EFX Keying-Alpha Free

Three free plugins from the full EFX Keying/Alpha Plugin Suite. These plugins are useful when keying or creating alpha mattes. Check out the full suite for the rest of the toolbox.

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Please note that these plugins are not compatible with CS6.

EFX Keying-Alpha Free

Version: 1.0.4 Sign up to be notified by email when a new version is posted

Adobe dropped Pixel Bender support in After Effects CS6 so this plugin will not work in CS6.

EFX Keying-Alpha Suite

These are free plugins from the EFX Keying/Alpha Plugin Suite.

EFX Alpha Select – lets you select pixels based on their opacity value.
EFX Despill – a simple despill filter that you tell which pixels you want it to despill and which you don’t want it to touch.
EFX Luma Select – lets you select pixels based on their luminosity.

Download the user guide/manual

Note: These plugins are included in the full suite so you don’t need to download them if you already own the suite.

Version History

1.0.4 – Fixed Alpha Select and Luma Select (Jan 2012)
1.0.2 – Fixed crashing issue with Alpha Select (Dec 2011)
1.0 – Initial release (Oct 2011)

Last updated October 27th, 2011
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Tags: Alpha, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, Despill, Keying, Pixel Bender, Utility

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About the author

EFX is the work of Filip Kaczorek. Filip has been a CG artist since 2000. After having gone through every position at a VFX studio, he is currently a Technical Director and a VFX supervisor at polish VFX house: ATM FX. His passion is everything that happens behind the curtains of 3D and compositing applications and likes to think that he has a very technical approach to compositing.

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EFX Keying-Alpha Plugin Suite
November 17, 2011

8 Comments

EFX (Reply to this comment)
December 13, 2011

OK,
found the problem – probably caused by AE update, because it certainly worked before
Redownload the plugins, it should be fine now.
EFX (Reply to this comment)
December 12, 2011

Strange.
Any error message? What language version of OS/AE do you have?
Do the other two crash as well?
Christian (Reply to this comment)
December 12, 2011

Hi, i am having a crash problem too, when i apply the alpha select to a layer it also crashes.
- EFX (Reply to this comment)
  December 12, 2011
  
  Hi,
  could you please say when you downloaded the plugins and what AE and OS you’re using?
  - christian (Reply to this comment)
    December 12, 2011
    
    Hi,
    
    i am using windows 7, cs5 .
bob (Reply to this comment)
November 30, 2011

this plugin crashed my AE CS5 the 1st 2x I tried to add it to a layer. I added the alpha effect and whammoo…crashed. uninstalled
- Lloyd Alvarez (Reply to this comment)
  November 30, 2011
  
  Sorry you had trouble with the plugin. We just updated it to 1.01 which should fix the crashing problem. Are you running Mac or Windows?

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