From the course: After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation
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Color palettes in AE with Adobe Color Themes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Scripts & Tips: 2 Design Theory & Animation
Color palettes in AE with Adobe Color Themes
- [Instructor] After Effects was missing one somewhat important feature for a long while. And that's the ability to import color swatches and palettes for reference. But, if you're working in CC 2014, or newer, you have a handy little tool that is included with After Effects to help you do this kind of thing. And that is the Adobe color themes panel. I'm in chapter three color theory script zero two Adobe color themes. Now, Adobe color themes panel is a lot like a script. It works nearly identically, but it isn't actually one. It's an extension in After Effects. To get to it, you need to go to Window. Go to Extensions. And go to Adobe Color Themes. It'll pop open in the Color Themes window and I'm just going to drag it open a little bit. You saw it loading there for a moment because it loads your Creative Cloud account and brings in your different color swatches from the Internet. I'm going to go ahead and click on Adobe Color Themes up here and drag it over here, so I can dock it…
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