Hello Fablers, and welcome back to another Academy tutorial. In this one we'll be looking at the CRT lines effect, another one of my personal favorites.
In our scene here, we have a simple JPEG image. Let's make sure it's selected and active. We'll go up here to the effects panel and let's start typing in CRT.
Click drag and drop to apply. Immediately you start to see some pretty cool stuff happening. For those of us that are a little bit younger than this technology, CRT lines are what the old television sets used to create, in terms of picture, image and quality. Most commonly used these days to apply it to give it that "vintage" effect.
This was actually created by the tubes in the TV sets back in the day. In this case, lucky for all of us, it's a simple drag and drop to get the same effect.
In these sliders, we've got curvature, which will essentially curve or pinch the outside edges to make the center more bulgy. The line width dictates how thick these lines are. You can see the more you curve it, the thicker it is. It gets a little bit more apparent, what is happening.
The line contrast is how visible this effect is on our underlying image.
Movement controls the vertical scrolling of our line effect. This can be animated.
Vertical lines will basically rotate our effect 90 degrees. Everything else still applies.
Lastly, we have our global opacity, with the visibility of our effect from 0 to 100.
