From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Integration
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Exporting layer styles for animation in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Integration
Exporting layer styles for animation in After Effects
- When you import a layered styled image into After Effects, it usually comes across. Sometimes the exact position of elements may not or custom textures may go missing. So I'm gonna show you a couple of strategies. We've already saved this as a Photoshop document, so make sure you rename it and store it as a PSD file with layers intact. In After Effects, we can import this. If I choose File, Import, File or double click in the area, I can navigate to folder four. And I'll take this Layer Styles Prepped. If I import as footage and choose to bring that in as flattened footage, everything comes across. There's the flattened element, nothing has shifted. On the other hand, let's import and grab the prepped elements here, I'll click Import. But this time, we'll import as a composition. And you see a choice for editable layer styles or merged. Let's choose merged for a second and choose OK. And let's open that up. So here is the layered file and above that, let's put the flattened image…
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