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Writing With Light
I was working with Aharon’s newest “Writing with Light” tutorial yesterday in an effort to create some new studio promos.
Instead of using a stock shape or custom mask, I was trying to recreate the effect using text outlines instead. After some fiddling around with it, I was able to create the effect but the colors aren’t as bright and don’t really look like they were “written with light”, they look closer to something from Ghostbusters.
I was thinking that the adjusting the contrast of the fractal noise might work, but to no avail. Any suggestions?
Thanks, as always.
-Caleb
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2 Replies
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If you’re using the ‘Add’ blending mode, as you should be, then you can just duplicate the layer to increase the intensity. Alternatively you can pre-comp the layer and then duplicate the pre-comp inside your final comp. This would give you the greatest flexibility as you would only have to update the layer inside your pre-comp if there are any changes. Those changes will be reflected in every instance of your pre-comp.
You could also add a Box Blur (use at least 3 iterations) to one of the pre-comps at the top of your layers in the final comp to give the image a pretty glow.
Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA -
Thanks, Darby. It didn’t occur to me to simply duplicate the precomped layer. It worked great. Cheers.
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