• Adobe After Effects

  How to import a Photoshop PSD file containing layer masks?

  Posted by Esther Casas on February 22, 2023 at 9:55 pm

  Hi all!

  Let’s see if someone has the magic for this, because I have been looking online and did not find an answer anywhere: it seems impossible to import a Photoshop PSD file containing layer groups with layer masks, or just a simple PSD with individual layer masks. After Effects disregards the Layer Mask, it does not even show it.

  I have the latest version of AE, and latest of Photoshop…and can’t seem to have a way to import these layers masks, so my PSD looks totally different than the original PSD, creating a nightmare just to get the image to look right before starting to work on any effects.

  so FUN….

  Does anybody know how to get this work?

  Thank you!!!

  Eric Santiago replied 3 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Eric Santiago

  February 22, 2023 at 10:18 pm

  You reuse any layer with alpha as a layer mask.

  Duplicate and apply track matte if need be.

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