FirstFrame
FirstFrame — Custom Splash Screen for After Effects
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About FirstFrame
Open After Effects or Photoshop every day and see the same stock splash screen? It looks great — but it’s not yours. Wouldn’t it be nicer if the first thing on screen when you sit down to work were your own frame: your studio logo, a favourite piece, a motivating line or a joke for your teammates?
FirstFrame does it in a minute. No digging for hidden files and no risk of breaking anything: it finds your Adobe apps by itself, hands you the splash to edit and puts yours in its place. A small thing that makes your workspace truly yours — and lifts your mood before a long render.
Apps: After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Audition and Media EncoderAutomatic: finds your installed apps and shows their versions and current splashOne template: draw one image — every size, Retina included, is made for youSafe: the original is kept, restoring it is one clickComfortable: Windows and macOS, interface in Ukrainian and English
Demo or full version?
The demo is free and lets you try FirstFrame in real work: you can replace the splash screen three times in any supported Adobe app and restore the original at any time — with no limits. That’s enough to make sure everything works exactly the way you want.
The full version removes the limits: change your splash screens as often as you like, experiment, refresh them for a new mood, project or season. You also get all future FirstFrame updates — new Adobe apps and improvements included.
Support the author
I build scripts and tools for motion designers to make working in After Effects and Photoshop easier and more enjoyable. If you like FirstFrame, you can support me with a tip — even when downloading the free demo, you can add one on the checkout page. Every bit of support helps me create new cool tools.
How to use
- 1. Download and unzip the archive. On Windows run FirstFrame_win.bat and allow changes when Windows asks. On Mac open FirstFrame_mac: the first time — right-click → «Open»
- 2. If there’s no Python on your computer, FirstFrame will offer to install it — it’s already in the archive. This happens only once and takes about a minute.
- 3. Pick an app from the list and click «Export image».
- 4. Open the image in Photoshop, add your logo, artwork or text and save it without changing the size.
- 5. Close the Adobe app, click «Import & apply» — and launch it. Done!
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