Monday, March 1, 2010

Border Pass

This may never be useful to anyone else, but here's a little After Effects trick for making a border around a frame.

Click the shape tool.  Set the stroke to 2 pixels for a one pixel border -if you only do one pixel it's soft and grey.


Make the shape white.


Then click the layers window.  This will make a shape the size of the document.



Set the "mode" to multiply.


This gives you an exact, perfect border.

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4 comments:

  1. Elliot CowanMarch 1, 2010 at 10:42 AM

    You couldn't think of anything else today, yeah?

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  2. roconnorMarch 1, 2010 at 3:29 PM

    I actually wrote this on Friday and bumped it for whatever I posted Saturday and yesterday.

    For some reason I was really proud of figuring this out. Probably because the same thing was such freaking pain in Flash.

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  3. Elliot CowanMarch 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM

    I'm proud of you, too.

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  4. LiesjeMarch 1, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    It wasn't THAT hard in Flash.

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