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creating a ring
What would be the best way to create a simple ring in AE? At the moment, I’m using a circular shape layer with a mask in the middle of it, but I’m having a hard time getting the two to line up perfectly – ideally, I’d like to expand the mask from the centre of the shape layer, but ctrl, shift, alt doesn’t seem to work – I’m using a macbook pro, and unfortunately don’t know Illustrator or photoshop to help with these things…
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Andrew Kramer has this wonderful tutorial where he created a pseudo-3D ring with specular highlight and shadows
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/the_ring/Xinlai Ni
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What about the Circle effect?
Or you could have a single circle in a shape layer with a broad stroke and no fill.
Or you could have a complex shape consisting of two concentric circles, using the Merge Paths operation set to Subtract.
There are many ways to create a simple ring, depending on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Good grief… As easy as that. Perfect, Todd thanks.
I didn’t want anything complex like Andrew Kramer’s tutorial – it’s just going to be a magnifying lens.
Sometimes it’s the simplest things…
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