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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects How to make borders around layers?

  • Tim Kurkoski

    May 9, 2006 at 5:34 pm

    Easy way- double-click on the rectangular mask tool, which creates a mask around the outside of the selected layer. Then apply the Stroke effect, and assign it to the new mask.

  • Kamel Labiad

    February 16, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    thats wont work it will just create a square around the layer

  • Kamel Labiad

    February 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    if you are using cs5 just go to layer>layer styles> stroke and it just works exactly like photoshop

  • Madhav Gopalan

    September 6, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    You’re a life saver.

    While simultaneously making me feel stupid. Cheers

  • Jumin Park

    February 25, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Made my day. Saved my life thanks a lot. Just to thank you, I even made my account here.

  • Richard Garabedain

    February 28, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    a easy trick i like to do is to create a drop shadow opactiy 100 with a distance of 0 and a softness of somewhere below 100…then duplicate the shadow and set the softness to 0…duplicate that shadow 8 more times and it becomes a stroke

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