Overview
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Use Photoshop to repair and build assets for After Effects projects. Learn how to develop raw images, correct lens distortion, create 3D objects, build backdrops, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- What you’ll learn in this course
- Who this course is ideal for
- Exercise files
- Layer naming strategies
- Aligning and distributing layers
- Organizing with groups and Smart Objects
- Color coding for future edits
- File format options for animation
- Raw format overviews
- Converting to DNG files
- Developing with Adobe Camera Raw
- Managing sidecar files
- Embedding raw images inside Smart Objects
- Layout options with point vs. paragraph text
- Using advanced alignment controls
- Controlling line breaks with Every-line Composer options
- Choosing the right aliasing method
- Checking spelling in Photoshop
- The role of layer styles
- Creating depth and perspective with layer styles
- Creating custom textures and overlays
- Exporting layer styles for animation in After Effects
- Saving style libraries
- Fixing perspective and keystoning with Upright
- Removing lens distortion
- Removing wide-angle distortion
- Removing chromatic aberration
- Exporting corrected video
- Cloning with Vanishing Point
- Drawing perspective planes
- Exporting 3D objects
- Animating with Vanishing Point
- The role of LUTs
- Creating and saving a LUT in Photoshop
- Loading a LUT in After Effects
- Creating depth with the Camera Lens Blur effect
- Creating depth with the Blur Gallery
- Converting a blur effect to a depth matte
- Animating depth blurs in After Effects
- Cleaning up a background plate
- Extending a background
- Reshaping an Image
- Goodbye
