From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation
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Importing layered Photoshop files - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation
Importing layered Photoshop files
- [Trish] In this movie, I'll be covering the various ways of importing a layered Photoshop file into After Effects. First, let's have a look at the file in Photoshop. It has a number of layers, and if you look at LAYER panel, you'll see that many of them have layer styles applied. Provided I import this file as a composition, I'll be able to edit these layer styles if I wish. So in After Effects, I'll double click the Project panel that'll open the Import File dialogue. The Butterfly Arrangement is the file I want to import. The Import As pop-up would allow me to choose Footage or Composition. Let's start with Footage. And note when I click Open, a second dialogue appears with the same options in the Import Kind pop-up. So you will want to check in this dialogue that you're importing it using the method you prefer. If I choose Footage, I have a choice between merged layers and choosing an individual layer. Let's look at Merged Layers first. I'll click OK, and a single image will be…
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