after effects Paint i ng to Rev e a l L ayer by Suzane Smith, Canada Email: suz.smith@hotmail.com
Quite often, you will not use Paint to directly create visible strokes; instead, you will use Paint to reveal other layers you’ve already created. This can give the impression that you are “painting on” more complex imagery. This trick will be the focus of this tutorial Step 1: Create composition and import the image on which you like to paint. Remember for this tutorial creates an alpha channel in the image using Photoshop. Create a selection around the object in Photoshop and press create alpha button in the channels panel. Save the image as tga, tiff or any other format which can keep alpha channel not jpeg, gif, bmp.
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