How to transform a mask on a shape layer? (CS6)

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• How to get the content of the shape layer settings in the CEAP?

  Hi all

  I don't know when I want to export the settings from the contents of the shape layer.

  Now I add Polystar Path1, zig - zag 1 and Repeater1, three material layer shaper.

  Content does not seem to be equal to effect. I used AEGP_GetNewEffectStreamByIndex can get the parameter of the effect of the shape layer. But none of the content information.

  Does anyone know how to get this content settings?

  Thank you.

  ha ha, silly me.

  I missed your intention completely.

  It's actually very simple.

  It was recently discussed here:

  http://forums.Adobe.com/thread/741968?TSTART=0

  I hope I got it this time.

  :-)

• How to paint on or in a shape layer?

  Looks like a simple enough thing to do.

  Until you take the Brush tool... and nothing happens.

  Precompose. Paint on the precomposition layer.

• How can I transform a gradient shape layer in Photoshop?

  I don't like the radius of the fill gradient my shape layer in Photoshop. I can't find clues to help on how to increase the gradient fill to cover a different area inside the shape layer.

  How can I convert blends of vectors in PS?

  Thank you.

  Double-click the thumbnail to open the gradient fill dialog box, then click and drag on the image of the document to move the gradient. In addition, the dialog box has a box "Align with layer" to consider when the layer has a mask. A shape layer is really a fill with a 'secret' vector mask layer, so "Align with layer" it affects regardless of whether she has a mask of pixels.

• How to make a vector in a shaper of transparency on a layer rather than in the form of layer?

  I'm working on a drawing that somehow, I created a layer-all blue, which has what looks like a vector mask

  on it, but the vector mask, rather than shape layer, creating transparency in the layer.

  And I don't know how to reproduce this effect!

  Whenever I create a vector mask, it shapes the layer.

  If I take this vector search mask to this layer and try to copy it to another layer - it shapes the layer!

  If I copy him on the original layer - it shapes the original layer...

  So there is something on the vector mask that explains the shape of the layer is all 'outside' of the vector.

  How in hell!  The "swap" button isn't available when you go in "masks" and look at the vector masks.

  So, how I recreate this type of transparency mask?  It drives me crazy, because there is - as I want, but I can't

  reproduce it!  I tried dup'ing mixture on the layer settings - but they don't seem to have an effect.

  Ideas?

  With the active shape layer, select the path Selection tool, select

  the path in the document by clicking somewhere in the path

  or by dragging around the way access and then try clicking on the different shape

  boxes of box in the tool options bar.

  

  

  MTSTUNER

• Need help to transform a shape layer in a layer mask blur adjustment

  I understand how to do a blur mask on the image adjustment layer, so it blurs the images below, which is essentially what I'm trying to do, but in this case, I already have the shape layer (or rather imported from Illustrator > converted to a shape layer) and is in a nested composition.

  First of all, is it possible to blur the images of a composition if the adjustment layer is nested in a composition of the child, or the adjustment layer must be in the parent publication; the composition is blurry?

  Second of all, how we simply take a form that they have already created and use that for a mask, in this case, a mask that will blur everything below?

  Forum thanks!

  There are a few things that are not effective in your workflow and your approach.

  Lets talk first about the Illustrator files in After Effects. Firstly, absolutely the only reason you would ever convert a layer to illustrator in a form would be to use animator tools found in the add menu at the top of the shape layer properties in the timeline panel or to animate a Bézier path on this layer. There is no other advantage in converting a vector layer to a shape. NONE.

  Second, if you want to hide an adjustment layer then you can draw the mask directly on the adjustment layer or any layer with transparency, including an illustrator layer, layer photoshop, any hidden layer or layer shape directly on top of the adjustment layer and use this layer with transparency as an Alpha or Alpha reverse cache by approach to the adjustment layer.

  You can use the luminance values of any layer that has no transparency that a luma or reversed hides by luma approach. The white areas offer transparency with luma standard. IOW, if you have a radial with white in the middle and black gradient on the edge and you use a luma matte and white will be transparent on the layer below.

  Standard caches only affects the layer immediately below the source.

