In addition to my addiction to aerial photography, I’m also fascinated by time-lapse photography. With time lapse photography, you set up your camera to take pictures on an interval. This could be every few seconds, every few minutes, every few hours, or heck, once a day. It’s really up to you how you want to […]
Category Archives: Video
Couldn’t make it to the Adobe CreateNow Tour? Guess what, you’re still in luck!
If you couldn’t make it to the recently concluded Adobe CreateNow tour don’t worry, you can still view it online! Check out this playlist on YouTube to see a recording of the entire New York CreateNow event. You’ll see the latest and greatest from all of Adobe’s creative tools.
360 Spherical Panoramas – The Creation of Planet Vegas
Here’s a fun tutorial for one of the last Friday afternoons of 2013… the creation of 360 degree panoramas, or “planets” as some like to call them. If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, check out the image below: A panorama is a wide-angle view, usually captured with either a special lens, or […]
More Device Motion Experiments with HTML & Adobe DPS
I wanted to follow up my last post on 3D Parallax effects in HTML or Adobe DPS, I’ve decided to release some of the other experiments that I’ve been exploring with device motion in DPS publications. Check out the video below to see two new samples, and a corrected version of the strawberries example from […]
Photorealistic 3D Parallax Effects in HTML or Adobe DPS with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Edge Animate
A few weeks ago, a fellow Adobe colleague showed me a DPS publication that had an amazing design. All of the content looked great by itself, but what really made parts of it “pop” was that in certain areas there was a 3D parallax effect, which made it feel like you were looking into an […]
New UI Article and Architectural Presentation on PhoneGap
A couple of PhoneGap related activities I’ve been up to recently… First, an article I recently wrote on Creating a Card-based UI in PhoneGap has been published on DZone. Be sure to check it out for some tips on creating the user interface, all with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This covers both basic/static […]
Detail Preserving Upscale in After Effects CC
The latest release of video tools for Creative Cloud contained over 150 new features. One of these is the new Detail Preserving Upscale effect for After Effects, which enables you to upscale content without negatively affecting quality – no pixelation, no loss of contrast. In fact, this is very closely related to the new detail […]
Color Key/Green Screen Video Techniques with Creative Cloud
In my last post, I talked about masks in After Effects, specifically the new motion tracking feature for rigid masks. In this post, I’m again focusing on video composition, but instead of compositing using masks, I’m going to talk about keying. Keying is a technique for selectively removing areas of a video based on content […]
The New Rigid Mask Tracker in After Effects CC
I like to think of After Effects as an animated version of Photoshop – many of the same general techniques apply: selection, masks, blend modes etc… The primary difference being that the content changes over time when working with video. In general, masks work exactly the same as they do in Photoshop – you use […]
Video: GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters & Creative Cloud
Last week I had the opportunity to present an incredibly fun topic to the DC/MD/VA Creative Professionals user group… GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters, and Adobe Creative Cloud. Thanks to everyone who attended. This topic is a personal interest of mine, and I had a great time. There were great questions and great conversations all around. For […]