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Painting the Town:
Getting more from AE’s new paint tools

The Paint Effect is new to AE 6 and we love it. Learn to get more out of the new tool as well Vector Paint effect. Vector Paint has been available, first as a plug-in by Cult Effects for AE 3 and 4 and was then integrated into the AE package in version 5. Learn to harness the power of all the Paint options as a compositing tool and to create eye-catching treatments for footage and stills.

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Window Treatments

To use the Brush Tool, you have to launch a layer in the layer window. It will be opened as a tabbed window where your Composition window is.

•      To open the Layer ...

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