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Getting Started in After Effects for Photoshop Users

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn about Adobe After Effects, with a focus on familiar features that you can use to put a design in motion.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Is After Effects the Photoshop of video?
1. 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?
2. 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

Taught by

Mark Christiansen

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