Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition

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Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition
Essential and Advanced Techniques

ISBN: 9780240814155
Pages: 768
Price: $69.95

Chris and Trish Meyer have created a series of videos demonstrating how to use their favorite new and enhanced features in After Effects CS5.5. Virtually all of these videos use exercise files from Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (5th Edition for CS5) as their starting point, extending the usefulness of this book for its owners. These videos may be viewed for free on AdobeTV.

* 5th Edition of best-selling After Effects book by renowned authors Trish and Chris Meyer covers the important updates in After Effects CS4 and CS5 * Covers both essential and advanced techniques, from basic layer manipulation and animation through keying, motion tracking, and color management * Companion DVD is packed with project files for version CS5, source materials, and nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters

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Focal Press Cinema 4D The Artist's Project Source book, 2nd Edition

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Anne Powers, "Cinema 4D: The Artist's Project Source book, 2nd Edition" 

Focal Press | 2007 | ISBN: 024080953X | 368 pages | File type: PDF | 19,2 mb

Make the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities. This new edition is an artist's sourcebook for the visionary in you that wants to master 3D-and have fun in the process. It serves as a complete guide for the creative use of CINEMA 4D R10 and all of its modules. This new edition features an engaging full-color presentation of short, playful projects show you how to put this powerful toolset to work. You will master R10's improved workflow, scene management, enhanced animation timeline and searchable object manager, as well as its: * MOCCA 3 system, including Joints, Skin Objects, the Weight Tool, the Morph Tool, Visual Selector and Clothilde * MoGraph module for motion graphics, type manipulation and the animation of multiple forms * Bodypaint 3D for applying 2D drawing and painting skills to 3D models * Advanced modeling tools such as the Brush tool * Interface with third-party applications including Z-Brush, and Adobe's Creative Suite You also get inventive quick starts for other modules including Hair, Sketch and Toon, Advanced Render, Dynamics and Thinking Particles.

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Adobe Press Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects

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Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques
By Mark Christiansen.| Oct 6, 2010
Published by Adobe Press.
Series: Studio Techniques. Pages: 496

Description

This is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects for After Effects users, and is a one-stop resource for anyone who wants in-depth explanations that demystify the realm of visual effects and how they were created, thanks to veteran author Mark Christiansen's friendly and accessible style.

A thoroughly packed, informative read, this masterful guide focuses on explaining the essential concepts, features, and techniques that are key to creating seamless movie-quality visual effects. Users who are comfortable with After Effects will find a helpful review of the fundamentals - managing footage, viewing and editing layers, animating type, and more - so they can learn how to work smarter and more efficiently. Readers of all levels will learn core techniques for effects compositing including color matching, keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, emulating the camera, and concluding with using expressions in After Effects, written by contributor and expert Dan Ebberts. An incredibly useful appendix on scripting in After Effects is included as well, written by Adobe engineer Jeff Almasol. The final section of the book delves into creative explorations, demonstrating professional effects that are commonly seen in films and games which readers can re-create.

Readers will also find comprehensive coverage of all that's new and makes this version of Adobe's effects programa must-have update, including the revolutionary new Roto Brush, all new effects such as the New Refine Matte effect, new support for Color Look-Up Tables, workflows that take advantage of the all-new 64-bit support, inclusion of third-party tools for additional creativity, and much more.

Contents :

Introduction
Section I     Working Foundations
Chapter 1   Composite in After Effects
Chapter 2   The Timeline
Chapter 3   Mattes, Masks, and Modes
Chapter 4   Optimizing Projects
Section II    Effects Compositing Essentials
Chapter 5   Color Correction
Chapter 6   Color Keying
Chapter 7   Rotoscoping and Paint
Chapter 8   Effective Motion Tracking
Chapter 9   The Camera and Optics
Chapter 10 Expressions
Chapter 11 HDR Compositing and Color Management
Section III  Creative Explorations
Chapter 12 Light
Chapter 13  Climate: Air, Water, Smoke, Clouds
Chapter 14 Pyrotechnics: Fire, Explosions, Energy Index

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Adobe Press Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom

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Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book
widget Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book

    By Adobe Creative Team.
    Published by Adobe Press : May 11, 2010
    Series: Classroom in a Book.
    Pages: 416
    Price : $ 43,99

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn InDesign CS5 choose Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working with InDesign CS5. Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging page layouts using InDesign CS5.

