Adobe 12040118 - After Effects Standard, Tutorial

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the Mandelbrot set.
Use the arrow keys to pan the center point by 1 pixel. Press Shift as you press an arrow key to adjust the point by 10 pixels. Press Ctrl
(Windows) or Command (Mac OS) as you press an arrow key to adjust the center point of the opposite set.
Grid effect
Use the Grid effect to create a customizable grid. Render this grid in a solid color or as a mask in the alpha channel of the source layer. This effect
is good for generating design elements and mattes within which other effects can be applied.
John Dickinson provides a video tutorial on his Motionworks website that demonstrates the use of the Grid effect.
This effect works with 8-bpc color.
Use Grid with the Advanced Lightning effect to create lightning forks that follow a grid pattern.
Anchor The point of origin of the grid pattern. Moving this point offsets the pattern.
Size From How the dimensions of the rectangles are determined:
Corner Point The dimensions of each rectangle are the dimensions of the rectangle with opposite corners defined by the Anchor and
Corner points.
Width Slider The height and width of a rectangle are equal to the Width value, meaning that the rectangles are squares.
Width & Height Sliders The height of a rectangle is equal to the Height value. The width of a rectangle is equal to the Width value.
Border The thickness of the grid lines. A value of 0 causes the grid to disappear.
Note: The anti-aliasing of the grid borders may cause the visible thickness to vary.
Feather The softness of the grid.
Invert Grid Inverts the transparent and opaque areas of the grid.
Color The color of the grid.
Opacity The opacity of the grid.
Blending Mode The blending mode to use to composite the grid on top of the original layer. These blending modes work identically to the ones in
the Timeline panel, except for the default None mode, which renders the grid only.
Lens Flare effect
The Lens Flare effect simulates the refraction caused by shining a bright light into the camera lens. Specify a location for the center of the flare by
clicking anywhere inside the image thumbnail or by dragging its cross hair.
This effect works with 8-bpc color.
Single lens flare (lower-left) and multiple lens flares (lower-right)
Paint Bucket effect
The Paint Bucket effect (formerly Basic Fill effect) is a nondestructive paint effect that fills an area with a solid color. It works much like the Paint
Bucket tool in Adobe Photoshop. Use the Paint Bucket effect for colorizing cartoon-type outlined drawings or replacing areas of color in an image.
This effect works with 8-bpc color.
Fill Point The effect fills an area that contains the Fill Point. The area is determined by analyzing pixels that neighbor the Fill Point and expanding
the fill area by adding matching pixels. How far the fill color spreads depends upon the Tolerance setting, as well as the option you choose from
the Fill Selector menu.
Fill Selector Which values to operate on: