From the course: After Effects Guru: Using Generator Effects
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Blending composites with Eyedropper Fill - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Using Generator Effects
Blending composites with Eyedropper Fill
- The Eyedropper Fill effect is yet another way to blend multiple layers and objects together in After Effects, using color or alpha channel values. So if we look at our project and scrub through the timeline, you can see I've got 2D type with this lightning animated over top of it, and its actually got a whole bunch of layers that's created this overall look. Now, if you ever want to blend multiple layers together, but you wanna use another piece of footage to actually help determine the colors of all of those layers, you can use the Eyedropper Fill effect. So, I'm gonna go to my project panel here, and I'll double click in the project panel, and I want you to navigate to your exercise files. In there we have an assets folder, and if we open the assets folder, in the 03 Stills folder, I want you to click on the Flower_Table.JPG and import that into your project. Let's drag that jpg and drop it to the top of the layer hierarchy. And you can see here, it's just a photograph of a table…
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