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- About Classroom in a Book
- Prerequisites
- Installing After Effects
- Optimizing performance
- Restoring default preferences
- Copying the lesson files
- How to use these lessons
- Additional resources
- Adobe certification
- Getting to Know the Workflow
- Getting started
- Creating a project and importing footage
- Creating a composition and arranging layers
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating the composition
- Previewing your work
- Optimizing performance in After Effects
- Rendering and exporting your composition
- Customizing the workspace
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Finding resources for using After Effects
- Checking for updates
- Review answers
- Review questions
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Controlling the brightness of the user interface
You can brighten or darken the After Effects user interface. Changing the brightness preference affects panels, windows, and dialog boxes.
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Appearance (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > Appearance (Mac OS).
- Drag the Brightness slider to the left or right and notice how the screen changes.
- Click OK to save the new brightness setting or Cancel to leave your preferences unchanged. You can click Default to restore the default brightness setting.