Use the Selective Touch Up effect to blur and smooth areas in an image to remove imperfections or to decrease focus on the affected region. For example, you can smooth skin detail, film grain, and video noise without affecting other elements of your shot.
How to Use:
- Apply the Selective Touch Up effect to a shot in your video editor software.
- In the Selective Touch Up settings, expand the Mask dropdown.
- Mark the Show Mask and Enable
- Define the edges of the mask by inputting values into the Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right fields.
- Insert values for Curve, Feather, and Invert (Explained below).
- Clear the Show Mask
- Adjust the Smoothing value to adjust the strength of the smoothing effect.
- Adjust the Blend value to blend the smoothed image with the original image.
Controls:
- The Touch Up dropdown displays controls for adjusting the intensity of the effect.
- Smoothing adjusts how much smoothing to apply.
- Blend adjusts the opacity of the smoothing effect.
- The Mask dropdown displays controls for adjusting the shape of the affected region.
- Top Left displays the coordinates of the top left corner of the mask.
- Top Right displays the coordinates of the top right corner of the mask.
- Bottom Left displays the coordinates of the bottom left corner of the mask.
- Bottom Right displays the coordinates of the bottom right corner of the mask.
- Curve applies a rounded effect to the corners of the mask.
- Feather smooths out the edges of the mask.
- Invert reverses the behavior of affected/unaffected regions of the mask.
- Show Mask enables/disables the mask preview in the preview window.
- Enabled turns the effect on/off.