From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Importing a layered PSD file into After Effects
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Importing a layered PSD file into After Effects
- Now that our Photoshop files are prepared, it's time to bring them into After Effects. There are a few different ways to do this, so it's important that you pay attention to the details. With After Effects launched, you'll have an empty project. Now, from the file menu, choose file, import file. This allows you to select what you want to bring in. Let's navigate to folder seven here, and there's two Photoshop documents. I'll go ahead and select both of them by command clicking and choose Open. Now that brought them in as regular flattened Photoshop files. This is difficult to animate. Now, if you do this, you can actually select these, and right click and choose replace footage with layered comp, and that switches it out. Now, if you open it up, you'll see that you've got the individual layers. That works nicely, but there's a challenge. Notice that the bounding boxes are around the individual objects, which actually…
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