Transparency hack: wanted to share a trick that came in really handy while working on my Envato C...

Transparency hack: wanted to share a trick that came in really handy while working on my Envato C...Transparency hack: wanted to share a trick that came in really handy while working on my Envato C...

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Dina Yeghiazaryan

• Jul 24

Transparency hack: wanted to share a trick that came in really handy while working on my Envato Challenge submission:

Edit a stock image's background with AI before downloading, set it to a chroma color, animate it, then key it out in post. Easy way to get transparency, even though AI exports don't come with it natively.

envatochallenge Adobe After Effects

Abdullah Eroğlu

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• Jul 24

We like helpfull videos, thank you for helping out to the community with your valuable information, wish you the best!

Dina Yeghiazaryan

• Jul 25

Appreciate it a lot! You too 🙏

Dina Yeghiazaryan

• Jul 24

This is the prompt you can use for any image (you can use any other color instead of blue): "Replace the background with a solid flat chroma-key blue. Keep the rest of the image exactly as it is - no other changes.

Dina Yeghiazaryan

• Jul 21

Designed 3 posters for a local bar's Sunday jam nights, with Envato as my toolkit. 🎸🎤 Envato gave me hero images, background texture, and animated video. But none of it works on its own. Someone still has to make the calls. Human by Design: AI got me fast raw material. Making it feel like this bar took real decisions - recoloring and chroma-keying a stock video before animating, chasing a grimy texture over a clean AI render, picking one generated scene out of several for its energy - then building the composition and type myself. Toolkit: @Envato Elements, Envato AI, After Effects, Illustrator.