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I'm using After Effects CC 2017. I've imported a PNG image with transparency, then I added a simple CC Light Wipe effect:

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The problem is that the range of the lights produced by this effect are limited to the image size, so it produces an annonying thingy. Is there a way to resize the canvas of the layer of the image or another way to solve this (avoiding the need to resize the image canvas using external programs like Photoshop)?.

I really tried to find out the answer researching in Google before asking here but I only found questions about resizing the entire compossition in the compossition settings...

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    May I suggest that you spend a few hours going through some introductory video tutorials: aefreemart.com/…
    – Gyan
    Commented Dec 24, 2016 at 19:11

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Add an adjustment layer on top (right-click in empty area of the layer names. Go to New menu) Apply the effect to that.

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And because there's always two ways of doing anything in After Effects:

  • precompose the layer to which you want to apply the effect.

  • In the pre-compose dialogue choose "leave all attributes…".

  • Resize the new composition to the size you need.

  • Then in the original composition apply the effect to the pre-comp.

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