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Importing & converting Photoshop files for animation

Importing & converting Photoshop files for animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Importing & converting Photoshop files for animation

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- There are a few little tips and tricks to animating lines, bars, and pie charts. Many times those techniques are a little dependent on your original source files, so let's check them out. In my After Effects project notice it's completely empty, so I want to start by importing a layered Photoshop document. Double-click in your project panel and navigate in your exercise files to the assets folder. In there I want you to go to the 04_Psd folder, and then click once under the 02_02_Extracted_AE.psd file. Then go down under import as and change the pull down from footage to composition retain layer sizes. Make sure Photoshop sequence is not selected, and then click open. It's going to give me a dialogue box making sure that I still want to import it as a composition retain layer sizes, but I can also make sure that any layer styles I've added are also imported as editable elements. Now we can just leave that set up the way it is and click OK, and now you'll see if I expand this lower…

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