| | | | Re: Professional Video Retouching (hair, skin, etc)
by Robert Morris on Oct 25, 2009 at 5:18:18 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Thanks for giving me the Matlannon Photoshop tutorial on smoothing skin. Unfortunately, I am looking for After Effects techniques, hence why I posted in the After Effects Forum. I guess I should have been more specific and redundant in my lengthy exp | | | | |
| | | | Re: Photoshop Effect in After Effects
by Ken Latman on Oct 7, 2009 at 12:41:51 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You can recreate this in AE. I was able to get something pretty close. The key is to pre-compose.
My first composition I applied Fractal Noise twice to a layer. The first instance I had my settings as Type:strings, Noise Type: Spline, and Overflow w | | | | |
| | | | Patch and Heal Tools - Photoshop Tutorials
by Creative COW on May 18, 2009 at 10:24:52 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopPatch and Heal ToolsIn this tutorial, Richard Harrington uses the patch tool and healing brush tools to teach patching, healing and the vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop.Tutorial, Video Tutorial 05/18/2009Author: Richard Harrin | | | | |
| | | | Patch and Heal Tools
by Richard Harrington on May 18, 2009 at 9:25:51 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this tutorial, Richard Harrington uses the patch tool and healing brush tools to teach patching, healing and the vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop. | | | | |
| | | | Masks Panel - Photoshop Tutorials
by Creative COW on Apr 27, 2009 at 6:39:47 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopMasks PanelIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at how to use the masks panel in Photoshop CS4. This is a new feature in CS4 that can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly manage the masks on a layer. | | | | |
| | | | Masks Panel
by Richard Harrington on Apr 27, 2009 at 11:39:23 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at how to use the masks panel in Photoshop CS4. This is a new feature in CS4 that can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly manage the masks on a layer. | | | | |
| | | | Adding Depth of Field - Photoshop Tutorials
by Creative COW on Apr 20, 2009 at 2:44:24 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopAdding Depth of FieldIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4.Tutorial, Video Tutorial 04/20/2009Author: Richard Ha | | | | |
| | | | Adding Depth of Field
by Richard Harrington on Apr 20, 2009 at 7:47:00 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4. | | | | |
| | | | Content Aware Scaling
by Richard Harrington on Apr 13, 2009 at 5:47:46 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this episode of Photoshop for Video, Richard Harrington takes a look at a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 called content aware scaling. This feature allows a user to define a region or a graphic to scale or not to scale when the image is resize | | | | |
| | | | Camera Raw - Part 2 - Photoshop Tutorial
by Creative COW on Mar 30, 2009 at 4:42:48 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopCamera Raw - Part 2In the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington goes deeper into the camera raw interface. Richard looks at the tone curve tab which controls the contrast, the detail tab which controls the i | | | | |
| | | | Camera Raw - Part 2
by Richard Harrington on Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30:57 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington goes deeper into the camera raw interface. Richard looks at the tone curve tab which controls the contrast, the detail tab which controls the image sharpening and noise reductio | | | | |
| | | | Camera Raw - Part 1 - Photoshop Tutorial
by Creative COW on Mar 24, 2009 at 3:08:16 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopCamera Raw - Part 1In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the camera raw files and the camera raw interface. Many video professionals do not know much about the camera raw interface because it is a technology ma | | | | |
| | | | Camera Raw - Part 1
by Richard Harrington on Mar 23, 2009 at 7:49:30 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the camera raw files and the camera raw interface. Many video professionals do not know much about the camera raw interface because it is a technology mainly used by digital photographers | | | | |
| | | | Auto Blend Command - Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
by Creative COW on Mar 16, 2009 at 3:45:06 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopAuto Blend CommandIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command that allows you to merge multiple pictures together into a single larger document. When you have a large scan and you have to scan | | | | |
| | | | Auto Blend Command
by Richard Harrington on Mar 16, 2009 at 8:11:00 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command that allows you to merge multiple pictures together into a single larger document. When you have a large scan and you have to scan it in multiple pieces and then st | | | | |
| | | | Balancing Images - Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
by Creative COW on Mar 9, 2009 at 4:36:16 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopBalancing ImagesIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at balancing out exposure issues inside of Photoshop CS4. Mixed lighting on a photo can cause portions of the image to be too bright or too dark, fortunately P | | | | |
| | | | Balancing Images
by Richard Harrington on Mar 9, 2009 at 9:11:33 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at balancing out exposure issues inside of Photoshop CS4. Mixed lighting on a photo can cause portions of the image to be too bright or too dark, fortunately Photoshop gives us some great to | | | | |
| | | | Removing Chromatic Aberration
by Carl Larsen on Mar 6, 2009 at 3:15:51 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
In this tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to remove chromatic aberration from your footage using Adobe After Effects. If you are wondering what chromatic aberration is, don't worry he explains that too. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Alpha Channels
by Richard Harrington on Mar 5, 2009 at 1:32:36 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
You're welcome... thanks for saying thanks (its nice to hear every once in a while).
