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Friends:  Joey Foreman  Kevin Camp  Michael Szalapski  Todd Kopriva  Tudor "Ted" Jelescu  Walter Soyka | | | | |  | Axis modeby Simon Roughan 4 days agoHi everyone, I have a problem that is making me crazy. I want to put the axis point at the end of a cylinder, but when I switch into axis mode (L), the whole object still moves. Im sure Im missing som | Re: Axis mode
by Darby Edelen 4 days ago
Is the cylinder a primitive The parametric primitives (cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.) all use the axis as the center point from which to generate the object. If that's the case you can either convert t
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| | | |  | colorby chris artis 3 weeks agoHow can I achieve this look, http: www.youtube.com watch v=c0N4kAkiB80&feature=youtube_gdata_player | Re: color
by Darby Edelen 2 weeks ago
Looks like bleach bypass. The basic approach I like to use for a bleach bypass effect is to apply the Tint effect to an Adjustment Layer above my footage and set its blend mode to Soft Light (less int
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| | | |  | Question about Object sizeby Nina Sargsyan 3 weeks agoHey There, I'm relatively new to C4D, having previously used 3ds max, it's quite easy for me since I know my way around some of the techniques. However, i'm having a huge issue with trying to make my | Re: Question about Object size
by Darby Edelen 3 weeks ago
It sounds to me like your camera's field of view focal length does not match the camera that your scene was shot with. Do you have information on the camera that was used to photograph the scene Darby
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| | | |  | Basic question I can't figure out.by Justin Dean 3 weeks agoI have the riot gear pack with some of the ink blots. I don;t know how to change their colors. Like I'm going to use one for blood splatter, but can't change it from white to black. | Re: Basic question I can't figure out.
by Darby Edelen 3 weeks ago
If your footage doesn't have an alpha channel (and I don't think Riot Gear does) then you need to create an alpha channel from the black white matte. My favorite way to do this is to use the Channels
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| | | |  | Logical operators in expressionsby Vadik Zhuk 3 weeks agoIs there some logical operators like & (AND) or ! (OR) in use with AAE expressions For expample: I need to change layer opacity to 100 if opacity of 3 other layers is 0. Expample expression (not worki | | | | |
| | | | | Simple Codec Comparementby Jacob Phalange 4 weeks ago(First, sorry if it's in the wrong place. It's my first post and have only read Creative Cow when I came from google, but now I want to give something back). Lately I have bin working with a project t | | | | |
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| | | |  | How to get this sort of shadow?by Chris law 1 month agoI have got a example image here of what im trying to achieve in after effects, I've got a shape similar one in the example but the typical drop shadow effect doesn't really give the nice bottom shadow | Re: How to get this sort of shadow?
by Darby Edelen 4 weeks ago
One thing to note: you can't curve a solid as Todd suggested in the Classic 3D renderer. You can only do that in the Ray-traced renderer. The lines you're seeing may be due to layers being too close t
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| | | | | After Effects 3d Camera Focusby Ryan Stubbs 4 weeks agoI have a helicopter flyover shot of wintery terrain, to which I've added snow falling, explosion, tracers, and a 3d predator drone fly-by using element 3d (I used the AE camera tracker to track the sh | Re: After Effects 3d Camera Focus
by Darby Edelen 4 weeks ago
As Walter already mentioned the depth of the scene that is in focus has everything to do with the relative size of the aperture and the film back. Generally you wouldn't mess with the film back (that
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| | | |  | How to get this photo look???by Danny Winn 2 months agoI don't know if this look (Link below) has a specific name or not but I'd like to know how it is acomplished. It's an almost metal look, this sample is the best I could find because I don't know what | Re: How to get this photo look???
by Darby Edelen 1 month ago
Looks like Bleach Bypass to me. The easiest way to do this, but not necessarily the most flexible, is to add a Black & White adjustment layer above your image and set the blend mode to Hard Light. At
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| | | | | Match colors across multiple photosby Piotr Raczko 2 months agoHi, I have a very specific task. I have over 10 fine art photos of albino people in white clothes on a white background. Practically these are shades of white pictures. Problem is, they are all shot i | | | | |
| | | | | Vector Masks from Type?by Tim Adamson 1 month agoHello all, As an After Effects user who has a basic knowledge of photoshop, I've come to be incredibly frustrated over something that is done very simply in after effects, but I cannot for the life of | Re: Vector Masks from Type?