This completely revised CS5 edition covers the new tools for interactive documents, simplified object selection, multiple page sizes, track text changes, new layers panel, production enhancements, and print to digital capability. The companion CD includes all the lesson files that readers need to work along with the book. This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS5 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program. Readers who already have some experience with InDesign can improve their skills and learn InDesign's newest features.

Contents :

1. Getting Started
2. Introducing the Workspace
3. Getting to Know InDesign
4. Setting up a Document and Working with Pages
5. Working with Objects
6. Flowing Text
7. Editing Text
8. Working with Typography
9. Working with Color
10. Working with Styles
11. Importing and Modifying Graphics
12. Creating Tables
13. Working With Transparency
14. Outputing and Exporting
15. Creating Rich interactive documents

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Sybex Introducing ZBrush Ebook

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Sybex Introducing ZBrush 4
Eric Keller | ISBN: 978-0-470-52764-1
520 pages | February 2011
price : $ 49,95

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Design remarkably realistic creatures, people, and objects using ZBrush and the new edition of this top-selling book. Professional Hollywood animator and ZBrush artist Eric Keller combines his firsthand experience with detailed, step-by-step explanations to make you feel right at home with the interface and tools. The book reinforces the core concepts of ZBrush through fun, hands-on tutorials that will help you achieve amazing results.

•     Understand ZBrush's unique sculpting and painting technology
•     Take a tour of ZBrush 4's innovative interface and powerful toolkit
•     Work with digital clay and effectively use the full array of sculpting brushes
•     Master ZSpheres for armature and Z Sketching for creating meshes
•     Explore exciting new tools for creating hard surface objects
•     Learn how to set lighting, create materials, and render in ZBrush
•     Create animated turntables within ZBrush to show off your work

The book includes a DVD with example files and models to help guide you through each lesson, as well as movies to show you the sculpting techniques used to create many of the digital sculptures.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

Deke McClelland | Deke Press | 2011-08-03 | 544 pages | English | PDF

Master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS5 and make all of your images come alive. With Deke McClelland’s unique and effective learning system, you get step-by-step tutorials, hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and lots of hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills.

    Find out everything you need to know to be productive with Photoshop CS5 right away

    Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials

    Try out professional techniques with engaging, real-world projects

    Read about a particular technique and watch the video to see how it’s done

    Follow every key step with hundreds of full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots

    Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One simulates a classroom environment with one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. Deke’s expert advice is like working with a personal coach — you’ll learn Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

 Using Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp By Deke McClelland

One of my favorite exercises in my new book employs (count ‘em) two of the coolest new features in Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp. Using them together, you can copy an image element from its background to a new layer, fill in the background, and then distort the original subject any which way you like. Here’s a quick play-by-play of the tutorial, which you’ll find explained in detail and helpfully illustrated, from my new book Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One.

1. Open an image. All the exercises in my One-on-One books come with downloadable sample images so you can follow along. For practice, try this on someone whose picture you have handy and you’d like to have temporary if digital control over.
2. Select the subject. The book has loads of advice and techniques for making great selections.
3. Jump the selection to a new layer. Duplicate our subject, aka “Puppet Boy” for later manipulation by pressing Ctrl+Alt+J (Command-Option-J), and give it a name like “Jumping Puppet.”
4. Reload the selection. Reload the selection on the background layer so Content-Aware Fill knows where to do its magic. I’ll show you how to add a little safety zone around the selection as well.
5. Let Photoshop take a crack at filling in the background. Since we’ll be repositioning our puppet-boy’s limbs, we want his background to contain only solid sky, rather than his doppelganger. Here’s how this new feature works: Click the Background layer in the Layers panel to make it active. From the Edit menu, choose the Fill command. In the Fill dialog box, choose Content-Aware from the Use popup menu and click OK. Photoshop assesses the surrounding pixels and makes a pretty good guess on how to fill in the selection. Press Ctrl+D (-D) to deselect the image so you can assess Content-Aware Fill’s work. It’s done a fairly good job for a one-step operation.
6. Heal the ghosts with the healing brush. Yes, Content-Aware Fill is undeniably cool, but you can see that it’s not perfect. (Especially when you know what to look for, the outline of the removed image element is fairly obvious.) To fix those tell-tale shadows use the healing brush (which you can learn about in an earlier exercise in the book.)
7. Convert the Jumping Puppet layer to a smart object. I cover smart objects rigorously in the book, but for now, consider it a simple way to protect your original image and make your steps retraceable.
8. Choose the Puppet Warp command. From the Edit menu, choose Puppet Warp to enter that mode. You’ll notice that your cursor changes to a pushpin with a plus symbol, which indicates that you’ll be adding “pins” as you click with it. Pins let you control how an object stretches in Puppet Warp.
9. Set pins in areas you want to stabilize. Puppet Warp works by allowing you to stretch (or squish) the distance between two pins. Pins also let you lock down your images in places where you don’t want them to move. You can see, I’ve placed pins at key points along our subject’s body that I want to control.
10. Apply the Puppet Warp effect. Move the pins around to stretch our jumping puppet into a cartoonish character. Inside the book, I’ve got a list of tips on how to move and constrain pins to best express your artistic desires. Once you get the position the way you want it, you can either click the checkmark on the right side of the options bar to accept your changes, or simply press Enter or Return.
11. Turn the Type layer into a smart object. Applying Puppet Warp is almost more fun with type than it is with people. But before you can apply the distortion to the type layer, you either need to rasterize the type (i.e., convert it to pixels) or turn it into a smart object. We’ll choose the latter.
12. Re-invoke the Puppet Warp command and distort the individual letters. You can see the pins I set for distorting the other letters in the text layer. For letters like the U and the M, I pulled up the tops of each stroke separately and made sure to anchor the lower points with pins of their own. Each letter acts as a separate object. Finally, I repositioned the subject’s legs to better fit with my text: Just choose Edit > Puppet Warp to re-enter the mode and modify your distortions.

