UL: Original. UR: Spolight w/ Gel Only preset. LL: Power Pin w/ Kink and Bend preset. LR: Repetile …and… Super Shadow w/ Warm Color preset.
In the upper right image the top layer is set to be used as a gel, which is projected onto the bottom layer as if through a spotlight. Lower-left – I don’t know when you’d want a transition to “flip out of the way” while distorting the image, but okay. The Lower right shows Repetile, which repeats and tiles a smaller image to fill the composition space which, along with a color-ramp drop shadow created with Super Shadow, is probably useful for keeping still images interesting in a wedding video.
UL: Glass w/ Rough with Light preset. UR: Power Pin w/ Big Curve Outside preset. LL: Flo Motion. LR: EZ Lazy Waves.
Would you like another, sir?
There are a number of other distortion tools with preset names like “trippy”. Obvious applications include hallucinogenic scenes and drunken scenes.
UL: Original. UR: Particle System II w/ Multicolor Drops. LL: Bubbles. LR: Pixel Poly w/ Burst from Center and Fly Out preset.
Particle effects.
Paint drops, champagne bubbles, and a scene that turns into confetti and blows out from the middle. Is it useful for your production of “The Importance of Being Earnest?” Probably not, but for an advertisement for an “After New Year’s Sale”, you bet!
UL: Gradient Blur w/ Highlight Blur Vignette preset. UR: Glow w/ Red White Difference preset. LL: 3D Relief w/ Colored Multivision preset. LR: 3D Relief w/ Thin Stark Blue Line preset.
Now, strangely enough, I might use some of these graphical effects in a movie.
The upper-left is a gradient blur with a smear that turns the faces of the people on the sides into inhuman smudges – very creepy. The upper-right looks like alien vision for a sci-fi film. The lower left – computer vision – heat or x-ray vision – looking through walls. And the lower right – very cartoonish. Under the right circumstances these effects could be indispensable.
