• Adobe After Effects

  Composition not importing in layers

  Posted by Mark Madsen on June 28, 2010 at 7:23 pm

  I’m animating a logo for someone. They sent me a .eps file of the logo. I created the layers that I need in photoshop and saved the file as a .psd with layers selected. I imported it into AE as a composition and the layers don’t show up, it’s just one flat layer.
  I’ve tried saving as every file type and importing as footage, composition and composition – retain layer size. Nothing I do will make the individual layers show up so I can animate them separately.
  Anyone have any suggestions?
  Thanks!

  Matt Davis replied 8 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Andy George

  June 28, 2010 at 9:56 pm

  If your color mode is not RGB in the PSD it won’t separate the layers on import. Is that your problem?

  -Andy
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  Mark Madsen

  June 28, 2010 at 11:35 pm

  Awesome! Thanks so much!
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  Amy Lee-suits

  July 7, 2016 at 10:56 pm

  thank you!!
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  Matt Davis

  October 17, 2017 at 3:25 pm

  Thanks for this! In case anyone else is wondering, this works even if your photoshop project contains only black and white objects.

  I didn’t even consider colour mode, as I was only working with black vector images on a white backdrop.

  Thanks again for this….even 7 years later.

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