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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2020 release), 1st edition

Published by Adobe Press (January 22, 2020) © 2020

  • Lisa Fridsma
  • Brie Gyncild

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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2020 release) is the best-selling guide to Adobe's powerful motion graphics program. The 15 project-based lessons in this book teach students step-by-step the key techniques for working efficiently in After Effects and delivering in the widest possible range of media types. In addition to the key elements of the After Effects interface, this revised edition covers new features and techniques.
Learn how to create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Gain hands-on experience animating text and images, customizing a wide range of effects, tracking and syncing content, rotoscoping, removing unwanted objects, and correcting color. Learn to create 3D content with both After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D Lite (included with the software). 

The online companion files include all the necessary assets for students to complete the projects featured in each chapter. Students get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.
  • Includes 15 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.
  • Ancillary Instructor Notes are included to facilitate teaching After Effects.
This revised edition covers new features and techniques and has been fully updated for the Adobe After Effects 2020 Release. 
  • 1. Getting to know the Workflow
  • 2. Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
  • 3. Animating Text
  • 4. Working with Shape Layers
  • 5. Animating a Multimedia Presentation
  • 6. Animating Layers
  • 7. Working with Masks
  • 8. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
  • 9. Using the Roto Brush Tool
  • 10. Performing Color Correction
  • 11. Creating Motion Graphics Templates
  • 12. Using 3D Features
  • 13. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
  • 14. Advanced Editing Techniques
  • 15. Rendering and Outputting
Lisa Fridsma is has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe product. She has written, edited, and designed over 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). 

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, Flash, and Acrobat; and several editions of the How to Wow series. 

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