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Channel modes and other settings

Channel modes and other settings - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

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Channel modes and other settings

In this movie, we'll cover some options for the Channels pop-up and the Modes pop-up by adding some colorful eyeshadow to the mask's eyes. I'll start by setting up my workspace. First I'll remove the paint effect that will delete all the strokes I've created in the previous movie. I'll press the semicolon (;) shortcut and that will zoom all the way out. You may have to that twice depending on where you're at. Then I'll double-click the work area to reset the work area to the entire length of the composition. I'll also want to zoom in on these eyes. The Selection tool is currently active so I'll press and hold down the Z key and that will give me the Zoom tool. I'll click a few times to zoom in and when I release the Z key, it will return to the last tool that I was using. Then I can press the Spacebar to pan around and center, and you can even zoom in a little further just so we can see what we're doing. I'll select the Brush tool as before and let's check a couple of our settings…

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