AE Bridge
AE Bridge — Photoshop & Illustrator → After EffectsSend your design straight into After Effects — editable, positioned, and ready to animate.Stop flattening your work into a single PSD import. AE Bridge is a panel that lives inside Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects and moves your layers across in one click — with everything that matters kept intact.Select your layers, hit Push, and After Effects imports them automatically into a matching composition. No manual exporting, no file juggling, no re-building your layout by hand.What comes through Text stays editable — type layers arrive as real AE text with the same content, font, size, and color. Animate it, don't re-type it. Vectors from Illustrator — paths come in as native shape layers with real bezier points, fills, and strokes. Compound paths supported. Groups become precomps — a grouped folder lands as a nested composition. Double-click to step inside, exactly like a manual PSD import. Blend modes carry over — Multiply, Screen, Overlay and the rest survive the trip, so your Photoshop look stays identical. Everything positioned 1:1 — AE builds a comp matching your document size, so nothing stretches or shifts. More that makes it fast Multi-layer push — send several layers, or a whole group, at once. Two-way size sync — build an AE comp from your artboard, or an artboard from your comp, in one click. Optional screenshot reference — send a flattened snapshot as a hidden top layer so you always know where every element belongs. Auto-import — After Effects picks up your push on its own; keep the panel open and it just appears. Minimal light & dark UI — a tiny, focused panel that stays out of your way and remembers your theme. Works with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & After Effects (CC and newer) Windows & macOS One-click installer included — drops into place and enables itself Full user guide bundled Get started in minutes Unzip and run the installer for Windows or Mac. Restart your apps and open Window → Extensions → AE Bridge. Select layers, push, and animate. Built by Rakib Pixel — a visual artist who got tired of rebuilding layouts by hand in After Effects.
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