User Guide

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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0
User Guide
Production Bundle features
To meet the needs of different audiences, After Effects is available in two versions—the
Standard version and the Production Bundle version.
Visual effects
After Effects offers a variety of exciting types of visual effects including Warping and
Particle Playground. You can warp images over time using Bézier Warp, Mesh Warp,
and Reshape effects; displace pixels from one layer to another using Displacement Map;
or apply the Glow effect to create a diffuse halo along an object’s edge. With Particle
Playground, you can animate a large number of objects (dots, images, or text) so that they
move independently and yet produce consistent group behavior. Use Fractal Noise to create
textures and objects that cannot be described using simple geometric shapes. Other effects
include Corner Pin, Lightning, Scatter, Ripple, Bulge, Wave Warp, Optics Compensation,
and Twirl.
The Displacement Map effect was applied to the fish’s
shadow to make it move realistically over the ocean floor.
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