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How to raise a value range over it’s cap, ie. make an inner shadow bigger
Hi, have tried searching everywhere about this, and using official Adobe Forums, to no avail, so made an account here just to ask this question.
I was (exactly) following an AE tutorial about layer effects, among other things, and came across an odd issue. While the creator was able to set his inner shadow size to ~450, my slider is hard capped at 250. Only thing I could think of trying was a slider control, but while I can set that value to whatever I want, the effect itself is still capped at 250.
Is there a way to change this cap? Or a reason mine is capped and his isn’t? While it’s not particularly important to me to follow the tutorial exactly, I’m very curious as to why mine is functioning differently.
See attached for screenshots of my and the video’s layer style settings.
Video tutorial I was following. The setting in question is adjusted around 14:15.
Thanks in advance!
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This is a muscle memory thing for me so I’m not sure this works. I think if you click on the field with 250, you can enter a number in excess of the slider, hit return and, hopefully, you’re good.
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I noticed that the author uses the 2023 version of the program.
So I went to check this parameter on different versions of the program.
It turned out that in versions 2024 and 2025 the maximum value is 250.
And in version 2022 there seems to be no limit at all.
You can see this in the attached video.
So I think the reason is in the version of the program.
Apparently, the developers decided to limit the value.
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Oh what the heck (and thanks)! That wouldn’t even have crossed my mind that they’d limit something in that way, especially at so small a number after it wasn’t limited before.
Is anyone aware of a plugin that removes the caps for the 2025 version?
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