Great question, still no answer.

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Great question, still no answer.

Posted by Hristo Mihalev on May 15, 2012 at 2:21 am

Hello everyone.
I have a really good question that might improve the speed of work to a lot of people. There is a good feature in Photoshop that allows you to change the opacity to the current layer just by pressing the numbers on the keyboard.
3 – changes opacity to 30%
5 – changes opacity to 50%
ect.

Is there a way that we can make AE to change the values of the current option we’ve selected. For example:

I push S for scale and click 5 for 50% scale
or
I push T for opacity and click 7 for 70% opacity

Help would be really appriciated.

Todd Kopriva replied 14 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
3 Replies

Darby Edelen
May 15, 2012 at 4:12 am

This does not exist in AE as a feature currently. You could suggest it to the AE team though. The old feature request site seems to be gone, perhaps someone else knows where to head for this sort of thing… Todd? 🙂

Darby Edelen
Roland R. kahlenberg
May 15, 2012 at 4:40 am

Not exactly what you want but perhaps it’s close enough. These were taken from the following URL – https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSCEBCDB03-0A9C-459e-873E-F5A10520F24A.html

Increase or decrease Rotation (Z Rotation) of selected layers by 1°
+ (plus) or – (minus) on numeric keypad
+ (plus) or – (minus) on numeric keypad

Increase or decrease Rotation (Z Rotation) of selected layers by 10°
Shift++ (plus) or Shift+- (minus) on numeric keypad
Shift++ (plus) or Shift+- (minus) on numeric keypad

Increase or decrease Opacity (or Intensity for light layers) of selected layers by 1%
Ctrl+Alt++ (plus) or Ctrl+Alt+- (minus) on numeric keypad
Control+Option++ (plus) or Control+Option+- (minus) on numeric keypad

Increase or decrease Opacity (or Intensity for light layers) of selected layers by 10%
Ctrl+Alt+Shift++ (plus) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+- (minus) on numeric keypad
Control+Option+Shift++ (plus) or Control+Option+Shift+- (minus) on numeric keypad

Increase Scale of selected layers by 1%
Ctrl++ (plus) or Alt++ (plus) on numeric keypad
Command++ (plus) or Option++ (plus) on numeric keypad

Decrease Scale of selected layers by 1%
Ctrl+- (minus) or Alt+- (minus) on numeric keypad
Command+- (minus) or Option+- (minus) on numeric keypad

Increase Scale of selected layers by 10%
Ctrl+Shift++ (plus) or Alt+Shift++ (plus) on numeric keypad
Command+Shift++ (plus) or Option+Shift++ (plus) on numeric keypad

Decrease Scale of selected layers by 10%
Ctrl+Shift+- (minus) or Alt+Shift+- (minus) on numeric keypad
Command+Shift+- (minus) or Option+Shift+- (minus) on numeric keypad

You can of course modify the shortcut keys -> https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3bf812c123007fb85828bf13126e8183f60-8000.html

The Bug/Feature URL seems to be broken. I believe that this is temporary. Here’s the link though – https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

HTH
RoRK

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Todd Kopriva
May 15, 2012 at 9:10 am

The feature-request link is working for me:
https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

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