Lynda Com After Effects Extended Vignette Techniques | 434MB





After Effects: Extended Vignette Techniques was created and produced by Trish and Chris Meyer. We are honored to host their material in the lynda.com Online Training Library®. Vignetting is a classic photography technique involving darkening areas of an image in order to focus the viewer’s attention on a desired point of interest. In After Effects: Extended Vignette Techniques, Chris Meyer shows how vignettes can also be leveraged in video. Multiple applications are demonstrated, including framing a subject better, fixing a poorly composed shot, giving a vintage feel, creating "quiet areas" to overlay text and other graphics, and blending an image over a new background. Vignettes can be created using masking, shape layers, and gradients. This course also includes advanced techniques unique to After Effects, using the CC Circle effect and 3D lights, and employing motion stabilization to center the desired action within the vignette. Exercise files accompany the course.



Topics include:

* Vignetting with feathered masks, gradients, or paint

* Blending layers with masks and paint

* Lighting in 3D

* Using motion stabilization

* Using blending modes and adjustment layers



Course Contents



Welcome

Introduction



1. Approaches to Creating Vignettes

Masks

Shape layers and gradients

Paint

Circle effect

3D lights



2. Extended Vignette Techniques

Colorization and blending modes

Adjustment layers

Blending layers using masks

Blending layers using paint



3. Motion Stabilization

1Stabilizing the foreground

Correcting edge issues



Conclusion

Goodbye



TYPE : BOOKWARE

PACKAGER : iRONiSO

SUPPLiER : TEAM iRON

PLATFORM : WINDOWS

FORMAT : Bin/Cue

RLS DATE : 02/10/10



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