creating an 80s retro chrome look without plugins – after effects tutorial

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the techniques we use to make this retro chrome text are really powerful when combined and can be used for so many different looks, so definitely keep this combo in your brain's back pocket.


today we're creating an 80s chrome text effect, a synthwave text look, a vaporwave text effect, retro chrome effect, whatever you want to call it. (in case you haven't realized, i'm being overly wordy to hit as many keywords as i can for youtube searches lol)




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timestamps
0:00 - intro
0:24 - 1. combining layer styles
3:33 - 2. remapping our black and white values
10:14 - 3. compositing our text to sell the retro effect


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