From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Overview of blending modes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Overview of blending modes
- [Instructor] In the next few movies, we're going to play around with blending modes. Sometimes referred to as blend modes or transfer modes, they are the secret sauce that make a motion graphics composite look much more rich and interesting than a typical opacity mix between layers. If you have the exercise files that come with this lesson, go ahead and click Close All from the top of the comp panel. And open the comp 06-Blending Modes*starter. If you don't have access to these files, create a comp with two simple layers: one that's colorful, and one that has a lot of grayscale values in it. Stack the grayscale image on top of the color image. Now first let's compare what a typical opacity blend looks like. I'm going to click on this Muybridge sequence layer, this on top. Press T to reveal Opacity. And scrub its value. And you'll see that we have some intermediate mixes in values which are kind of okay, kind of interesting but maybe a but washed-out and doesn't really have a lot of…
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