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Control opacity with keyframes

Control opacity with keyframes - Photoshop Tutorial

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Control opacity with keyframes

- [Instructor] keyframes are a way to mark the state of a layer at a specific point in the timeline, and then apply a change over time, which is recorded by another keyframe. We're gonna be using keyframes a lot throughout this course and we're gonna be begin our exploration of what is possible with them with a simple opacity transition. So, I think that the cross fades overall are looking pretty good, let's just play this. And our first one is coming up between the windmills, and then into the time lapse, so that's looking really nice, but what I want to do is apply more of a subtle transition into the solar panel. I just think it appears a bit too abruptly there, although the case could be made that it works with the bright light in the light bulb coming on and then the bright sun here, but I want to experiment with a more subtle transition. However, I cannot add a cross fade onto the beginning of this because there has to be another clip there. So if I drag cross fade down, it's…

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