Hello Fablers, and welcome back to another tutorial. In this one, we're going to talk about the Reveal effect.
In this simple scene, we have one JPEG image. We're going to select it, go to our top right here, go to the effects and type in reveal. Now, once we apply it, we start to see immediately what happens here.
Just a quick reminder, our background color is set to red. So what you're seeing here is the background being shown through our JPEG. Now with this layer selected, you'll notice we have a couple options here.
Inside of texture, you can choose all these different types of reveals. These are built in to our effect by default. They give quite a great array of options of how to reveal things on.
Let's take a look at the rest of the settings. Let's just choose brushes and wind for instance. Percentage is the slider from 0 to 100. This is showing purely the background. And if we go all the way to the right, you see how the image comes in. This is very similar to animating a luma matte in other packages. Obviously this can all be animated.
The next one is the softness. We'll see again, if you move it all the way to the left, that's a super hard edge, much more aggressive masking. Softness will make it much more blurred together and sort of a smooth transition in and out.
The scale here has to do with how much of this matches your actual image. More often than not, you'll probably want to keep this right around 100, just because then the scale of your reveal effect will match the scale of your artwork underneath.
Matching the texture ratio, what this does is that it actually matches the scaling of the applied object. So if we have a smaller image, we've got a 65 by a 50% scale on the actual layer. It gets applied to the reveal texture.
Lastly, invert will do exactly what the name suggests, whereas just flips it. So on the one hand you've got black and white being used to cut out this matte. If you invert it, you get the opposite effect.
Last but not least is our global opacity, which currently it seems to be malfunctioning, but it is there.
