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  • Scale a layer with vector paint

    Posted by Michael Osland on June 16, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Hello, I have a shape layer named “touchups” that I used vector paint on. Below this layer is a movie of someone’s silhouette. I drew on the vector paint layer so that it fixes some imperfections in the silhouette.

    Now, I want to scale the silhouette and keep the touchups in the correct location. I tried to set the silhouette layer as the parent of the touchups, but the touchups layer will not scale even by itself.

    Is there a trick to getting it to work?

    Thanks

    Michael Osland replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jason Milligan

    June 17, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Have you tried precomposing those layers and scaling the precomp?

  • Michael Osland

    June 17, 2008 at 3:13 am

    That works, thanks! Should I have used vector paint to make touchups to my silhouette? I tried using regular paint, but in the layer view when you are painting, the clip was sideways because I had rotated the source in the composition. Also, I tried regular paint on a layer above the source, but then in the layer view when painting I couldn’t see the silhouette layer below.

    Was there a way to see the layer below while painting, if I had used regular paint on a transparent layer?

    Thanks again!

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