Book description
Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's video editors and motion graphic professionals with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Every page is filled with techniques to help the video professional make graphics for use in television, video, the Internet, and DVD. Lively discourse, full-color presentations, and hands-on tutorials demonstrate everything you need to know about how to combine still and moving images. Fundamental concepts such as transparency, pixel aspect ratio, and alpha channels are made precisely clear, and advanced techniques show how to use Photoshop as a character generator, color corrector, and animation tool.This edition features expanded coverage of DVD and motion graphics design, as well as addressing recent developments in High Definition video and 32-bit imaging. This indispensable reference includes:
* real-world solutions for making graphics for video
* introduction to third party plug-ins
* automation and shortcut methods that cut production time
* profiles of notable editors and motion graphic artists that include their favorite tips and tricks
The DVD offers a hands-on multimedia experience with hundreds of images to work on, tutorials to complete and 2 ½ hours of video training to watch.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Gift of Giving
- About the Author
- Getting Started
- Chapter 1. Make it Happen
- Chapter 2. Pixels: Time For Tech
- Chapter 3. Why Layers?
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Chapter 4. What about Transparency?
- Essential Terminology
- Understanding Bit-Depth
- Selecting and Extracting Images
- The Easy Ways
- Refining Basic Selections
- Refine Edge Command
- Extract Filter
- Layer Masking
- Color Range
- Important Keyboard Commands for Selections
- Complex Selections with the Quick Mask Mode
- Masking versus Erasing
- Saving Selections as Paths
- Converting Channels into Masks
- Advice on Selections
- Creating Perfect Alpha Channels
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Chapter 5. Some Words on Words, Logos, and Symbols
- Vector Type
- Using the Character Palette
- Using the Paragraph Palette
- Working with Type Color
- Testing and Improving Readability
- Special Typographic Effects
- Free Transform Command
- Warped Text
- Text on a Path
- Video Type Details
- Creating Lower Thirds
- Prepping a Logo for Animation
- Design Ideas
- Those Other Programs
- Exporting Apple Keynote Slides
- Sending Photoshop Text to After Effects
- EPS and Illustrator Files
- In the Know
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Chapter 6. Layer Styles: Bevels, Shadows, Glows, and More!
- What are Layer Styles?
- Designing with Layer Styles
- Loading Prebuilt Styles
- Building Your Own Styles
- The Power of Contour Settings
- Gradients and Textures
- Creating Duotones and Sepia Tones with Layer Styles
- Importing Layer Styles into an NLE
- Importing Layer Styles into After Effects
- Final Advice when Working with Layer Styles
- Chapter 7. A Sense of History
- Chapter 8. Filters
- Chapter 9. Color Correction: How to Get it Right
- Chapter 10. Repairing Damaged Photos
- Chapter 11. Creating Backgrounds for Video
- Chapter 12. Automation
- Chapter 13. The Road to Video: Time For Tech
- Appendix A. A Advanced Learning Opportunities
- Appendix B. Tech Support
- Appendix C. Working with other Applications
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Photoshop for Video, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136065972
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