From the course: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Adding glow

- So, timing is important, but so does the look of the text. And there's still some work we can do to make it look even more integrated with the super bright colors that we are seeing in the video. So, just for the sake of catching up and summarizing what we've managed to achieve during the last few movies, I'm going to press on the accent grave key. Make sure that our composition window is full frame, and I'm just going to long preview the result. So, we have this nice explosion or shattering effect, all thanks to the CC pixel polly effect, along with the nice intro animation of blur and a little bit of opacity to our text. And if we're going to take a closer look, let's just zoom in and see those tiny pieces together, we can see that this is very synthetic. So, in order to help it integrate a little bit better, we can select the text and then go to the effect menu and from the stylize category, we can add the glow effect. Now, the problem with this glow is that it's doing a little…

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