From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for Photoshop Users

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Photoshop inspired the After Effects UI

Photoshop inspired the After Effects UI

From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for Photoshop Users

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Photoshop inspired the After Effects UI

- [Narrator] Let's get to know the After Effects interface by starting with the elements that are most familiar to those of you who know your Photoshop. Here is After Effects as it looks when you first open it. There is a home panel displayed, which I'm going to close because I find it entirely redundant and I set a preference not to even display it. Everything that it does is echoed right here in the After Effects user interface. Now, here we have After Effects and anytime you open a new Adobe application, you've probably had the experience that there will be familiar elements and then ones that are somewhat terrifying in how unfamiliar they are. The unfamiliar elements here are right at center. There's the project composition and timeline panel. But over on the edges, we see some more familiar elements. The toolbar isn't lit up yet because we haven't created a project, but it is full of some familiar icons. We have…

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