Paint Tools
If you’ve ever felt the need to paint directly on your frame—perhaps for frame-by-frame animation, or to erase a couple of pixels that didn’t get matted out with the Roto Brush tool, or to paint out a boom pole that dipped into frame—the almost analog simplicity of After Effects’ paint tools are for you. There’s three of them—the Brush tool, the Clone Stamp tool, and the Eraser tool.
These tools require many panels that one normally doesn’t need in After Effects. This is a rare instance in which I might switch workspaces with Window > Workspace > Paint.
The Brush Tool
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Many of these tools use similar features—we’ll start with ...
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