  Adjustment effect layers each layer directly under the adjustment layer. Masks and caches can be used to control the effects of an adjustment layer.

  You can also use masks on any layer to control the effect added to this layer if you have a recent version of AE. You will find the option under options to Compositing.

  If you have any layer with transparency or the strong luminance values, you can use Auto Trace to generate a cache for this layer based on transparency or luminance. Any way shape mask or Bézier path can be copied and pasted to another layer.

  We will take your last question now. You should be able to answer. To use any shape you created as a mask, you use this layer as a track matte.

  We will change that approach a bit and assume that you have created a shape layer by using the pen tool or converted an Illustrator layer to a shape. You have a path that you can be found by selecting the shape layer and by pressing twice the key U. find the path you want to copy, rotate options path to reveal animation controls and to set a single keyframe and then copy (Ctrl/Cmnd + c). Even of the forms created with parametric tools like star, ellipse, rectangle can be converted into a path by right-clicking the shape and selecting convert to paths. When you have copied the path put you on the layer where you want to paste the path, select the pen tool to begin to draw a mask, click anywhere on the layer and paste it (ctrl/cmnd + v) and that you have created the mask. This works for forms and masks on any layer.

  Here's a bet to keep everything by copying and pasting masks. The size and position of a path is calculated from the center of the layer and has no relationship to scaling, rotating, or the position of the layer. If you drew a mask on a layer that is resized to 50% and moved to the top right of the comp and rotated 45 ° and then paste this path to any other layer you will NOT get a path in the same position and the same size as the layer sampled in the model. You end up with a path that match if every sampled layer transformation properties have been reset and the layer was at the center of the model and the rotation and scale were normal. You must pay attention to this issue by copying and pasting traces of Bézier.

  I missed a question type. If you nest or call a layer previously and there is an adjustment layer in the main computer it will affect all layers below. If you dial before a layer and a top adjustment layer then only layers in the nested model will be influenced by the adjustment layer.  I replied before but wanted to make sure.

  BE very careful when you watch YouTube tutorials on workflow because a growing number of them is bad teaching techniques and pointing you to the bottom of the dead-end alleys. Make sure you vet your training.

  If you have any other questions the best place to find good community resources is to type a word in the search help field in the upper right of the AE. For example, if you typed layer adjustment or masks, you would find a lot of very good advice on how to use these features.

• How to make a vector shape / layer in a mask without pixelation it?

  Watching Nigel French on Lynda.com transform a form (using the custom shape tool) in a mask, but following the same exact procedure he does not work for me:

  Select a new layer, press U, select Custom Shapes, has chosen to target record, size and release.

  Voila! In the video, he gets a layer mask on this new layer. I just get a new layer - and it's driving me crazy. He goes on to pen the layer to soften the edges, which, if it is possible, can be useful.

  I tried half a dozen variations such as drag and drop, creating a new layer from a solid fill color and me cannot work out how to make the shape in a mask. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I'm guessing that there is a setting I'm missing somewhere, maybe?

  just to be clear, I know that I can put a mask on my vector form by clicking on the icon of the mask or of the layer > vector mask > current path, but this is not what I'm asking. I want to know how to make the shape I paint in a mask on a layer, we layer (as in the right of it).

  If you can see, the video is here at the minute mark 7: create a logo with some shape layers in the Photoshop course for designers: shape layers

  The transcript over this article reads

  I want to fill the shape with white. So I'll do my foreground color white and press the Option or Alt + Delete as follows, and I also want to then adjust the opacity. I'll take the opacity down and here's something I want to do. I would like to pen, so that make us it sweet. Now, you may be thinking, wait a minute, all these layers of shape are vectors, how can they be feathered? Surely, they cannot be softened. Well, actually, they can.

  If we go to the masks Panel, I can simply increase the amount of feathering and you can see as I do he soft all edges in this path. Now another problem I have is that the inside of this shape of the target is displayed in the center of the bagel and we do not want that to happen. So I could spend time trying to position it just so, so that we don't see. But easier than that I'll just double-click my masks to make it smaller.

  Without having read what you have written here, I just Ctrl + click on the content icon in the palette shape layer layers to select the transparency of the layer.  This selection allows you to hide a layer in the layer to hide targetint then click on the Add layer mask in the layers palette.  The current selection will be used to create the layer mask.

