Start our first project guys are going to create this animation and we're going to use the three steps
design and sequence.
Let's take a new project.
So we go to new composition here and it's called my company.
I want to use 12 80 by 720 and frame rate 30 and five seconds is large enough for this project.
We click OK to create the composition good.
Then you need to import the image to import.
You know very well by now you are right click the import file and you navigate to where you have downloaded
the files or the videos and the image and you can select the image.
Would be very nice if you select your own image and change the word.
While I'm working so you can create something that is valuable for you.
I make sure I don't create a composition here because the image size is a bit odd.
I will use the composition that hour to decode yet.
So our click Import here.
Now you want to drop the image inside the timeline so you can start working.
You can click on it and drag it and drop it over here if you like or just drop it in the time line down.
I will do that.
I dropped it in the time that now I zoom out using the mouse scroll you not as the image is huge compared
to the composition 12 by 720.
So I need to resize the image one way to do it is just to come and do this and then you are in trouble
because the image is distorted.
The best way to do it in After Effects I will show you the long way is to select an image or select
a layer for example.
Right click and go to transform and hissy fit to come up or to come up with Orphic to compact.
To keep it on scale the best is fit to complete.
If you can remember the shortcut is control alt shift H.
But I usually use a Right-Click it's a long cut Let's zoom back.
You remember this is your magnification value pop up.
You fit to 100 percent to not start moving the image every time by mistake.
It's best to lock that image.
You have the luck just over here.
Lock prevents layers from being edited that is moved or even skipped.
So I will look.
Now let's start adding a text.
Click on the text tool look at the character panel.
Everything seems fine except the font size.
Maybe I'm using arial for the whole course.
Please feel free to use any font you like.
There will be no problem you will need me to.
So you want to start adding the text some.
It doesn't matter that way.
And then I will start writing.
The first is graphics design.
The font is white.
I can't even see it.
Are going to put that background.
I need to add more text so I'll go and enter.
I'm still in the text to click over here and write the second one which is motion graphics control.
Enter again from the main keyboard and I can click to write the third one.
It is web design.
I finished adding text.
I will go for the selection tool.
Now I need to align this text.
Ok so they simply are just put them over here.
That's OK but let's use the align palette.
All these have shortcuts you'll get to know them later.
Now I select the three layers not just how you select select from the composition preview over here.
You select the first one you press shift so the second one you keep on shift and you select the third
one.
If you want to select from the last year select the first one you can press shift and select the last
one.
Or you can select the first Chouan press control second and third.
The way you would like but the shift only works here.
Control does not work.
Notice control is not working at all.
So I would select the three of them.
I will align them on the left and then I want to distribute them.
Now not just where the anchor points so they are going to be distributed according to the anchor points.
Now but that's ok.
I think they are a bit big here so I'll go to character and take it down for example to 50 create the
background course you're going to use a ship player.
Now make sure you de-select everything by putting to and click and drag to create the Shepler.
Wow.
So we have a very odd color.
Let's check the feel first to fall 100 percent we're happy blending is normal and it's a solid color.
Cool for now maybe I'll come back and reduce the passage.
Let's take the Shipler now.
Click on it and drag it to put it just above the pic so it works as a backup.
Let's change the color.
Let's move it over here to see the color.
I will use the eyedropper now and pick a color from within the image itself.
It will be interesting all the time.
OK I will take this color and click OK for the color I can use the selection tool and select the letter
and start moving the lead up and down to position it.
The best way I want.
But now how about getting some transparency on the background that will be interesting.
Let's go to the feel of the fill over here and put some transparency word and previewing cool just like
this fact.
Now the text is quite good but you can add the drop shadow straight easy and select the layer.
Right click on it and you have less tiles.
Immediately I can put it dropshot.
I don't want to go into the details of the that though.
I like it.
Now for the other two.
How about applying the drop shadow simultaneously.
Select the first one press shift and select the second one and the right click and go to start and say
option.
Here you are.
So now we have created our design.
That's what we like.
Now select all the layers press control or comment on the Mac to select all the layers not this being
all selected of course except my company because it has been looked good.
I will throw it up there will at this point we have completed the design.
We want to start animating and we'll do that in the next lecture.
See you then.