{"id":24388,"date":"2013-05-22T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=24388"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:34:20","slug":"after-effects-photo-montage-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/after-effects-photo-montage-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Polaroids: After Effects Photo Montage Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"create-a-falling-photo-effect-in-this-adobe-after-effects-video-tutorial-a-cool-organic-look-for-highlighting-still-images\">Create a falling photo effect in this Adobe After Effects video tutorial &#8211; a cool organic look for highlighting still images!<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">In this video tutorial, we&#8217;ll demonstrate how to <strong>create an organic looking photo effect in AE<\/strong>. \u00a0Perfect as a graphic into or slideshow alternative, this <strong>After Effects photo montage<\/strong> can be created without any 3rd party plugins or filters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">We&#8217;ll be using the <strong>After Effects 3D camera and lighting tools<\/strong> to give the photo montage depth. \u00a0To apply random motion to the falling photos, we&#8217;ll apply several <strong>After Effects expressions<\/strong>. \u00a0Expressions create random motion (limited by the parameters set in the expression) and are much faster than having to keyframe motion on each of the photo elements. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">This <strong>After Effects photo montage<\/strong> has a wide variety of applications and can be tweaked for your custom needs. \u00a0Watch the tutorial below (best viewed full screen) or check out the full transcript for written instuctions on creating this AE photo animation and writing the After Effects expressions associated with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66751770?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=899001\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Full Video Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[color-box color=&#8221;gray&#8221;]This is Evan Abrams for Premiumbeat.com, and today we&#8217;re going to make this\u00a0falling photo montage in After \u00a0Effects you can use to display vacation\u00a0photos or really any kind of photos, like they&#8217;re falling Polaroids. So\u00a0let&#8217;s open up After Effects and get into it.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to do is make a new composition. You can it make whatever\u00a0you&#8217;d like, but we&#8217;re going to go with the HGTV1080 preset, 1 minute in\u00a0length. First we&#8217;re going to make the actual photo template that we&#8217;re\u00a0going to use. That&#8217;s done by making a new shape layer.<\/p>\n<p>Then we add to that shape layer a rectangle, and we want it to be as\u00a0accurate to the size of Polaroids as we can. We know that it&#8217;s<br \/>\napproximately 350 x 425. Make sure that it has a fill and set that fill to\u00a0white. Okay, now we&#8217;re going to duplicate that to create a new rectangle,\u00a0and this will serve as the alpha channel for the photo parts. I&#8217;m going to\u00a0change its size down to be 300 x 312.5. Then we will change its color to be\u00a0red and just adjust it up slightly to be in the correct spot. And then we\u00a0will just rename these appropriate to what they stand for, so that we don&#8217;t\u00a0get confused.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ll create some text using the text tool to make some labels. We&#8217;ll\u00a0just label this, &#8220;Vacation?&#8221; and then use a font that looks kind of like a\u00a0marker. I believe I have a font that has marker in the title. So we&#8217;ll use\u00a0that and set the color to be black, but not quite totally black. Just as a\u00a0pro tip, you don&#8217;t want to be absolute in your color values all time.<\/p>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ll just position this right there, and we&#8217;ll use the rotation and\u00a0scale to get it just to the right size and shape that we would like. That<br \/>\nlooks good, and now we are ready to add a photo into this.<\/p>\n<p>So go ahead and import a photo. Any photo will do. We&#8217;re going to use some\u00a0tropical beach stuff. Just drag that below the red rectangle, and then\u00a0scale it down to fit appropriately around it. Toggle switches and modes,\u00a0and then set it to alpha mat of that red rectangle. We&#8217;ll go to positioning\u00a0and you have created your Polaroid.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re going to set all the boxes to be 3D for these layers, and we&#8217;ll\u00a0just edit the position of that photo layer to be slightly higher, which is\u00a0important to prevent tearing that happens in the 3D rendering process.<\/p>\n<p>As well just to hit AA on the bottom layer, and set it to cast shadows,\u00a0which will be also important later. Select all of those, and then pre-<br \/>\ncompose them, calling that new composition, &#8220;Photo 1&#8221;. Click the Collapse\u00a0Transformation button, so that all of the attributes inside that<br \/>\ncomposition will function out in the main composition.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Create a new solid that will serve as our background. Make it a light grey<\/span><\/p>\n<p>color, just to differentiate it from the white of the photos, and then set\u00a0it below that photo layer. Make both of the layers, three dimensional by\u00a0clicking their 3D switch boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Create a new camera and set its blurriness to 200, and its aperture to 1.4.\u00a0Make sure that its depth of field is on.<\/p>\n<p>As well, make a new light. Make it a point light. Make it at least 100%\u00a0intensity, so that we have some light in our scene. Now open up the<br \/>\nposition of the light in the camera, and copy the camera&#8217;s position onto\u00a0the light, which will put the light at where the camera is.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to just push the background back a little bit. Open up its\u00a0position and move that Z position back just so we can see the shadow coming\u00a0around the photos. We don&#8217;t want no shadows for all of our hard work. So\u00a0set that to a positive one, some low number. Then you can see the shadows\u00a0in there. Just make sure that maybe the shadow darkness is at about 50%\u00a0perhaps. It doesn&#8217;t need to be that dark.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are ready to actually animate on the photo. So let&#8217;s begin.