From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Importing Photoshop files with layer styles - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Importing Photoshop files with layer styles
- [Instructor] In addition to the effects that come with Adobe After Effects and any third-party effects you might install, you also have access to Photoshop Style, Layer Styles in After Effects. So in the next few movies, I want to show you how to take advantage of those. I'm going to go ahead and close my previous comps, and for my first demonstration, I'm going to import a Photoshop file that already has Layer Styles attached. I'm going to select the My Sources folder, press Command or Control + I, if you have the exercise file that comes with this project, navigate to the exercise files Sources folder and select Reality_drop.psd, or you can go ahead and import any Photoshop file that has Layer Styles already applied. Click Open. To get access to the Layer Styles, I need to import as Composition. This is what preserves all the individual components that make up a Photoshop file. I also want to make sure that Editable Layer Styles is indeed enabled. I don't want to Merger Layer…
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