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jamesd29127286
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October 8, 2023
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Feathered knock out layer

  • October 8, 2023
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Hi

I have a black rectangle covering my entire canvas and have placed a circle in the middle and used this with blending options to knock out a circular hole in the rectangle resulting in a a black rectangle with a big transparent circle shape in the centre.  Im going to use it as a frame in Premiere. This looks ok for what i want but i would really like the circle shape to be feathered so that it has soft edges.  Is thia possible and how would i go about it? Thanks very much.  james 

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Correct answer Jeff Arola

What tool did you use to draw the circle?

 

If you used, for example, the Ellipse Tool then in the Properties panel after clicking on Masks beside Shape Properties you can adjust the Feather slider.

 

Or if you used the Elliptical Marquee tool and filled the circle, after doing the Knockout you could use a little Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur to slightly feather the edges.

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Jeff Arola
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Jeff ArolaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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October 8, 2023

What tool did you use to draw the circle?

 

If you used, for example, the Ellipse Tool then in the Properties panel after clicking on Masks beside Shape Properties you can adjust the Feather slider.

 

Or if you used the Elliptical Marquee tool and filled the circle, after doing the Knockout you could use a little Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur to slightly feather the edges.

    Bojan Živković11378569
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    Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
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    October 9, 2023

    Or Brush to paint circle with Hardness set to 60,70, 80%.

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      jamesd29127286Author
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      October 9, 2023

      Might try this later but your first suggestion worked the way i wanted it to.

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      grangeld31781223qmfv
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      October 8, 2023

      did you want it that way?

       

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      jamesd29127286Author
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      October 8, 2023

      Thank you for your reply. That's the idea but not quite so feathered. I would just like to take the hardness off the edge of the circle. Make it slightly feathered. 

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