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Using adjustment layers

Using adjustment layers - After Effects Tutorial

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Using adjustment layers

Another important technique to learn while working with effects is applying them to adjustment layers. If you have the Exercise Files that came with this lesson open up the comp 12-Adjustment Layers*starter. If you don't have access to the files go ahead and create your own composition with a few different elements. For example, I have text, a foreground element, and a background element. Say I wanted to apply an effect to help unify the composite of all these layers. How would you go about doing that? Well the obvious way is to apply the same effect to each of the layers, but that can have problems. I am going to pick an obvious effect just to show you what those problems are. Now search for Twirl. It's underneath the Distort category. I am going to apply to each of these layers individually. Here it is on my foreground, give a bit of twirl, apply it again to my text layer, give a little of twirl and then apply it to my background layer. Double-click and give a bit of a twirl. Now…

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