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Applying effects

Applying effects

And now we get to look at effects. I love the effects that ship with After Effects. It ships with over 200 effects. Actually, we did a title a few years back for lynda.com covering every single effect in After Effects. That is how much I love effects. Effects do everything from correcting color, as you could see here in Effects & Presets panel, to distorting layers and blurring and sharpening. There are specialty filters. There's even like Audio adjustments that could happen, very cool stuff. Now, what we want to do here is apply an effect that will allow us to have these little dots and the stems of the flowers kind of animate on in a really cool way. As you could see from our original example video here, if I scrub this when the petals and stems come on, they kind of rotate in this really cool way. And this would probably take you a long time to do manually, but with the effect that we are going to use, it's so quick and easy. It's almost laughable. So, go to the Effects & Presets…

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