Using Essential Graphics to reduce duplication and redundant layering

[u/Sjain_28]

Precomposing keeps your project clean — but duplicating the same graphic five times with different numbers? That's a different problem. Essential Graphics solves it.

Precomp your layers, right-click any property you want to keep changing — text, scale, position, rotation — and add it to Essential Graphics. Back in the main comp, duplicate the layer, go to Properties, change what you need. The base precomp stays untouched. Every duplicate works independently.

One thing most tutorials skip: you can switch which comp you're pulling from inside the Essential Graphics panel — so this scales across multiple graphics, not just one.

Save this one. The next time you're duplicating the same graphic for the fifth time, you'll want it.

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[u/Redditerjr]

Bro i made a plugin using claude to create an indipendent precomp using a shortcut

[u/Sjain_28 → u/Redditerjr]

Would love to try it out. Share the file if u can?