From the course: After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Integration

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Layer naming strategies

Layer naming strategies

- As you move from Photoshop to After Effects organization really comes in handy. You see, Photoshop makes it easy to view your layers. Giant thumbnails, all sorts of tools with a layers palette that makes it quite easy to see the details. Even if that layer is called Layer 2 copy 17. Well in After Effects, you don't have as much real estate. As you start to stack different tracks together. It becomes very difficult to know what something is. Unless of course, it's well named. For example, here's a simple, easy project. Let me open it up and we'll take a look at both the After Effects side and the Photoshop side. In this case, when I imported things in. You'll notice that we had different layers. The sky, the hand on the left, and the hand on the right, well these elements were quite easy to animate. And as I started to add in more layers such as an additional sky and a light and work in 3D space. It made it quite easy to keep everything organized. This is an example of using the…

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