 Everybody welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial guys today. I'm gonna show you how to change colors We're gonna do color transitions with shape layers And I'm also gonna show you how to do it using typography or changing the color of Your font or your type and that's actually kind of tricky And these are really cool for those of you that are new to After Effects and you want to add some color and you don't want everything to be the same color You want to add some transitions? So let's just dig in and get it rolling. I've opened up after effects here I'm using CC 2019 the latest version whatever version you're using. It's probably this one But if it's not well, just follow along because it hasn't changed in the last few years. So we've opened it up I'm gonna go ahead click new composition and This doesn't really matter. I'm just gonna do 1920 by 1080 and I'm gonna hit okay now The composition is here. It's loaded, but there's nothing here So the next step is I'm just gonna create a new layer. I'm gonna create a background. So you want to go in layer New and I'm just gonna do a solid and I'm just gonna do black solid. So we've got something in the background there We've got a black solid. We are on our way. Let's do the Let's do a shape layer first I'll show you how to do that transition or that color change and then I'll show you how to do the typography next So the first one is the shape layer and I'm just gonna create a nice Oh shoot. I made a mistake there actually you see what I did This is actually really really interesting for newer people if you click on the solid and you draw out It draws a mask, but if you're not clicked on the solid you're clicked on nothing here where my cursor is I'm not clicked on it. I'm clicked off of it. It will draw a shape layer This is very frustrating for for me when I first started out because I didn't know what the hell I was doing wrong So if you caught me there and we're and you've struggled with that that is possibly the problem So again, I've done a shape layer. It's purple. I'm just gonna align it to the center here in the align section and Presto there we go guys. We've got our shape layer now The playhead is at zero seconds and I want to change this from purple to red. Let's say I want to go from purple to red and Let's say I want to do it in like three seconds Ish or something like that So the way to do that is you want to go down to the shape layer and start dropping these triangles Really simply here. You're gonna see rectangle one and then you're gonna see fill one This is where you go ahead and make the color change in particular. It's set to purple just like we want I'm gonna click on this little stopwatch and That basically says well actually you know what I'm gonna command Zed that I'm gonna would or control Zed if you're on a PC So I've done nothing so we've got nothing on all we've got is this open You want to click on the stopwatch here on the color and then you'll see here that I can go ahead now and adjust the color So at zero seconds, I want it to be purple and then let's say at around three seconds almost three seconds Yeah, something like that. I want it to be Red let's go with bright red. We want to show that transition by doing that I will show you I'll go to the start click on it I'll hit space bar to just run the composition or just run it through and You're gonna see here that it over those three seconds it went from red from purple to red Which is exactly what we wanted This is extremely useful for those of you guys that do motion graphics and things like that And you want to have some colors or some adjustments on there. That's all there is to it I'm gonna delete this shape layer and now I'm gonna show you how to do it with Typography or with font. This is a little trickier. It's not straightforward. So let's just dig right in I'm gonna go ahead and click on my little horizontal type tool up here and I'm gonna write my name My name is Curtis. Ah, ah, there we go. And that's a pretty good size. Let's go ahead and make it a little bigger and Let's align it in the middle. Why not? Okay, good. So we've got my name Curtis it's in red But I want to make the color go from red to let's say white that makes sense, right? That was a nice high contrasty color now normally you would go over here You click on this and you see it's set to red That's great, but there's no stopwatch here. You can't make any color changes on that over time Which is what I want to show you so that's not actually how you do it. I'm gonna click on the I'm gonna click on my name here and then I'm going to go to animate I drop down the triangle click on the little button here that says animate. This is where we do the work In particular, you're going to see fill color and then if you go across you'll see RGB Which means red green blue. This is what we're looking for left click on that now when you do that it opens up Automatically and you're going to see fill color and you're gonna see the stopwatch. This is what we're looking for So I am going to click the stopwatch Here at zero seconds and it is on red and then let's say at like around almost three seconds It's gonna go. What did we say we wanted white? This is how you change it. You'll notice here again stopwatch is clicked It's gonna go from red as you can see here. Let's hit play. I'm just gonna click off and hit spacebar red To white over those three seconds This is how you do a change in typography your font or whatever you want to call it guys This is how you do a color transition. I hope this tutorial helped. I've got a ton more stuff coming up Thank you for watching