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Using Adjustment Effects on an Adjustment Layer - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
From this point select Layer and New and select Adjustment Layer. You'll not see the adjustment layer as you do with the solid layer.

How to Use the Write-on Effect - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
In the lesson I'll show you how to use the Write-on effect. Find a map that you can practice on.

Animating Bug Wings - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Make adjustments to the keyframes and then select and copy them all along the timeframe. Use the same method as shown to also do the other wing.

Butterfly - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
The first thing we need to do is move the anchor point from the middle of the butterfly to the area of the antennae. Use the Pan tool to move the anchor point.

Clock Hand Rotation - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
The first lesson is the basic way. For the hour hand set a keyframe at the very beginning with the Rotation set to 0.

Mechanical Dragon - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
In this demonstration you'll learn how to connect the pieces in a parenting format while making the mouth open and close. I've imported the whole piece from Photoshop as a composition and then placed each piece individually into their original structure.

Filmstrip File - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
The first thing we need to do is have our movie open. Then choose Composition and Make Movie.

Bezier Warp 101 - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Below is the Bezier Warp panel. It's fairly basic and easy to learn.

Animating Using the Bulge Filter - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Using the Bulge filter is easy to do. I'll use a dog's paw for this demonstration.

Creating Motion Tiles - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
The simplest form of Motion Tile is to make and animate tiles vertically and horizontally. Create a 640 x 480 project.

Amazing Optics Compensation - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Using the Optics Compensation effect can result in amazing animation results. Below is the default view of the effect and the sun we'll use for this demonstration.

Puppet Animation - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Open up the file so that you can see all of the layers. Begin dropping the layers into the timeline one at a time to set in it's appropriate place.

The Smear Factor - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
For Source Mask choose Mask 1 and for Boundary Mask select Mask 2. First we'll work with Percent.

Animating Text - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Adjust the settings to reflect the data below. This will move the graphic off the screen.

Masking Tom in the Box - Adobe After Effects Tutorial
First thing we want to do is open a new Adjustment layer. Go to Layer>New>Adjustment.

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