To Use The Brush Tool; To Select A Color For The Brush Tool; To Rotoscope With The Brush Tool - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

To use the Brush tool

Use the Brush tool to paint on a layer with the current foreground color. With the Brush tool, you can modify the
color and transparency of a layer without altering the source footage.
By default, the Brush tool creates soft strokes of color. However, you can change these default characteristics by
changing the tool's brush options. You can modify how the brush stroke interacts with the background color of the
layer and with other brush strokes by specifying a blending mode.
1 Double-click the layer you want to paint on.
Select the Brush tool
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Do any of the following in the Paint panel:
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Select a brush, and set brush tip options.
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Select a color by clicking the Foreground Color icon and specifying a color in the Color Picker.
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Specify opacity and flow, blending mode, channel, and duration.
4 Position the Brush tool over the layer, and drag to paint. The Brush tool changes to a brush tip cursor in the Layer
panel. Each resulting stroke appears in the Timeline panel as a separate item with properties that can be animated.
You can interleave paint strokes with other effects that are already applied to the layer: Click the View menu in the
Layer panel, and choose the view that you want to paint.
See also
"Blending modes for paint strokes" on page 324

To select a color for the Brush tool

The Paint panel provides a Foreground and Background color for you to use while painting. You can select from a
range of colors or enter RGB values to create a new color. Switch the order of these colors by clicking the Switch
icon or reset the colors to black and white by clicking the Reset icon
1 In the Paint panel, click the Foreground or Background color selection box.
Do one of the following:
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Select a color.
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Create a custom color by entering values for red (R), green (G), and blue (B); values for hue (H), saturation (S),
and brightness (B); or a single hexadecimal value.
See also
"To select a color with the Eyedropper tool" on page 327
"To select a color with the Color Picker" on page 327

To rotoscope with the Brush tool

Rotoscoping involves painting on individual frames over a series of frames to create an animation or to remove
unwanted details in your footage. Though rotoscoping can be tedious work, After Effects makes the process
somewhat easier.
1 Double-click the layer you want to paint.
from the Tools panel.
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