[Jimmy Brunger]

Honestly, I’d just do it for real – film some black ink in water from above, over a white bit of paper and key it & colour it. Also try dropping ink directly onto wet paper. you can’t beat the real thing for an organic effect like that.

Old skool.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Sorry, I meant for Windows XP. Do Linotype do something similar for PCs? Can’t find anything..

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[Jimmy Brunger]

AAhh…that kind of answers my question…I was sure I’d read of someone using it on here before, but guess not!

Thanks.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Dave,

I’m not talking about infinitely scaling a raster file – I’m on about vector text files, that have vector-based layer styles. A PS text file is infinitely scalable in AE, but if you want to keep the layer styles intact, it needs to be rasterized currently. That’s what I’m asking and what will also, probably take ages to come to fruition!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

A little OT…Is there a special way to flatten your layer styles in PS into a vector-based layer? That could help a bit, by keeping the layer infinitely sizable, although, still not re-editble.

You’re going to tell me to make my layouts up in Illustrator now arentcha! Just not an option when I have so much pixel-based work to do alongside the text and shape creation.

I crave a one-stop shop!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

EXACTLY! You’d think they’d go hand in hand…

Being able to re-edit PS text layers in v7 (and 6.5?) is a great addition, but not unless it’s totally plain text with nothing applied to it!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Appreciated…very annoying though! It’s a major annoyance designing all your GFX layouts and text styles in PS, only to have to either flatten them all before import (rendering the infinitely scalable text layer option useless and making editing/animating the styles impossible) or stripping away all the layer styles and trying to rebuild them to match in AE.
By no means ideal! Hey ho.

It just means that when I’m doing a low budget job my client usually can’t be @rsed waiting for me to rebuild it all in AE again so it can be animated and so many GFX end up as stills, or crudely animated in the Editbox later on. This make-a me sad 🙁 Ha ha!

If it’s 2yr cycles or so between versions, then looks like I might aswell buy now and worry later!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Yup, defo an option. But so much of a copy & paste as perhaps you might want if you were applying it to alot of layers. Plus unfortunately that doesn’t work on footage/layers that are not keyed/cut out, as the face needs the extra pixels to use for the spill suppresor. Also doesn’t give a sharp edge or corners.

I can’t believe there’s no easy way to do this in AE!?!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Yup, defo an option. But so much of a copy & paste as perhaps you might want if you were applying it to alot of layers. Plus unfortunately that doesn’t work on footage/layers that are not keyed/cut out, as the face needs the extra pixels to use for the spill suppresor. Also doesn’t give a sharp edge or corners.

I can’t believe there’s no easy way to do this in AE!?!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Anyone know why Adobe haven’t sorted out PS/AE effects & filters compatibility yet?

It seems to me like one of the main things that needs addressing, especially if they’re all about ‘integrating’ all their apps. The omission of many of the PS layer styles in AE is a real workflow pain for me and probably many others.

I don’t suppose anybody would like to hazard a guess at when the next AE/PS updates might be? (I know, no one says until it’s officially announced. But ‘hunch-wise’ any thoughts? I’m just about to buy Production Studio Premium after trying out all the trials, but I just know as soon as I do that they’ll bring out new versions! Is there a grace period for people who buy right on the cusp of an update?

And does anyone know definitively if when you own the Prod Studio package, if you can individually update the apps within it?

Thanks.

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