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Using Glow - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Using Glow
No matter what your role is in the world of After Effects, you'll probably find yourself using glow quite often. Glow does a lot of stuff. If you're used to something like Photoshop where glow creates an outer glow around an object, it's kind of like a very 1990s look, still used, with tact, at certain places or whatever, but this glow effect in After Effects does much more than this. We are going to look at a couple of different examples here. Our first example is this cool footage. I love this shot. I love the colors. I love this biker guy. He's like silhouetted, just beautiful footage. But what we want to do is exaggerate the beauty that's already here. So, we're going to do that with the Glow effect. Go to Effects and Presets, do a search for Glow, and you might have some animation presets that pop-up. But we're looking for the Glow that's in the Stylize category. So, I'm just going to grab Glow and drag and drop it onto my footage. Now glow is one of those effects that needs…
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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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