Adobe After Effects CS3 - Manual (Page 308)

AFTER EFFECTS CS3
User Guide
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• To rename a paint stroke, select the paint stroke in the Timeline panel and press Enter on the main keyboard
(Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
• To reorder paint strokes within an instance of the Paint effect, drag a Paint stroke to a new location in the stacking
order in the Timeline panel.
• To reorder an instance of the Paint effect to interleave it with other effects, drag the effect to a new location in the
stacking order in the Timeline panel.
• To target a specific instance of the Paint effect for the addition of new paint strokes, choose from the View menu
at the bottom of the Layer panel.
• To hide a paint stroke from view (and from rendered output), deselect the paint stroke’s Video switch .
• To open or close the Paint panel and Brush Tips panel when a paint tool is selected, click the Toggle The Paint
Panels button
.
For some painting, drawing, cloning, and retouching tasks, you may want to take advantage of the sophisticated paint
tools provided by Adobe Photoshop. See “Working with Photoshop and After Effects” on page 32.
See also
“Blending mode reference” on page 164
“Work with layer properties in the Timeline panel” on page 152
Common paint tool settings in the Paint panel
To use the Paint panel, first select a paint tool from the Tools panel.
Opacity For Brush and Clone strokes, the maximum amount of paint applied. For Eraser strokes, the maximum
amount of paint and layer color removed.
Flow For Brush and Clone strokes, how quickly paint is applied. For Eraser strokes, how quickly paint and layer color
are removed.
Mode How pixels in the underlying image are blended with the pixels painted on by the Brush or Clone stroke. (See
“Blending mode reference” on page 164.)
Channels Which channels of the layer are affected by the Brush stroke or Clone stroke. When you choose Alpha, the
stroke only affects opacity, so swatches are grayscale. Painting the alpha channel with pure black has the same result
as using the Eraser tool.
Duration The duration of the paint stroke. Constant applies the stroke from the current frame to the end of the
layer’s duration. Single Frame applies the stroke to the current frame only. Custom applies the stroke to the specified
number of frames, beginning with the current frame. Write On applies the stroke from the current frame to the end
of the layer’s duration and animates the End property of the stroke to match the motion with which the stroke was
drawn.
See also
“Work with brushes” on page 303
Work with brushes
To use the Brush Tips panel, first select a paint tool from the Tools panel.