From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
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Creating shallow depth of field
From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
Creating shallow depth of field
- [Instructor] Depth of Field is one of the options in Particular that's actually enabled by default. Now, if we look at our composition here and grab our current time indicator and scroll through, you'll see I have an animated camera that's flying through a field of particles that are all offset in z-depth. I'd like to really accentuate this z-depth by having a shallow depth of field to my camera. So, if you double-click on the Camera Options here in layer one, it'll open up my camera settings. What we need to do is enable the Depth of Field. To really make is super apparent, we want to change the F-Stop setting to something really small, say like point five. Then, go ahead and click OK and now you can see I have a beautiful, shallow depth of field that's been enabled just by changing my camera settings. Now, if by chance your Particular isn't showing you this, it's possible that you've turned off that setting. Let me show you where that is. If you select layer two, our particle's…
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