Easy methods to Use After Results: Precomposing

On this tutorial, you will study precomposing in After Results utilizing an instance venture. When working in After Results, there can be instances when you will have to precompose your layers. For instance, to illustrate you’ve a textual content component that you might want to use a number of instances. As a substitute of duplicating your textual content, you’ll be able to precompose it.

Let me present you the way it works utilizing this instance venture.

So to illustrate I’ve a textual content layer that I wish to use a number of instances in a composition or possibly in a number of compositions.

Now, if this have been simply on this comp and I wished to make use of it a number of instances, that is no downside. I can simply duplicate it by hitting Management-D on the keyboard, or I can go to the highest menu and go to Edit > Duplicate.

I can simply do this a number of instances and make a number of duplicates of this textual content.

And I can change every one in all these. For instance, I can scale one in all them up. 

Or scale one in all them down.

And even use different remodel choices like rotation.

I also can change the color and prepare them in a graphical approach, as a design component.

However what if I wished to really change the supply of the textual content? What if I wished the entire textual content to say one thing else as a substitute of “textual content”? Now I’ve to pick every layer individually and use the Kind Software to vary all of them one by one, which might be very tedious and time-consuming.

So as a substitute, I’ll present you learn how to precompose this to avoid wasting your self some work. So let’s begin this venture from scratch and have only one textual content layer once more.

With this one textual content layer chosen, I’ll precompose it by going to Layer > Precompose.

A dialog field will seem the place you’ll be able to rename it if you want. Go away the remainder of the choices on the default settings.

You may inform a layer is a composition by wanting on the little ‘composition icon’ that is proper subsequent to the title of the layer on the left facet. So we have basically put a composition inside one other composition.

The benefit of that is that now you’ll be able to duplicate this composition a number of instances, as we did earlier than.

However this time, if you wish to change the supply of the textual content, all it’s a must to do is go into the textual content comp by double-clicking on it. 

Change the textual content inside this composition, and it will replace to vary the entire textual content that you’ve duplicated concurrently. 

Typically, you may discover that the bounding field doesn’t match the textual content correctly as it could with a standard textual content layer, which could make choosing it fairly tough. It is because it makes use of the identical dimensions because the supply composition.

To repair this, return into the supply comp for the textual content and alter the comp dimension in order that it is simply round your textual content. To do that, click on on the Area of Curiosity button situated close to the underside of the Preview panel.

If you use that, it provides you with somewhat crosshair. Click on and drag a variety space across the textual content.

Then go to Composition > Crop Comp to Area of Curiosity.

And now, for those who bounce again to the unique comp and choose these textual content layers, you’ll be able to see that now you’ve remodel handles with a bounding field for this layer, and it is way more appropriately sized.

On the subject of resizing one in all these comp layers, you will discover that for those who enhance the dimensions, it appears blurry.

To repair this, simply activate the “constantly rasterize” button, also referred to as the “collapse transformation” button.

This may sharpen the textual content once more.

You may even use the precomp right here, and you need to use it in different comps. Let’s transfer the precomp to this comp with a black background, for instance. You may discover that we will not see it within the Preview panel as a result of the textual content can also be black.

Effectively, you may also add results to a precomp, identical to some other layer. So let’s add a fill to this precomp and alter the color to white. Now you’ll be able to see it.

Now I’ve this different textual content layer that I can use as many instances as I would like, whereas having the choice to vary the color or add different results to it (which will not have an effect on the supply textual content contained in the comp). It is a useful approach to make use of one asset time and again. 

Congratulations

Congratulations! That is how you need to use precompositions in Adobe After Results. Now that you’ve got realized the fundamentals, try a number of the different tutorials we’ve on Adobe After Results under.

I hope you have discovered this tutorial helpful, and I will see you subsequent time on Envato Tuts+!