Getting Started in After Effects for Photoshop Users

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

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