From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
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Changing color match - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
Changing color match
- We already saw two methods of matching colors between the foreground and the background, or actually, two layers in your After Effects timeline. If you are working with me, I've opened up number three here, Changing Color Match. A common theme with the other methods was that the background layer remains more or less the same in terms of its luma and color values. But what if your background layer is constantly changing its appearance, say, the hue are changing, like over here? For this scenario, I have another trick in my sleeve, which I'm going to share with you in this movie. Okay, so this is our starting point. What we are actually going to do is, match the colors using the Color Link effect. Let's select the layer over here, go to the Effects and Presets, and start to type the word "Link." This should isolate one animation presets and Color Link effect. I'm going to double-click in order to apply it. The first thing that you need to do is actually select the source layer. We…
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