From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

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Customize a film look with Looks

Customize a film look with Looks

If I had to pick one third party effect that delivers the most instant gratification when it comes to color grating, it would definitely be magic bullet looks. But looks is more than about instant gratification. It's actually a really elegant tool set that, once you know about it, will teach you a little bit about photography and also really raise your game in terms of what you can do for color grading. To open it, I click on the Edit button. And that opens a whole UI of its own. So, in fact, there you saw a short preview of what I was trying on before. Let's bring that back. This Mexicali effect. It's pretty wild. It's beyond what I would probably ever design on my own, with some of the other tools in After Effects. And in fact, it's one of several in this category that could be viable. So if I'm not sure where I want to go with the shot, one thing I can do is pick a category, such as that one. And play through, almost like window shopping, the various presets. You see the name of…

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