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Eclipse in After Effects | 100 Wicked Tips

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | May 06, 2009

Hey everyone. This is one of those days where instead of actually saying something, I’d much rather let you read. You see, we have just posted the 100 Wicked Tips Article here from Layers Magazine, and if you havent gotten a chance to check it out, I would definitely recommend you doing so. From start to finish, its one of those articles that everyone can get something out of. The great part about this tips episode were the sources that they came from. Straight from the Product Managers themselves at Adobe, they were all pumped to share some cool tips and tricks with us. For example:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 By Tom Hogarty

Get smart with your collections
Create a Smart Collection in the Library module to automatically gather a set of images. Just click on the plus icon in the Collections panel on the left and choose Create Smart Collection. The criteria you set to dynamically create the collection can range from keywords to star rating to capture time. It’s a quick way to view all of the images you’ve captured in the last 90 days or all the images you haven’t tagged with keywords yet.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 By David Macy

The key to aligning
You can easily align a set of objects to a guide. Using the Selection tool (V), select both the guide and all of the objects, and click on the guide again. The guide is now the “key object” with which everything will line up when you use the Align functions on either the Control panel or Align panel (Window>Align). You can do the same thing with any object—the key doesn’t have to be a guide.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 By Scott Fegette & Devin Fernandez

Code formatting on the fly
Have you inherited some CSS in a project or widget that’s just plain unreadable? Use the Apply Source Formatting feature and reformat it exactly to your specifications. Just click the Format Source Code icon at the bottom of the Coding toolbar (Edit>Toolbars>Coding) and select Code Format Settings to set your preferred formatting. You can then apply it with one click to any open file by selecting Apply Source Formatting from the Format Source Code icon.

There are a TON of resources in this one.. So I would say that rather than spend some time hanging out with me, you go IMMEDIATELY and check it out. Click on the link below to get to the list of the tips.

100 Wicked Tips – from Layers Magazine (Thanks so much Adobe!)

Jay Schuh Eclipses After Effects
Not to be outdone by the tips issue, Jay Schuh has gone and made a 2 part tutorial on how to make an eclipse effect using After Effects CS4 (a great program to get lost in). Click on the link below to get to the tutorial.

Creating an Eclipse Effect using After Effects CS4 by Jay Schuh

Ok.. make sure you go see the tips on the other page. Don’t worry.. i’ll be right here when you get back!

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