Ray dynamic Color 2 adds some great new functionality and an updated UI, which will be a welcome addition for people who have cluttered Ae workspaces.
Color? What Color?
Attention everyone! After effects is the premiere app for artists, designers and animators, AND it has no great way to deal with color! Just let that sink in a moment.
Ray Dynamic Color not only gives you a color palette to color with, it can also create clever links between the color values
After Effects has been around for roughly, what…23 years? At no point did anyone responsible for the application and its users think “We need better color managements tools”.
I’m not sure how After Effects users find this kind of thing acceptable. This is the management and development team that many off us have hitched our horses to — The ones that believe that core and essential tools should be developed “out of house”.
Working With Color in Ae
A color swatch panel would be an amazing thing, yet there is no really great way to have something that useful in After Effects. It goes way deeper than that though. Thanks to Ae’s rudimentary nested composition schema, working with color changes are an absolute nightmare for larger projects.
Let’s say you have an amazing project using a lot of shape layers in Ae. Well, if you want to make any edits to the colors you will need to turn down a few thousand arrows… you will have a lot of scrolling in your future.
Instead, the management / development team for Ae embarrassingly leave all the important stuff like this, to really smart people like Sander van Dijk.
One neat feature of @AdobeAE is how the color picker does not work.
— David Stanfield (@DavidBStanfield) August 18, 2016
One neat feature of @AdobeAE is how the color picker does not work.
— David Stanfield (@DavidBStanfield) August 18, 2016
@aerich @AdobeAE @DavidBStanfield @georegulus @aescripts seems like a pretty important "feature" that they might want to address. ?
— Paul Anders (@DarthPanders) August 18, 2016
Ray Dynamic Color
You may remember what an absolute breath of relief that Ray Dynamic Color was. Well, Ray Dynamic Color 2 has launched with a new UI that takes up less room, and now lets you use color without expression links.
A Better Way to Work
Ray Dynamic Color offers some semblance of color workflow in After Effects. It lets you color elements in your scene with a single click, and change the color throughout a project easily.
This means that you can experiment. Try out a different range of colors with your project to find the best one… you know, do the things that designers tend to do in a DCC app.
What’s New in Ray Dynamic Color 2
Features:
- UI Design that takes up less space,
- Color without expression links,
- Link and Unlink colors from a palette,
- Rename color palettes without breaking expression links, and
- Add colors to a palette without leaving your comp.
Visit aescripts + aeplugins to learn more about Ray Dynamic Color 2, which is sold for $29.99, with special upgrade pricing in effect.
RaphaelBaker
cool, i like this.