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Changing mask/closed-shape into simple path?
After checking tutorials etc… for the life-of-me I cannot figure out how to change a mask I created in Photoshop into a simple path.
I am dealing with a simple graph/chart white-peak-line that I select in Photoshop and create a path from…
Now I want AfterEffects to stroke this path/mask but it goes around it TWICE since it considers the path/mask as a shape instead of simple line!
So what am I doing wrong? Is there a way to select the line in Photoshop so that it stays a line/path instead of a mask-shape??Thousand thanks for help in advance on this beginner’s problem…
regards,
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You can change a closed mask to an open mask by selecting two vertices (where you want the break) and right clicking>Open. You can also delete selected vertices. But it sounds like a relatively simple Pen Tool job in AE, to make an open mask over the chart line.
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Thanks YikesMike,
yes, if it WAS a simple graph-line it WOULD be a simple pen-job… unfortunately what I am dealing with in a graph-curve reprenting an ENTIRE HOUR of timeline… meaning… that is one hellofa LONG curve to have to draw “manually” with the pen tool… with lots of fine ups-and-downs. If I just could of told the mathematicians who were responsible for producing this curve that they could have given it to me in a different format…
Well it is a strange and beautiful world…
thanks anyway and greetings,
ninetto
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