In today's video, I'm going to show you
three different types of photo effects, starting with the basic photo,
with a frame, with a Gaussian blur in the background,
and second, doing a brushstroke reveal on a historical photo.
And the third more advanced effect is creating a slideshow effect
with the camera wiggle.
And the best part about these effects is that you can apply it
to any genre for documentaries.
Instagram, stories, commercials, anything that you want.
So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump on and
as always, the project files are just down below.
If you'd like to follow along.
So for the first effect, I have the photo here in the timeline
on video layer one, what I'm going to do is press the option key
or the alt key on a PC and drag it up to video layer two.
Now, on the bottom one, this is going to be the background
that we're going to apply the blur effect to.
But first, we're going to go up to effect controls and scale it up.
Then from the effects panel, search for gajillion blur
and double click to apply it.
Then we can increase the blurriness up.
So you can see that it's quite blurry in the background.
So we can move this background into place and scale it down
until it looks just right now with the top layer.
Let's select it and scale it down from effect controls.
Now we want to create a border around our photo.
So go down to the toolbar and let's go down
and select the rectangle tool and then up in the program,
can I open the paragraph up and up from the program
monitor, click and drag to draw a generic rectangle.
Now you'll see that there's a graphics layer on video layer three and let's
drag it out so it fits the entire duration of the photo effect.
Next, we need to bring it beneath video layer two.
So let's bring up the photo above the graphic layer
and then let's drag this down.
Now we need to resize this graphic layer.
So select it, go to a central graphics, select the shape zero one
and let's first change the fill to White because it will look better.
And then we can use the selection tool to drag it.
So the borders are all equal.
Now that we have our white border,
we can actually go to effects and add a drop shadow behind it.
So search for Drop Shadow double click to apply it to our graphic layer.
First of all, we can increase the opacity to around 75
and we can increase the distance slightly and let's increase the softness.
So it's not as harsh.
This is the before and this is the after.
So now that we have our drop shadow, what we're going to do
is animate this photo on top and the background.
To do that, we're going to lasso and select video layer three and to
and we're going to right click and nest it as its own layer.
And here let's set our first keyframes on position,
scale and rotation and for the starting point,
let's make it slightly rotated and let's make it a bit smaller as well.
Let's move over a bit to around 5 seconds and let's bring the rotation back to zero
and let's scale it up.
And to make the animation more smooth lasso and select the last two keyframes
here, control click and ease in.
And now it's just going to be a bit more smoother of an animation as it comes in.
If you want it to be faster, you can always bring these keyframes in
and it will be a little bit faster.
So now let's animate the background first.
Let's make sure we get it into the place that we want
so we can rotate it, we can scale it up a bit,
and then we can set keyframes on position, scale and rotation.
Then we can move forward
and then we can scale it up, move it into place, and rotate it.
So now, as the photo
one is animating towards us, the background is animating as well.
It's a very simple effect.
It's kind of a variation of the Ken Burns effect, right?
So it's something that you can use in your documentary films.
And welcome back. I'm Kelsey.
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And now let's jump back in to photo effect.
Number two for this
historical photo effect, I've downloaded three assets from Envato elements.
The first one is this brush stroke reveal, which is right here in my project panel,
a print overlay that looks like a newspaper
with just random titles and then also some burnt paper edges.
So that's one other benefit of elements, is that it comes
with a ton of graphic elements, which I use all the time in my videos.
So I've linked to these three assets just down below.
The first thing I'm going to do is take this burnt paper
dragging on top of our photo here and let's scale it down.
And then from Opacity, go to blend mode and select multiply the next.
Let's add the print matters art on top and go to effect
controls again and let's scale it down and let's go to blend mode.
In this time we're going to choose overlay and reduce the opacity to like 40%.
So that way we can see some of the titles come through like an old newspaper look
and I'm going to select the photo and just scale it up so it fills the frame.
Now I'm going to click and select all three layers
Control, click and nest it.
And now I'm going to take this
brush stroke overlay and drag and drop it on to video layer two.
So now how do we get this to interact with the photo on video layer one?
This is where we're going to go to track Mac Key from effects in double click
to apply it to our nested layer go to effect controls.
And from here underneath Matt, we're going to choose video
to go to composite in rather than matte alpha do matte Luma
now the paint brush strokes reveals the photo
now it has the black behind it because it's only going to fill
in the area of the brushstroke, if you like.
