Getting Started in After Effects for Photoshop Users

Getting Started in After Effects for Photoshop Users

52mBeginner2021-03-29

Authors

Mark Christiansen

Mark Christiansen

Creator, Leader, Author

Course details

Even to users familiar with apps in the Creative Cloud, After Effects often comes across as the hardest to learn. However, if you already know other Creative Cloud apps, you are likely to see a lot of familiar features in After Effects. In this course, instructor Mark Christiansen focuses on these familiar features and shows you how to create designs that combine graphics and photographed images. Mark describes the main tools and workflows that Photoshop and After Effects share in common, as well as some key differences. He explains functions that exist in both, but with different names or locations in the UI. Mark goes over how to set up a Photoshop design for video, animate text, and render motion to Photoshop text. He concludes with recommendations on where to learn more.

Skills covered

Motion GraphicsImage EditingIntroduction toAfter EffectsPhotoshopRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXPhotographyVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

Introduction

  • Is After Effects the Photoshop of video

Familiar Elements Photoshop and After Effects

  • Photoshop inspired the After Effects UI
  • There are Photoshop tools in After Effects
  • Some key differences AE and Photoshop
  • In AE it s all smart objects no folders
  • A filter in Photoshop is an effect in AE
  • Where are all my selection tools

Put a Photoshop Design in Motion

  • Set up a Photoshop design for video
  • Work with Photoshop text in AE
  • Animate text and shape to make a lower third
  • Render motion to Photoshop text

Conclusion

  • Go further with Photoshop in After Effects
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