Verdict: Still waiting… a colour swatch palette It’s fair to say that we got more than we asked for! The Photoshop swatches palette is on the left, the Kuler panel in After Effects on the right also includes tools to create colour schemes. Nearly ten years later it’s still easy to accidentally mess up your favourite workspace with an errant click, but can you “undo” workspace layout changes in the latest version of After Effects? Still no. Unlike changes to the timeline, these changes to the interface layout couldn’t be fixed with an “undo”. It was easy to accidentally drag something to a new place, or close a panel you didn’t mean to, or basically just click in the wrong spot and find your workspace layout had become all messed up. But while it now seems 2 nd nature, dragging those tabs and palettes around took a bit of getting used to.
#COLOR FINESSE EFFECT AFTER EFFECTS UPGRADE#
Adobe gave AE a major interface revamp with version 7, but many users – myself included – initially hated the radical change and resisted the upgrade.Įventually After Effects CS3 was released which prompted us to upgrade and grapple with the new look and feel, and it really was a big leap from the old floating-windows of After Effects 6.5. It’s hard to remember, but After Effects didn’t always look the way it did. Interface: Moving/dragging interface tabs around can be “undone” I used to think this looked better than the current After Effects interface. I’ve loosely grouped them together according to the part of After Effects they apply to. Bear in mind that this is a list of suggestions from a range of different people, so there’s some overlap and a little ambiguity. Whatever the name, how does the latest version of After Effects stack up against the list of feature requests I sent to Adobe almost 10 years ago? Let’s go through the list and see.
#COLOR FINESSE EFFECT AFTER EFFECTS UPDATE#
Is it After Effects CC 2018? The update appeared on my Windows machine as just After Effects CC… Right now, I’m not even sure what it’s called. There are videos to watch, blogs to read, twitter posts to examine and so on.
As usual with such a major update, it takes time to go through all the new features and work out what’s new and what’s changed. It’s not quite 10 years later, but last week Adobe announced the latest releases of their major CC apps, including After Effects. After a week or two, I compiled the suggestions together and emailed the list to Adobe, and received a thank-you email from Michael Coleman, the After Effects product manager at the time. It was a good reminder that After Effects is used by lots of different people in lots of different situations. I remember finding the responses interesting, as there were several things I had never thought of. Just for fun, I posted the idea on the After Effects email list, and asked for suggestions for minor feature requests that would make everyday work faster and easier. When I read the various Apple news reports I started to wonder – what if Adobe took the same approach with After Effects? What if the next release skipped any major new features and instead focused on performance and small improvements? I thought it was worth daydreaming about. At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference a few details trickled out – most significantly, the announcement that Snow Leopard wouldn’t introduce any major new features, but rather focus on performance and “under the hood” improvements. What Apple did announce in June 2008 was the name of their next operating system – “Snow Leopard”. Just a quick reminder about June 2008… After Effects came in a box, the iPhone was at version 1, and the US President was George W Bush. George W Bush was the US President and the Apple iPhone was only 1 year old – a month later in July Apple would release the iPhone 3G, but that was still a secret. Four gigabytes of RAM seemed like an awful lot. Adobe had only just released After Effects CS3 and I was mostly working on a G5 PowerMac. June 2008 seems like a long time ago now.
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