From the course: Learning Analog Efex Pro

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Light Leaks

Light Leaks

I always find it a little bit amusing that when we're applying effects that simulate vintage cameras for example, we're essentially in many cases adding effects that represent things that we tried to avoid in the past. So, for example, we might add film grain when most photographers, at least many photographers that I know. Would want to avoid the appearance of film grain in most of their images. And light leaks are certainly an example of something that we very much try to avoid in film photography. Light leaks would occur from a variety of circumstances. A common cause for example would be the film door on the camera opening when the film had not yet been rolled back in to the cartridge for example. So, let's take a look at how we can simulate those sorts of light leaks for our images within analog effects pro. The process is very simple, I'll start off by clicking on, Light Leaks so that I can expand the set of controls that are available there and I'll also collapse the loop and…

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