

So I like to always say, "Okay, if I have an image, I'm gonna run it through an effect," and so it looks like it's just kinda piercing through this blur effect. What I like to think of is if we have an image, we run it through an effect, okay? This is pretty important to kind of start talking this way because there are so many different kinds of nodes that it can get kinda confusing on which node to use where. Now, we've already learned a little bit about this because our blur is an effect node.

It's basically a node that applies an effect to a image that you put into it. The very first one that we're gonna talk about is what I like to call an effect node. Let's talk about some specific nodes and how to use each one.
