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AE Basics 36: Pimping Your Text with Layer Styles

AE Basics 36: Pimping Your Text with Layer Styles
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AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 36: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how you can take ordinary looking text and with very little effort use some simple light-weight effects to make it look outstanding - which can make the difference between a low quality and high quality looking production.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis
Adobe After Effects
Lite Bite for After Effects: A Simple Light Wrap Effect

Lite Bite for After Effects: A Simple Light Wrap Effect
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"Lite Bites" are short no-frills tutorials giving quick answers for busy people. In this first AE Lite Bite tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to make a quick 'light wrap' effect for a keyed item so that the edge or alpha channel of the keyed item includes some of the pixels from the background element so that it starts to look as if the two items really belong together.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis
Boris FX
Enhance Time-Lapse Shots with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE

Enhance Time-Lapse Shots with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE
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In this Boris TV episode, Kevin P. McAuliffe uses BCC 8 AE's new Stage Light filter to improve upon the original clip by making it appear as though beams of light are emanating from the car's headlights. He then turns to BCC's Film Process and Film Glow filters to add a stylized Michael Bay-style film look to the shot.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe
Adobe After Effects
Blowing Flowers

Blowing Flowers
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In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Eran Stern demonstrates how to create flower trails using Trapcode Particular in this special holiday episode. You'll also work with the light emitter and use 3D layer to obscure particles.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Eran Stern
Adobe After Effects
Laser EyesLaser Eyes
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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern will show you how to create a fiery iris animation which has laser beams shooting from a girls eyes.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Eran Stern
Adobe After Effects
Crime and Chaos - Part 2Crime and Chaos - Part 2
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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern will show you how to project text on the floor using light transmission feature in After Effects.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Eran Stern
Adobe After Effects
Crime and Chaos - Part 1Crime and Chaos - Part 1
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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you a how to build a 3D scene using Photoshop CS3 Vanishing Point and re-light it inside After Effects.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Eran Stern
Adobe After Effects
Light Writing Part 2

Light Writing Part 2
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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the light writing effect covered in part 1, adding intense points of light and other improvement ideas.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Aharon Rabinowitz
Adobe After Effects Expressions
Animating Text Reflections with ExpressionsAnimating Text Reflections with Expressions

In this tutorial from Creative COW Contributing Editor Trent Armstrong, you'll see how to use Expressions to animate reflected light across text. You can get great results using only ingredients included free with AE, including track mattes and the AE Camera.

Tutorial
Trent Armstrong
Adobe After Effects
Making Light Disappear & Reappear Behind Objects Using ExpressionsMaking Light Disappear & Reappear Behind Objects Using Expressions

Learn how to save time and money using Expressions to create an otherwise difficult effect: animating the visibility of a lens flare as it passes behind objects -- including ones that aren't completely opaque.

Tutorial
Trent Armstrong
Adobe After Effects basics
Learning Basic AE Tips while Creating a Genie and Lamp: Part 3

Learning Basic AE Tips while Creating a Genie and Lamp: Part 3

In this tutorial, CreativeCOW Contributing Editor Joe Chao finishes up his Genie in a lamp series by adding a light stream and a few other final lighting effects.

Tutorial
Joe Chao
Adobe After Effects basics
Learning Basic Lighting Effects: Part 2

Learning Basic Lighting Effects: Part 2

In this tutorial, CreativeCOW Contributing Editor Joe Chao demonstrates creating some light effects. This is part two of Joes Genie in a Lamp series.

Tutorial
Joe Chao
Adobe After Effects
Creating a Light Saber

Creating a Light Saber
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In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW.net you will learn how to create a light saber. Surprisingly enough, this is something that is still being asked about in the Adobe After Effects forum.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Kramer
Adobe After Effects basics
Simulated Lighting

Simulated Lighting
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In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW.net you will learn how to add simulated light to a scene using Adobe After Effects.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Kramer
Adobe After Effects basics
Creating Light Streaks

Creating Light Streaks
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In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW.net you will learn how to create light streaks as seen in the new Nano iPod commercial using Adobe After Effects.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Kramer
Adobe After Effects
Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5

Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5

In this article, CreativeCOW leader, Aharon Rabinowitz takes thorough look at Red Giant Software's Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5.

Review
Aharon Rabinowitz
Adobe After Effects basics
Create 3D Reflections

Create 3D Reflections
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In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW.net you will learn how to create ray traced light reflections inside of Adobe After Effects.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Kramer
Adobe After Effects
How To Use Light Spill for Better Composites Without Plug-ins

How To Use Light Spill for Better Composites Without Plug-ins

The key to a good composite is successful integration into the background image. Sometimes you may have a very bright background or be keying from a DV camera, which nearly always results in imperfections because of the choke or screen blur effects that are necessary to achieve good edges. Light wrap, or light spill, is a very handy in these situations. In this tutorial, John Starr Dewar demonstrates an easy way to achieve light spill with a little bit of pre-composing.

Tutorial
John Starr Dewar
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