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Adding texture

Adding texture - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding texture

- I've included with the exercise files a small bonus, some hand-painted textures that I created a few years back. Now what's cool about this is these textures can be blended into the image to create a useful overlay. You'll find these in the Textures folder, and you'll see a wide range. By layering these on top of the image, we can introduce an organic component that really changes the feeling of the image itself. Now you can keep working with the previous movie or open up this next one here. And we're going to go a step further by adding in some textures. These have already been brought into the project, but you can also check these out in the exercise files, and these are some textures that I've given you, both color and black-and-white. These are excellent for adding a bit more of an organic look. So, as you preview these, find one that gives you sort of the aged look that you want and then drop it in on top. If you…

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