About Composite Brush

Composite Brush is a color selector and modifier plugin for After Effects, developed by Vranos. Users paint directly on footage: click‑and‑drag to assign positive colors and modifier‑click to assign negative colors, building a selection with a few strokes. The plugin offers transfer modes such as Hue, Saturation, Luminance, Normal and HSV, and alpha operations including Increase Alpha, Stencil Alpha and Silhouette Alpha. Restoration options return original RGB or RGBA within the selection. Matte types control edge falloff—Hard, Medium, Soft, Hair, and Soft 1.6—while refinement tools provide Precision, Matte High/Low Level, Blur, Choke and Invert. Compatibility spans After Effects CC 2019 through 2025, including recent M1‑Mac support.

Features

• Positive and negative color selection: click and drag to assign selected colors, modifier-click to assign unselected colors
• Transfer modes including Hue, Saturation, Luminance, Normal, and HSV to modify selected colors
• Alpha operations: Increase Alpha, Stencil Alpha, and Silhouette Alpha
• Restore Original RGB and Restore Original RGBA to bring the source image back inside a selection
• Matte types for edge falloff: Hard, Medium, Soft, Hair, and Soft 1.6
• Matte refinement with Precision, Matte High and Low Level, Matte Blur, Matte Choke, and Matte Invert
• Compatible with After Effects CC 2019 through 2025

Best for

After Effects artists who need stroke‑based color selection and quick matte creation for subjects like hair, glass, smoke, or fire.