Topic: Multimedia hints, tips, tricks and tutorials
How about posting hints, tips, tricks and tutorials for your weapons of choice (software, cameras, film-making, editing etc). Maybe something you wished you would have known when you were beginning to learn or something you have incorporated into your workflow.
Two here from me. The first one I use all the time, the second one I wish someone would have told me when I first started messing about with After Effects.
Find grey for colour correction (Photoshop)
With the image open in Photoshop
1) Make new layer and fill it with 50% grey.
2) Change the blend mode to difference.
3) Add Threshold adjustment. Drag the white slider all the way to the left. When you start dragging the slider back to the right, the first things you see are the grey areas.
4) Choose couple of grey spots so when you look for the grey in the image for colour correction you have much better chance of finding your grey's.
Using Audio in After Effects
Don’t use mp3 file format in your project. You will get audio problems in the final render.
Open the song or audio file in Quicktime or a converter of your choice and then export it as AIFF file and import that one into your project for better results.
Last edited by AshDigital (2013-01-03 22:00:27)
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