Adobe after effects Stroke.

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Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:50 pm

Is it possible to use a picture that i made from Gimp(Basic picture editor like Photoshop) and Importing it into Adobe after effects into a JPEG and use stroke on it. Because I tried and nothing was happenning.
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Krisqo » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:24 pm

I only think you can stroke text. There is a workaround though. Take the image you want stroked and make a copy. Fill the picture with the stroke color of choice an place it below your image in the time line. Then scale it up and it should expand behind your image giving you a stroke effect.
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:43 pm

But i mainly want motion out of it. :| is it possible to do that?
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Krisqo » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:07 am

Like a moving cutout seen in most new AMVs or having the stroke move?
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:30 am

like having the stroke move because as soo as i put it in AE nothing happens =/
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Zarxrax » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:42 am

If you apply stroke to a jpeg image, it will stroke around the outside rectangle of the image. You may need to zoom down to see it. There is also an option in the stroke properties called "draw on", or something similar.

If you want your stroke to be in the shape of whats in the image (rather than a rectangle), then you need an image with an alpha channel.
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:59 pm

:sweat: how I make the image with a alpha channel?
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:13 pm

Export in a non-shitty format. PNG for instance. You need to be using an alpha layer in your image editor too, but that's a given.
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:44 pm

:twisted: Gimp is annoying me now. SO basically I go to layer>Transperacy>Add Alpha Channel and then i exported at png. and still nothing working in AE
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Zarxrax » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:12 pm

Alpha channel just means the image has transparency. For example if there's a picture of a guy standing against a wall, and you only want the guy without the wall, then you erase the wall completely... dont paint it white or something, you completely remove it so nothing is there. That is transparency which we refer to as an alpha channel. Then you can do a stroke around just the guy.
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:36 pm

Oki Zarax i did erase around what i wanted and then i exported and nothing still =/
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby mirkosp » Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:46 pm

I believe that after effects' stroke effect makes a stroke based on mask paths... so if you don't have the mask made with ae's pen tool, you won't have a stroke, I think. There is another effect that makes a stroke based on alpha and such, I think somewhere between the channel effects, but I'm not sure, though. I think that the one you're using is something like generate > stroke, which is the mask-based one. I could be wrong, though... :?
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Zarxrax » Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:01 pm

mirkosp wrote:I believe that after effects' stroke effect makes a stroke based on mask paths... so if you don't have the mask made with ae's pen tool, you won't have a stroke, I think. There is another effect that makes a stroke based on alpha and such, I think somewhere between the channel effects, but I'm not sure, though. I think that the one you're using is something like generate > stroke, which is the mask-based one. I could be wrong, though... :?


Oh wow, you are right.
LOL forget everything I said, I was getting it mixed up with the stroke from photoshop :p
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Vanity » Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:51 pm

hahah oh shiut :mrgreen: thats kwel. ill just mask =]
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Re: Adobe after effects Stroke.

Postby Batto! » Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:34 am

You can always apply an outer glow to the image and set the transparency to normal. Layer styles transfer over in cs3 or higher.
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