# Silly After Effects Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-after-effects-question/272227>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-after-effects-question/272227 "2008-10-03T03:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-after-effects-question/272227/1 "2008-10-03T03:13:46Z")

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Anyone know how to add a stroke around the outline based on alpha? I’m compositing some animation, but I want to give it a 3px outer stroke (vector. eps sequence), but I can’t manage to get it to stroke anything but the bounding box.

:bear: