The Edge Is Everything: How Masking Actually Works in Professional Compositing

The Edge Is Everything: How Masking Actually Works in Professional Compositing I once spent four days on a single strand of hair. Not because the client asked me to. Not because anyone would zoom in that far. I spent four days on it because I could see the halo, a thin ribbon of the original background bleeding through the subject’s loose curls, and I knew that my eye would find it every time the poster went up.