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Faking atmospheric effects

Faking atmospheric effects

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Faking atmospheric effects

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- [Instructor] When light passes through objects in a room, it reveals specks of dust within the light rays. These dust elements enhance realism and help convey the distance between elements. They also add a captivating atmosphere to synthetic elements created using AI. To achieve that, I'll go to the Project panel, double-click, and import this Adobe Stock free asset, I'll preview it for you, of bluish particles that were captured underwater, but can double act as dry dust particles as well. Right, so let's bring it into the project, and then I'll go to the end and drag and drop it underneath the camera. You know what, I'm actually going to drop it before the background, so this is now going to look like this. Now, to take away the bluish color and make the particles transparent, I'll first change the blending mode of this layer to Screen, and then I'll go to Effect, Color Correction, and apply the Levels effect. I'll take the input black, and move it to the edge of the histogram…

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