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Creating palettes in After Effects

Creating palettes in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating palettes in After Effects

- [Instructor] Now, if we look at our 0302_Create_Palettes project, you'll notice in the Mixology_Gray composition I have a grayscale layout for the title design we've been working on up to this point. I've done this because I wanted to focus on the overall composition of my typography without necessarily being concerned about colors or color palettes. But, when it is time to add colors into my project, I like to use one tool in After Effects. And to get to it, we'll go up to the Window menu, and go to Extensions. Under there, we want to go to Adobe Color Themes. Now, it's going to take a second to load, but this panel does require an Internet connection. Once the panel actually loads, you'll be able to see the interface that we can use to go ahead and create our different color palettes. Now, your panel may not look like this. Sometimes you have to hover in the lower right-hand corner to actually make the panel large…

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