From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

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Setting up

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From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

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Setting up

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we'll set up the workspace for using paint, and cover some important basic concepts. If you have the exercise files go ahead and open AEA, Paint and Puppet. If you're following along with our second edition of After Effects Apprentice, this is lesson number 10. I'm going to open the first composition, 01-Paint Basics Starter, which includes one layer of a fanciful mask. If you don't have the exercise files, just import any image that has an interesting alpha channel. When I turn on the transparency grid you can see that this image has an alpha channel, and even the eyes are transparent. That will be important later on when we learn about how to paint with different channels. I'll turn off the transparency grid, and then double click the layer to open the image in the Layer panel. Whenever you use any of the paint tools you must be in the Layer panel, not the Composition panel. I'll set the magnification to fit up to 100% so we can see our entire image…

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