17 Advanced Effects and FrameFlex

There are so many great effects inside the Effect Palette that it’s hard to choose which ones to feature in this chapter. I’ve picked several of the ones my students and I greatly appreciate, mostly because they allow us to hide our mistakes. Also, if you master these, you can figure out how to use the hundreds of other effects on your own.

The Paint Effect

There are innumerable ways that you can use this effect, but we’ll explore a couple of the most useful ones.

Obstruction

Say you interviewed a man who doesn’t want to be identified on camera. You promised to disguise his features so that even his mother wouldn’t recognize him. The steps are fairly simple.

  1. From the Effect Palette, drag the Paint Effect (Image ...

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