![]() However, if you want to get stunning light wraps, take a look at some of our favorite plugins to create realistic light wraps: ![]() Many high-end keying applications integrate light wrapping, including keylight software shipped with Adobe After Effects. In this After Effects video tutorial, AE expert Mikey Borup shows us how to create a Light Wrap with just a few effects like Set Matte, Fast and Channel Blur: The following tutorials illustrate some of the ways to create a light wrap. ![]() under inaccurate lighting) it may be better to use a layer other than the background layer for the light wrap, but it all depends on your scene.Īlthough Light Wrapping is a pretty simple concept, there are seemingly infinite ways to create a good Light Wrap. Light wrapping is used to simulate the ambient light that is supposed to cast light on your subject in the scene. The light wrapping layer uses only the outlines of the encoded material to blur a small part of the background. By adding a feathered part of the background to the edges of the encoded subject, you can make your scene look more like a composition than a series of layers.Īs you can see, light wrapping is a very subtle effect that, when well done, is not noticed by your audience. Light wrapping works by softening the hard edges that appear when you key in a green screen film. But as in photography, automatic wrapping doesn’t always mean it’s better. Often, when using keying software, a light wrapping is automatically preformed. ![]() If exaggerated, it can make your footage look soft and incredible. When done correctly, Light Wrapping can really help to add realism to your scene. Light Wrapping is a compositing technique designed to fuse the green of the screen with a background plate.
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