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Add a rippled reflection, part 2

Add a rippled reflection, part 2

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Add a rippled reflection, part 2

[Instructor] This is part two of the two part example on creating a rippled reflection in a photograph. So if you're following along, we completed adding a solid to our composition, making it a 3D layer, and wrapping it into a nested composition. So now we'll continue by adding an effect to the reflection layer, and using this nested composition as a map for the displacement. So the first thing we'll do inside of our After Effects file is hide the fractal comp that we created and we'll just use the little eyeball over here to hide this. Next, let's come down and select the reflection layer, then let's go back to the Effects and Presets, and let's come in here and search for the word displacement. So I'll just type in displace, so here under Distort, we'll see Displacement Map. Now we want to apply this to the reflection layer. So since the reflection layer is selected we can come in here and simply double-click. And that will apply this effect to the reflection layer. You could also…

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