-RichRichard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork | | | | |
| | | | help with adding a font
by Nelson May on Mar 4, 2009 at 6:12:44 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
I need to have a font that a client wants and it isn't in CS3. I need to load monotype corsiva. I have tried to add fonts for photoshop, but haven't had success. I am using a photoshop tutorial and it said to paste fonts in the font folder of the lib | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Alpha Channels
by Creative COW on Mar 2, 2009 at 4:09:52 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopAlpha ChannelsIn the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at making an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic and transfer that transparency to ano | | | | |
| | | | Alpha Channels
by Richard Harrington on Mar 2, 2009 at 7:48:02 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at making an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic and transfer that transparency to another non-linear video editing | | | | |
| | | | New Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Smart Objects
by Creative COW on Feb 23, 2009 at 5:03:35 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopSmart ObjectsIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a closer look at smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4. A smart object is an embedded copy of the original object in your document, this allows you to place large images | | | | |
| | | | Smart Objects
by Richard Harrington on Feb 23, 2009 at 8:42:41 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a closer look at smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4. A smart object is an embedded copy of the original object in your document, this allows you to place large images or vector graphics into your | | | | |
| | | | Shadow and Highlights Adjustment
by Richard Harrington on Feb 16, 2009 at 10:57:18 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tips on how to fix an underexposed or overexposed image using the shadow / highlights command in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and goes through each of the advanced settings to give great understand of | | | | |
| | | | New Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Video Preview
by Creative COW on Feb 9, 2009 at 5:08:49 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopVideo PreviewIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington explains how to output a DV video signal directly to a SD video monitor from Adobe Photoshop using a digital video converter via firewire and video preview controls. This is a | | | | |
| | | | Video Preview
by Richard Harrington on Feb 9, 2009 at 8:35:06 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington explains how to output a DV video signal directly to a SD video monitor from Adobe Photoshop using a digital video converter via firewire and video preview controls. This is a very helpful tool for makin | | | | |
| | | | New Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Color Range Command
by Creative COW on Feb 2, 2009 at 5:46:13 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Adobe PhotoshopColor Range Command - Photoshop for VideoIn this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some free tricks on how to use the color range command in Photoshop. Many people use the old method of utilizing the magic wand t | | | | |
| | | | Color Range Command
by Richard Harrington on Feb 2, 2009 at 8:47:23 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Some free tricks on how to use the color range command in Photoshop. Many people use the old method of utilizing the magic wand tool for selecting areas of color, the color range selection tool has more flexibility and control. Richard walks you thro | | | | |
| | | | Adjustments Panel
by Richard Harrington on Jan 26, 2009 at 11:46:20 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
A look at the adjustments panel in Photoshop to more quickly enhance your images. The adjustments panel is a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 that allows you to quickly use adjustment layers much easier. This tool adds responsiveness and accessibil | | | | |
| | | | Making Lower Thirds Part 2
by Richard Harrington on Jan 19, 2009 at 8:56:26 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
The second part of the series on designing lower third graphics. Lower thirds are used in displaying information in your video projects, shows, or movies. You will also learn many design tips and tricks to increase your Photoshop productivity for vid | | | | |
| | | | Making Lower Thirds Part 1
by Richard Harrington on Jan 13, 2009 at 7:13:20 am
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Taking a look at the popular technique of designing lower thirds and the process it takes to design these using Photoshop. Photoshop is the perfect solution for this task with the ability to mix text, texture, graphics and logos to create compelling | | | | |
| | | | The Vehicle Rig
by Carl Larsen on Jan 8, 2009 at 6:18:56 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
In this tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to build an expression-based vehicle rig that automatically calculates the rotation of its wheels based on the movement of the vehicle chassis. | | | | |
| | | | Non-Square Pixels
by Richard Harrington on Jan 8, 2009 at 2:18:10 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Exploring the problems associated with blending images that have square and non square pixel formats. Learn about how to fix some of the blunders of pixel aspect ratio mixing and how Photoshop CS4 is trying to help solve some of these pixel nightmare | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Auto Blend Command
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command that allows you to merge multiple pictures together into a single larger document. When you have a large scan and you have to scan it in multiple pieces and then stitch it together or if you want to stitch together panoramic photos for a virtual scene this photography tool becomes quite useful.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Shadow and Highlights Adjustment
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tips on how to fix an underexposed or overexposed image using the shadow / highlights command in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and goes through each of the advanced settings to give great understand of how you can harness the power of this adjustment tool. The shadow / highlights filter can also be used on Smart Objects in recent versions of PS, expanding the way you can dynamically utilize this tool.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Alpha Channels
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at making an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic and transfer that transparency to another non-linear video editing program or compositing application and key or composite in real time.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Smart Objects
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a closer look at smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4. A smart object is an embedded copy of the original object in your document, this allows you to place large images or vector graphics into your Photoshop project and then scale it up or scale it down without worring about losing the original file resolution.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Camera Raw - Part 1
