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Adobe has also included an improved Vector Paint engine. At first it doesn’t appear that much has changed, until you start using the feature. Painting directly on a layer in a non-destructive manner allows you to create write-on effects, traditional animation, or even clean up footage or create mattes.
Right now you don’t have the ability to load or use brushes created in Photoshop. Having the ability to use brushes created in Photoshop would be a big benefit to those wanting to do more traditional animation. The controls, however, do allow you to access the roundness, opacity, and flow of the brush (great for when you use a graphic tablet like one from Wacom).
If you need to clean up footage (something that will be requested more and more in the coming years as archival footage begins to deteriorate), the Clone Tool will come in handy for fixing blemishes, scratches, and what-not in your footage. The Clone Tool works the same as it does in Photoshop.
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| Use the Clone Tool to remove or clean up unwanted elements in your shot |
One of the things I have always wanted to do with Vector Paint was to be able to paint an area and then extract a mask from it. While you can’t do it directly with the Paint Tools, you can with one of the new effects. I’ll talk about it in a moment.
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