I was able to get this far with recreating Photoshop’s ‘Lighting Effects’. I’m still trying to find a way to blend or layer a bright gradient on top of a shape layer with this CC Light Burst, but it’s getting closer.

The shape I’m using is an upside-down trapezoid. Screengrab attached.

I just had a breakthrough this morning. I’m not there yet, but made some major strides.

After revisiting CC Light Burst for like the 5th time, I’ve tried adding it to a shape layer wiggle path and then cycled through the random seed.

It still needs work, but if I get something significant, I’ll post the results.

Thanks again!

Hi Greg,

Right, the curtain effect. I saw a tutorial on that a long time ago using fractal noise and thought briefly about that too. So the bezier warp could help me get that keystone-ing? That would be cool. I’ll try playing with that and looking into tutorials in that direction as well.

My challenge I think I might run into with is soft sides to…

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Here’s the file, my bad. I must’ve forgotten to attach it. I’ll check out Boris FX.

Thanks!

Hi Everybody,

I have been trying to recreate an (attached) light effect I made in Photoshop. I believe I made it using the actual ‘lighting effects’ in Photoshop.

I’ve tried using everything I can find in AE natively (CC Light rays, light burst, beam, etc.) but I can’t seem to get anything to work. Either I can’t get the angle, or the edges are too…

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How do people center elements in After Effects? I’m eyeballing elements using these blurry looking guides After Effects uses and it just isn’t doing justice.

I know there’s ‘align’ but the person who built the comps that I’m editing didn’t take that into consideration with their imported elements so align doesn’t help.

Is there a standard to center…

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How do people center elements in After Effects? I’m eyeballing elements using these blurry looking guides After Effects uses and it just isn’t doing justice.

I know there’s ‘align’ but the person who built the comps that I’m editing didn’t take that into consideration with their imported elements so align doesn’t help.

Is there a standard to center…

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