From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
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Create line art from a photo
From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
Create line art from a photo
- [Instructor] Some effects allow you to create patterns from the contents of a photo. The CC Plastic effect allows you to create and stylize highlights based on the bright areas in your image. So if you're following along, we're in folder three in the chapter two folder in the Exercise Files. And inside of here what we're gonna do is take the dome.jpg file, and let's import this into After Effects. I like to drag the JPG file right into the Project panel, and then as we did earlier, to create a composition let's grab the JPG file from the Project panel and drag it right into the Composition panel. And now with our composition created showing in the Composition panel, and the composition showing in the Project panel, and the JPG file showing as a layer in the Timeline panel, let's come over to the Effects and Presets, and let's come in here and search for Plastic. So I can see that here under the Stylize group, CC Plastic. Let's click and drag and drop this right on top of the JPG…
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