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“Frosted Glass” effect
I’m trying to create the illusion of an object that contains frosted glass. In real life, if you were to hold frosted glass infront of your eyes, everything behind it would appear distorted, out of focus etc. How could I achieve this in AE 6.5?
I thought Gausian Blur on a 20% opacity solid white layer might work, but it doesn’t “blur’ things behind it. Any way to do this?
THANK YOU!!
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4 Replies
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Create an adjustment layer. Apply the blur plus something that will lighten it, maybe levels?
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Yeah, that did it. I didn;t realize the Adjustment Layers applied UNDERNEATH it in the timeline, rather than “Behind” it in the viewer… Thanks
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Yeah. That’s what adjustment layers are for. Before I understood how they worked, I was pre-comping everything.
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An adjustment layer is like putting a filter on a camera lens. It affects everything you see through the lens. Since you always look at comps from the top layer downwards. adjustment layers can be used much as you might nest compositions–to affect several layers as one.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com
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