With the shape layer selected in your composition, click the pen icon from the toolbar at the top of After Effects or press (P) on your keyboard. Go to Layer > New > Shape layer to add one to your composition.
(I’ll assume you already have your text layer ready to go in After Effects, if not, create that first) Step 1. How to manually underline text in After Effects: I’ll run through how to do things manually below, but if you want to save time and easily automate the process then check out my Highlight script that lets you easily underline text at the touch of a button in After Effects. In this post I’m going to run through the process for creating an underline in After Effects using shape layers. I’ll say that again: there is no option to underline text via the character panel in After Effects.Īs startling as this may be, there is a workaround for the lack of an underline option. Perhaps the biggest quirk of all is that there is no way to add underlined text using the character panel as you would do in another Adobe program like Illustrator. After Effects definitely has some interesting quirks about it.
