AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

716 pages | English | ISBN-10: 0387329439 | ISBN-13: 978-0387329437

Capturing your subjects at their best is vital to getting great portraits. But it's just as important to make sure that distracting foreground or background elements don't upstage your subject. This Portrait Project course takes you through three solutions for dealing with distracting backgrounds and foregrounds in Photoshop. Educator and photographer Chris Orwig shows how to blur out distractions from a background, use the Patch and Clone Stamp tools to clean up a foreground, and replace an ill-fitting background with a new, more pleasing one. Learn techniques for bringing focus and clarity to your portrait subjects in this course and then check out other ways to enhance your portraits, in the Portrait Project series.

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

448 pages | English | ISBN-10: 038732917X | ISBN-13: 978-0387329178

How shots are assembled, performances are revealed, and images are ordered are a few of the ingredients that turn a good film into a great one. This course shows filmmakers and film editors how to make critical creative and technical decisions and present their vision dynamically with Final Cut Pro. Author Abba Shapiro illustrates important techniques for putting shots together to create a short film, covering the entire post-production process—from organizing footage, crafting scenes, and editing dialogue to building montages and adding music. Each step of the process is rich with object lessons that are applicable to situations editors face in the real world.

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

AIT | Illustrator | CMYK - RGB | Fully editable

473 pages | English | ISBN-10: 0387329153 | ISBN-13: 978-0896036628

Learn how to build a polished documentary using Final Cut Pro X 10.1.x and a few essential editing techniques. Author Diana Weynand demonstrates documentary editing in a real-world project, breaking down the process into a series of manageable steps and milestones. After reviewing existing footage, explore how to build and define a narrative, assemble rough cuts, and create motion graphics. Then see how to adjust B-roll shots, incorporate color correction and audio mixing techniques, and export the final movie.