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  After Effects CS4 gradient + stroke text problem

  Posted by Jacky Lam on July 18, 2009 at 5:17 am

  I am doing some text effects in AE for my DVD menu, and I am facing the following problems:
  
  When I use the gradient effect , after effects dosen’t show the stroke, but when I change back to pure color, it does shown. Is there any methods to show both of them simultaneously?

  Thanks for you guys answers and attentions

  Adolfo Rozenfeld replied 16 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adolfo Rozenfeld

  July 18, 2009 at 8:28 am

  You didn’t mention how you are applying a gradient, and there are many ways to do that. It could be the “Gradient Overlay” layer style or the “Ramp” effect, as two examples. But in any of these cases it makes sense that you loose the stroke visibility, since these gradients are not text attributes but effects which are overlayed over an image. As a consequence, the gradient is composited over the whole text layer, including the stroke.

  Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe
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  Jacky Lam

  July 18, 2009 at 9:45 am

  It is the gradient overlay layer style effect

  So there is now way to solve the problem?
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  Adolfo Rozenfeld

  July 19, 2009 at 8:42 am

  Yes, there are lots of ways.
  One of these ways could be using the Stroke layer style instead of the stroke attribute for text.

  Adolfo Rozenfeld · Adobe

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