(Ebook) Photoshop for Video by Richard Harrington ISBN 9780240809267, 0240809262

(Ebook) Photoshop for Video by Richard Harrington ISBN 9780240809267, 0240809262

Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's digital video professional with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop. Every page is filled with techniques that are useful to the video professional engaged in making graphics for use in video, motion graphics, podcasting, and DVD. Lively discourse, full-color presentations, and hands-on tutorials demonstrate everything you need to know about how to combine still and moving images. Essential concepts such as transparency, pixel aspect ratio, and alpha channels are made precisely clear and advanced techniques show how to use Photoshop as a character generator, color corrector, and animation tool.Sophisticated examples and hands-on tutorial projects illustrate practices that can be readily adapted to your projects. The DVD-ROM contains source material and multimedia content for the tutorials, foundation lessons if you are less-experienced, hundreds of useful resources, and more than one-and-a-half hours of video lessons demonstrating some of the most important techniques.Features:* Real-world solutions for making graphics for video, motion graphics, and DVD authoring * Expanded coverage of High Def video * 16-bit and 32-bit image processing techniques for greater color fidelity * Integration guides for top selling Editing, Motion Graphics, and DVD software * Automation and shortcut methods that cut production time and improve final product