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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By : David Dodds
Book Image

Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By: David Dodds

Overview of this book

If you’re thinking seriously about making and publishing your videos with professional editing and animation, look no further! Adobe After Effects is a popular tool among video editors and YouTubers to enhance their videos and bring them to life by implementing visual effects and motion graphics. This book will take you right from the basics through to the advanced techniques in Adobe After Effects CC 2018. You will start by setting up your editing environment to learn and improve techniques to sharpen your video editing skills. Furthermore, you will work with basic and advanced special effects to create, modify, and optimize motion graphics in your videos. Lastly, you will not only learn how to create 2.5D animations, but also get to grips with using Cinema 4D Lite to build and animate complete 3D scenes. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to package a video efficiently with the help of the projects covered.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
Contributors
Preface
Assessment
Other Book You May Enjoy
Index

Color correction and adjusting masks


We are going to change some of the colors of our shapes. When I discovered all the color correction tools available in After Effects, I swear I did a little dance! These color correction tools are non-destructive, so you can change them at any time. Many of these tools are also available in Photoshop. So, if you're familiar with color correction in Photoshop, some of these tools and concepts will be familiar to you. As you color correct, think of yourself as a colorist using color to help convey some emotion. We are also going to fine-tune our mask shapes. Remember, your precomps and masks are always editable.

Adjusting colors

To edit the color of the yellow triangle shape, you can double-click on the precomp in the timeline, as follows:

  1. Select the bottom yellow layer

  2. Go to the Effect & Presets panel

  3. Type fill

  4. Double-click the Fill effect

This will add the effect to whatever you have chosen. As you can see, you get an Effects panel that pops up next to...