Joe’s Soft Gradient is something of a combination of Joe’s Soft Spot and Joe’s Gradients. The filter blends a blurred image into the original through a user defined gradient mask.
This plugin can also be used to create partial diffusion effects similar to those in Joe’s Diffuser. Experiment with different compositing options and blur amounts for a variety of effects.
Example Images
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| blur: | 20 |
| direction: | 0° |
| width: | 100 |
| fade length: | 100 |
| offset: | 0% |
| mode: | Normal 100% |
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| blur: | 20 |
| direction: | 90° |
| width: | 25 |
| fade length: | 50 |
| offset: | -50% |
| mode: | Normal, 100% |
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| blur: | 30 |
| direction: | 90° |
| width: | 80 |
| fade length: | 0 |
| offset: | -50% |
| invert: | Yes |
| mode: | Normal, 100% |
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| blur: | 25 |
| direction: | 180° |
| width: | 50 |
| fade length: | 150 |
| offset: | 0% |
| gaussian: | Yes |
| mode: | Overlay, 100% |
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| blur: | 5 |
| direction: | 270° |
| width: | 50 |
| fade length: | 100 |
| offset: | 0% |
| mode: | Screen, 100% |
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Joe’s Soft Effects
There are four different soft effects included with Joe’s Filters bringing a wide range of soft filtering to Final Cut Pro. Each plugin’s offers different shapes for more creative freedom.
Controls
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Blur Radius (0 - 250)
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Amount to blur the affected portion of the image.
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Direction
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The angle of the masking gradient. This setting works like an arrow, the gradient fade in the direction specified and extend perpendicularly across the selected angle.
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Width (0 - 500)
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Sets the thickness of the gradient origin.
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Because this filter uses the FXScript Highlight function, gradients actually fade from a center line out to both directions. Width describes the thickness of the center line of the highlight gradient. This might affect results with large negative offset settings.
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Fade Length (0-300%)
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Sets the length of the gradient relative to the image size.
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Offset (-100 - 100%)
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This setting moves the gradient origin in towards or out from the center of the image.
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Gaussian
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Causes the gradient to use a gaussian falloff instead of a linear falloff for more naturalistic effects.
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Invert
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Reverses the affected area by inverting the mask.
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Mode, Opacity
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Composite controls to specify how to apply the blurred image back onto the original.
Several of the controls in this filter are identical to those in Joe’s Gradients.
Feeds