From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Why apply effects to slides? - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Why apply effects to slides?
- [Instructor] There's another case where the combination of blending modes and effects comes in really handy, and that's if you're trying to use an effect that creates some sort of lighting effect, like a lens flare. If you have the exercise files that came with this lesson, go ahead and open up the Project panel. If you can't see it, slide this bar along the top of its frame until you can see the word, Project. Now I'm going to open up Comp 07, Effects, Solids, Modes Starter. If you don't have the exercise files, just create a comp with any piece of footage that might make sense with say, a lens flare applied. Now here I have a night scene, and I've decided it might be interesting to include an additional lens flare off some light in this scene. Normally, you may think, well, to apply an effect like lens flare, I select my footage, search for lens flare and apply that directly to my footage. Now you have the lens flare. It does have a flare center, an effect point, you can drag…
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