• Adobe After Effects

  change the color of a shadow pass?

  Posted by Chuck Lounsberry on March 21, 2008 at 9:04 pm

  Ok – I’m sure this has to be a simple thing but I’m at a loss here. I have rendered out a shadow pass for an animation (a series of TGA files). Now, they have been rendered out as (varying shades of) black. I would like to change them all to red. In photoshop I would just select the alpha and fill it with red. What is the AE equivalent to that?

  I have a PS action that is batch converting every single frame now – but I will have to do this a whole lot more in the near future so an AE solution would be great. Thanks.

  Chuck Lounsberry replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  March 21, 2008 at 10:56 pm

  You can use Effect > Generate > Fill to fill a layer with a color… The alpha is preserved.

  Darby Edelen
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  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA
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  Chuck Lounsberry

  March 21, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  ugh – so simple. Thank you so much. Do you have any idea how long it takes to fill 3600 frames in photoshop? FOREVER.

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