After Effects for Photography

Learn how to incorporate After Effects into your photography workflow to achieve effects that could not be created with Photoshop alone.

Introduction

• Explore new possibilities for your photos using After Effects
• Get the most from the exercise files
• A brief intro to After Effects
• Get comfortable with the After Effects interface
• Import Photoshop files
• Import Camera RAW files
• Export Photoshop, JPG, and PNG files

1. Special Effects

• Add a sunset
• Key (remove) a background color
• Add a burst of light
• Add a rippled reflection, part 1
• Add a rippled reflection, part 2
• Double exposure portrait

2. Colorizing Techniques

• Create a duotone, a tritone, and a pentone
• Mix channels with the Channel Mixer
• Change colors with Colorama

3. Patterns and Textures

• Repeat patterns with Motion Tile
• Blend patterns with RepeTile
• Texturize patterns with Ball Action
• Edging textures with Roughen Edges

Wrapping Up

• Where to go from here