Create a light To create a light: Do either of the following: Choose Layer > New > Light. Press Shift-Option-Command-L (Mac) or Shift-Alt-Ctrl-L (Windows)....

Get illuminated with lighting effects Excerpted from “Adobe After Effects 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide” by Anthony Bolante. In Adobe® After Effects® 6.5, you can...

Article Focus:Pan and Zoom. In this tutorial, Matt Dallos will cover the preparation of your images, the basic theory behind making them move, real world examples,...

CHANGE YOUR RAMP Go back into your ramp composition and change the ramp shape from linear ramp to radial ramp: In...

BRING IN THE GRADIENT LAYER From your Project Window, drag the ramp composition into your shatter composition. Turn off the visibility...

Now that we have applied the effect, we will adjust the effect's settings, as well as use our ramp composition as a gradient layer to customize our effect a little...

SET UP THE SHATTER COMP We will nest both the ramp and the text compositions in a new composition: Make a new...

Article Focus:Now that Shatter is included in the filter set of After Effects 5.5, many users are asking how to use this effect. In this tutorial, Ben Unguren demonstrates a...

Article Focus:One of the problems that may plague animators is that their animation is too perfect ~ too clean. In this article, Jim Tierney demonstrates how...

1. Create New Document 200x200px with white background.2. Set Foreground Color to #007A29, Background Color to #000000 and apply Filter>Render>Clouds: 3. Switch Background Color to Foregroung and go to Filter>Texture>Stained...

Time Displacement Like Displacement Mapping, Time Displacement uses the values of one image to manipulate the pixels of another image. Unlike Displacement Mapping, Time Displacement uses the values...

Article Focus:Two of the less well known features of After Effects' Production Bundle are the Time Displacement Filter and the Displacement Filter. Both use the values of one image...