Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Retouching Motion Pictures

Description

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Retouching Motion Pictures is a hands-on, tutorial-based guide filled with real-world examples that run the gamut from video restoration to visual and special effects, green screen and split screen composite work,and integration of 3D content from applications such as Luxology modo, 3D Studio Max, and Cinema 4D. New features are thoroughly documented, and the book is organized in a practical chronology, from importing digital video and other footage to your computer, to working with clips in Photoshop, to effects work, to rotoscoping and animation, to building complex composite work on layers, and finally to producing, exporting, and archiving your work. Written from a Photoshop user?s point of view, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Retouching Motion Pictures makes retouching video footage a clear, forthright, and foolproof endeavor. Learn what you need to know about NTSC and file format standards, fps rates, pixel sizes for digital video, and more to make the next logical move in your content creation work, while working in a favorite and familiar application.

CONTENTS:

Part I: Entering the World of Video

Chapter 1: The Timeline and Importing Video

Chapter 2: Working the Timeline Palette: Creating Videos from Still Images

Chapter 3: Reconciling Different Media in a Composition

Part II: Video Sweetening

Chapter 4: Cuts, Wipes, and Fades

Chapter 5: Video Color and Tone Adjustments

Chapter 6: Video Restoration

Chapter 7: Titling and Animating Text

Part III: Animation and Rotoscoping

Chapter 8: Basic Animation and Rotoscoping

Chapter 9: Advanced Rotoscoping and Wire Removal

Part IV: 3D and 3D Animation

Chapter 10: 3D and CS3: An Introduction

Chapter 11: Basic CGI Compositing into Video

Chapter 12: Creating 3D Scene Props

Part V: SFX and Compositing Techniques

Chapter 13: Creating Fun, Simple, Effective fx

Chapter 14: Advanced Compositing: Green Screening

Chapter 15: Compositing and Motion Matching

Part VI: Output

Chapter 16: Codecs, DVD Authoring, and Saving for the Web