just bring that down something like that.
I can always adjust this a bit more in a moment.
So now, once again I'm going to click on edit Mocha and remember we saved that track before.
So now I'm going to load the track by clicking on open a project, and double click, and that's
loaded that in.
So I haven't had to re-track that which is really nice.
You can do all of the work with one effect and you can bring that track in for other
effects.
Now I don't need the hand or the face.
I just need the lips and you see when I click on show matte, we don't actually see the matte
that's because I had this setting here said to subtract layer.
Now I have to choose add layer.
Just have a look, if I right click again, you can see the opposite is subtract layer,
which is what I wanted when I was doing the beauty on the face because I didn't want to
affect the lips.
And now we're just affecting the lips.
We are effecting obviously the teeth, and the tongue, and a little bit of the finger,
and the lipstick but I could just as easily go in and create another couple of small masks
just to isolate this area.
And if I blur the Mocha slightly, most of it won't be a problem.
It probably does come down and just adjust the opposite darks a bit-- we don't want too
much.
Okay, so you can see how I can very quickly and easily use Mocha to isolate the color
correction as well.
So, as you can see the integrated Mocha Tracker enables you to better target Sapphire effects,
which makes them even more effective.
So thanks for watching and be sure to click on the link above to download a free trial
of Sapphire for After Effects and check out the Mocha Tracker integrated into Sapphire
for yourself.
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For now, this is John Dickinson from motionworks.net.
Have fun and I'll see you in another tip.