• Adobe After Effects

  Is it possible to merge down brush strokes?

  Posted by Daniel Haskett on May 15, 2005 at 12:01 pm

  Hi there

  Basically I want to be able to merge down a few brush strokes into one large brush stroke so that I can then make this into a mask, but I dont know how, and Im not even sure if this is possible…..umm is it?!

  Thanks!

  Dan

  Jeff Cochran replied 21 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  May 15, 2005 at 2:30 pm

  Is there an absolute need to ?

  You can just keep the brushstrokes an a layer, and use that layer as a trackmatte.
  There’s also the option of painting the alpha, so perhaps you don’t even need two layers.

  Thing is when you convert a brush stroke to a mask, you get the center path of the stroke, not the shape defined by it’s width and brush-shape if you understand me.
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  Jeff Cochran

  May 15, 2005 at 11:20 pm

  You could try pre-composing the layers with the brush strokes and using the new comp as the mask

  Jeff Cochran

  https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/

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