• How to make a clipping to shape layer mask

  I'm building a small widget to the web user interface, and trying to keep all of my the most changeable elements, I can (form of layers) and things instead of rasterize layer effects. I have a shape layer that makes a badge in the shape of burst, and he has a gradient on it overlay to give dimensionality. Now, I want to put a circular layer topped on it (with a transparent gradient melted in it) to give the badge a big nail gloss. The problem is that if I do the badge, a layer of cutting for the circular Fermata, the climax gets covered by the gradient on the badge overlay. I thought maybe I could dupe the badge shape layer, stip effects, then cut the nail that and set the fill opacity to 0% - making a transparent layer... but this is just the highlight disappear thus (I suppose that elements within the clipping mask are considered by embankments - and this is also why the gradient on the Baden he covers if I hang it there).

  If I just rasterize my bland-in gradient and use a vector mask on it that has the same shape as the badge, it works fine. But it is not as elegantly resizable. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?

  Select the layers you want to hide, and then click the G command to put them in a group, and then either create a vector or a mask bitmap on the group. If you are having problems with the effects and how they interact with the mask, double click the effect and change the settings in red

  

• "Transform each". How each group in a shape layer automatically adapts?

  I have a file HAVE a fish composed solely of points. Hundreds. When I transform a shape layer I want then to each point on the scale of 0%, of the center of each point, NO Center of the whole fish. Basically, what "transform each" made in artificial intelligence. Is there anyway to do that without having to ask a transformation for each group to the inside of the shape layer itself, perhaps expressions or a plug-in or a another method? I made a map of the Australia last week manually and it drove me almost crazy *. And it's only 50 groups.

  The only other way I can think is to do at the start of each point a layer separated in illustrator, which would be a headache, but would be even better than the manual method.

  * the reason of insanity is when you copy / paste the attributes of each group in a form, there's a chance, it will replace the path in this group with one of you copy and paste attributes. I do not have 100% understood the rhyme or reason to this

  If there is transparency between the points and you want to make small just apply effect > Matte > Simple Choker. If there is no transparency, and you can create a cache of luma and, before to compose, then apply Simple Choker.

• opacity and mask define knockout shape. How does it work?

  Now, I can not the 3rd option in the transparency dialog box.

  opacity and mask define knockout shape...

  I placed a star within a group of 2 green squares with their own opacity and blend modes and a blue triangle under this group, I see no difference between this setting on or off. I'm leaving the Group piercing should be on but tried with that market also.

  

  See this article:

  http://tpettit.best.VWH.NET/Adobe/OMDKSp1.html

• How can the PSD CC 2015, I remove the ToolTip of information when you draw a shape layer?

  HI -.

  I don't know what his name but on win 10 / Photoshop CC 2015, whenever I have to draw a shape layer, I get a little window indicating the angle/length/width/etc, I draw.  While I don't know that it is a great tip for some people - for me it's annoying and it covers what I'm trying to see that I draw.

  On 10 of win / Photoshop CS5 - I do not have this information box.

  I looked in preferences under Interface and sliders, but couldn't find out how to turn this "feature".  (Probably because I don't know what his name.)

  How do I turn it off?  How can I disable contact information indicator bit appears so when I draw a shape layer?

  Thanks in advance for your comments-

  J2

  Try

  Photoshop > Preferences > tools > show Transformation values > never

  Concerning

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• How to create the outline of the shape

  How to create the outline of a shape, solid, dashed, or dotted, for example an empty rectangle or circle.

  Something like these:

  

  I need are blank lines, empty interiors, which is transparent.

  Thank you

  If you use CS2, you can use the layer style > stroke and adjust the opacity of fill to 0. It would be more difficult to make a dotted line. Most likely, you will need to create a mask for this.

• How to add the filter clouds custom shapes?

  Hello: Level: Beginner OS: Windows 7 64 bit Ps CS6

  I'm doing a Sun. I used the elliptical marquee and was able to add the filter > render > coulds w / no problem

  However, when I draw a custom shape and that you try to use the cloud filter it fills the whole layer not only shape.

