Changelog

Layer Comp on fulfordstudio.com. The first public release.

Selections

• Lasso, polygonal lasso, rectangle and ellipse marquee, as live Mask shapes you can edit point by point.
• Magic wand, selection brush and Quick Selection, which grows a rough stroke out to the object's edges and learns from your subtract strokes.
• Live Color Range and Select Object (exact, from Cryptomatte) selections that follow the plate on every frame.
• Refine Edge for hair and foliage, and Pixels to Shapes to turn a pixel selection into editable shapes.
• Use Selection as Factor on any compositor node, saved selections with Grow, Feather and Invert, and handles on the image for mask, crop and corner-pin nodes.
• Wand selections are flagged when the image under them changes, and Re-evaluate replays the clicks.

Layers

• A layer stack over the render: image, fill, group, adjustment, Remove and Clone layers, with blend modes, opacity, clipping, masks, painted masks and colour labels.
• Place on Ground and Place on Surface through the scene camera, re-placed when the camera moves.
• Behind Objects from the Depth pass, haze and focus per layer, and Depth of Field and Fog layers that work by distance.
• Contact, cast and From Light shadows, and floor reflections.
• Along Surface cloning in perspective.
• Match Color, Choke, Light Wrap and Grain.
• Keyframed layers, layer comps, batch renders, copying to other scenes, and Export Layers to PSD or multilayer EXR.