[Daniel Haskett]

hey man if u could email it to me id really appreciate it! its just im new to expressions so finding it a little hard to get my head around it, i think if i coudl look at it and then refer to what youve written that might help alot!

thanks for everyones help!

dan

[Daniel Haskett]

hey man if u could email it to me id really appreciate it! its just im new to expressions so finding it a little hard to get my head around it, i think if i coudl look at it and then refer to what youve written that might help alot!

thanks for everyones help!

dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Hey guys, thanks for all the help, i really appreciate your time!

Ive been giving it a go and am getting somewhere with it…only thing Im having trouble with is using a gradient to make them distribute, ive got the grid of the images, but i cant the gradient layer to do anything. When i bring in a layer and say that it is the gradient layer, it doenst do anything to the images, i mean they dont start appearing or soemthing similar….is that meant to happen?

cheers

dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Hey guys, thanks for all the help, i really appreciate your time!

Ive been giving it a go and am getting somewhere with it…only thing Im having trouble with is using a gradient to make them distribute, ive got the grid of the images, but i cant the gradient layer to do anything. When i bring in a layer and say that it is the gradient layer, it doenst do anything to the images, i mean they dont start appearing or soemthing similar….is that meant to happen?

cheers

dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Hi i see what you mean, but the problem is i want to add more in the photoshop canvas….

Like say ive got some mountains made in photoshop and i want to make the taller, when i make them taller in photoshop it puts everything out in after effects. If i make the compositon bigger in after effects i cant make the mountains bigger, that has to be done in photoshop………does that make sense?

cheers
dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Hey mike

Thanks for the info, ive actually got painter, just not used it in a while. Having a play around now and its got some great brushes and features, but I have one question. When im creating an animation, i do make movie and say 24 frames with 2 layers of onion skin, which works fine when on the background layer, but as soon as you craete a new layer and start painting on that it goes weird. Basically all the brush strokes previous are left on the screen so you cant tell what the animation is gonna look like. But for some reason when you render it out it looks ok, but until then its hard to tell what itll look like…. Do you have any ideas?

Cheers!

Dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Hey Mike

Do you mean the program Painter? If so do you mean that you can use the brushes in it in conjunction with after effects. Or is Painter a plugin for after effects? Is it possible to bring in custom brushes into after effects?

cheers
dan

[Daniel Haskett]

thanks man, will do that in future

when you say make it alpha matte in the timeline, so it has to be on separate layer then yes? just cause if you paint on the same layer and make it alpha matte youll loose anything underneath the paint. its just easier painting on the same layer cause you can see what you are painting on……..

cheers

dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Hi colin

thanks for the help, but the main problem i have with precomping, is using different timelines with the same composition window…..do you know what i mean? like when you change the timeline comp it will change that which is in the composition window, and when you have precomps it can get a bit confusing…..or is there a way of getting around this?

Also i have scribble set to on original image but it still seems to be doing the same thing!

cheers

dan

[Daniel Haskett]

Thanks guys am gonna give it a go now!

Dan