[David Cabestany]

Snow Leopard is optimized for 64 bits, whereas CS3 is a version that was written specifically to address the new (back then) intel platform, I guess it’s having trouble working with the 64 bit architecture, perhaps you need to update to CS4 at the minimum.

[David Cabestany]

Perhaps you can import the shape of the custom brush as an image with an alpha and animate its position to reveal the layer below in AE?

That would be faster than animating frame by frame in Photoshop.

[David Cabestany]

Try duplicating the layer and changing the blending mode to either overlay or soft light, to increase contrast, that may help you bring back the intensity of the color.

[David Cabestany]

I see, thanks for clearing that up.

Best,

David.

[David Cabestany]

Hey Dan, I found another method, thought it might be worth sharing:

x=Math.round(thisComp.layer(“pieza 2/engranes SMALL”).transform.zRotation);
“x=” +x

This is an expression I’m using at a different layer, in which I’m using Math.round, but the structure is the same, I just created a variable, apparently it worked.

[David Cabestany]

Thanks a lot!

[David Cabestany]

Wow, that did it, thanks! Specially for replying so fast.

Can you explain a bit further on what the .value command is adding to the expression? I that a new rule for CS5?

Thanks again!

[David Cabestany]

If your document is cmyk, add more inks to the black objects that are showing gray in order to make a rich black. Add cyan, magenta or yellow to it, or a mix of the three.

[David Cabestany]

Jpegs does ont support extra channels. Save it as a different format, such as tiff or paint the areas that are showing on your original image without adding an extra channel/mask.

[David Cabestany]

I stopped using psd files right since tiff allows layers. It takes a little longer to save them, but they use less space on the hard drive. It sort of removed a step from my previous workflow.