Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book

Chapter 6. Animating Layers

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Animate a layered Adobe Photoshop file.

• Duplicate an animation using the pick whip.

• Work with imported Photoshop layer styles.

• Apply a track matte to control the visibility of layers.

• Animate a layer using the Corner Pin effect.

• Apply the Lens Flare effect to a solid layer.

• Use time remapping and the Layer panel to dynamically retime footage.

• Edit Time Remap keyframes in the Graph Editor.

Adobe After Effects provides several tools and effects that let you simulate motion video using a layered Photoshop file. In this lesson, you will import a layered Photoshop ...