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• 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 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.

• 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.

• In Photoshop CC2015-how I automatically apply a style to the shape layer that I draw?

  HI -.

  I work in an office with a few different versions of Photoshop on Windows 10.

  On my CS5 PSD I can draw some shape layers, like arrows and have all the styles applied automatically style palette that I draw.

  But the fellow with PSD CC 2015 workers need to use 2 markets - draw shape layer and then select the style in the style palette.  None of the settings on the top of the screen seem to allow us to apply the style we attract.

  Is there a hidden area or a preference?

  The automatic application of a style has been removed from Photoshop?

  TIA your answer.

  J2

  This is not possible with the latest Photoshop shape tool. If you want that it is a characteristic shape tool like Photoshop old tool form the best you can do is submit an idea on the Adobe site comments but you hold no breath hoping Adobe will implement your idea.  If you want this feature you will now need to regress to an older version of Photoshop as CS2. This is the version of Photoshop, I used for my second screenshot, Photoshop community customer family

• Scribble on 3D shape layer effect redesigns and changes the thickness when you move the camera in the Z direction

  Hello community,

  I have created a shape layer in Adobe After Effects, marked as 3D layer and copy and paste a path of Adobe Illustrator as a mask. I applied
  a static scribble "on transparent" effect to this layer, which works very well.
  The problem I have is: when I'm using a camera, bound to a null object and move it in Z-direction (which resembles zoom), static squiggles
  are redrawn and the thickness of the line scibble is fit for the line seems to have a thickness irrespective of the position of the camera on
  the z axis.

  
  This is how the shape with scribble effect resembles the departure

  
  This is how the form looks like by moving the camera 'backwards' (-on the z axis). The lines are all too thick
  compared to the camera and therefore appear thicker compared to the size of the shape. Also drawing freehand inside the arrow is obviously
  redesigned, apparently maintain a constant spacing between the lines of the Freehand drawing.

  Is it possible to prevent the Doodle redesigned and lines and spaces to be put on the scale when the camera
  moves?

  I use after effects CS 6, 11.0.0.378, Windows 7 64 bit. Scribble effect is version 1.0

  I appreciate your help! Thank you.

  First of all, update! You are missing a lot of bug fixes. CS6 should be on version 11.0.4

  Second, you need to precompose your Doodle arrow so that all effects are occurring inside the precomp. And just to make the 3d precomp.

• Points of delay shape layer encompassing

  When you change or shift points in a shape layer, some points are hidden behind the bounding box of the shape layer. Any tool that I use, After Effects assumes that I want to turn using the bounding box rather than moving the point of shape layer. Is there a way to temporarily hide the bounding box?

  some points are hidden behind the bounding box of the shape layer.

  the summits are not hidden, they are locked just because you selected a parametric form. If you want to have access to the peaks, it must convert your Bezier shape path and do you it by right clicking on the path of the ellipse, and then click "convert Bezier path.

  

  Is there a way to temporarily hide the bounding box

  just so you know - Ctrl + Shift + H allows you to hide all the controls of the layer

  Beautiful very illustrative arrows.

• Dynamic object and shape layer

  Hey guys,.

  I have two questions, and I would be very happy if you could help me with my problem.

  01. when I copy a form of Illustrator and paste it into Photoshop as a "shape layer", it is sometimes placed on contact information does not match. It is not represented as the 'pixilated Preview' since Illustrator intends:

  

  But when I use the tool 'transform' to move and type in coordinates equal form, he looks right and he is portrayed as for the 'pixilated Preview' in Illustrator:

  

  When I place the same icon as a "smart object", it is always placed right. Is there a solution why?

  02. when I place a symmetrical "shape layer" (like the heart icon) and check the colors with the "Color Picker", a few pixels to the right are (minimal) chromatic values other than the same pixel on the left side. But when I place it as a "smart object" pixels on the right have the same values of color on the left side. Is there a solution for this?

  I really appreciate if someone could explain that to me.

  Thank you very much in advance!

  See you soon

  Thorbman

  What do you proof is anti-aliasing. There is no way to adjust the color. It is supposed to be a mixture of the color of objects, and what is behind it.

• effect of contour of the shape layer

  Hi, I'm applying an edge effect to a layer I imported from Illustrator.

  I created vector layer with the layer (so it appears as "outlines") and can apply STROKE if I go to 'Add' in the timeline, but not if I apply via 'generate' it does not appear and also impossible to apply effects. I can change the specifications, the width of the line IE, but nothing appears on the screen.

  Kind regards

  Suzie

  Doodle works and stroke on the footsteps of mask, not on the shape layer paths. If you want just for just these types of effects mask path, so you don't have to use "Create forms of vector layer" and instead of this just leave the layer being and copy - paste the path like I showed you before. Another way to do it, if you have already converted to shape and stay in shape too, is to copy the path of the path parameter of shape for the mask path setting (you can simply create a dummy mask so you where to copy)

  

  BTW shape layers have also a few very powerful path here operations: wiggle path can create the very nice and organic Scribble to your contours. but it is not the same as the Freehand drawing.

  

• The Position of the upper left corner of any shape layer

  Hi guys,.

  So for the last two days, I worked on a script that would allow me to centre X number of layers in the middle of the container model, as if the selected layers were just one layer. So my approach to achieve this goal is first to know the positions of the four corners of each layer. My code so far works perfectly with AVLayers and TextLayers, but it does not always with ShapeLayers. Here's the formula I use to calculate the position of the upper left corner of the shape layers:

  x = position [x] - [x] anchorPoint - (layerWidth / 2)

  y = position [y] - [y] anchorPoint - (layerHeight / 2)

  So the formula assumes that the anchor point is in the middle of the shape layer if the anchor point is [0, 0], and which seems incorrect.

  

  And it's Layer Properties.

  

  So the question is, what is the way to calculate the position of the upper left corner of ANY shape layer?

  Thank you very much!

  It should work as long the layer was not filmed:

  var C = app.project.activeItem;

  var L is C.layer ("shape Layer 1");.

  var r = L.sourceRectAtTime (C.time, false);

  var s = L.property("Scale").value;

  var p = L.property("Position").value;

  var a = L.property("Anchor_Point").value;

  var ul = [p [0] + (r.left - a [0]) * s [0] / 100, p [1] + (r.top - a [1]) * s [1] / 100];

  Dan

• "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.

• 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 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

  Pfaffenbichler

• shape layer is not in first composition pro

  I am new to this, but I can't understand what I'm doing wrong.  After you create a sequence of credit with animation, images, texts and a shape layer in After Effects cc, I send the publication to first Pro CC, open it, but the shape layer and text are missing - everything is there, in the right order and size, etc..  What Miss me?   Thank you very much.

  Make sure that the composition Panel is set to Active camera. This is the only view that renders. Make sure that you have set any of your layers as guide layers. To make sure that your comp until properly you can go to the menu composition and select Composition > save image under > file and make a unique image. Check and if it shows everything then Premiere Pro should show all. Are there things missing and you have the camera turns on selected display, then select the layers that give you problems and press U twice to reveal all the modified properties. Start to turn things off or redefinition of values up to what you discover what is causing the problem.

  If you still can not understand it select all the layers in your project, press the U key twice, take a screenshot and drag it in the field of response to this forum so we can take a look.

• I get a weird bar in my shape layer

  In my shape layer, I get a weird bar that doesn't fill the ellipse. The bar will change not the sizes or forms and there is no obvious problem as to why I can't fill it with the color.

  You use a gradient?