PremiumBeat with 5 tips for Organizing your Compositions in After Effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRSlKJqHec Charles Yeager at Premium beats has this article and the above video on organizing your After Effects Compositions. Yes yes yes, cleaning up After Effects Projects is a must, and sometimes I wish that Template makers spent more time making theme easier to use and modify as I basically never use them exactly as intended. Anything to clean things up so if another graphics artist comes or even you after a break will be able to quickly figure things out.

Creative Dojo has a video tutorial on Dynamic Auto Resize & Auto Scale text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n0RKDlbGas This is very cool, and very useful for making templates, especially in commercial, direct response and web video advertising. Make sure to subscribe to Creative Dojo on YouTube. Expressions are amazing, and I wish I was better at writing them instead of just using them, and this goes through the expressions so you can get some information about how it works.

Filmgrab a free site to get stills from films as reference images

I have previously posted about ShotDeck, but it is a paid site, while I didn't know about FilmGrab which is free. You can grab iconic images from films as reference shots, which can be very useful. It claims to have 2500 films with 160K hand picked images. Playing with it a bit, it is good, though could use a search versus just brows by film artist and category, but that is only a minor gripe. Well worth checking out.

Fstoppers is reporting that Adobe is removing all 3D features from Photoshop

Robert K. Baggs at Fstoppers has a report that Adobe is removing all 3D features from Photoshop. I guess this was inevitable with Adobe creating a second revenue stream for it's 3D apps, but it is complete horseshit. Removing features that we have had for years so Adobe can make more money is beyond crap. Adobe should include everything in it's one subscription.