From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Cleaning up the files and transparency

Cleaning up the files and transparency

Now that we've got the files, we're going to bring them into After Effects to take a look but once we have them there, there might be a need for some cleanup to add transparency or clone in missing details. Now in After Effects, I want you to choose File, Import, Vanishing Point and navigate to the ones that I built called VPE_Start. Select Building _vpe and click Open. What happens is it will open up the After Effects project and show you a basic 3D model. In this case, the floor is built as are the different panels but you might notice that there's parts of the image that need to be cleaned up. So easy enough. If I select one of these panels, I can easily modify it. I'm going to choose to reveal this here in the Finder, select these png files and bring them into Photoshop. Now we can erase and clone. So with the layers in tact, I'll just press the E key for eraser and start to remove areas or you could…

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