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Drop shadow on Paint Effect?
This should be a quick one for one of you masters out there…
I know there are lots of ways to do this, but what’s the best/simplest/most efficient way to add a drop shadow to a paint stroke?
I’m ‘painting’ a lot of words onto a backplate. To separate them into different layers to manage them better, I put each painting on a different adjustment layer.
Since paint is already an effect, applying the drop shadow effect to the layer doesn’t work the way I want (I want to add a drop shadow to each paint stroke).
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Thanks, Dave. I forgot about the ‘Paint on Transparent’ option within the Paint effect. If I do it on a solid, instead of adjustment layer, adding the Drop Shadow effect after it gives me the look I want – no need to PreComp.
FCS 3
AE 10.0.1.19
ProTools 8.0.4cs2
Mbox2Pro
Matrox MXO2 mini
OSX 10.6.6
MacPro 2×2.7GHz
8GB RAM -
Hey I’m having a similar problem however I want to add a drop shadow to all my paint stroked on a video clip – whenever I paint on transparent I only get a black screen can someone please help?
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