AE Classic Course: Extended Vignette Techniques (p

November 4, 2019, 07:01 PM

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In both video editing and motion graphics, the goal is to focus the viewer’s attention in a certain place – on an actor’s face, on a company’s logo, etc. It is known that we notice and “read” bright areas in an image before the dark areas. A classy, subtle but effective way to darken the areas that are less important and make the more important areas of the frame brighter by comparison is to overlay a “vignette” on the image.