[Katya Austin]

I’m not sure i understand your question correctly, but do you have “Dynamic link with After Effects uses project file with highest number” turned on in AE?

[Katya Austin]

Crop effect has feathering option, but it feathers all edges equally, and there are no controls for separate X and Y feathering. You can leave cropping from each side at 0% and apply negative value feathering.

If the title box is a video, you have After Effects, you can right-click on the title box and select “replace with AE composition” and apply masks with desired feathering. If it’s a still image, you can bring it to Photoshop and apply alpha mask with a gradient, Premiere Pro will pick up on changes made in Photoshop.

[Katya Austin]

Try selecting all 3 inner parts for A letters and convert them into a Compound path – Object Menu on top > Compound Path > Make (Ctrl+8).
Then select text outline for “ATTALIA” letters and compounded path for all 3 ‘holes’ and hit ‘exclude’ button in a Pathfinder menu:

Set fill to whatever you want and apply 3D extrude filter
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[Katya Austin]

I was thinking about sliders as well, but creating separate X and Y controller adds the same amount of time as guessing offset values. I was hoping for a ruler plugin (or script), like measure tool in illustrator and photoshop that would calculate X and Y offsets from original placing.

thanks for your reply!

-k

[Katya Austin]

i’d do it in Illustrator, because it offers more precision and flexibility, but it can be done in Photoshop as well.

Using Rounded Rectangle Tool, draw the shape you need, in the shape options* menu (above document window) choose transparent fill and whichever color you want for the stroke.
Select Free Transform Path (Ctrl+T on Windows)and holding down Alt+Ctrl+Shift keys nudge lower corners towards the center.

*not sure when shape options became available in photoshop – might not be available before CS6.

hope that helps
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[Katya Austin]

holy cow, of course!

i saw a presentation of Newton plugin a while ago, made a note to look into it and completely forgot about its existence as soon as next presentation started.

it’s lil’ expensive, i must say, wish there was a ‘light’ version, but, oh well…

thank you Tudor “Ted” Jelescu!!

[Katya Austin]

unless i’m missing something, it looks like you’d have better luck with photoshop, which has a lot more controls for raster image editing.

to edit picture into computer screen in photoshop, place said picture > go to edit menu on top > transform > skew.

youtube tutorial

[Katya Austin]

You can attach Plexus generator to animated in 3D space lights (point lights only) and attach graphics to lights.

If you have Cinema 4D you can animate some simple geometry with deformers > parent lights to geometry > export Plexus OBJ sequence for lines and lights for parenting graphics.

Hope this helps
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[Katya Austin]

I’m not really sure, but I think you’re talking about Application Frame, if you’re on a Mac. It’s a mac-only feature and can be turned on/off in Window>Application Frame.
https://luminous-landscape.com/articleImages/BRIOT1/CS6_favorite_features/15-Window-Application-frame.jpg

[Katya Austin]

thanx!!

i don’t think it’s CorelDraw vs Illustrator snobbery, they probably invested bunch of money in CorelDraw v11 back in 2001 and trying to get every penny out of it before having to update.

will try specs you suggested, thank you so much!