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Create a water surface: Part 3

Create a water surface: Part 3

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Create a water surface: Part 3

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- [Instructor] This part three of the creating a water surface texture lesson. And all we have left to do is apply a color gradient to our texture. So, we'll be continuing with our nested 3D enabled composition layer. And in order to apply our gradient, we're going to use the gradient ramp effect, which we're going to apply to another solid. So inside of our main water composition, let's come up to the Layer menu. Let's come down to New. Let's choose Solid. Let's name this Gradient. We'll choose, make comp size, which is 900 by 450. Let's choose Okay. We'll see that showing up down in the Timeline Panel. Let's go back to our Effects & Presets. Let's clear out our search for glass. And let's come in here and search for the word gradient. So, I'll start typing g-r-a-d, down here under generate, I can see this effect here called gradient ramp. Let's click and drag and apply this to our gradient solid. And we'll immediately see a gradient created that goes from black to white. Now over in…

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