Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #42172
From: Jonathan Penzner <sureal@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [AE] Isolating Objects from a PSD File
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:11:00 -0800
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Hey, Scott, thanks for the response. No – no stray pixels. When I select the whole frame and copy/delete the letter, then paste, the letter always goes dead center, which I think would indicate that there are no errant pixels hanging around.

So here's what I did: Copied the path of the original letters and pasted into AI. Copied he letters from AI and pasted into a new PSD file. Selected all the letters in the path to get the ants, then deselected all but the letter I wanted. New layer, fill. Rinse and repeat. No problems. Everything comes in to AE perfectly. So I'm ok.

By the way, wouldn't it be nice if, in Photoshop, you could select all the paths or alpha channels at one time and drag them to the trash? I often receive files with dozens of paths and deleting them one at a time is a pain.

But that was completely off topic. Sorry.

Thanks again, Scott.

Jonathan


On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:57 PM, scott.aelist wrote:

can you post your PSD? is it possible you have some pixels that are semi-transparent that don't show themselves when you command click? Are you sure there aren't pixeles hanging off the edge of your PSD artboard?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jonathan Penzner <sureal@charter.net> wrote:
Good day to everyone,

I've created a word in Photoshop using vectors pasted from AI. Each letter is rasterized and sits on it's own layer. When I Command click on the letters in Photoshop, the marching ants surround the letters perfectly – nothing extraneous anywhere.

Open the file in AE 5.5, using "Retain layer sizes" and the letters have what seems to me to be  completely arbitrary bounding boxes, such that when I rotate a letter, the center of axis is anywhere but the center of the letter. Anyone have a clue what's going on here? I can think of several dozen work arounds but I'm hoping there's a flaw in my work flow that's easily fixed.

Thanks in advance.


Jonathan


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