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Creating a seamless still texture

Creating a seamless still texture - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating a seamless still texture

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- [Instructor] Textures are a great way to add depth to your animations in After Effects. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to create a seamless texture inside of Photoshop that we can bring into After Effects and animate. So to start, I want you to go to the project panel and open the texture folder. And in there, you'll see stone dot JPEG. I'll go ahead and right-click on that file. And I'll choose reveal in finder or reveal in explorer if you're on Windows. Then I'll right-click directly on the file and choose open with Adobe Photoshop. So inside of Photoshop here, you can see I've got a picture of this granite countertop. And I want this to actually flow horizontally, seamlessly, so it doesn't look like there's a beginning or an end to this. So if the interface of Photoshop doesn't look like this for you, go up under the window menu in workspace. And make sure you're in the essentials workspace. Just…

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