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to open up its transform properties and go into the position.\u00a0We&#8217;re going to separate its dimensions by going through the menus and\u00a0separating them. What we&#8217;re going to do is we&#8217;re going to key frame the Z\u00a0position, which is the depth position, so how close or far away it is, by\u00a0setting a key frame at about 3 seconds and 5 frames in, and then going back\u00a0to the start and putting it at -2700, which puts it behind where the camera\u00a0is. So it will seem to fall past the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Then we will easy ease that first frame, go into it&#8217;s graph editor, zoom\u00a0in, and then pull the handle forward. So it seems to slow and then speed up\u00a0as it gets away, coming to an abrupt rest. That&#8217;s pretty much it for keyframes. Most of the motion is actually going to be governed by expressions,\u00a0and to use that effectively we&#8217;re going to need to make a control layer.<\/p>\n<p>So go ahead and make a new adjustment layer and call this Control. We&#8217;re\u00a0going to add to it a slider control, and just drag that out onto the<br \/>\ncontrol layer. Then twirl open the properties Alt, click on the Z rotation,\u00a0and then open up the effects slider control slider, and we are going to<br \/>\nwrite in some expressions so that one can influence the other.<\/p>\n<p>The expression we&#8217;re going to use is:<br \/>\nseedRandom(thisComp.layer(&#8220;Control&#8221;).effect(&#8220;Slider\u00a0Control&#8221;)(&#8220;Slider),true); and then random();<\/p>\n<p>Make sure there&#8217;s a semicolon\u00a0at the end of the top line as well, and that should do it.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it has offset the image, rotating it slightly. You&#8217;re probably\u00a0going to want to multiply that result down there by some kind of higher\u00a0value, perhaps 10 or something like that. That&#8217;s one way to influence the\u00a0random number that it&#8217;s generating.<\/p>\n<p>You can see that by wiggling the slider around, it changes that, and if you\u00a0go into the brackets of Random, and you say &#8220;-45, 45&#8221;, it&#8217;s going to\u00a0generate a random number between there, and it will change what random\u00a0number it is by changing the Random seed, which is the slider, and now we\u00a0can reuse this on the other properties.<\/p>\n<p>Just go ahead and select that expression, copy it, and now we&#8217;re going to\u00a0paste it onto other properties. So copy that. Hold and go to the P, hit\u00a0Position, Alt click on the stopwatch, and paste it into the X position, and\u00a0instead of using the random number, we&#8217;re going to use the wiggle. We&#8217;re\u00a0going to say &#8220;wiggle(0,thisComp.width*.5)&#8221; to make half of the Comp width,\u00a0so it will wiggle no times a second, up to a maximum units of half the\u00a0width. Copy that, paste it onto the height position, and then we&#8217;re going\u00a0to change it from saying width to height, so it&#8217;s doing basically the same\u00a0thing, but up and down instead of left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Now we also want them to fall on top of each other, so Alt click on the Z\u00a0position. Value-index , so you&#8217;re going to subtract the index value, in\u00a0this case 4, from the value of the layers position. So it will always be 4\u00a0less, or when you duplicate it, will be 3 less or 5 less or whatever ,<br \/>\ndepending upon what the layer is, but this causes them all to stack on top\u00a0of each other. Duplicate as many copies as you need, and that should be\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n<p>Now you just need to offset their animation as they come on. So we&#8217;re going\u00a0to trim all of the layers to be 30 frames long. So advance your play head\u00a030 frames from the start, hit Alt and then close square bracket to trim\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>Then select all of the layers and go Animation, Keyframe Assistant,\u00a0Sequence, hit OK, and then set your play head at the end of the<br \/>\ncomposition, and then hit Alt square bracket again to extend the layers.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can see they all animate on 30 frames apart, and they&#8217;re falling\u00a0down quite nicely. If you&#8217;re ever unhappy with how they&#8217;re arranged, just\u00a0change that slider value, and it will jumble them around into a new\u00a0orientation.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re ever unhappy with where you&#8217;re looking at them, use the camera\u00a0tool to reposition. Just remember your background is in fact 3D, so you&#8217;re\u00a0going to have to go down to your background layer and just scale it\u00a0slightly to make up the difference. In fact, you can scale it up as much as\u00a0you&#8217;d like, because it&#8217;s a solid and you&#8217;ll never notice it.<\/p>\n<p>So you can reposition the camera, and everything looks totally fine. Just\u00a0hit C to cycle through your camera tools.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t do you any good to have a bunch of photos that are the same,\u00a0so duplicate Photo 1, double click on Photo 2, and we&#8217;re going to go in\u00a0here and we&#8217;re going to swap out this picture for a new one. Just import a\u00a0new photo. This one of me hugging a bear is nice. Hold down Alt, and then\u00a0drag it onto the selected layer. As you can see, it replaces it, and then\u00a0just scale it up to fit, or scale it down to fit, or however you&#8217;ll need to\u00a0scale it. Because when you replace something, it retains the replaced\u00a0thing&#8217;s attributes, so scale position and all that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you selected the thing you&#8217;re going to replace. Hold down Alt,\u00a0drag on top of it, and then of course maybe change this to be a more\u00a0appropriate title for the photo or not. It&#8217;s not really a question. It&#8217;s\u00a0definitely me hugging a bear. But then go back to the first Comp, and then\u00a0select the photo you wish to swap out, and do the same swapping maneuver\u00a0where you selected. Hold down Alt, select Comp 2, and then drag it on top,\u00a0and then it replaces it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that should be enough to get it done for you, I&#8217;m Evan Abrams for\u00a0PremiumBeat.com. Thank you so much for watching this tutorial. Check out\u00a0our channels and stop by the blog at PremiumBeat.com for more great tips\u00a0and tricks in not only After Effects, but a lot of other applications as\u00a0well. 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