Jeff Hinkle
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Transform Selection does just that: transforms your selection boundaries, not the contents of your selection. To transform the actual pixels in a selection area, make your marquee selection, then choose Edit>Free Transform (control/command-T). Then you’ll be able to scale, stretch, rotate, etc. the actual pixels.
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Just making sure I understand: You have a text layer set to 3D, and it’s fine until you add your red light, correct? If your red light is the only light in your scene, then any time the red light is not pointing at your layer (you say it’s sweeping across) the layer will be in complete darkness. Try adding an ambient light to the scene and see if your text comes back.
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Just to cover all the bases: What are the dimensions and resolution of your original image? Are you having to scale it up larger in After Effects to get it full screen? Is your Quality switch in the timeline set to Best and not Draft?
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If you need to deliver an Illustrator file (.ai), why not just build the logo in Illustrator? That way the entire logo will be vector, which is generally what you want with a logo. I always build logos in Illustrator and place into Photoshop when needed.
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Have you tried Composition>Save Frame As>Photoshop Layers instead of Save Frame As>File…? I just gave that a try on a few projects and they popped open with transparency built in.
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Check your Channels palette and see if the alpha channel is in there. If it is, just Command-click its thumbnail to make a selection of it and then you can make a layer matte out of that. That should get you your transparency back.
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“Doesn’t feel natural” how? The movement? The lighting? If you can post your shot someone will have a much better idea how to help you fix it.
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Select your Zoom tool and check the control bar along the top of the screen. There should be a small checkbox labeled “Zoom All Windows.” Deselect that and you should go back to zooming the active window while the rest keep minding their own business. Zooming with the keyboard (command/control-plus and -minus) seems to ignore the setting as well.
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Creating Motion Graphics by Chris and Trish Meyer gets my vote, hands down.
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I’m guessing you’re on a Mac, since what you’re describing sounds like Exposé behavior (the Shift key makes it go in slo-mo). Go into your System Preferences, select Keyboard & Mouse, and under the Keyboard tab, make sure the checkbox that reads “Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys” is selected. Then click Show All to return to System Preferences, go into Exposé and Spaces, and set Show Desktop to something other than F11. That should do the trick.