After Effects Classic Course: Colorama 1 – Overview
The last few posts have been about both the corrective and creative uses of color manipulation. Now it’s time...
After Effects Classic Course: Color Balance 2 – Creative
In the previous post, we showed how to perform traditional color correction duties using the Color Balance effect. In...
After Effects Classic Course: Color Balance 1 – Corrective
The Color Balance effect provides an easy yet powerful way to color-correct an image without diving into a full-blown...
After Effects Classic Course: Hue/Saturation vs. Color Balance HLS
In the previous post, we focused on the Hue/Saturation effect – but at the end, we briefly mentioned the Color...
After Effects Classic Course: Hue Saturation Tips
After that run of movies on blur effects, now we’re going to turn our attention to color, starting with...
Classic Course: Lens Blur
Continuing our look at effects that take advantage of “blur maps”, the two movies below focus on Lens Blur....
Classic Course: Compound Blur
An important concept in After Effects is the idea of a “blur map”: a layer that tells you how...
Classic Course: Compound Effects
The next couple of blur effects we want to show you look at the contents of a second layer...
Classic Course: Smart Blur
Smart Blur – along with Bilateral Blur, which we discussed back in January – was originally created to help blur...
Classic Course: Directional Blur
After Effects has long supported the ability to calculate motion blur of layers animated inside AE. However, that could...