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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release), 1st edition

Published by Adobe Press (December 21, 2022) © 2023

  • Lisa Fridsma
  • Brie Gyncild

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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).

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