Threshold effect – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Light Direction
Texture Contrast
Texture Placement
Tile Texture
Center Texture
Stretch Texture To Fit
The angle at which light hits the texture.
The magnitude of the result.
How the texture layer is applied to the effect layer:
Applies the texture repeatedly.
Positions the texture in the middle.
Stretches the texture to the dimensions of the effect layer.
Threshold effect
The Threshold effect converts grayscale or color images to high-contrast, black-and-white images. Specify a certain level as a threshold; all pixels
lighter than the threshold convert to white and all pixels darker convert to black.
This effect works with 8-bpc and 16-bpc color.
Effect applied with threshold settings of 44 (left), 70 (center), and 200 (right)
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