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Here's more from the creator: 'Hey everyone, in this after effects tutorial I will show you how to create awesome typography animation and creative typo texts for your own purpose - your slideshows, intros, promos, lower thirds in After Effects without using any plugins. This technique is a cool way to make your videos or images looking even better and to impress your audience. Very easy to make, just follow my steps!'
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hello guys soft Tony here and welcome to
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this brand new After Effects tutorial in
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today's video we will be creating abstra
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gradient typography without using any
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third party plugins so hit that like And
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subscribe button and let's jump straight
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into after effects and see how to create
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this cool looking
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[Music]
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scene
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all right we're here in After Effects
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and first like always let's create new
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composition control or command plus and
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or this little icon this is going to be
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like usual final composition 9020 x 1080
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30 frames per seconds and duration 10
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seconds long now hit okay and let's
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create background go right click find
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here new solid layer I'll rename this
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one to background like usual 9020 by
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1080 hit okay and then go here in the
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effects and preset and find ramp effect
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if you can find effects and preset
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option just go window and you will find
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it here now type ramp effect drag and
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drop onto the background layer and here
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let's make a few adjustments for the
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start of the ramp go upper left corner
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end of the ramp lower right corner and
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for the first color let's type here this
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number
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1400 8B hit okay and for the second
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color let's type here 0 0 36 FF as you
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can see now we have two different shades
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of blue color hit okay and now let's uh
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close this effect control for now and
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let's create our text layer go here on
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this little icon again this is going to
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be
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text1 I will do here
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950 by 180 hit okay hit ctrl+ t or go in
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this little icon I will do random text
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typography like so make sure to align
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this text here on this align option
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Center it if you can't find aign option
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just go window and you will find it here
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just make sure when you're typing your
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text that your text is all the way on
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the boundaries of the composition for
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this one we can do maybe
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210 something like this align it again
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to the center and now let's import this
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text o1 here in the final composition
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okay now our next step is to precompose
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this text o01 go right click to
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precompose make sure to move all
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attributes into the new composition this
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is going to be Text o1 Plus elements and
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then hit okay open up this new
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composition and then hit control+ K to
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lower down the size of the composition
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instead of this full HD type here 500 by
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500 and then hit also okay let's add a
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few effects here on this text o01 go in
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effects and prit find ramp effect again
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drag and drop onto the composition for
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the start of the ramp go somewhere like
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here end of the ramp maybe to around
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here and for the first color let's find
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here maybe pinkish color or something
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like this okay and for the second color
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let's do maybe this type of blue color
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now hit okay and go here in the effects
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and pres it again find motion tile
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effect okay drag and drop onto the
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composition and for the output width and
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output height type here
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800 okay let's add our next next effect
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this is going to be drop shadow okay
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drag and drop onto the composition and
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for the softness just type here five we
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have already added three effects now
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let's add our next effect this is going
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to be wave warp effect okay Dragon drop
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here also on the composition and for the
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wave height let's type here 100 and wave
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width
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1,000 something like this for the wave
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speed instead of one type here 0.5 okay
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and now it's time to add next effect
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find turbulent displays drag and drop
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here on the text o01 and for the amount
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let's type here 100 size
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350 and for the final effect let's add
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also CC lens effect drag and drop onto
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the composition again and for the size
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maybe to leave it to around 50 and for
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the second option I will type minus 200
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and as you can can see now we have this
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cool wavy movement of our typography
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text what you can do next is to scale it
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down just a bit maybe to around 90% or
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95 according your needs okay now let's
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go here in the final composition I will
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close this text o01 plus elements and
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let's add a few effects on this text o01
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plus elements composition go here in the
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fact and pres find motion tile again
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drag and drop onto the composition and
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here let's also type 800 by 800 for the
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output width and height okay now let's
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add our next effect this is going to be
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drop shadow also drag and drop onto the
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text o1 plus elements and for the
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distance let's type here maybe around 20
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and for the softness go to around 200
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okay now let's add glow effect okay drag
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and drop also on the composition and for
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the glow threshold let's type here 95
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glow radius 80 5 and glow intensity
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let's leave it to one okay now let's
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animate our textto 1 plus elements
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composition go here at zero frames hit
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P4 position set up the first key frame
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then go to around 10 seconds and for the
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X parameter instead of 960 type here
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1,500 and now when we hit zero in the
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finals we have also this cool movement
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of our shapes now let's create Shadows
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for this text1 Plus elements hit
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control+ D I will rename this one to
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Text o1 Plus elements Shadow something
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like this okay and then go here in
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effects and preset find here F effect
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okay drag and drop onto the shadow
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composition make sure to delete also
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this glow effect for the color let's
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find here black color and also find next
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effect CC radial fast blur also drag and
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drop onto the shadow composition and for
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the Center let's go maybe upper left
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corner something like this and for the
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amount I will do to around 90 you can
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also play around here with the options
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for me it's okay to leave it to around
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90% also what you can do is to hit t on
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your keyboard for opacity and you can
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lower down strength of this Shadows
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according your needs I will do it to
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around
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70% and now when we hit zero this is
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looking really awesome and creative in
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in the finals now let's create also
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another duplicate of this text o1 plus
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elements I will close this effect
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control for now let's hit control+ D and
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then move this one all the way below
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this Shadow composition this is going to
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be Text o1 Plus elements background hit
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P4 position make sure to hit on this
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little stopwatch to unselect all of this
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those key frames and hit again P for
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position and find here 3D options if if
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you can find 3D options just hit here
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toggle switches and modes and turn on 3D
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option for this text o1 plus elements
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background and now let's type for the
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set parameter Min -
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1375 okay and as you can see this
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already is looking cool also hit here
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again on these toggle switches and modes
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and find blending mode overlay awesome
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hit control+ D once again and this is
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looking cool now what we can do for the
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final step is to duplicate this
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background solid layer once hit control+
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D and then find here pen tool make sure
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that the second background layer is
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selected and let's now draw a mask
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something like this okay hit here on
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this background solid layer again hit F3
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and let's change start color to maybe
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this pinkish color here on this uh
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background solid layer hit okay and also
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what we can do hit M for mask double m
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and for the mask feather lets do
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250 and now in our finals when we hit
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zero our scene is looking really cool
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really interesting and really really
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awesome okay what we can do also is to
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create adjustment layer go right click
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find here new adjustment layer this is
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going to be light sweep okay you can
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also go here in the fact and present it
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find light sweep effect Dragon drop onto
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the adjustment layer of course and here
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you can play around if you want to
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emphasize parts of this final
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composition I will do for the edge
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intensity and Edge thickness zero okay
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maybe for the direction type here 61
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okay for the width let's do maybe to
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around 200 and for the sweep intensity
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let's do around 10 also for the center
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do some
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like this you can play around with the
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options until you're satisfied with your
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final results just play around as I
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already mentioned everything here is
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pretty much up to you you can also add
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vignette go right click find here new
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adjustment layer also this is going to
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be winette okay go in the facts and pres
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it find winette effect drag and drop
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onto the adjustment layer and basically
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here you can play around with the darker
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shades with the edges and everything
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else hit zero on your keyboard and for
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me this is looking great and you can
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render out this awesome project what you
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can do also is to add turbulent displays
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on shapes if you want to make a further
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adjustments but for me this is looking
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cool all right guys that was everything
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bye-bye