Thanks for the response, to all of you. And thanks for a bunch of helpful tips. It really helps me understand how everything connects. As I mentioned earlier, today is my first day using After Effects so it's a lot of information to take in. I have never used any program of this type before. To be honest, I did not know "what I wanted". I just wanted a good looking sun (according to me ) and I wanted to understand why different things occurred when doing specific things. I tried a lot of your tips and I tried with the solid gray so I got a hang of how that works, I think. One thing I tried was the tip regarding not to move the layer with the saber effect. And I can't understand some things you mentioned there so I need to take some time googling what they mean. Like "solo the layer" and such. I moved the sun with the position tracker in the plug-in instead but that made the glow effect get cut out instead of going outside the edges like before. But what made me "solve" my issue was when you mentioned the color of the core. Nowhere could I find a way to adjust the color of the core but I knew there had to be some sort of way to do it. I adjusted a couple of settings on the Render settings panel in the saber effect and this made the sun look a lot better because a problem for me was in fact that the core was white. I also got the Unmult plugin which helped as well. The only problem left is how I can make sure that the glowing effect does not blend so much with the teal background. In a little while I will animate some stars and with everything I learned today, I think I will achieve a good result. Those stars will also be made on a very dark background so I think it will be easier As mentioned, all of this is made in Adobe Draw and hand-drawn, even the backgrounds, so the starting position with the project is a lot different than if you would have created everything in Illustrator. I have a long journey ahead of me with AE but I am willing to learn and I find all of this to be a lot of fun ... View more

Hello Rick, Thanks for responding! The solid is yellow because the tutorial that I watched said that the solid color didn't make any difference. Thank you for clarifying which colors are used for the solids when using different blend techniques. I haven't modified anything in the layer that is interfering with the Saber solid layer. I sent that specific screenshot because Dave asked me to show the blend modes Layer 2 just has keyframes connected to it making it move back and forth. You can see it's a tree in the picture that will "wiggle" in the wind. The same goes for the other layer with an effect. It's the same thing used for the bush. I use the puppet pin tool. I did set up the Saber effect according to several tutorials for making the "sun effect" so I can't answer if I have done anything wrong. In the tutorials, however, they do not have the same problem as me. Everything in this picture is drawn with Adobe draw on iPad and then sent to Illustrator which is then imported into after effects. I have even tried doing this sun effect on a new composition without any effects. The teal background is supposed to be there. It's supposed to represent the sky. I can't seem to figure out what's causing the problem with the colors. The color on the sun on this picture is the best I have managed to do with all the other tips mentioned in this thread. ... View more

Yes, that one is on normal because when I choose "add" it looks like this. ... View more

Thanks for the response. I switched to 32 bits per channel and I had to choose a working space to be able to choose the linearize working space. I did choose sRGB IEC61966-2.1 which is supposed to be good for cartoons. I did do this in a completely new project. Also, I turned off "Use Display Color Management" This is the best result so far but still, it's far away from what I really want. ... View more

Thanks! Seems like you understand what I'm facing here. Once again, excuse my inexperience. I am a total newbie to After Effects and I'm doing my best to learn. When I chose the project settings I can't find the linear color mode. I only found one option where I could change the bits and then change the workspace. When trying some settings there, I could not find Linear Add either. What am I doing wrong? Can I change project settings in an already existing project or are some values locked? ... View more

I get your point. But when following tutorials connected to the Saber plugin, the correct way is to use the blending mode and for them, it does not change their color. I have just started using after effects and I have only used it for 6 hours in total and this is just me trying to experiment with the software Excuse my inexperience. The whole project is composed on an iPad using Adobe Draw. I have then saved it as an .ai file on the computer and then I started a new project in after effects and imported the whole .ai project. I am animating different layers in the composition, will this be a problem if I precompose the whole project? Will this make all of the layers a single layer? ... View more

Yeah I tried it but with no result. I will reach out to the support and hope that they can help me. ... View more

Oh yes, I forgot to mention my specs on the PC and on the Mac. On the PC: i5 6600K 3,5GHZ - 8GB RAM - GTX1070 - 250GB SSD - 3TB HDD On the Mac: i5 7500 3,4GHZ - 8GB RAM - Radeon Pro 570 - 1TB Fusion Drive I think they should perform equally with the PC perhaps performing a little better or at least likewise? ... View more