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Vanishing Point Exchange in Photoshop Extended - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space
Vanishing Point Exchange in Photoshop Extended
There are several ways to use Adobe Photoshop to create 3D objects that can then be imported into After Effects. The first one we're going to explore is called Vanishing Point Exchange. It's a way of turning a flat photograph into literally a 3D house of cards. Go to File>Open, navigate to inside your Exercise Files for CS5.5, open up the Sources folder, open up the 3D folder, then select building*starter.jpg. This sort of image is a good candidate for Vanishing Point Exchange. Vanishing Point Exchange relies on you having a number of flat surfaces that connect at nice clean angles, that it can then convert into a series of flat surfaces that are folded together to create a three-dimensional outline of this building. Once you've selected your image, go to Filter>Vanishing Point and you'll open up the special Vanishing Point dialog. Make sure you have the Create Plane tool selected; it's the default, zoom in on your image; you can hold Command on Mac or Ctrl on Windows and press the…
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Vanishing Point Exchange in Photoshop Extended9m 17s
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Vanishing Point Exchange in After Effects4m 38s
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Importing a 3D model into Photoshop Extended in CS5.5 and earlier9m 7s
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Creating 3D objects using Repoussé in CS5.5 and earlier9m 46s
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Live Photoshop 3D inside After Effects in CS5.5 and earlier8m 17s
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