Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release)

Description

Learn video compositing, motion graphics design, and animation using Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:

• Create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, the web, and mobile devices
• Animate text and images, customize a wide range of effects, track and sync content, rotoscope, manipulate timing, correct color, and remove unwanted objects
• Customize cameras and lighting to create compelling 3D content
• Design Motion Graphics templates for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Deform and animate objects and video using robust Puppet tools

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:

• Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
• Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step

What you need to use this book: Adobe After Effects (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe After Effects software.

Getting Started

Getting to Know the Workflow

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

Animating Text

Working with Shape Layers

Animating a Multimedia Presentation

Animating Layers

Working with Masks

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

Using the Roto Brush Tool

Adjusting Color and Mood

Creating Motion Graphics Templates

Using 3D Features

Working with the 3D Camera Tracker

Advanced Editing Techniques

Rendering and Outputting

Brie Gyncild aims to make technical information accessible to those who need it. Brie has authored The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide and The Photoshop Elements 8 Pocket Guide. She has also co-written The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown; numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, and Acrobat; and several editions of the How to Wow series.

Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe product. She has written, edited, and designed more than thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series over the last decade and a half (including books on Photoshop and After Effects), going back to her time on staff at Adobe. She’s currently the owner of Darlington Hill Productions (informational illustrations and publishing).

The best-selling guide to the powerful illustration program from Adobe

• Includes hands-on lessons that use clear, step-by-step instructions with screenshots to teach students key concepts for creating cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics using After Effects CC
• Online components include all lesson files plus video-enhanced Web Edition of the book
• Classroom in a Book is the official training series from Adobe Systems Inc., developed with the support of Adobe product experts

Additional information

Dimensions	0.80 × 7.40 × 9.13 in
Series	Classroom in a Book
Imprint	Adobe Press
Format	gen
ISBN-13	09780137982530
ISBN-10	0137982534
Author	Brie Gyncild, Lisa Fridsma
BISAC	COM071000
Subjects	creative, higher education, COM071000, Employability, IT Professional, T-DA ADOBE CLASSRM IN A BK