Your First After Effects Project

Add Adobe After Effects to your creative skill set. Learn how to build your first motion graphics project—an animated postcard—using Photoshop and After Effects.

Introduction

• Animating a static design

1. Import and Organize

• Introduction to After Effects
• Reviewing the Photoshop design
• Creating a composition from footage
• Import, organize, and trim the project

2. Match the Design

• Matching colors
• Converting to live text

3. Animation

• Changing kerning and animating a texture
• Revealing a layer using a transition
• Animating text with presets
• Animating layers using parenting

4. Compositing

• Replacing clips
• Creating a mockup, part 1
• Creating a mockup, part 2

5. Rendering

• Rendering a master file
• Exporting to the web

Conclusion

• Next steps