Let's move on with the other post effects so we can get a handle on what they can accomplish for us.
1. With the previous scene still loaded, double-click on the Color Adjust effect, then click on the effect in the right side menu to access its controls.
2. Move the Brightness slider to 15.
3. Change the Contrast to 8.
4. Move the Gray style slider to the maximum of 20.
At this point, your image should look similar to the following image:
5. Click on the Eye icon to the right of the Color Adjust filter to turn off the filter for now.
6. Double-click on the Color Filter effect to load it into the workspace and select it from the right side menu to see its controls.
7. Move the Red filter to zero and the Blue filter to the maximum to get a dark blue tint to the scene.
8. Move the Green slider to 6. Leave this effect on.
9. Double-click on the Lens Blur effect to load it, then select it in the right side menu.
10. With the time scrubber on the first frame (which you were at anyway right?) change the Position X slider to 0.
11. Move the time scrubber to frame 500 and change the Position X slider to 100.
12. Return the time scrubber to the first frame and play the animation to review our work to this point. Turn the effect off (click on the Eye icon) and save the file.
We explored the Post Effects, which we have not already seen, and now have a good idea of what they can do. The Color Adjust effect is very useful for brightening the entire scene with the proper combination of Brightness and Contrast. The Gray Style slider can achieve a range of looks from full color to full grayscale.
The Color Filter is a very simple Red, Green, Blue slider setup that can achieve different colors with different combinations of the sliders. We changed the scene to blue then warmed it up a little by adding some color from the green slider.
The Lens Blur is a very cool effect that we will probably find many uses for as projects come and go, but for now we explored the basics of it, including key framing it to move from the left to the right of the screen.
The following image shows our scene to this point with an active blue color filter: