From the course: After Effects for Photography
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Double exposure portrait
- [Instructor] In this example, we'll use the magnify effect to create a double exposure effect on a portrait. And before I continue, I'd like to thank DW stock team for giving me written permission to include this watermarked image in the course. So, back in After Effects to begin, let's go to the file menu and create a new project. Then let's go back to the file menu, let's come down and choose import, choose file, and let's locate the portrait.jpg file which is in folder six of the chapter one folder of the exercise files. And once you've located the file, make sure to uncheck create composition. We want to create our own composition size. Let's click open. So now we have a jpeg file imported into the project panel. We have no compositions created and no layers in the timeline panel. Now, the reason we wanted to do this is because we're going to be magnifying this image and we want to make sure that we don't magnify larger than the original size. So the size here is 3600 by 2400…
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