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Make Reverse of Image Solid?
Perhaps I’m overlooking something simple: what is the best way to make the reverse of an image appear solid? For example, let’s say you import an image into a AE, make it 3D, and then rotate the image. As the reverse side of the image becomes visible, you will see that it is a mirror of the original; how does one go about making the reverse appear as a single color?
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A couple approaches:
1. Create a solid the same size as your image, promote it to 3D, place it directly behind the image in z-space, and parent it to the image.
2. Get fancy and use Dan Ebberts’s Layer Invisible When Facing Away From Camera [link] set of expressions.
Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka] “1. Create a solid the same size as your image, promote it to 3D, place it directly behind the image in z-space, and parent it to the image.”
You could also follow the same workflow by duplicating the image layer and applying Generate > Fill to the duplicate that you move behind the original. By its nature this will have the correct size and alpha as the original image.
Darby Edelen
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Thanks for your help. That’s what I was doing, I just wanted to see if there was something I was overlooking.
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