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write on with brush tool
I use the brush tool and the wacom pen to handwrite on my project. I prefer the brush tool to the Paint effect because it gives me individual layers I can manipulate, position, scale, etc. But the brush tool seems to require a layer to write on. So I create a colored solid and then use a color key to delete all but the writing. Is there any way to avoid the color key step????
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7 Replies
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In the Timeline window:
Effects > Paint > Paint on Transparent = On
Dan
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But Dan, when you do that, you don’t get a separate layer for each letter you draw and it’s very hard to manipulate scale and rotation, and position, in order to make a coherent looking word.
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OK – I’m confused. Are you creating a new layer for each letter the way you’re doing it now, and the keying out the background of each layer? Couldn’t you do the same thing with the “Paint on Transparent” – one layer for each letter (without the keying)?
I’m missing something.
Dan
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I confuse myself a lot, too. No, what I do is write a word, let’s say, “scene.” On a single solid I write S.C.E.N.E. I save the paint layers that work, delete the ones that don’t, move the paint layers around and size and position them to write on “Scene” — letters coming consecutively like they ought, and then use the key. I’m beginning to think this is such a peculiar way to do things that it is the only way to do this particular thing.
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Have you considered finding a suitable font and then using the Brush tool to reveal the font? If not take a look at this tutorial:
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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Thanks, yeah. I’ve done that a few times. But it doesn’t look as much like writing to me.
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the tutorial is really spiffy, tho. Might give me better than what I’ve done before.
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