User Guide

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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0
User Guide
The first three controls on the left column can be changed in two ways. You can click the
underlined value to open a dialog box in which you can type a specific value, or you can
drag across the value to change it, dragging left to decrease it and right to increase it.
Note: If you select strokes with different settings (such as Color, Radius, Brush Type, and so
forth), a question mark [-?-] appears for those option in the Effect Controls window. To apply
a single setting to all the selected strokes, select a new value, option, or color, as appropriate.
When you drag to change Radius, Feather, or Opacity values, hold down Ctrl (Windows)
or Command (Mac OS) to reduce the size of the increments. To change the value by
larger increments, hold down Shift as you drag.
Radius Controls the size of the brush or eraser.
Feather Controls the softness of brush or eraser edges (but does not affect the airbrush).
To quickly set your brush Radius and Feather amounts as you paint, press Ctrl
(Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and click anywhere in the Composition window;
then drag in or out to resize the brush.When you release the Ctrl or Command key, you can
then drag in or out to resize the feather.
Opacity Controls the transparency of the paint or erasures.
Brush Type Shows the brush type you selected in the Vector Paint toolbar in the Compo-
sition window. For more information, see “Specifying a Brush type” on page 422.
Color This Color swatch represents the paint color used to draw strokes. Select a new color
by clicking the Color swatch and then using the Color Picker, or by using the Eyedropper
to sample a color from the desktop.
When one or more strokes of the same color are selected, this swatch displays the Color of
those strokes. You can change the color of the selected strokes. For information about the
Eyedropper, see “Editing your paint work” on page 424.
Color Clone When Color Clone is turned on, the brush behaves like a combination
eyedropper and brush. The color of the stroke is determined by the pixels at the position
where the stroke begins. The Color swatch in the Effect Controls Brush Settings displays
the new sampled color. When you begin another stroke, a new group of pixels is sampled
and used to color that stroke.
The Color Clone affects strokes only while you draw; it has no effect on an already
completed stroke.This is the only Brush Setting you can’t apply after drawing. Clicking
either the Eyedropper or Color swatch turns off the Color Clone feature.
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