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Demand

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Demand

Steve Johnson | Que | 2010-05-13 | 528 pages | English | PDF

Need answers quickly? Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.
Includes
Workshops
ACE Exam Objectives
Need answers quickly? Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

More than 500 Essential Illustrator CS5 Tasks

Inside the Book

• Improve publishing and productivity with the CS5 interface
• Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge
• Transform and reshape objects to create a new look
• Use Live Paint to create recolor and modify images
• Use Live Color to create color harmony in a design
• Create complex shapes and perspective objects
• Create text and apply style to display artistic text
• Apply appearances and graphic styles for a unique design
• Create eye catching special effects and filters

Bonus Online Content
Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to:
• Workshops and related files
• Keyboard shortcuts

From the Back Cover
Need answers quickly? Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Includes
Workshops
ACE Exam Objectives
More than 500 Essential Illustrator CS5 Tasks

Inside the Book

• Improve publishing and productivity with the CS5 interface
• Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge
• Transform and reshape objects to create a new look
• Use Live Paint to create recolor and modify images
• Use Live Color to create color harmony in a design
• Create complex shapes and perspective objects
• Create text and apply style to display artistic text
• Apply appearances and graphic styles for a unique design
• Create eye catching special effects and filters

About the Author
Steve Johnson has written more than 20 books on a variety of computer software, including Microsoft Office XP, Windows XP, and Macromedia Director MX and Fireworks. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve founded Perspection, Inc., a software training company committed to providing performance-based training to help people effectively and efficiently use computer technology. Since 1991, Perspection has written more than 100 computer books that have sold more than five million copies.

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Wiley Adobe Photoshop CS5 Restoration And Retouching For Digital Photographers

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Photoshop CS5 Restoration and Retouching For Digital Photographers Only
Wiley | ISBN: 0470618167 | 2010 | PDF | 384 pages | 38.7 MB

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Restoration and Retouching For Digital Photographers Only is the complete guide to restoration and retouching. Whether you’re new to Photoshop, or if you’ve been using it for years, you’ll learn lots of new tricks that will help put the beauty back into cherished family photos, and turn new photos into frameable works of art.

Follow Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert Mark Fitzgerald as he guides you through the restoration and retouching workflows. Begin by learning about basic concepts, such as proper tonal and color adjustment, selections, and masking. Then learn to master Photoshop’s retouching tools, like the Healing Brush, Patch Tool, and Clone Stamp. After you build a solid foundation, you’ll see how these tools and techniques come together to solve a wide range of restoration and retouching problems; from repairing a damaged print to removing braces and repairing glass glares.

Explore the tools and techniques with step-by-step expert instructions for downloadable practice files. Experience the total workflow as you complete three projects along side Mark from start to finish: a restoration project, a portrait retouching project, and an architectural retouching project.

This book is an update to Mark Fitzgerald’s popular book, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible

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