From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Using lighting effects

Using lighting effects

From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Using lighting effects

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Now besides adding lights that affect the scene, you may want to add a light that is creative. Beams of light that come through the trees or perhaps a light bulb that glows. There are many ways to do this including some cool third party filters, but I want to show you one that's built-in that works pretty well. Let's go here to the marching streets and we want to add a light but we're going to be very particular about it. What I want to do is add the light coming through the trees. Now let's come here to this adjustment layer and if you look carefully, you'll see it's got the Camera Lens Blur applied. I'm just going to turn that off for a second and we'll work with that in a moment. What I want to do though is put some light on the background. So, I've got another adjustment layer already added here and if we take a look at the effects, you'll see there's the CC Light Rays Filter. Now let me drag through and show you…

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