Importing Photoshop brushes into Adobe After Effects

Ok It’s been a while since my last video tutorial so here’s one to prepare you for my up comming Blood splatter text tutorial! It will be gory

After Effects doesn’t have an official way to import Photoshop brushes but this method works for me and I’ll be using it in upcoming tutorials ^_^

Unfortunately I did this and forgot to write anything down so I shall make it up as I go along.

• Starting in photo shop you need to make a transparent document large enough to fit your desired brush in.
• Make sure your colour is set to white and use your brush, if your canvas is larger than the area of your brush then use the crop too to make it smaller.
• Save this image as a .PNG file and you are ready to move into After Effects!
• Once in After Effects create a new project and import the image by double clicking in the project library.
• Create a new composition matching the dimensions of your brush image and make sure to set the pixel aspect ratio to “Square pixel”.
• Drag your image into this composition and it should fit perfectly.
• Add an effect to the image (Effects>Colour correction>Change Colour To)
• Set the Lightness Transform to -50, the Saturation transform to 100 and the Colour to Change to white
• use the Hue Transform to change the colour of your brush

There you have it! Create a main composition and you can drag your “Brush composition” into that and use it like any other composition. Make sure your Main composition is also  a “Square pixel” aspect ration so that the pixels match or you will end up with a squished image.