in this video I will show you how to create Christmas decorations
in Adobe After Effects and the new feature in Adobe Photoshop which is
really fun to explore and you can do tons of cool stuff with it just like
this all right looks pretty cool without further Ado I have prepared the same footage for you guys
so you can follow along with the same footage as me so there is no confusion let's open up Adobe
After Effects and get started this is a footage that we will be working work with so here is what
happened I walk in the shot I have a Christmas sweater in my hand and I slam it in onto my body
and you can see that I'm instantly transforming to the Christmas sweater and just changed outfits
I already did that because that's not part of today's video tutorial it's as simple as just
removing a part so that's why I already included it but what we will do is go to the moment when
it happens and try to be exact and I'm going for edit and I'm going to split this layer the reason
why I'm doing that is because right here here on the moment that I changed the outfits there
is the moment I want to add all the Christmas decorations and change the entire Vibe of the
video what I will do is go and find a moment when I'm using the most range of motion so right here
we can see I'm really overlapping uh this onto my background so right here on this moment I'm going
over to composition save frame uh save the file and you will see that it has a output module so
we're just saving one frame here and I'm going to save it as a photosop file I'm going to find
a location an output destination and just save it as a PSD that's all you have to do and then render
it out I've already done that so we're jumping in Adobe Photoshop right now but before we do that
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now let's get back to the video so right here we are inobe Photoshop and I opened up that one frame
that we exported from Adobe After Effects so now we are going to select our Lessa tool right here
I'm going to select here like the balcony strip there we go and I'm going to say add Christmas
decorations to the balcony let's try generate okay so that looks cool and we can change the
variations here by clicking on these arrows so automatically you're going to create three uh
different uh variations on this and if you don't like it you can just simply click on your prompt
add things or remove things change it up add like um Christmas decorations with LED lights or
whatever I kind of like what we are getting here so I'm going to leave it as is for now I already
have a few variations here uh let's try something else so right here I'm going to add add Christmas
light decorations in form of falling all right not sure if this one is going to work but again
it's testing stuff and see what works and yeah I know it's been a really long time since I've
uploaded on this channel I'm really trying to get back into it again and for the people that follow
me on Instagram they already know what's up I've recently moved as you can see I'm in a different
studio and I'm still installing it at this moment that's why you can see this microphone right here
um so yeah if you're wondering now you know and I also decided to create more raw tutorials like
we used to back in the days because a lot of people really enjoyed those let me know if you
enjoy those as well in the comments below and maybe we keep doing more tutorials on
Adobe after effect some really cool effects so yeah definitely let me know what you would like
to see on this channel and let's continue here okay that's extremely awesome and then this is
our final result so we can simply go to file save this click okay go back to Adobe After Effects and
then go to your composition that we have created before and here we're going to click and import
on that PSD and then choose import composition editable layer Styles that's an important step
drag this on top of your footage and drag it to the exact moment of your cloth swap now in here
all I want to do is jump into the Photoshop edit click on the background make it invisible and so
now you can see that everything is generated on a transparent layer but not if we return
to our original footage so you can see that we still have some issues right here with the
head or something so you can simply fix this go to the moment where it happens like right
here duplicate your video footage make sure it only happens wherever it happens so that will be
right here I'm going to trim it okay overlapping not overlapping anymore does it overlap again for
the rest of the video okay so maybe right here again so now we have two video clips I'm going
to double click on this one go to my RoR brush brush and then I'm going to select whatever is
overlapping zoom in a little bit make sure that you have as much detail as [Music] possible and
then go frame by frame to check if it looks all right and once you think your Roto looks good you
can click on the freeze frame or the freeze button for the Roto that's going to freeze it and make
it just work more efficiently in the background uh so once you're done hit that button okay I'm
also going to freeze this one now one more thing that we can do is jump back into Adobe Photoshop
and I'm just going to create a new layer on top of everything and I'm just going to call
this lights and this is for later on in the video if you want to do a small variation so
this is like a bonus tip you don't have to do it you already have your effect and you go to your
brushes you go and select a smaller brush like five pixels let's see that's okay I think five
pixels is good when five hardness perfect and I'm going to choose like an warmer white color then
go to window and go to brush settings then you should see it like over here you can take it out
if you want and here I'm going to keep a size the hardness is okay the spacing I'm going to
increase it something like this then I'm going to enable scattering and I'm going to increase
the scattering something like this you can also play with the I think the count is okay maybe add
some Jitter to the count something like this looks all right now we can simply uh drag over these uh
decorations to add more LED lights and yes you barely see them right here but this is for an ID
where you turn this footage into night footage so we're just going to rough L animate or add
some some lights here we can also do that for the Christmas tree like this there we go we can also
add more lights so go add color lights maybe and here we can choose like red and I'm also
going to increase the size to like eight pixels and do something like this then go to Blue and
do something like this and then go to green and do something like this obviously I'm doing it
pretty fast right now but it's just to give an IDE so then we can uh just leave these layers
as is and just save them uh we go back to Adobe After Effects and we should be able to see that
our Frozen aotos are now covering our background so if we enable them we should see that now our
back elements are being covered up and it's really going to sell the effect so if you're going to
preview [Music] this how cool is that so one more thing that you can do is also add in some snow you
can either do that with particle systems in Adobe After Effects or just go the quick way and use
snow um overlays so for this I'm going to be using falling snow from action V effects they actually
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them out and I'm just going to drag it over my scene and set it to a screen of Well Screen and
then I'm just going to keep it as is like [Music] so and there we have it now you can do some final
grading so add an adjustment layer and maybe also add a solid for this solid I'm going for like a
messy grayish color I'm also going to trim it to this moment for the solid we can simply select
like a mask like so press F on the keyboard to bring out the fatter elements just increase that
quite a bit and then we're going to press Ste on the keyboard and lower this a bit so you could do
that if you want some kind of hazy look because whenever it snows it's not as as clear as day so
can add a subtle haze there that's why I'm doing that you can also add a tint color to remove more
of the colors to make it more wintery maybe add like a little bit of bluish tint it's completely
up to you so now right did we do the lights um well if we are going to import this Photoshop
document again we can just select these lights and add them to our scene and of course change
the blending mode to add and if we for example just precom them so this is going to be my lights
I'm just going to set the blending mode again to add I'm going to add a solid composite to add a
black background to the lights so give it a black color click okay also make sure it just trimmed
to whenever the video starts and I'm going to add a perfect glow preset which you can also download
from our website link is in the description below it's just a better way of adding glow you can use
the regular glow in After Effects as well I just prefer this one and now you have lights and if you
want darker footage just add a curves to your adjustment layer um by the way for the people
that do not know what this is here um this is exactly the same thing is going to effects and
presets and searching it there it's effects console from video co-pilot it's completely
for free but it's just a faster way of applying your materials so here we can add some [Music]
contrast [Music] all right so that looks really cool I hope you enjoyed this tutorial if you did
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