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After Effects Apprentice
book

After Effects Apprentice

by Chris Trish Meyer
September 2012
Beginner
320 pages
13h 28m
English
Focal Press
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Lesson 10

Paint and Clone

Using Paint and Vector Paint to make your mark.

In This Lesson

basic painting

erasing strokes

Paint Channels

Paint Blending Modes

brush duration bar

animating strokes

revealing a layer

creating organic textures

tablet settings

cloning

transforming strokes

Vector Paint overview

Wiggle Control

Onion Skin mode

Playback modes

Getting Started

Copy the Lesson 10-Paint and Clone folder from this book’s disc onto your hard drive, and make note of where it is; it contains the project files and sources you need for this lesson.

The Vector Paint plug-in is not available in After Effects 7 Standard. The Vector Paint exercises have their own project file.

After Effects features two different ways to paint non-destructively onto a ...

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