Wave Warp

Hello again Fablers. All right. So in this video, we're going to be talking about the Wave Warp. Now the wave warp essentially distorts the image in a wave like fashion as the name implies. So here in our scene, we have a simple JPEG image. We're going to make sure that our layer is selected. We'll go up here to the effects panel.

Let's find our wave warp effect. Drag it, drop it, and immediately we get a sense of what's going on here. Now we have a couple of settings to go through. We've got the width, which essentially controls the width of the wave. Basically higher numbers make for a wider wave size. Smaller numbers make it a tighter wave. The height- higher numbers make it more exaggerated, lower numbers make it a little bit more shallow.

The next check box here is important. A contain basically says that if we turn this off our images here, our layers that we're affecting with the wave warp will actually extend past the bounding box. So let's say if we slid this over, you can see it's constrained here.

We do this, you see the top edges will match the edge of our bounds. Can be useful for some effects. Next, we have a really fun one. This one's called square mode. If you click this, if you'll notice, it basically makes the wave become these square strips, horizontal strips across our image. This makes it really easy to get some really fun looking pixelated effects happening.

Once again, as usual, all of these properties are key frameable, which means we can animate just about anything.

Next we've got our rotation, which essentially spins the waves around. We turn off square, makes it a little bit easier to see what's going on here.

We've got movement, which creates motion within the waves. And lastly, we have global opacity, which basically controls how visible this effect is on top of the layer. Note that this opacity only affects the effect. It does not affect the layer below it.