Classic Course: Radial Blurs

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

May 6, 2019

After a break for NAB where you got to learn about all the cool new features in After Effects...

Classic Course: Channel Blur

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

March 25, 2019

To wrap up our exploration of ChOp (Channel Operation) effects, we’re going to look at a fun one that...

Classic Course: Channel Mixer

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

March 18, 2019

Continuing our exploration of a few choice Channel Operation effects, we look at the initially daunting Channel Mixer. In...

Classic Course: Channel Combiner – Transparency

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

March 11, 2019

One of the more confusing points on working with images is straight versus premultiplied alpha channels. With a straight...

Classic Course: Channel Combiner – Alternate Color Spaces

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

March 4, 2019

After Effects converts all of your source material into RGB color space, with a separate alpha channel. However, sometimes...

Classic Course: Channel Combiner – Overview

Written by Chris and Trish Meyer

February 25, 2019

“ChOps” – Channel Operations, where you process individual color channels of an image (including the alpha channel) – is considered...