How that looks, that's great. You can leave it as is.
If you want the paper
texture behind though, what we can do is bring up these two layers.
But when we do that,
we have to go back to the nest and change the matte to video layer three
because we had to move it up and then we can open up the nest and take
this burnt paper, copy it command C or control C
and then on this clip, command V to paste it.
So that way we have the paper texture behind again.
So that way it's revealed on top of the paper.
Now let's go into the advanced slide show effect.
So for this effect, it's going to be best to first create a placeholder sequence
for each photo.
So if we have four photos, we need to create four sequences.
I'm going to right click on the negative space new item sequence
and I'll call this one, photo one and you can make it any dimension
you want by going to the frame size here and typing in the new dimension.
I'm going to keep it in 1920 by 1080 and press okay.
And then I'll repeat this process for all four photos.
I'm going to open up all of these sequences here
and I'm going to place a photo in each sequence.
So now we have our photo and every single sequence here,
but now we need to lengthen the photo to the duration of the entire slideshow,
which will come in handy later on.
So let's say we want each one to be 15 seconds.
We can go here and type in 15 seconds
and then lengthen out this photo to meet the play head.
So we'll do that for every photo here.
One hour later.
So now that each photo is 15
seconds in length, we're going to nest each one as its own placeholder.
So we're going to control click and press nest and call
this placeholder for one and let's do the same to all three.
Now that each photo is nested into its own placeholder,
which can be replaced later on, we can create the crop mask.
So that way the photos will have a rounded corner.
So go up to opacity and click on Create four point polygon mask.
And then from here, hover over the corner until you get that rotation symbol.
Then press shift and click to scale this up, go to mask expansion, and then here
we can click and increase this to create rounded corners as much as you want.
And now we can click on this mask and press command C or control C to copy it.
Then we can go to photo two and go to Opacity and Command V to paste it.
So let's do that to all of them.
So now that it's transparent, it will make it easier for us
to type out a caption.
You can go to the type tool here and we can type out a caption
that says like photo one Dolomites, for example.
Then we can go to essential graphics and we can change this to Black.
We can also change the font type.
Let's change it to type star to make it a little bit more retro looking.
And let's scale this down to around 35
and let's reposition it at the top and then we can duplicate
this layer by control clicking on it, and let's move it to be right
aligned and let's move the position over to the other side.
And here we can just put like a date.
So if we wanted to call this May 2019, for example, and let's drag this out
so it'll be the exact duration as the placeholder,
then we can copy this photo text on each placeholder.
So the setup is done.
We have the text, we have the nicely cropped photos,
but now we need to create an entire slideshow set up longer sequence
that we can sequentially order all the photos and then add the animation.
Let's go to the negative space here and let's create a new sequence.
And this time let's go to settings.
And instead of 1920, by 1080, I'm going to multiply.
So the little multiply symbol is this little asterisk times it by six.
So now you can see it's a really long strip.
The first thing we want to do is create a background map.
We can use an eggshell color so we can control, click, go to new item
and go to Color Matte. And from here, press.
Okay, and let's bring this into kind of a brownish eggshell
color and let's drag and drop this on to video layer one.
So now we can bring down photo one and we can bring down photo two.
And we don't actually need the audio layers here.
So we can press command or control alt on LinkedIn, just delete those audio layers.
But Photo two is directly on top
so we can go to effect controls and actually move it over like this.
And then we also want to have photo four on the left
because we want photos on either side to kind of emulate the photo slideshow.
So I'm going to go back to project and drag photo for here and I'm going to
select this and go to effect controls and actually drag this on the other side.
And now let's go to photo three.
And if you don't want the audio to come in, a quick tip is
you can actually turn off the source patching on audio one.
So when we drag down sequence three, we only get the video,
which is a nice tip.
Lastly, let's go here and bring in photo four again
and this time bring it over to the right.
So you can see the idea here that you can create a strip
so that we were going to animate it along here and now we need to nest
all these photos together.
So click and lasso and select all of the photos.
Control, Click and nest.
Now we can just call this slideshow setup.
Now we need to go and create a brand new sequence.
We'll just call it 1080 P full HD slide show.
Now we need to drag in this long strip into the sequence
and keep existing settings.
Now we have this really long strip inside of the ten from which we can animated.
So let's select this and let's go up to the effect controls here
and from here we can animate the photos to go side to side.
