Quincy Gardner shares a quick tip for using a high pass filter effect that will allow you to selectively sharpen areas of your shot in After Effects. Photoshop has a high pass filter readily available, but there is nothing similar in Ae, however that doesn’t stop you from being able to make your own with some of Ae’s available tools.
[blockquote source=”Quincy Gardner – AETuts.com”]In After Effects, I will show you how to use high pass sharpening just like in Photoshop[/blockquote]This is a simple technique, but very helpful if you don’t want to move masks around in your footage to create a selective sharpening effect.
The High Pass Filter effect in After Effects is handily re-created by using a duplicate of the footage, tinted to black and white, and treated with the Find Edges Effect.
This can then be used as a mask to determine which sections of the underlying image will be sharpened. Check out the tutorial for Creating a High Pass Sharpening in After Effects here
