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Learn how to use After Effects to create stunning, unique, and professional-quality graphics for any design project.

What you will learn

Create jaw-dropping visuals in just a few minutes

Create unique artwork for any design project

Enhance photographs with lighting and special effects

Enhance illustrations and artwork with high quality effects

Generate unique patterns and textures from any image

Learn to combine After Effects and Photoshop to design amazing graphics

Description

As a designer, you’re constantly challenged to create new and compelling imagery for your projects. That sometimes requires new tools. After Effects is known for animation, but it’s also a powerful program for graphic designers. Its panels and basic features are similar to Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, which makes After Effects easier for designers to learn. This course offers a unique workflow, combining Photoshop with After Effects to create stunning, unique, and professional-quality assets for print, web, and photography. Instructor Chris Converse — founding partner of Codify Design Studio — shows how to create special effects, add dramatic lighting to photos, color key images, build textures and patterns, and generate artwork from almost nothing, producing effects like water, bubbles, lightning, and rain. The course is for any designer—even if you’ve never used After Effects before. Chris demos each example step by step, and shows how the results can be used in real-world design projects.


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Content

Introduction

Using After Effects for design projects
About the exercise files
A brief intro to After Effects
Getting comfortable with the After Effects interface
Importing Photoshop files
Exporting Photoshop, JPG and PNG files

Creating Special Effects

Creating an editorial graphic
Add a dramatic lighting effect
Adding a Page Curl
Creating a burst of light
Color keying for transparent imagery
Color keying for advanced transparency – part 1
Color keying for advanced transparency – part 2

Creating Patterns and Textures

Creating a kaleidoscope pattern
Generating a unique texture
Create line art from a photo
Shapes with radio waves
Interlocking zig zag pattern

Generating Artwork from (Almost) Nothing

Enhancing an illustration with lightning
Enhancing an illustration with rain
Creating a water surface — part 1
Creating a water surface — part 2
Creating a water surface — part 3
Making realistic melted chocolate – part 1
Making realistic melted chocolate – part 2
Creating bubbles for champagne — part 1
Creating bubbles for champagne — part 2

Where to go from here

Where to go from here