[Presto]

That’s a great idea and a good strat to what I’m trying to do. The biger problem is trying to bring life to the layer to have it look like paint spreading or slowly soaking in to the paper.

Your idea lead me to try using differnt transfer modes on the top blured layer that created some really nice filter effects. I espicaly like using the ADD transfer mode to create a nice glow to footage.

Thanks for your help.

Presto

[Presto]

I was thinking that it might be a future feature to wait for… but using particles is an excelent idea! I never thought about that. I found a work around for what I was tring to do any way. I wanted to be able to paint on layers and have it look like an acutal brush did it. What I ended up doing was making a bunch of randum induvidual paint stroke pictures in Photoshop (White on black). Then used Render-Stroke in AE to animate the stroke of the bursh with reveal image turned on. Composed all the brush strokes in a precomp and used that precomp as a track matte on my images.

Gave me the exact result I was looking for.

Thanks for your suggestions

Presto

[Presto]

Thanks guys!

The fill left and fill right effects are even better then the work around I came up with.

That will work out.

Peace

Presto