To Animate A Paint Stroke By Stroke Targeting; To Select A Color With The Eyedropper Tool; Selecting Colors - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

To animate a paint stroke by stroke targeting

1 Open a layer and select a paint tool in the Tools panel.
In the Paint panel, choose Single Frame, Constant, or Custom from the Duration menu.
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In the Layer panel, drag in the layer to create a paint stroke.
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4 In the Timeline panel, click the triangles next to the layer in the Strokes section and in the Paint section to view
the stroke.
Do one of the following:
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Click the stopwatch for Shape to create a keyframe.
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Click the stopwatch for any other Brush properties that you want to animate.
Drag the current-time indicator to a new location in the Timeline panel.
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7 While the stroke is still selected, drag in the layer to create a new paint stroke. A second keyframe appears in the
Timeline panel for each animated property.
When you render the work area, After Effects interpolates brush shape and other animated properties for all frames
between the two keyframes.
After Effects interpolates a paint stroke (center) between two different strokes created with the same brush (left and right).
See also
"Using keyframes" on page 192

Selecting colors

To select a color with the Eyedropper tool

Click the Eyedropper button, and move the pointer to the pixel that you want to sample. The color swatch next to
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the Eyedropper button dynamically changes to the color under the Eyedropper.
Do one of the following:
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To select the color of a single pixel, click the pixel.
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To sample the color average of a 3-by-3-pixel area, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the area.
Press the Escape key to deselect the Eyedropper.
To select a color with the Color Picker
1 Click the Foreground Color or Background Color swatch to display the Color Picker.
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