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Make bars from text rows
Hi community, I need some help with a task of mine…
I want to create some alpha masks from a text layer, to use with a duplicate of the said layer. I need every row to be a bar with the height dictated by the highest/lowest point in the respective row. I do not really care how big in width this will be, I just need it for some vertical alpha masking.
Right now I am using “Minimax” effect, with a big radius (around 700-800), “Maximum” operation and “Just horizontal” direction. This works, but this seems to work slow on render, my project feels heavy even if I have only a few of these layers. I was wondering if there was an effect that used less resources and basically creates a long horizontal shadow of my entire row of text.
Thanks