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Creating and using lens flares - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Creating and using lens flares
One really common visual element that you see all over the place - it's really trendy, it actually was trending a long time ago, and it wasn't in trend, but now it's coming back in style again - is something called a Lens Flare. Let me show you what this looks like, and then we'll talk about it. My layers are pretty full right here, so instead of having a blank area in the Timeline - which is what I usually have - I was just going to go to like a blank spot to right-click, like right here. This works, right to the left of the layers name and icons. I'll just right-click here to get the pop-up menu, or we could say New > Solid there. I'm going to Make Comp Size, and I'm going to click and make sure the Color is black. You can tell that's pure black if the RGB values are 0, 0, 0. So, I'm going to go ahead and click OK and OK. I'm going to apply the Lens Flare effect from the Effects & Presets panel to this Black Solid layer. This, my friends, is a Lens Flare. You can see, basically…
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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