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Subject: Re: [AE] Extrude bitmap layers
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Maybe just add a small bevel to each layer and a drop shadow to mimic depth?


Lucas Good wrote on 10/3/19 10:25 AM:
> You could Auto-Trace the photo layers, then use something like the 
> Redefinery script rd_MaskstoShapes to create shape layers, then 
> extrude those shapes and put them behind the original layers.
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 9:43 AM Evan Fotis Georgoulakis 
> <AE-List@media-motion.tv <mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     is there a way to add depth to bitmap layers?
>     I have a large image of a painting, chopped up in various layers,
>     which
>     will move in 3d space slightly. I would like to add some depth to
>     them
>     rather than being thin paper cuts.
>     I know AE can do this with shape layers.
>     The point is avoiding to recreate all these layers as vector
>     shapes from
>     scratch.
>
>     Thank you
>
>
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</head><body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Maybe just add a small 
bevel to each layer and a drop shadow to mimic depth?<br>
<br>
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<span>Lucas Good wrote on 10/3/19 10:25 AM:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:list-7444389@media-motion.tv">
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  <div dir="ltr">You could Auto-Trace the photo layers, then use 
something like the Redefinery script rd_MaskstoShapes to create shape 
layers, then extrude those shapes and put them behind the original 
layers.</div>
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  <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct
 3, 2019 at 9:43 AM Evan Fotis Georgoulakis &lt;<a 
href="mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv" moz-do-not-send="true">AE-List@media-motion.tv</a>&gt;
 wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello
 all,<br>
<br>
is there a way to add depth to bitmap layers?<br>
I have a large image of a painting, chopped up in various layers, which <br>
will move in 3d space slightly. I would like to add some depth to them <br>
rather than being thin paper cuts.<br>
I know AE can do this with shape layers.<br>
The point is avoiding to recreate all these layers as vector shapes from
 <br>
scratch.<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
<br>
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