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  how to save the illustrator paths exported from PS as masks for a solid in AE?

  Posted by Digitalworkshop on May 4, 2005 at 7:06 am

  hi,

  I have an idea…its kind of a morph thing between two PS shapes.
  What i am trying to do is that i have two custom shapes of a woman which i converted in to PATHS.
  Now i want to save these two PATHS as source and destination MASKS for a solid.
  So that the one mask(shape of woman) morphs in to other,the destination one.
  Is it possible to save the exported paths to illustrator as MASKS for a solid in AE?
  pls pls let me know as i am in the middle of my project.
  If this is not possible then pls tell me how do i save my Mattes as masks????
  regards,

  DIGI
  🙂

  Curious Turtle replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Curious Turtle

  May 4, 2005 at 8:52 am

  You can do this very easily. All you have to do is copy the path from Illustrator (Ctrl-C), then paste that into AE (Ctrl-V).

  If that doesn’t work straight away then check your Preferences in Illustrator. In the Fil Handling & Clipboard section, change the clipboard copy away from PDF. I can’t remember what the other option is off the top of my head I’m afraid.

  Hope that helps,
  Ben

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