Tweak the Max Horizontal and Vertical Displacement.For the Displacement Map Layer select the Ocean layer.Let’s tweak these numbers to apply the effect to our layer. You will notice on the left side there’s a new panel called Effect Controls. Make sure the Logo layer is select and just double-click on the Displacement Map option. It can also be found via Effect>Distort>Displacement Map. So you can type Displacement and boom, you will find what you need. One thing that I love about After Effects is that it does have some neat tricks, for example, the Effect & Presets panel has a search box. Time to add some magic, at least it feels like that for me. The reason for this is if you want to replace the paths later you can do it without worrying about the timeline, imagine Smart Objects in Photoshop. Select the layer in the timeline and go to Layer>Pre-Compose.Paste the logo in the composition as a path mask, and that’s it.For the name use Logo and make sure the color of the layer is white. In After Effects add a new solid layer.Select the vector in Illustrator and copy it.Again, I don’t know if it’s the right way, but this is how I did. Importing it to After Effects is straightforward. My logo is in vector format in Illustrator. Let’s import the artwork we want to use for the displace effect. Let’s tweak the Levels now to remove the greyish look. Go to Effect>Color Correction>Hue/Saturation. In the timeline, expand the Ocean object, the expand Transform, and you will see Opacity. That way it gets centralized automatically. I just called mine “Ocean.”Īfter that, drag the “Ocean” clip to your composition timeline panel. In Project pane, select the clip and hit “Enter,” to rename it. The clip I am using is from there it’s titled Close-Up Video Of Water Ripples by Stas Knop.ĭownload the video and drag it to your Project panel. I started this project using a sample for Adobe Stock, however, after searching I found a right place, it’s called Pexel Videos. Now for photography, we have a plethora of excellent places. It was tough to find high-quality resources we didn’t have Unsplash back in the day. It’s amazing how similar things feel when I started doing Photoshop tutorials. So now we need to find a video for this project. Composition>New Composition.įor my Photoshop image, I used a photo of ocean waves. Create a new project and add a new composition. For my surprise, After Effects also have one. In Photoshop this effect is quite simple, you use a displacement map. The first thing to do is to try to understand how much in common After Effects and Photoshop have. I am sure there are more natural ways or better ways from other great resources, this one here is just a bit of my way of learning. With that, I would love to share a little After Effects tutorial on how I achieved the result.Ī little disclaimer, I am not a pro with After Effects, on the contrary, I am learning, and my goal is to share the step by step on the things I discover along the way. My goal was to try to reproduce the effect with some cool motion to it. I love that tutorial, and it gave me the motivation that I need to continue studying After Effects. One of them was the Beautiful Water Effect in Photoshop. It’s incredible to see how many Photoshop tutorials we’ve written and how some of them stood the test of time. The blog has changed quite a lot since we started 12 years ago. I have been going back through old tutorials to fix some of the images that might be broken or with old formatting.
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