Adobe after effects Stroke.

[Vanity]

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.

[Krisqo]

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.

[Vanity]

But i mainly want motion out of it. is it possible to do that?

[Krisqo]

Like a moving cutout seen in most new AMVs or having the stroke move?

[Vanity]

like having the stroke move because as soo as i put it in AE nothing happens =/

[Zarxrax]

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.

[Vanity]

how I make the image with a alpha channel?

[BasharOfTheAges]

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.

[Vanity]

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

[Zarxrax]

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.