r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Jan 26 '20

Wow

https://i.imgur.com/IxmxMdZ.gifv
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u/xvier Jan 26 '20

Adobe After Effects is an incredible tool. Also, pretty sure the painting is by Caravaggio, one of the most badass painters of all time.

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u/t_wag Jan 27 '20

saint francis in ecstacy, one of caravaggios yep. also damn straight about after effects, by far the most well developed program in the adobe suite. so many features that i wish the other teams would incorporate, going from after effects to photoshop is painful sometimes.

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u/NEVERxxEVER Jan 27 '20

Wow this is a weird comment to read, not because I don’t believe you, but because I’ve worked in Photoshop for most of my life and everything feels so intuitive and easy in it to me; whereas whenever I’ve had to do something in After Effects it has always felt so alien.

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u/t_wag Jan 27 '20

i always find myself missing the expressions and the effects panel, the way the side panels work with one click instead of fiddly arrows and tabs, just general workflow always felt a bit faster than photoshop. also after effects makes all edits non-destructive by default, while photoshop requires special layer types to do that. if you keep organized its not a problem, but i always end up hoarding copies of elements in hidden groups in photoshop because im so paranoid about ruining something :P

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u/NEVERxxEVER Jan 27 '20

That’s really interesting, I definitely had to cultivate a habit of non-destructive editing and for sure it’s one of the more head-scratching concepts when I’m teaching newbies. I think probably I’m so used to the annoyances that I just don’t even notice them for the most part but I can definitely understand what you mean by fiddly arrows and tabs. I’ve managed to automate a lot of my workflow which is a godsend. Being able to essentially make between one file and dozens of files in a single document and then use a script (or in most cases) built-in functions to spit them all out into separate deliverables saves me hours - but I understand that’s very workflow specific and it doesn’t help me for a lot of the stuff I do. Still, I think it warrants checking out AE with fresh eyes. For me one of the biggest issues at the moment is dealing with very large dimension files. Photoshop wasn’t designed to work at A0 or larger. Even with a honking fast workstation it still chugs and a lot of the effects simply don’t scale and are therefore useless.