From the course: After Effects for Photography
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Add a sunset
- [Instructor] So, here's a photograph of a lake where I was trying to get a picture of the sunset but I missed it by about 15 minutes. So, what we're going to do is add the sunset back in using the light rays effect. So, to create this effect in After Effects, let's come to the File menu. Let's choose New. Choose New Project. So, in a new untitled project, let's go back to the File menu. Let's choose Import. Choose File, and let's choose the lake.jpg file from folder one of the chapter one folder of the exercise files. I'll keep the option checked here for Create Composition, then choose Open. So, that will import my jpg file. Put the jpg file in a Composition and I can see the jpg file now showing up as a layer on the timeline panel as well. So, now let's go over to our Effects and Presets, in the top search area, let's come in here and search for the word rays, r, a, y, s. We're looking for CC Light Rays under the Generate group. So, now let's click and drag and drop this right on…
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