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Using Photoshop with After Effects

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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