Course Overview
This course is designed to show you the “photoslicing” technique I used to create an animated slideshow. The course walks you through my workflow on a step-by-step basis focusing on the Photoshop skills you’ll need as well as keeping the actions in After Effects as simple as possible so that anyone can learn this!
This 2 hour course is designed to teach photographers, videographers and aspiring motion graphics artist a relatively simple but great looking technique for bringing still photos to life in a way that drag and drop slideshows simply cannot replicate.
Creating a Timing File in Premiere
Cutting Out Segments of Your Photos
Adding Masking and Animation
Using Refine Edge to Remove "Halos"
Creating Photo Animations
Adding Text to Your Animations
Animating Text in Your Animation
The Final Product
Lessons
8
Length
1 Hour 39 Minutes
Level
Intermediate
Required
Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects
Lessons
Creating a Timing File
Learn how to save a ton of time on any animated video you do.
Cutting up your photo in Photoshop
Finding natural cut lines. Splitting a photo into multiple layers. How to overlap the layers to prevent βhaloβ problems. Prepping your file for animation.
Animating Your First Photo
What are keyframes? The basics of the After Effects interface. Creating a composition. How to import footage. Arranging photoslices on a timeline. Creating basic animation.
Cutting out your remaining photos
Practice cutting up your photos for animated layers. Using the refine edge tool to get a cleaner overlap.
Animating Your Remaining Photos
Learn how to add text to an After Effects composition. Adjusting text size and placement. How to change fonts and format text.
Adding Text to your animation
Learn how to add text to an After Effects composition. Adjusting text size and placement. How to change fonts and format text.
Adding Motion to Your Text
How to add animation to your text. Using After Effects presets to apply complex animations with the click of a button. Adjusting text effects and how to split layers.
Closing video
An introduction to more advanced techniques available to use in After Effects.