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hello guys soft Tony here and welcome to
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this brand new After Effects tutorial
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where we will be creating ultramodern
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neon background you can use this
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technique in your own project so without
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wasting any more time let's
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[Music]
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begin all right we're here in After
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Effects and first like always like let's
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create a new composition control+n or
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this little icon this is going to be
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fine like usual of course you can type
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here your own text and for the width and
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height full HD 9020 x 10 80 30 frames
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per seconds duration 10 seconds long hit
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okay and now let's create solid layer go
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right click to create solid layer this
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is going to be fractal noise hit okay go
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here in the facts and pit if you can't
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find effects and pris it just go window
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and you will find it here now type
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fractal noise effect drag and drop onto
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the layer and here as always let's make
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a few adjustments for the fractal type
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instead of basic change here to subscale
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later in every moment if you want you
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can change this option but for now it's
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okay for noise type I will do instead of
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soft linear block and for the contrast
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instead of 100 type here 150 brightness
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minus 30 okay complexity lower down to
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one and now let's also open up this
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transform option and for the scale let's
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do
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235 Now set up the playhead here on the
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Zero frames click on this rotation
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option to animate type here 45 okay and
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then go to around 10 seconds and type
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here zero also one thing what we can do
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is to animate the evolution option hold
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alt and then left click on your mouse
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and type here time asterisk 50 okay and
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now when we hit zero in the finals we
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have this cool looking scene on of the
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fractal noise our next step is to
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precompose the layer go right click find
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your precompose option this is going to
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be fractal o1 make sure to move all
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attributes into the new composition hit
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okay and now let's add our next effects
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for the first effect that we're going to
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add here is find edges effect drag and
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drop here on the composition select this
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invert option and then go here in the
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effect and PR it again find
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Triton like so or the high lights let's
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change here to maybe pink color
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something like this play around hit okay
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for the midtones let's change to San
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blue color something like this and then
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hit okay our next effect that we're
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going to use is glow effect Dragon drop
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here on the fractal and here you can
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play around with the options for the
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glow threshold I will do maybe around 70
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for the glow radius to around 200 and
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here you can play around also with the
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intensity but I will leave it to one now
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select this fractal o1 composition go
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here again right click precompose also
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make sure to move all attributes into
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the new composition this is going to be
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neon o1 hit okay now go again here in
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the facts and pres it and find glow
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effect drag and drop here on the new
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composition and basically you can play
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around with the option I will leave glow
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threshold to around 60 or 70% for the
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glow radius let's type to around 50 this
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is looking cool now close close this
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effect control 4 now and really
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important step is to duplicate here in
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the project window our neon one
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composition and fractal o1 hit control+
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D or go edit and then duplicate also for
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the fractal o1 hit control+ D now select
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this neon O2 composition move it here
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above our neon one composition Now open
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up this one select this fractal o1 find
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here fractal O2 hold alt on your
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keyboard and just drag and drop fractal
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O2 on the fractal o1 composition we're
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doing this because now we have new
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fractal noise here to play around with
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the option now select here fractal noise
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layer hit F3 on your keyboard and change
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here fractal type instead of subscale
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let's try turbulent smoth you can play
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around with the options okay now here in
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the final composition let's change
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blending modes from normal to screen if
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you can't find blending modes just hit
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here toggle switches and modes find here
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screen option hit t for opacity let's do
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to around 20 and now also let's add glow
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effect okay and our next effect that
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we're going to add on our neon O2
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composition is Triton effect move this
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one above the glow effect and let's
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change mid tones to maybe yellow color
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and now as you can see here in the
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finals we also have this yellowish neon
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here in our final final composition you
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can play around here basically with Clow
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radius intensity and also if you want
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with opacity just hit T maybe to around
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30 and this is looking really cool and
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really awesome here in our scene okay
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our next step is to add our first
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adjustment layer let's close this
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compositions for now just leave this
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final one go right click to create new
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adjustment layer this is going to be
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curve cves Okay go again here in the
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effects and pres it find curves effect
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drag and drop here in the scene okay and
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now you can lighten or darken scene
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according your needs something like this
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okay play around with the options and
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also now let's create solid layer go
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right click to create new solid okay
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this is going to be light o1 hit okay
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now select this light o1 solid layer go
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here here or hit Q on your keyboard to
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find this ellipse tool or hold left
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Mouse click find ellipse tool and then
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while this light o1 is selected hold
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contrl and shift on your keyboard and
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just draw a perfect circle like this
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while you're holding control and shift
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you can also hold space to move it up or
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down left or right okay now open up this
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mask option and for the mask feather
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let's type here 300 all so hit again
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here on the light o1 go in effect and
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pres it find fil effect drag and drop
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onto the light okay let's change here
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color to maybe pinkish hit okay hit T4
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opacity and let's do around 20% now hit
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V on your keyboard and just move this on
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the left or on the right side according
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your needs here in the final scene maybe
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for this one to do around 25 this is
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looking cool now let's hit hit control
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plus d to duplicate this light o1 move
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it on the opposite side and let's change
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field color to maybe this type of cyan
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color or darker blue according your
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needs hit okay hit t for opacity maybe
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to around 30% also hit M for mask
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instead of this 300 let's try maybe 400
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for this type of mask now when we hit
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zero as you can see we have also this
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cool pink and here opposite side light
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in the finals for the final step let's
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create another solid layer go right
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click to create a new solid layer this
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is going to be light O2 hit okay and
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then go here in effects and pres it find
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F effect again drag and drop onto the
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light O2 and change color to pure black
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color hit okay our next effect that
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we're going to add here is light race
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okay drag and drop onto the light O2
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here we will later readjust few settings
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and our next effect that we're going to
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use is caution BL drag and drop here on
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the light O2 solid layer and change
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blurriness to around
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50% okay now let's change blending modes
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instead of normal to add and here let's
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readjust light race options uncheck this
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color from source and change color here
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to maybe dark blue color like this hit
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okay and now as you can see you can play
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around with the light race options for
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the intensity let's try 200 radius to
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around maybe 30 or 40 play around for
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the VAR softness you can also play
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around here and you can also animate
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this uh Center if you want just move it
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on the left or on the right side but I
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will leave it to around here maybe hit
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T4 opacity to lower this down to around
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70% or according your needs
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now when we hit zero we have this also
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cool looking and awesome scene here in
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the finals if you want to change this
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type of lines here in the scene just go
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in neon o1 find here fractal o1 select
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this layer if you can't find effects
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control just hit F3 and instead of
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subscale find here different type of
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this uh option let's try maybe Max and
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in finals you will have completely
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different look play around with the
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options until you're satisfied with the
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final results but I will leave it back
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to the subscale it's looking cool to me
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and you are ready here to render out
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this cool looking neon background all
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right guys that was everything for
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today's tutorial like always I hope you
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learned something new if you found this
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video helpful please hit that like
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button also you are free to comment Down
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Below in the comment section also take a
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look on my channel for even more great
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tutorials you can use this uh background
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in various different things uh like
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slideshows intros promos and so many
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more I want to thank you for watching
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and until next time stay creative and
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bye-bye