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Create light wrap

Create light wrap - After Effects Tutorial

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Create light wrap

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- [Instructor] In the attempt to better composite our Chroma key footage with our background, it's often desirable to mimic how light works in the context of an environment. In the real world, there's always going to be some light bouncing off the surroundings and coloring a subject in some manner. Working with Chroma key footage can be like working in a vacuum. So we can better integrate our keyed footage through the use of what's known as a light wrap. And here in this example, I've got a foreground subject and matched up with the background. But to help integrate the foreground with the background a little bit better. Let's go ahead and turn on this light wrap layer. And you can see the subtle difference that it adds, we're getting this color casting on his shoulders now, let's go and zoom in, and on his face. So I'll turn it on, turn it off, turn it on, turn it off. And you can see,…

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