TABLE OF CONTENTS One advantage of After Effects, among many, is its close relationship to Adobe s other leading graphics production applications: Photoshop and Illustrator. The integration of these three programs comprises a powerful, diverse toolset that builds upon one another. Images created in Photoshop and Illustrator can be imported as Compositions, fully prepared with all their separate layers to be animated. This can save hours of import work because the layout is already prepared all that s left to add is your design touch.
Many artists and animators prefer to design in Photoshop/Illustrator finish in After Effects . They work this way because each of these programs is the best at their core mission: Photoshop for bitmap image editing and Illustrator for vector graphics while After Effects is best in bringing these files to life.
This section will discuss some unique capabilities of the Photoshop and Illustrator imported Comp. We ll also examine how 3D Cameras, Lights, and Layers combined with Parenting to Nulls can create dynamic visuals with depth and impact.
If you follow the Photoshop-to-After Effects workflow, take this advice to heart: unlike the print world, dpi has no relevance to digital video. Work exclusively in absolute pixel count. At 72 or 2400 dpi, an 800 600 pixel file is always the same file size. But this does not mean that you should work solely in the image size you ll be rendering your project. Au contraire
