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Color keying for advanced transparency: Part 1

Color keying for advanced transparency: Part 1

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Color keying for advanced transparency: Part 1

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- [Instructor] It can be difficult to cut items out of a photo that are transparent, like glass or water. And even with the keying tools in After Effects, we can't always get the perfect setting. So we'll key this image twice, in two different layers in After Effects, then blend them together in Photoshop using layer masks. So in this first part, we'll create two keyed versions of this photo in After Effects. So inside of After Effects, we'll start with a blank untitled project. Then let's go back to the exercise files and we're going to go into folder six inside of the chapter one folder in the exercise files. Inside that folder you'll find a file called almonds.jpeg, so let's import that into After Effects to get started. And so once you have the jpeg file imported, you can see it in the project panel. To create a composition, let's click and drag on this and drop it into the composition area. This will give us a composition that will match the size of the jpeg file, which is 6,000…

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