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Colorizing black-and-white objects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Colorizing black-and-white objects
As we saw earlier in Chapter 6, there is lot of times like with Fractal Noise and a few other effects where you have a grayscale pattern, and you need to add some color to it. So, I kind of want to give you a whiz bang tour through several ways to do that, and I am going to kind of feel like Wizard of Oz here because you've had the "power to colorize" all along. Well, let's first start with Hue/ Saturation and apply that to-- what do we have here? And basically, this is Cell Pattern effect what you're seeing here. This is very much like Fractal Noise. We have the Evolution property. You can click and drag on this and that brings these cells to life, kind of like what we saw with Fractal Noise, again via similar properties. And with the Hue/Saturation, if we play with Master Hue and Saturation, there aren't any hues here. There is no saturation here so it won't have much of an effect. So, we need to do is check the Colorize box down at the bottom and that allows us to add one color…
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