After Effects Guru: Advanced Photoshop Techniques

Integrate Photoshop into your everyday video and animation workflows to save time, correct common video issues, and generate custom textures.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Retouching and Color Correcting Video

• Creating and extending still back plates
• Correcting video with Camera Raw
• Color correcting video in Photoshop
• Loading and editing preset styles with lookup tables (LUTs)
• Creating and saving custom LUTs
• Wide-angle lens correction for better tracking
• Correcting lens distortion
• Correcting chromatic aberration
• Extending video backgrounds

2. Animation Techniques for Still Images

• Preparing still images for 3D camera moves
• Lighting and animating still images
• Creating the 3D animation

3. Working with Environment Maps

• Creating environment maps to match graphics into scenes
• Applying environment maps in After Effects
• Applying environment maps in CINEMA 4D Lite

4. Creating and Editing Textures, Materials, and 3D Models

• Creating custom textures for 3D from photographs
• Creating bump maps for custom textures
• Creating normal maps for detailed 3D modeling
• Loading bump maps into CINEMA 4D Lite
• Applying normal maps in CINEMA 4D Lite
• Modifying CINEMA 4D textures in Photoshop
• Creating basic 3D models