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.
- To convert a section of a mask from advanced
gradient to pickers, select one or more vertices with no pickers
and enable the Picker button. Adjust the pickers as needed.
- To convert a section of a mask from pickers
to advanced gradient, select one or more vertices with pickers and
disable the Picker button.
- To toggle selected vertices between the
two modes, use the 0 (zero)
hotkey.
To completely remove gradient (for hard edges):
- Select the mask vertices in the area
of the mask border where you want to remove the gradient.
- 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.
- From the Edit Mode box, select Scale.
- Click any one of the selected softness
vertices and drag until the softness border is lined up with the
mask border.
- Repeat for the second softness border
(inner or outer).
To
separate the softness border from the mask border:
- Click a mask vertex, and then drag to
the right to move the softness vertex out.
