You’ve positioned the type and applied some effects to it. It’s time to add some animation! You will learn several ways to animate text in Lesson 3; for now, you’ll ... Read MoreRead More
Now you’ll return to the main composition, Explore Hawaii, and apply an effect to the BlueCrabLogo layer. This will apply the effect to all of the layers nested in the ... Read MoreRead More
You’ll import the background image first. Creating an empty compositionFirst, you’ll create the composition itself, without any layers. After Effects displays an empty composition named Explore Hawaii in the Composition ... Read MoreRead More
Take a minute to explore the predefined workspaces in After Effects. After Effects opens the panels that you would commonly use for animation tasks, including Motion Sketch, Wiggler, and Smoother. ... Read MoreRead More
The Properties panel provides quick access to properties for the selected layer. It displays Transform properties for all layers, and additional properties for text or shape layers. You can also ... Read MoreRead More
Use the Timeline panel to animate layer properties and set In and Out points for a layer. (In and Out points are the points at which a layer begins and ... Read MoreRead More
You’ll start by replacing the placeholder text with real text. Then you’ll format it to fit the space better. Note After Effects offers robust character and paragraph formatting controls, but ... Read MoreRead More
After Effects also includes many stylistic effects. You’ll add a beam of light to the clip to add an artistic touch. You’ll change the settings of this effect to modify ... Read MoreRead More
Layers are the components you use to build a composition. Any item that you add to a composition—such as a still image, moving-image file, audio file, light layer, camera layer, ... Read MoreRead More
Because one of the footage items for this project is a multilayer Photoshop file, you’ll import it separately as a composition.TipYou can also choose File > Import > Multiple Files ... Read MoreRead More