Special Effects

Adding special effects to your movie isn't always necessary but little touches aren’t too hard to add and can really enhance your picture.  They can be simple things like brightness correction or color correction, something even the most computer illiterate of us have done at some point with pictures. Simple special effects can go a long way in improving your picture.

Video Editing software and Special Effects

Good video editing software has hundreds of special effects to choose from. Special effects can alter the exposure or color of footage, manipulate sound, distort and manipulate images and add artistic effects. In this video over 70 special effects were used on 6 different layers here is how.

Movie Made with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro


Learn how to do special effects

Fishes effects - These fishes were darkened and repositioned.

Flower Effects - Many Layers gave the overall flower effects.

Lotus Character - The Character was one of the only filmed footage layers.

Moon from Nasa cameras - Photo taken on an interplanetary mission.

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These special effects were done with Abobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro Video Editing Software
The fundamentals can be applied to any video editing software.

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