Jimmy Brunger
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Yes it will have round edges (sort it out Adobe!!)….but you can apply it without a mask (at least, if it’s a text layer you can just apply it directly to the layer.) I’m not at my work PC to double check rasterised layers, but I’m pretty sure at least on v7 you can.
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Yes it will have round edges (sort it out Adobe!!)….but you can apply it without a mask (at least, if it’s a text layer you can just apply it directly to the layer.) I’m not at my work PC to double check rasterised layers, but I’m pretty sure at least on v7 you can.
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From what I gather, Coyote is after a ‘sharp’ border of a certain size (eg: 3 pixels) which he can apply to any other layer?
As far as I know you don’t need to make a mask to apply a stroke…just apply the stroke to a layer and then copy/paste that effect to any other layers you want and it should remain the same throughout.
If however the problem is what I tend to find with photoshop – when you apply an ‘outer’ stroke it tends to be rounded at the edges (more noticable the bigger the stroke) then not sure about that – it’s something I wish photoshop could do better (ie: you have the letter ‘i’ and when you apply an outer stroke you want the corners to remain sharp, rahter than rounded) Thought I think Illustrator’s stroke efftect does work better.
as far as AFX works – you need to make a path of the shape and duplicate and size up, then join them and fill to make a mask layer. The problem with that is that it won’t size perfectly in unison in the X & Y, so you have to fiddle alot to even it out. Then copying to another layer doesn’t really work.
Adobe should take the best bits of their apps and make them common!! (Illustrator’s stroke in PS/AFX, illustrator’s 3D bevel/extrude in both, afx’s 3D space to move layers in PS, all PS’s layer styles and shape options in AFX, etc, etc…they will all merge soon enough..)
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From what I gather, Coyote is after a ‘sharp’ border of a certain size (eg: 3 pixels) which he can apply to any other layer?
As far as I know you don’t need to make a mask to apply a stroke…just apply the stroke to a layer and then copy/paste that effect to any other layers you want and it should remain the same throughout.
If however the problem is what I tend to find with photoshop – when you apply an ‘outer’ stroke it tends to be rounded at the edges (more noticable the bigger the stroke) then not sure about that – it’s something I wish photoshop could do better (ie: you have the letter ‘i’ and when you apply an outer stroke you want the corners to remain sharp, rahter than rounded) Thought I think Illustrator’s stroke efftect does work better.
as far as AFX works – you need to make a path of the shape and duplicate and size up, then join them and fill to make a mask layer. The problem with that is that it won’t size perfectly in unison in the X & Y, so you have to fiddle alot to even it out. Then copying to another layer doesn’t really work.
Adobe should take the best bits of their apps and make them common!! (Illustrator’s stroke in PS/AFX, illustrator’s 3D bevel/extrude in both, afx’s 3D space to move layers in PS, all PS’s layer styles and shape options in AFX, etc, etc…they will all merge soon enough..)
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Aye, just play around with all the diff parameters of the effect and you’ll be able to create allsorts of glows, etc. Have fun.
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Come on people, does NO ONE know the answer to this!?
You may think it’s a stupid question, but humour me please!
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Sorry, are you talking about the title text in the header of the website?!?
It’s just a white outer glow (or drop shadow) applied to the layer in photoshop or illustrator. Double click any layer in PShop and you’ve got a bunch of layer styles you can edit.
Or have I got the the wrong end of the stick?
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Also Zaxwerks do a plugin called ‘3D flag’, which looks to have similar functionality I think…
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Hmmm…that sounds quite cool. Might jump on Combustion again and have a look at that. I barely use Combustion, cos it’s such a complicated nightmare to do something that is so simple in AE!
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Yep, but it’s quite far down and I thought it might get missed. BMD also initally said they don’t really test on such old s/ware..so I thought I’d try you lot!
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