Hi guys and the welcome to this lecture and in this lecture we are going to impart or learn how to import
images into after effects and images come in different kinds.
There is back teeth and Photoshop and also you can have Illustrator files now but that will give us
some players or path we been call all these kinds of images if you want to bring an image into aftereffect.
The first read through it is to go to a file to import an import file.
That's one way.
The way I like is right click in the project panel import fight that you take to your folder or your
storage unit where you can move around to you know get to the folder where you have your images.
Let's use an image here a simple image.
For example Laura is a nice castle.
There's about a project that we have done.
When I click on the image in the project panel it will give me the size of the image the name of course
and the number of colors.
Now there are several ways to create a composition with the image or to create a composition and drop
the image in.
I will take that image for example and show you how to create decomposition I would drop it into the
timeline immediately it became a layer.
That's one.
It created a new composition with the same name.
And of course decomposition and the image have the same size.
Now if I click on the composition I can see the formation of the camp.
It's 19:20 by 14:14 the same size as the image and also the time here is seven seconds and 21 minute.
This is because of what I've used before.
The last composition I have created 25 frames per second you can come and change the composition setting
for example and put it at five seconds for example 5.
That is five seconds.
The image does not give you.
How long is the composition.
It just goes back to the last one you have created and you notice here my image is almost square and
in the time line is not moving at all.
I don't have a layer inside this layer.
I have the transform and inside the transform I have the normal transformations.
Now we can come and animate our image if you want.
We can scale it down to zero.
And then after a few frames get it up to 100 and you have an animation very simple one.
Of course this is the most that you that you can do animations with the images.
So actually the images will drop as they are simple letters.
Let's open here the scale and make it back to 100 percent.
Let's go back and import more images and say file and let's import for example big images.
Let's take this one.
I will import this image that is seven thousand three hundred sixty pixel by 3000 is very big.
Now I can come and take it and drop it in the composition.
I can drop it under or above the way I want or I can come even and drop it somewhere you know on the
timeline here.
I mean what is that image is huge.
If you look look at the image how big and the comp is really small.
Now what I can do to resize it I can just click here and start resizing.
Of course that's one way to do it.
A better way to do it and I like to use that way is to right click on your land and come to transform
and see fit to come up with.
Now depending on the image it might fit to do with to the height maybe fitting to the country will distort
the image most of the time.
Let's get this one to the with.
Now let's see it at 100 percent.
If not is that fitting to the with.
Clearly it didn't go well with the image the image now it just has you know some empty space above and
under you can change that you can go and transform fit to compact and here.
Now that's much better yet I'm not seeing the whole image.
But just to show you that instead of starting resizing your image from here.
Well there will be no problem in coming here and saying transform go and fitted to complete or complete
or even to the camp but you will see distortion now.
Fine.
Let me read this to and actually I would delete the top.
OK so we have seen how to bring in images.
Let's go and being different kinds of images.
For example I have here the image for Tiger.
This is obviously a penguin image.
It has a transparent background.
And the man and the alien here have an important call that over here let's create a new composition.
Obviously we don't want that size.
Let's take it ahead by 25.
And it is 1920 by 10.
That's OK.
The frame rate we don't get this is an image and a five second duration could we drop it in.
Now let's take our alien guy and drop it inside.
This is another way also to drop your images just like that from the project file to inside the camp.
And here you have your image and not as that is transparency.
And let's take our man the man now is pretty big.
I will go and say transform and of course to come pite and from here I can resizes differ with like
you know what is the transparency.
Let's take the tiger.
Very big very beautiful tiger.
Also we go transform and fit the compact.
Now you have all your images with transparency
kill them and you can do whatever you want with them using the transformation.
You can see here you have all the transforms that you want rotation opacity and of course you can at
present and you can add puppets and everything you want.
This is what we use for this project.
Now let's try opacity with images.
You notice that you can make the image disappear or appear.
Of course you can rotate it and you can scale it up and down the way you want we have seen that.
And of course you can animated through the position that the positioning will go to one second and then
get over there and you have your tiger moving around the screen.
But not in this movie but just to show you how an image will be.
Now all images will behave very nicely with you provided they are good quality.
One thing to do if I have my tiger here and I will come and say dessert for example you're not just
my target is very big.
Please don't scare it up.
You will lose resolution.
And when you make a movie it's also were rendered badly and you will not have that's an excellent image
by the way.
You will not have good resolution.
Sometimes it can work like this case where the resolution is highly extra for this image.
A couple of clicks that you want to be careful about when you are doing images of your country or a
project here and DoubleClick for example on the tiger.
It will open a new panel.
This is a footage that you see straight in here.
And in this panel there are certain things you can do.
It's not the subject of this lecture but remember that you click here you are not in your position you
are in the footage.
Maybe close your footage and come back to your composition.
Now if you come to your lair and double click it will open the layer panel.
You notice that it's exactly when you click on the composition it will open a new composition viewer
or it takes over this one.
So now you are in the earlier panel now.
In the last panel there are a few things and we study them in discourse that you can do that pretty
simple.
The first one is the brush tool for example you have a brush here and you can draw you know things here
and there will appear on the time line and we are going to use that to create very special animations
later on that you see on YouTube and some fantastic movies where some graphics appeared on top of images.
So you can use the Blash You can also use the stem tool is exactly like Photoshop.
If I click al-Thani and then come and through here it will just do the stamping.
Also you can use the arrays are my favorite and you can erase part of your guy for example that will
be very nice now.
OK.
And we are raising his top So Andrea is in his top here.
And maybe also we come back and delete these strokes or this and it is even more that's come in to something.
There's nothing good.
Now if you come back to your composition or the modification that you have done repeating a not as the
image is very fine.
So I will take it transform and say to come up high for example and let's go back to 100 percent.
Here you.
You notice that all the changes you have done in your player and if you keep on doing more changes here
it will also appear in your play or inside the composition.
So now we have a single head with deleted everything is we deleted everything else.
Now got this quite practical because it will allow us to modify the images and work on them.
And mainly when you have characters that we want to animate.
So this is all about images is all about the transparency and so on.
So you in the next lecture where we are going to introduce some movies how to import movies and what
to do with the movies.
Thanks for listening and I will see you in the next decade.