Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 - Ellipse Effect; Eyedropper Fill Effect

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
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Feather Specifies the amount of feather applied to the edge of the circle. Increasing this amount softens the edges of
the circle, blending it with whatever appears behind it. Decreasing this amount sharpens the edge of the circle.
Note: Feather Inner Edge is disabled when Edge is set to None, since there is no inner edge on a solid circle.
Invert Circle Specifies that the circle matte is inverted, if this box is checked.
Color Specifies the color that fills the circle.
Opacity Specifies the transparency of the circle.
Blending Mode Specifies the blending mode that the effect uses to combine the circle and the original layer. All of
these blending modes behave like those in the Timeline panel, except for None, which displays only the circle,
without the original layer.
Ellipse effect
The Ellipse effect draws an ellipse based on the dimensions you specify in the Effect Controls panel. In addition to
width and height, you can specify the thickness, softness, and color of the ellipse.
The Width and Height controls specify the width and height of the ellipse in pixels. Values range from 0 to 2000
pixels. Thickness specifies the thickness of the arc forming the ellipse. Values range from 0 to 1000 pixels. Softness
specifies the softness or degree of blur of the ellipse’s arc.
This effect works with 8-bpc color.
Ellipse is applied to the background once (center) and then applied multiple times (right).
Eyedropper Fill effect
The Eyedropper Fill effect (formerly Color Picker effect) applies a sampled color to the source layer. This effect is
useful for quickly picking a solid color from a sample point on the original layer or picking a color value from one
layer and using blending modes to apply this color to a second layer.
This effect works with 8-bpc color.
Original (left), and with two different color samples applied (center and right)
Adjust the following controls for the Eyedropper Fill effect:
Sample Point Specifies the sampled pixel colors.
Sample Radius Specifies the size of the sample area.