 Everybody welcome back to another adobe after effects tutorial in this one I'm gonna show you how to create fog very very simple. It's a subtle effect as you can see here We've got some fog in a nice shipwreck looking old boat in the middle of the water. Here's the original footage. It's very very bright It's exposed. It's got a very high contrast here between the the background and it's a little overexposed as you can see But once we get our friggin mitts on this thing, boom, we've kind of changed it to overcast We added in some fog. It looks a little darker a little bit more. I don't know scary. So how do we do it? Simple let's go. I'm gonna delete that layer. Here's our original footage as you can see here We've got a boat in the water next step if you're following along as we want to go up to the layer create new Solid and this one we're gonna create a white layer Do note that you can change the color if you if you know of the exact color that you want to go with Go with that, but I'm gonna create a white layer and we'll tint it later So create white layer new solid white just like that. It goes over top of it Presto looking good guys. Here we go. The next step is we're gonna add a mask to it How do we do that? We go up to the rectangle tool up here Left click on it rectangle tool and we're gonna oops We're gonna go ahead and create a mask now in this one I'm gonna mask it right to about here because we're gonna feather this area I'm gonna go zoom in we're gonna feather the area from Closest to the camera or closest to the viewer and further out But again, if you need the whole thing to be masked go ahead But we're just gonna go ahead and do it this way and then we're gonna left click on the selection tool So what do we got? We got a white solid layer. We've masked it. We're now gonna feather that layer So how do we do that when you're making sure you're selecting the solid? Just click the F key and that loads up mask and feather now I'm gonna go ahead and feather this a lot like way more than normal than you would expect normally Let's go with about seven something like this and the reason why is because it's a Basically fog is usually a little less visible the closer it is to you and a little more visible the further away It is from you. So we're just doing a little visual trick here by adding in that feather. Okay, good We are now on our way. Okay, so we've got white fog But in this case, I don't really want to go with white fog I kind of wanted to go with a little bit of a bluer look and the reason why is because it gives you know We're kind of getting that scary movie vibe. So I'm gonna add in a tenth This is optional if you just want white fog go ahead and keep it white But I'm gonna just change the coloring a little bit. So I typed in in under effects and presets I typed in tint a left click on it and drag and drop it on top of the white solid It does nothing initially, but we're just gonna change the colors So I'm gonna map the white from pure white to some sort of blue-ish color We're gonna add in let's go with a darker blue and then we'll dial down the opacity later So here we go. You'll see here and this actually sells the effect a little more So you'll see what we're doing with a left click on okay So now we've got this light ish blue ish almost purple ish fog Which we will adjust but here we go. You'll see where we're going with this Excellent, you'll also see the feathering here quite a bit at the bottom All good. The next step here is we're gonna add in some fractal noise This is how we create the movement the illusion of moving fog. So We're gonna go type in under effects and presets like right here type in fractal and under noise and grain You'll see fractal noise drag and drop that bad boy on top of the white solid This makes a bit of a mess of things, but not to panic. We're gonna go ahead and make those changes Okay, the first one is we want to go ahead and change the scaling on this It's quite it's it's definitely quite up there. So we want to change it from a basic scale of 100 you'll see here that I went under fractal noise transform scale We're gonna boost this way up because we want this to be a very very very subtle effect so something like Let's go with something like this. Okay Okay, this is this is in the middle like if you wanted to really scale it like if you scale it way down You're really gonna see the effect if you scale it way up. It's very unbelievably subtle So I just want to let's go with somewhere in the middle so you can see it But then again, you can tailor this to your you know to your taste. So we're gonna go with a scale of about 900 Let's just go with 900 ish. Okay. Good stuff There we go 901 good enough for this one. Okay. So what do we got? We got this But it's it looks like it's kind of fog ish, but at the same time It's not moving and it's just not quite there. So let's go ahead now and make some more changes The next one is we got to get this moving and the way to do that is you want to left-click on this evolution here So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna. Well, let's see if we want to change the complexity. I don't okay We're gonna go on evolution Left-click on that stopwatch making sure that your playhead is at the beginning or wherever you want the fog to start Moving so I'm gonna go putting my playhead at the beginning left-click on that little stopwatch And we're gonna have it set at zero zero, which is the default now. Let's go forward Let's go to about the park. Well, let's just go to the end here And we're gonna have the fog at the end of the 12 seconds. We're gonna have it basically doing some movement So I'm gonna go ahead and make it move For evolutions just so you can see what's happening See how the fog is moving now that might be a little bit overdone I don't know. I'd probably take it down to about three if I was making this for a film Let's go with three But again, I just selling you on the effect. It's a subtle effect, right? So there we go now We've got this up and running. We've got some fog moving. It is nowhere near ready But we're on our way the next step is we're gonna go ahead and drop this opacity a little bit We're gonna drop it down to about 70 so now you can see what's happening. We got some fog going on there Okay, good stuff. We're actually letting there pretty close the tint so we drop the apple We drop the opacity on the fractal noise now We're gonna go up to the tint and we're gonna dial down the tint a little bit I'm gonna drop this down to about 70 because it's a little bit overdone and now let's take a quick look Okay, so the fog is there It's a bit much not gonna lie But again, we're selling the effect if I go back to this white solid now I can go ahead and press T and that allows us to change the opacity of the solid and if I dial this down to say 70% now look what we got We have Kind of generated fog out of nothing It's pretty close to as good as you're gonna get without going into like some really fancy tutorials without some really fancy Software guys, that's how you create fog. Those are the steps. Thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned be back soon