Opening up the project

For this chapter, open the given project in the exercise files as follows:

1. Open After Effects.
2. To open the project, click on Open Project in the After Effects startup window. Alternatively, you can go to File | Open Project... in the menu bar.
3. In the file browser, locate the Lesson10_start.aep project file in the Chapter 10 folder of the exercise files.

Figure 10.1: Lesson10_start project with default workspace

The project has two compositions, which we will use to learn about particle simulations. Keep the project open for the rest of the topics of this chapter.