  I have tried several things but nothing worked.

  In addition, a box appears that says the layer must be rasterized before using the cloud filter and then he fills the whole canvas/layer.

  Any ideas? Thank you for your time

  Photoshop filters only work on raster images (i.e. pixels). Two ways to get the necessary shape layer raster:

  1 rasterize the SL, constantly converting them into a regular pixel layer (although you can keep a copy of the SL in case you wanted to come back).

  2 convert the SL to a dynamic object which non-destructive encapsulates the SL and provides a matrix representation on which filters can operate. It is beneficial that you can change the shape at any time confined layer, you can transform non-destructive (e.g. stretch or deform) the SO as many times as you want, and filters can be attached as non-destructive editable new dynamic filters.

  For the clouds be visible only the existing pixels and not the empty region of a layer, make a mask of the layer: target a layer, Ctrl-click on the thumbnail to get a marquee of its pixels, and then click the Add mask at the bottom of the layers panel. That's what I did below, but the mask could be used as a mask smart filters that you see as a white tile.

  

  

• Transform a shape layer with several groups/paths in another?

  Hello

  I'm trying to turn the form A B-shaped into aftereffects.

  

  Both are drawn in illustrator, and I imported into aftereffects and diverted path to forms.

  At the moment I do a key framing color and the path in the sticky on the form A and form B. From there I will meet with two questions.

  (1) for now I have to manually open each group, every path, every feature of color until I'm able to keyframe them. After that I have to paste the keyframe of the track and keyframe colors individually to the corresponding group. It's doable, but I have to turn the form in 10 more other variants. Just want to check is there a shorter way to the key all the way to access and color properties frame. And then copy all of the keyframes from one form to the other.

  

  (2) I noticed that not all the points on the path are created equal. I think that the "starting point" is noted with an extra box compared to other points.

  

  As the "starting point" of a path is different from the rest, the transition has become weird.
  Can I check if someone knows how to change the "starting point" to another point on the same path? Or y at - it another way of fixing?

  Finally, if there is more easy morphing shapes to another, I'll be happy to listen. Thanks a lot ~

  I would do this kind of thing differently and 90% of the work in Illustrator.

  I would like to begin by drawing a path in Illustrator, to duplicate the path and to change the size and position and change the color of the outline of the color I wanted for the inside of the first form at the beginning of the animation.

  

  I use then the gradient tool to create a blend between the two forms specifying the number of steps, so my first form duly filled out for one frame looked like this:

  

  I would then do the same for my second form by using different colors, so I got this:

  

  With the two mixtures on you will see this:

  

  The upper mixing layer is where your animation will start and the bottom is where your animation should end.

  The next step is to select Merge layers and spread the mixture, if you find yourself with two groups:

  

  Here comes the fun part. Select groups, and then specify the number of steps you want as long as the number of images that you want in your animation. In this case, I want a second 1 transition and my comp is 29.97 FPS, so I selected 30.

  

  Now spread the mixture:

  

  We should end up with a group at layer 1 with 30 subgroups:

  

  Ungroup the higher group only then deselect all layers and select a single layer, then choose release to layers (sequence).

  

  now select all sub layers in the layer panel and drag it above layer 1. Layer 1 is now empty, so you can delete:

  

  Save the file HAVE and import into AE as a model with the size of the layer keeps selected:

  

  [Open the model, select all layers, move the a CTI frame to the right by pressing Ctrl/Cmnd + arrow to the right, then press Alt/Option +] to set the out point of all layers and then the wizard from keyframe to the layers in sequence without overlapping:

  

  I usually go to the point of exit of the background layer and press N to set the work area exit point, then cut the comp to work area.

  

  This model is then nested in your main comp and you can activate the time-remapping, so you can change the speed and use CC force motion blur to smooth animation.

  

  You will find it much easier to create the morph to a shape layer in Illustrator those in AE, you don't need to convert anything to forms and most of the work is done for you before you start. Total time to create this project with about 1/4 of the time it took to create this post.

• How to change a mask?

  How to change a mask at the same time, without manipulating the individual anchors? I just want a little perfect circle. Thank you.

  You can use the 'Mask Expansion' option to change the size