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# 01 - Chromatic Displacement

Chromatic Displacement

#### DISPLACE PIXELS ON ONE LAYER WITH THOSE OF ANOTHER WHILE SMOOTHLY SEPARATING COLORS

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#### Getting Started

- Drag the **Chromatic Displacement** effect onto your clip.
- Drag the **Displace Amount** off 0 to see the effect.

#### Modify the Effect

- **Displacement** selects which layer will guide the prismatic displacement.
- **Displacement Map Behavior** contains three options for positioning the displacement source:
  - **Center Map** positions the source directly in the center of the frame.
  - **Stretch Map to Fit** pulls or squeezes the boundaries of the source to fill the frame.
  - **Tile Map** repeats the source map along the X and Y axis until the frame is filled.
- **Displacement Layer Alpha** determines if the effect will **Use** , **Ignore** , or **Cut Out** the distortion using any alpha information from the displacement's source layer.
- **Soften Displacement Layer** blurs the details in the displacement map layer to soften distortions.
- **Uniform Displacement** toggles whether the **Displacement Amount** adds distortions equally along the horizontal and vertical axis or, when toggled off, offers to **Displace X** or **Y** axes individually.
- **Displace Spread** adjusts the distance of the displacement effect.
- **Spread Chroma** creates a beautiful, organic light refraction look by introducing a rainbow spectrum of colors to the displacement effect.
- **Chroma Tint** shifts the overall appearance of the chroma displacement into either cooler blue colors (positive values) or warmer red colors (negative values).
- **Spread Quality** adjusts the granularity of distortion made either the Displace Spread or Spread Chroma parameters. Higher values result in more details within the distortions.