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AE7.0_Accepting Photoshop *Styles*?
Having attended a couple of demos I’ have never gotten a satisfactory answer to the question of whether AE7.0 is the version that *finally* accepts Photoshop layers employing Photoshop *Styles* to the degree where you can actually *Animate* the parameters of the various Styles settings such as outer & inner glows and shadows as well as custom gradients.
the pojnt being that I have a raft of customized styles stored up in Photoshop and I’d love to be able to import them *As Styles* and have them fully *Intact* as styles wihtout having to recreate them from scratch within AE7.0. This is to say when imported into AE7.0 the Style Effects Parameters are open within the Effects Panel ready to be retweaked for the effects’ to *transition* from one set of params to another with the original Style settings as the start or end point.
Why Adobe hasn’t made *Styles* an already accepted integrative part of AE is beyond me seeing as how they are all hot n’ heavy about making their image apts into a seamless suite.
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[Taliesn] “Having attended a couple of demos I’ have never gotten a satisfactory answer to the question of whether AE7.0 is the version that *finally* accepts Photoshop layers employing Photoshop *Styles* to the degree where you can actually *Animate* the parameters of the various Styles settings such as outer & inner glows and shadows as well as custom gradients.”
No. Just like in the past: only a few of them come in and in different form from PS (you knowm, that extra pre-comp nonsense)
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I asked this a while ago on here and the explantion was that AE and PS are developed by two totally different teams that don’t really talk to each other. This is still baffling to me, as like you say – they are shouting about their apps’ integration and for AE to be the daddy of mograph (which it probably is) you’d think fundamental elements like styles from the ‘daddy’ of still gfx/retouching (PS) would be more integrated.
Photoshop will always be better suited to building your graphic layouts, etc than AE, but I hate having to flatten all my layer styles before importing my PSD into AE so the styles look right. It means keeping a backup PSD with everything editable which I have to go back to and clumsily replace bits with my flattened version when I need to adjust things later on. The convert editbale text function is great, but no use if you’ve got any bevels, etc applied to your text, because it will be flattened and rasterised.
That is my NUMBER 1 wish for CS3 and AE 7.5/8.0 or whatever it will be!
ARE YOU LISTENING ADOBE???!
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Jimmybee is incorrect when he says that Photoshop bevels are not imported into After Effects.
Try this. Make some beveled and drop shadowed text in Photoshop. Import the file as a Composition cropped layers.
You’ll see several layers that replicate the bevel and drop shadow. Convert all of these to text in After Effects.
Note the bevel layer has a Photoshop Bevel and Emboss effect on it that you can animate.
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No offense to you personally , but your citation of this one instance is pretty thin at best. I thought that
I made clear that what I , and apparently a lot of others are looking for , was Photoshop *Styles* impoted into AE7.0 with their FX settings *intact* , showing up in the *Effects* panel and thus *all* of the settings parameters *Animatable*. Like I said in my initial post, I have a raft of really sweet custom Styles that are next to impossible to recreate using AE approxiantion of Photoshops Styles. It just shouldn’t be this hard.
Thus your example falls far short of the mark , but not as far as the Adobe AE code engineers who continue to ignore this very *obvious* oversight in Adobe’s quest to blow its own horn over making all of their image-processing apps into one happy family suite of integrated tools. C’mon Adobe , this is the 21st century for crying out loud. All you’ve done is lately is finally organize the Ui while *Buying up Macromedia*.
Sounds just like a page right oput opf MSFT’s playbook.( Ha!)
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I came to AE7.0 straight from v5.5 so don’t get me wrong, I have been astounded by the improvements in 7.0..it’s never going to be a ‘moving photoshop’, it’s so much more than that in many ways, but obviously PS has tonnes it’s own advantages aswell and the two will never totally meet, it wouldn’t make sense to – it’d just be a ridiculously huge and bloated app. BUT, the PS styles thing would be an incredibly useful addition to the next version of AE, as would exporting layered PSDs back to PS that were created in AE *with* editable text. They can already do it to an extent in the other direction, so why not back again?
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