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the camera raw files and the camera raw interface. Many video professionals do not know much about the camera raw interface because it is a technology mainly used by digital photographers. The key advantage to using with a camera raw file is that the data is usually stored in the picture more than you can normally see in a single exposure.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Balancing Images
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at balancing out exposure issues inside of Photoshop CS4. Mixed lighting on a photo can cause portions of the image to be too bright or too dark, fortunately Photoshop gives us some great tools to take care of these types of issues. Using a levels adjustment layer in combination with a color range selection, Richard is able to greatly control the lighting in a photo. The equalize command is also covered in this video tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Masks Panel
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at how to use the masks panel in Photoshop CS4. This is a new feature in CS4 that can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly manage the masks on a layer.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Camera Raw - Part 2
In the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington goes deeper into the camera raw interface. Richard looks at the tone curve tab which controls the contrast, the detail tab which controls the image sharpening and noise reduction, split toning tab controlling the hue and saturation, lens corrections tab and the presets tab to store settings and preferences.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Video Preview
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington explains how to output a DV video signal directly to a SD video monitor from Adobe Photoshop using a digital video converter via firewire and video preview controls. This is a very helpful tool for making adjustments to your color correction for use in broadcast video.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Creating Motion Backgrounds From Scratch - 2
In the second part of this Adobe Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington continues to create a motion background in Photoshop CS3. In this episode Richard takes the soft grayscale pattern created in part one and applies a gradient map to it to colorize the background pattern. This is part two of a two part series of Photoshop tutorials on Creating Motion Backgrounds.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Making Images Broadcast Safe
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington reveals some great techniques on how to make your image broadcast safe. This can be a difficult issue when you have over saturated colors like red when it comes to being in the broadcast safe space. Richard shows you how easy it is to make your graphics broadcast safe by making a couple quick adjustments in Adobe Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Creating Custom Backgrounds From Scratch
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tips and tricks on how to create custom backgrounds from scratch using Adobe Photoshop CS3. Using free textures found online, blending modes, gaussian blur, gradient maps and other tools, Richard creates a nice looking custom background.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Making Selections: Channels
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to use channels to make a selection. Making quick and accurate selections using Photoshop is the first step in good compositing. This is part two of a three part tutorials series on making selections inside Adobe Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Designing a Website in Photoshop
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show how to use Photoshop to design a website that will be exported as HTML and image slices. The web page can be brought into an HTML editor program such as Adobe Dreamweaver to be modified. This is an Adobe Photoshop web design tutorial showing how to design, create and save a web page with Photoshop.
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Author: Abraham Chaffin |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Making Selections: Alpha Channels
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington builds on previous techniques and shows how to use the color detail in an image plus image adjustment commands to create an alpha channel. This is part three of a three part tutorials series on making selections inside Adobe Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Making Selections: Calculations
In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tricks showing how to use calculations to make a selection. Selections are used when you need to make an alpha channel or composite layered images. The more accurate you can get your selection the faster you can get through your compositing work. This is part one of a three part tutorials series on making selections inside Adobe Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Shadow Highlights Command
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the advanced settings for the shadow / highlights image adjustment. The shadow / highlights command can be applied in Photoshop CS3 Extended to an entire video clip by turning the video into a smart object and then applying the filter.
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Stabilizing Video Footage
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives a few free tips on how to stabalize your video footage directly in Photoshop CS3. Sometimes you might have a shakey camera shot where these techniques will come in very handy. Some of the tools covered in this tutorial are video import, the auto-align tools, pixel aspect ratio and auto-align layers. Finishing this tutorial, the psd file is imported into After Effects and adjusted.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Spot Color Grading
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the ability to open a footage clip in Photoshop CS3 Extended. Richard gives a few tips on different color correcting effects using black and white conversion and advanced blending methods to create a spot color effect that you often see in advertisements.
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Adobe Photoshop | Virtual Sets with Photomerge
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington teaches panoramic photography and the techniques of photo stitching for videographers and cinematographers using Photoshop CS3. This technique allows you to create a virtual set for a green screen when doing a pickup of an on location shoot.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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Podcasts | | | | photoshop for video tutorials podcast
Content Aware Scaling
In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at content aware scaling, a new feature in Photoshop CS4, which gives the ability to stretch a part of a picture based on the subject matter. | | | | |
| | | | photoshop for video tutorials podcast
Auto Blend Command
In this Photoshop tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command which allows you to merge multiple pictures into single document. | | | | |
| | | | photoshop for video tutorials podcast
Camera Raw - Part 1
In this Photoshop tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington spends some time looking at the camera raw interface inside of Adobe Photoshop. | | | | |
| | | | photoshop for video tutorials podcast
Camera Raw - Part 2
In this Photoshop tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington continues to look at the camera raw interface inside of Adobe Photoshop. | | | | |
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