• Adobe After Effects

  adjustment layers

  Posted by Andrew Potter on September 28, 2006 at 4:31 pm

  Am I reading this wrong? (AE 5.5)
  An adjustment layer should alter and effect all the layers below it, yes?
  So if I add an adjustment layer, and scale down, the two layers below should scale down, no?
  But I get nothing.
  I’ve already scaled the original layers to animate them, so I don’t want to change that.
  I just want the entire image to be smaller.
  And is there a way to add a adjustment layer to just the layer directly underneath, the way you can in photoshop?
  And thank you for rescuing me last time.

  Andrew Potter

  Mark replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Sanspoof

  September 28, 2006 at 5:20 pm

  What you want to do is called parenting. Create a null object layer and parent the layers you want to be affected to the null object layer.

  Then when you scale the null object layer the others will follow suit without changing their individual scale values.
  peace,

  Michael
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  Mark

  September 30, 2006 at 2:18 am

  The adjustement layer is a transparent layer that adjusts all of the layers below it. For kicks, add a tint to the adjustement layer, now scale down the adjustement layer, you should now have a tinted box with regular color around it.

  Mark

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