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Using Photoshop with After Effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Using Photoshop with After Effects
I'm not sure if there are two other software programs out there that integrate better than Photoshop and After Effects. Here is a small little chart of stuff from Photoshop that carries over into After Effects. Obviously, layers, we've seen that as we imported Photoshop documents and the visibility of the layers carries over, the opacity, the blend modes, alpha channels, layer masks, etcetera, etcetera. All these things carry over. And also now, as of the last couple versions of After Effects, if you have a Photoshop document that has an actual 3D object in it, that also can be brought over into After Effects. It's the only way to have a real volumetric 3D model inside of After Effects. So, it's just amazing all the stuff in Photoshop that can carry over into After Effects. And so much of the great work that is done in After Effects really starts out in Photoshop. Photoshop does the magic. Here is a project that I created for a previous After Effects title on lynda.com. I think it was…
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Contents
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After Effects workflow overview2m 18s
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Bringing elements into After Effects2m 23s
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Adding elements to the Timeline1m 57s
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Working with layers3m 45s
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Creating animation with presets3m 24s
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Applying effects3m 34s
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Creating animation without presets5m 38s
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Previewing your work2m 46s
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Exporting content as a movie file2m 29s
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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Understanding spatial interpolation2m 5s
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Creating and adjusting motion paths3m 55s
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Orienting moving objects along a path1m 29s
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Drawing motion with Motion Sketch2m 51s
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Creating pauses in animation3m 6s
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Understanding temporal interpolation1m 56s
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Easing keyframes5m 57s
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About the Graph Editor4m 25s
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