From the course: Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Importing layered Photoshop documents - Motion Tutorial
From the course: Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics
Importing layered Photoshop documents
- [Instructor] Now I'm starting this video in Photoshop, but rest assured you do not need Photoshop in your system to actually be able to do this. I just want to show you how a layered Photoshop document can be imported into a Motion project. And along the way, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about composition. So I'm working with the Map_with_Overlays.psd file, which can be found in the Assets folder in your Exercise Files. Now I'm going to go to the Layers panel here and I'll turn off the visibility of the top two layers, because I just want to talk about what we have built right now. You can see, I have a USA layer, which is a map of the USA, and I have a background color, and you'll notice the USA layer has an effect on it. If I turn the visibility of the effect off, you can see the layer is really a black and white map, and I'm using a color overlay to add that yellow color. Now, what are these two layers? Let's…
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