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  • Help with importing transparent backgrounds from Photoshop

    Posted by Aske Nielsen on May 4, 2008 at 8:30 am

    Hi

    Im making a 2d animation actionmovie, and i need some help fast!

    I painted the blood that my characters is going to spray his surroundings with in Photoshop Extended, where it is possible to draw on a sequence of images. I painted the blood on a transparent layer, and now need to import it to After Effects. I tried both rendering as a sequence of images and saving it as a psd, but there is always a black background when im importing in AE..

    All help appreciated 🙂

    Jim Money replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Robert Reiss

    May 11, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    I have a similar problem with a photoshop file which has transparent background, but when imported into After Effects the background becomes a solid white color.

    Have you had any luck with this situation?

  • Robert Reiss

    May 12, 2008 at 5:06 am

    Here is something to try:

    With the composition or specific layer of interest selected, hit the “toggle transparency button” which is a small gray and white checkered button at the bottom of the composition window.

    Robert Reiss

  • Jim Money

    January 4, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    i have the same problem

    have you found out how to get rid of the white background when importing transparent animated gif?

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