• Adobe After Effects

  selection?

  Posted by Matthew Beall on August 3, 2009 at 9:51 pm

  How do you make a selection so you can apply an effect to just part of a layer?

  -Matthew

  Richard Harrington replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Andy George

  August 3, 2009 at 10:19 pm

  Hi Mathew,

  Copy your layer.
  Mask the part of your new layer you want to apply the effect to.

  -Andy
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  Matthew Beall

  August 3, 2009 at 10:30 pm

  Thanks Andy, I thought that is what I would have to do..

  I’m coming from combustion and toxik, so I’m a little surprised to not to have such a integral tool. Duplicating lots of layers sure clutters things up..

  -Matthew
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  Richard Harrington

  August 3, 2009 at 10:35 pm

  Use an adjustment layer with a mask

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork

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