properly export a plotagon animation t your files

When importing a multilayered PSD file, you are asked whether you want to merge layers or select an individual layer – choosing to keep or ignore layer effects (you can add the equivalent of these in After Effects and animate them independently).

Layers in After Effects can be animated independently, and you can animate properties such as position, scale, rotation and opacity by using the drop-down arrow next to the layer name on the timeline.

But in After Effects they work in a different way: there's no Layers panel, so layers are dealt with on the timeline. Think of Adobe After Effects' timeline as equivalent to Photoshop layersĪ common feature across Photoshop and After Effects are layers. Bringing keyframes closer to one another will speed up the animation. Play back to see how it moves and experiment with different properties in the same way. So, with that in mind, import an image (JPEG, PNG or whatever) drop down the arrow next to the image name in the timeline, hit the stopwatch icon next to Position, drag the timeline marker to 01:00s and then move the image in the composition window. This means when you move a layer, mask and so on in the Composition window, your keyframe will be recorded at that time. You can also set the timeline to auto-keyframe (the stopwatch icon second from the right, circled in the screenshot).

This enables you to set keyframes that determine such properties as position, opacity, scale and so on – meaning you can animate these over time. Next to each property is a stopwatch icon. Take a look at the After Effects timeline in the screenshot above: you'll notice there are layers just like Photoshop (this is explored in more detail below) along with details of the properties of that layer.

Properly export a plotagon animation t your files