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  Maintain stroke thickness of imported file in after effects

  Posted by Lizzie Green on June 12, 2017 at 4:27 am

  Hello,
  I am wondering if it is possible to maintain the stroke thickness of a photoshop file imported into After Effects? I am making an animation using After Effects and I have created my background and characters using photoshop. I plan on using a camera in AE to zoom in and out on my characters/background, however I do not want the lines to get thicker when I zoom in (I will be zooming in pretty close). Is there a possible expression which could be applied to a certain property, or some type of setting which I may have overlooked?

  I really appreciate anyones help on this issue, as I have been searching for an answer for almost a week.

  Thank You! 🙂

  Roei Tzoref replied 9 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Richard Garabedain

  June 12, 2017 at 4:24 pm

  I seriousely hate how the stroke effect changes depending on how zoomed in you are. you could pre compose and then make 3d. or instead of strokes sometimes i will use a drop shadow at 100 opaticty 0 distance, 0 softness..duplicate 5 times and then increase the softness of number 1 only and that gives me a nice hard edge
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  Lizzie Green

  June 12, 2017 at 10:51 pm

  Thanks, I’ll give it a shot and see how it turns out 🙂
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  Roei Tzoref

  June 13, 2017 at 12:28 pm

  In one word: Yes ☺

  you can if you use a stroke layer style. Since it renders after transformation it will stay constant no matter if scaled or zoomed into with a camera.

  Roei Tzoref
  After Effects Artist & Instructor
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