[Scott Clements]

Hi, Keith. Thanks for your help. I guess I didn’t try clicking on the actually path in the path window in Photoshop and copy and pasting into AE. Not sure if that would give me a proper shape in After Effects though. I’ll try it. What I ended up doing was opening the photoshop file in Illustrator and then exporting from there and opening it in After Effects and then using the “create shapes from vector layer” command. It wasn’t ideal though, because Illustrator did a weird resize of the layer and I had to mess with it to get it to match. I wish AE would be able to handle Photoshop vector layers in the say way. Why Photoshop still, after all these years, doesn’t have better vector capabilities is a mystery to me.

[Scott Clements]

Thanks for the help, Keith!

Nuke Compositor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

Thanks for the help, John!

Nuke Compositor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

Hi,

This doesn’t work. The multiplied look is lost the moment you remove the base layer. The best solution I found (but not perfect) is to put the base layer above the “top” layer and multiply the base layer over the “top” layer. Then, you make the base layer a clipping mask by pressing cmd+alt+g. Then, flatten the image and it is a normal blend layer, with the multiplied look, with transparency. It does have some artifacts in Nuke though. PNG is a compressed format and Targa is only 8 bit. I wish 16 bit tiffs worked well in Nuke, but they don’t. The Foundry told me they’re working on it.