by Darby Edelen 1 month ago
With the text tool selected right click on the text layer. Just below the Rasterize Type option there should be Create Work Path and Convert to Shape options. Depending on whether you want the layer A
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| | | |  | Compositing mountains in to this footageby Malcolm Birch 2 months agoHi there, I have some footage that I would like to add some mountains or some such in to the background of and it's not something I have really learned to do properly before. I thought maybe you would | | | | |
| | | | | C4D to AEby Mike Macy 2 months agoCreated a logo in AI and animated it in C4D. When I bring the animated QT in AE I am unable to add my background which I created in AE. Every time I place the BG layer I see nothing. | Re: C4D to AE
by Darby Edelen 2 months ago
Did you render your QuickTime MOV with an alpha and a codec that supports alpha Is the alpha interpreted correctly in AE Darby Edelen
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| | | | | Remove excess gray space within an imageby Brian McLaren 3 months agoI have some large collections of images: columns of 8 to 10 images across with as many as 40 to 60 rows. These are exported from a program called CatDV Pro. Between each row is gray space -- my proble | | | | |
| | | | | new to PS. transparency question...by Lon Waitman 4 months agohey , i normally use fireworks, but some plugins i like no longer work in it, so am finally trying to learn photoshop... i have a stock image collection and the software with it creates .tiff's with t | Re: new to PS. transparency question...
by Darby Edelen 3 months ago
Some applications treat Alpha Channels as transparency. Photoshop does not. If you want to use an Alpha Channel as a transparency in Photoshop then you'll likely want to record a couple of actions as
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| | | | | General speed/upgrade enquiry.by John Davies 4 months agoI'm looking to speed up the viewport refresh response in C4D, and am reading varying advice online. I was looking at a graphics card upgrade soon but unsure of where this will help with C4D. I am happ | Re: General speed/upgrade enquiry.
by Darby Edelen 4 months ago
Setting up some Layers should also help you. You can disable or solo specific layers in the viewport to speed up interaction. I don't actually do this all that often, but I really should :) Darby Edel
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| | | | | grass upside downby Randal Shaw 4 months agoHi, I am using the maxwell render plugin for Cinema4D. I have tagged a mesh surface with grass but the grass is upside down. It is on the underside of the mesh. How do you invert the face Any help wou | Re: grass upside down
by Darby Edelen 4 months ago
I'm not really familiar with Maxwell but it could be that your surface normals are pointing in the wrong direction. Selected polygons should be tinted to show which direction the normal is facing. The
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| | | |  | Vector mask on layer group?by Gabi Bucataru 4 months agoHi Gang! I have the hardest time wrapping my mind around Photoshop CS6 new vector concept. Shapes appear as layers instead as vector masks as in previous versions. With that in mind, how do you ad a v | Re: Vector mask on layer group?
by Darby Edelen 4 months ago
Adding the vector mask to the layer group is as simple as selecting the group and going to the Layer Vector Mask Reveal All menu option. Then you can use the pen tool (p) to draw a path. Make sure tha
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| | | | | Creating Abstract Art from a Photoby Matthew OConnor 5 months agoThis is one thing I have been trying to figure out how to do for a while. I want to learn how to make a non-objective abstract art piece using elements from a photo and make shapes and patterns out of | Re: Creating Abstract Art from a Photo
by Darby Edelen 4 months ago
It looks like most of the images here are some combination of drawings and fractals generative art (maybe photographs too ). Here's one of the applications the artist mentioned using: http: www.andrea
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| | | | | File: Duct Animationby Darby Edelen 4 months agoc4d file A possible solution for a dynamic morph using the Broadcast edition of C4D. http: f1.creativecow.net 5212 duct-animation | | | | |
| | | |  | After effects renders incredibly slowlyby Shane Sackett 5 months agoHi, I originally posted a question asking how I could speed up the rendering times for my Adobe Creative Suite (I mainly use Premiere CS6 and AE CS6), since the average render times for a 45 second 10 | | | | |
| | | | | File: Rainbow Trailsby Darby Edelen 5 months agozip file Using echo + colorama or cc time blend fx + hue sat to generate rainbow trails. http: f1.creativecow.net 5154 rainbow-trails | | | | |
| | | |  | Smooth drawing lines with Wacom Intousby Kyler Boudreau 5 months agoHey Photoshop pros...I just purchased my first Wacom. Have never done the tablet drawing, but have done a ton of drawing with normal pen and pencil. My setup is Apple Mountain Lion, Photoshop CS5 and | Re: Smooth drawing lines with Wacom Intous
by Darby Edelen 5 months ago
Kyler Boudreau "Problem: My lines in Photoshop have jagged edges when I draw. I messed with settings a lot, and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong." Can you upload an example picture of what you a
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