From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
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Add a dramatic lighting effect
From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
Add a dramatic lighting effect
- [Instructor] The light rays effect in After Effects allows us to add or enhance the lighting in a graphic or a photograph. So to begin let's go back to the exercise files and let's go inside of the 02 folder inside of the chapter one folder. And we're gonna take the steel_globe.psd file and import this into After Effects. And so you can do that by going to the file menu inside of After Effects and choosing import file or you can simply drag the Photoshop file from your operating system right into the project panel in After Effects. And now when you import a Photoshop file into After Effects you're going to have a couple of options. We talked about this in the introduction videos. So inside of the steel_globe.psd import options here what we're gonna do is change the import from footage to composition. And I'm gonna leave merge layer styles into footage checked and then click OK. So that's gonna create a composition for us called the_steel_globe showing up here, which matches the…
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