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Custom lens flare, part 2: Glow

Custom lens flare, part 2: Glow - After Effects Tutorial

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Custom lens flare, part 2: Glow

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You could see how amazing and dynamic these optical flares really are, and what a difference that they make, and as you look through the assurance footage, now, you could see the flare, you could see these components, and watch what they're doing. Now, let's go ahead and keep going here. I'm going to click on Glow, to add a glow. Now, make sure that the Streak is not selected, make sure that Glow is selected. And then let's scroll up to the top And then let's scroll up to the top to change the glow. I'm going to increase the brightness a little bit to about 160 or so, to about 160 or so, and I'm going to stretch this so that it's about 70 in the x-axis and take it way down to about 14 on the y-axis. So it's kind of just like this nice horizontal glow, there. Now, we haven't set up dynamic triggering yet. So as we bring it to the edge, the streak goes away but the glow doesn't change. Now, as we scroll down here,…

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