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Photoshop for Video, Third Edition (DV Expert Series)
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Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780240809267
ISBN: 0240809262
Label: Focal Press
Manufacturer: Focal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2007-04-26
Publisher: Focal Press
Studio: Focal Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's video editors and motion graphic professionals with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Every page is filled with techniques to help the video professional make graphics for use in television, video, the Internet, 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. Fundamental 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.
This edition features expanded coverage of DVD and motion graphics design, as well as addressing recent developments in High Definition video, 3D models, and 32-bit imaging. This indispensable reference includes:
* real-world solutions for making graphics for video
* introduction to third party plug-ins
* automation and shortcut methods that cut production time
* profiles of notable editors and motion graphic artists that include their favorite tips and tricks
The DVD offers a hands-on multimedia experience with hundreds of images to work on, tutorials to complete and 2 ½ hours of video training to watch.
* 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
* Downloadable extras for Photoshop CS3 Extended
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Summary: Some Great Video-related Content, Mostly a Sea of General Tips
Comment: Sorry, but as a professional photographer and someone who teaches Photoshop (as well as Premiere Pro), this book is really not what it's cracked up to be. Makes me wonder if some of the reviewers are acquainted with the author in some way. I don't think someone who is doing a lot of work with video frames in Photoshop Extended could read through this book and not realize it's 65% general Photoshop techniques (that you would find in a book about editing still images) and 35% video-centric information.
That is not to say that the information given is wrong or unhelpful, merely that much of it is not at all specific to video editing in Photoshop, and many of the examples are not video related either. What would've been much better is: "X is a general technique used to complete this type of edit; in the world of video, this is what we would do, using this technique, and here are the before, during and after screenshots." There is virtually none of that in this book. And in some cases entire chapters look like they might've been pulled from any other ordinary Photoshop reference book. The layout and copy reads more like a "tips and tricks" book than anything that focuses on video post-production.
For example; there are over a dozen pages that list and show thumbnails of the various Blend Modes and Creative filters, but with no examples of how you use any of them to solve video-related problems or creative new looks for your video as part of transitions, etc. You could tear these pages out of this book and compare them to pages torn out of a "Learn Photoshop in 24 hours" type book and you wouldn't be able to tell which is which. Basic descriptions of why layers are important, how to use Levels, how to select things, what a mask is, what erasing is... none of it is "bad" or poorly written... but neither is much of it what I would expect to find in an advanced Photoshop for video "toolkit". WAY too much basic stuff here for the price, and way too little video problem-solving. There is a section called "Editing Still Images for Video"... in fact, I believe this would have been a more accurate title for the book. I recognize also that a frame of video is technically nothing but a still image, however the workflow is very different and I didn't see much of that here.
The silver lining: the first two chapters on setting up a system and understanding the differences between DAR, PAR, television color spaces, etc... have a ton of useful info. These two chapters alone give the book two stars and the remaining random tidbits throughout the book (color correction techniques, creating backgrounds, etc.) that focus in on video, give it the third. It is a book worth having, especially if you don't own any good general Photoshop references, but don't be expecting an advanced Photoshop video workflow because it's not here IMHO.
The perfect ending example: there is a page that talks about Clone Stamping, with no mention at all of the Clone Source panel, which was designed specifically with video editors in mind, as well as photographers. The ability to place an overlay of your source frame over the target frame, rotate and scale the cloned pixels, are all extremely valuable to video editors but there is zero mention of it anywhere. There is also no mention anywhere of the new and improved Timeline. This makes me wonder if this was repurposed from CS2 content (where the new CS3 advances didn't exist yet), rather than a true look at CS3 video tools. Hopefully the CS4 version does a better job with these tasks, as there are even more video-related improvements to CS4 Extended.
Customer Rating:
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Comment: you can't find the book that write the photoshop file for vdo
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Summary: Great resource!
Comment: I bought this book since I'm studying motion graphics and compositing/visual effects at college and my Photoshop knowledge isn't quite at the level I'd like it to be. The nice thing about this book is the techniques are all geared towards those using PS for video related work - an excellent resource and a good companion book to "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" by Chris and Trish Meyer...
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Summary: Easy and thorough
Comment: As an "old school" Avid editor from big post houses, Photoshop was used for simple titles and the rest went to the graphics department or our hands were slapped.
The book only goes through the usefulness and purpose of nearly all Photoshop tools and their relevancy to video. It has tutorials showing all common video uses from cutting out photos, lower thirds, backgrounds, creating elements for motion graphics programs like After Effects, uses of masks and alpha channels and the many ways you can create them depending on circumstance and content. In addition, the book points out some of the differences with different versions of Photoshop so you can work through aspects even if you haven't updated to CS3 yet.
The accompanying DVD not only includes all the elements needed to complete each task, there's also supplemental "Podcasts" in which Richard Harrington actually SHOWS you how to do many of the key aspects of each tutorial.
This is a must have book for video editors who must now do it all since Photoshop is the Swiss Army Knife of video graphics.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Photoshop for Video, Third Edition
Comment: I have been in multimedia for 5 years and is always learning. I like the fact that i don't know everything!
This book is a must for anyone in multimedia and graphic design.
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