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borders?
I’ve got several square pictures that I’ve done rectangle masks on, and I need a simple 2-4 pixel border around the picture…I can’t figure out how to make one.
I tried duplicating the layer, filling it with white [behind the picture] and then scaling it up a couple percent, but it is out of proportion (side borders aren’t equal).
Any help?
Thanks,
Jason
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3 Replies
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use effect>render>stroke and be sure to select the mask in the drop down that you want to be stroked as a border. or you can put a glow effects>stylize>glow and play with the threshold and spread setting so that you get a quite hard edge on the glow, thus a boarder. if you copy the rectangle mask you’ve done on your pic to another layer, i.e. solid, and the apply the stroke to that layer, then you can put a blur on the stroke which will give you sort of same effect as the glow, but different… lot’s of other ways of doing it, but that’s the simplest ways as far as i know, hope it helps. /d
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Did you tried Effect > Render > Grid ?
Justin Productions
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Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional -
I think the stroke option is the best one…I tried the glow, it was pretty difficult to get the desired results. And the Grid didn’t work, because I’m using AE 5.0 so I can’t select the number of vertical lines, and can’t space them far enough.
The stroke worked immediately when I applied it, exactly what I needed. [although it composites the stroke on top of the layer, and expands it from the center of the mask line out] I guess I could make a new mask, expand it and then apply the stroke to that one…therefore not cutting off any of my original image.
I love this program! There’s ALWAYS a way…
-Jason
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