Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #41551
From: Robert Leigh <leighs@qwest.net>
Subject: RE: [AE] Maintaining text positioning on imported Photoshop files
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 07:15:08 -0700
To: 'After Effects Mail List' <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

Thanks Rich.  I’ll do some experimenting this morning.  This is so much more fun than VisiCalc.

 

Best regards,

 

rl

 


From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Richard Green
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 6:44 AM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] Maintaining text positioning on imported Photoshop files

 

Hi Robert, if you created your text layers as a single photoshop file, you can import it as an AE comp and all your layer spatial relationships should be the same as they were in photoshop. Hth.

Cheers
Rich

On 3 Jan 2012 03:51, "Robert Leigh" <leighs@qwest.net> wrote:

Ladies and gentlemen,

 

By way of introduction . . .

 

Six months ago, and after 35 years as a CPA, I opted to retreat from the world of beige and begin exercising my right-brain functions.  To wit, I purchased a raft of Adobe products (including AE) and even Maxon's C4D.  At this point, however, I wouldn't know an 8-bit pass from a glazed donut. 

 

I've found the best way to learn something new is to jump headlong into a project.  So I have.  I'm creating a video intro with layers of text that fade in and out in AE.  The text was created in Pshop 5.  It's important the text in the diff layers line up correctly.  I've taken great pains to do so in Pshop.  I'm importing the psd files into AE.  HOWEVER, when I do, I find the text ends up centered in the comp, damn it.  (Note: geezers sprinkle "damn it" into their language a lot.)  I don't want the text layers to be centered but rather to exhibit the same positioning as they did in Pshop.  Duh. 

 

Please pardon my wordiness.  I won't make a habit of it.  I look forward to someday answering an AE question for someone and, by doing  so, be entrusted with the coveted AE secret handshake.  In the meantime, feel free to pepper me with tax questions.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Robert Leigh

 

 

 

 

 
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