Alinspired http://www.alinspired.com Motion Design Blog Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:58:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Free Ramadan Wallpaper http://www.alinspired.com/free-ramadan-wallpaper http://www.alinspired.com/free-ramadan-wallpaper#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:58:25 +0000 Ali Karim http://www.alinspired.com/?p=386 Feel free to download this great ramadan wallpaper.

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There are many shortcuts that work with paint strokes and paint tools, which also work with the Roto brush strokes and the Roto brush tool.

Here are a few:

  • Set brush size for Roto Brush Tool
    • Ctrl + Mouse Drag up bigger down smaller ( windows)
    • Command + Mouse Drag up bigger down smaller ( MAC)
  • Remove area from selection
    • Alt+Click then select area (windows)
    • Option + Click then select area (MAC)
  • Move forward one frame
    • press 2
  • Move backward one frame
    • press 1
  • Show paint strokes, Roto Brush strokes, and puppet pins in timeline.
    • press PP
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Hey guys check out nick’s demo reel critique over at greyscalegorialla he critiques my video reel, very useful information if like me your just starting motion graphics and are planning to do a showreel.

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Well to try these out you need to have the time line selected then.

PRESS SHIFT + ; (semicolon) in the Timeline panel to zoom all the way out to show the entire composition duration.

PRESS SHIFT + ; (semicolon) again to zoom back in to the custom time range set by the Time Navigator.

To quickly fully zoom in and out of the timeline just press ; (semicolon), this expands the time line to its fullest and zooms in to its maximum.

If you DOUBLE – CLICK the Time Navigator you can toggle the zoom level between single-frame units or showing the entire composition duration.

SHIFT + DOUBLE – CLICK the Time Navigator to toggle between the current zoom level setting and showing the entire composition duration.

Well i hope you enjoyed that next tip is all about the Roto Brush Tool cant wait.

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You can apply photoshop style layer effects like drop shadow, emboss, inner shodow, outer glow etc, by right clicking the desired layer then choose Layer > Layer styles.

like in the image below.

Layer styles like photoshop in after effects.

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In This quick tip, i am going to show you how to use world languages like arabic, hebrew, etc in side of illustrator without the need to purchase the Middle Eastern version of adobe.

Resources needed :

http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/01/adobe-world-ready-composer/

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To activate alt + click on the stopwatch next to a layers property, then you get an arrow from there go to Property and select    wiggle(freq, amp, octaves = 1, amp_mult = .5, t = time). Then just change the parameters with your own personal values.

activating the wiggle operator

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Join Line type in character panel after effects

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