To do that, let's go to Effects and let's
go to transform them and let's double click to apply transform.
And the reason why we're using Transform for the animation is that way.
If we ever want to resize the photos, we can just use the main motion controls
to just resize them a little bit smaller.
So from here we're going to go and we're going to click on position
because we're just going to animate the position.
So for this moment, we want to hold on this photo for a little bit.
And then right here,
let's click to create another keyframe and then move forward a little bit.
And let's go ahead and move this over to the left
so we can get the next photo in frame.
It holds on this photo for a couple of seconds and then it animates over.
Now it's a little bit slow.
So I'm going to zoom in here and make this faster.
Let's bring this keyframe in closer.
So it's a quicker transition, make it smoother by control clicking
temporal interpolation and in.
Now I can repeat this for every photo.
Now we have our
animation happening, so it's going side to side to the left.
But what if we want to add a little bit of a wiggle on top?
So that way it looks a little bit more realistic.
This is where we can go to the product panel again, control click.
And this time we're going to create an adjustment layer.
And from here we're going to drag
and drop the adjustment layer on top of our timeline here.
And again, we're going to double click to create a transform effect
on this adjustment layer, then go to effect controls.
And here we're just going to animate the position to create a slight wiggle
before we create the position wiggle, we want to scale this up to around 105.
So that way we literally can have some wiggle room when we animate the position.
So let's create toggle animation to create our first keyframe move forward
a little bit and then we can just slightly move our photo and then go forward
a little bit and just move over to create a slight wiggle
and just repeat this for the duration of the entire timeline.
Now we have this slight camera wiggle on top just to give it
that extra oomph compared to just the static side to side movement.
Now we can go on and add some more cool effects on top of this adjustment layer.
So for this adjustment layer, I'm
going to go up to clip and rename it Wiggle just to keep track of it.
And then I'm going to drag another adjustment layer on top.
And this is where we're going to apply a lens distortion effect.
So double click to apply the lens distortion.
And from here we can play around with all these parameters.
So for curvature, we can do something to make it stretch on the sides.
So maybe around minus eight and then vertical to centering minus one,
just a slight amount and then one for is on tool two and minus two.
So you can see it added a little bit of warping to the effect
this is where we can actually go
in on the long strip and we can resize it to make it a little bit smaller.
And you'll notice that you see the background, the transparency,
and this is actually where it makes sense to drag in the color map behind them here
so we can drag this up and then go to effects, go back to a product panel
and then we can drag and drop the eggshell matte beneath.
So that way we don't see that gap now with the distortion.
So it looks pretty cool.
So let's go ahead and let's rename this clip lens distortion and then we can add
another adjustment layer to create a guardian blur on the side.
So let's go up here and let's search for Gaussian blur
and let's double click to apply it.
And then from Effect Controls, we can go over to
Gaussian Blur and let's increase the blurriness to like 29.
But here, this is where
we're going to create some masking just on the edges, create an ellipse mask.
We're just going to drag it
over to the corner here and let's drag this down and let's drag this out a bit.
Now, the Gaussian blur is only going to be affecting this side.
And what we can do, again, is actually control, click, copy, command
V to paste it, and we can move this one, this duplicate copy on the right.
So that way the center photos in focus and it gets blurry on the sides.
We can also add a little bit of expansion on the mask
around 64 and let's copy that over on the first one.
So now we have our two side mask to give it some distortion on the sides.
And from here we can also go to a metric color from the creative tab.
We can go down and choose Kodak 5 to 0 five to see how that looks.
It looks pretty good and we can add it some faded film if we like.
So this was the before and the after in the last effect is optional
but I downloaded this vintage dirt and grain overlaid
has like these like specks there we can put in a film burn on top
so we can take this and drag and drop it on top of video layer five
and we can actually press R to go to the rate stretch tool
and drag it out to meet the end of this clip here.
Go back to V to the selection tool, go to effect controls and from Opacity,
we're going to choose screen and then we're going to scale it up
so we can get rid of this kind of film hole here.
We don't want that in now, when we apply it back,
we have these little specks on top, which add a little bit of a vintage look.
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starting with the basic photo with a border and a guardian blur
in the background.
Second, going on to intermediate, which will allow you to create a magical
historical photo reveal what paper, texture and brush strokes and third,
how to create a little slide show effect with a wiggle. So.
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