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Table Of Contents
Vector Paint
Topics in this chapter:
About Vector Paint on page 595
Vector Paint Image Inputs on page 596
Shape Properties on page 596
Vector Paint UI on page 597
About Vector Paint
Composite's Vector Paint tool can be used to draw, to rotoscope, to clone parts
of an image in a different location, or to reveal a completely different image.
In the Vector Paint tool, you draw by creating shapes on the canvas. Contrary
to Composite's Raster Paint, once a shape is created in Vector Paint, you can
edit its parameters to change the shape's location and orientation, for example
using a tracker to animate the shape. If the shape is a Bézier, you can edit
individual points, changing their opacity or their tangents, for example. You
can do this using the same key frame animation techniques you use in other
Composite tools. All the shapes drawn in a given Vector Paint tool are
composited back to front over an optional background image to produce the
Vector Paint output image.
Additionally, Vector Paint has strong similarities with other Composite
shape-based tools, such as the Garbage Mask, Remove Dust, and Warp 2D tools.
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