Paint effects, Paint effect, Vector paint effect – Adobe After Effects CS4 User Manual
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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Effects and animation presets
Last updated 12/21/2009
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Hue
Renders the fractal noise as hue values instead of grayscale. The Saturation and Lightness of the original layer
are maintained. If the original layer is grayscale, nothing happens.
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Saturation
Renders the fractal noise as saturation values instead of grayscale. The Hue and Lightness of the original
layer are maintained. If the original layer is grayscale, nothing happens.
For a description of each blending mode, see “
Paint effects
Paint effect
Apply the Paint effect using the paint tools.
This effect works with 8-bpc, 16-bpc, and 32-bpc color.
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Vector Paint effect
For most drawing and painting tasks, use shape tools and paint tools, not the Vector Paint effect.
Overview of shape layers, paths, and vector
This effect works with 8-bpc and 16-bpc color.
Original (upper-left), brush stroke with selection spline (lower-left), and second stroke created with Wiggle control (lower-right)
Vector Paint strokes are made up of many tiny points that create the stroke path. You cannot isolate or adjust these
individual points, but you can affect them using Vector Paint features such as smoothing and wiggling. The wiggling
of a stroke is created by manipulating and displacing these points along the stroke path.
Vector Paint strokes are nondestructive, so painting and erasing actions affect only the appearances on a layer; they
don’t alter the original source file of any image on the layer. All paint strokes are recorded and stored as they are drawn,
so you can make the strokes appear in various sequences, such as animated over time or all at once.