Mixing Advanced Gradient and Pickers
 
 
 

When the subject has a mixture of fine, wispy edges and hard, clean edges, use a mix of localized keys and advanced gradients. Pickers are better for the fine edge areas and advanced gradient is sometimes better for the hard edge areas. You can set the state of each vertex to advanced gradient (pickers off) or localized key (pickers on) mode.

NoteIn the GMask node, pickers are disabled when floating-point (OpenEXR) data as attached to the node as input.

To completely remove gradient (for hard edges):

  1. Select the mask vertices in the area of the mask border where you want to remove the gradient.
  2. Click any one softness vertex corresponding to one of the selected mask vertices (either an inner or outer vertex).

    All the corresponding inner or outer softness vertices are selected.

  3. From the Edit Mode box, select Scale.
  4. Click any one of the selected softness vertices and drag until the softness border is lined up with the mask border.
  5. Repeat for the second softness border (inner or outer).

To separate the softness border from the mask border:

  1. Click a mask vertex, and then drag to the right to move the softness vertex out.