From the course: After Effects for Photography
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Mix channels with the Channel Mixer
From the course: After Effects for Photography
Mix channels with the Channel Mixer
- [Instructor] In this example, we'll take a look at the channel mixer effect, which will allow us to make dramatic color changes to our photo and we'll also be using adjustment layers and masking tools to affect different areas of this photo. And, so, if you're following along with me, let's start with a new After Effects project, then go to the file menu, choose import, then file, and let's locate the file called haleakala.jpg, from folder two of the chapter two folder of the exercise files. So once you find that, let's come down and choose open, create a composition, which will give us our jpeg file down here in the timeline on its own layer. And then to set up our file so that we can use the channel mixer two different times, with two different masks, let's apply the effect to an adjustment layer. So let's go up to the layer menu, let's come down to new, come down and choose adjustment layer, and that will show down in the timeline panel here above the jpeg layer. So with the…
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