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 […]
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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 […]
Amazing Panoramas in 10 Easy Steps with Adobe Photoshop CC
Here’s a quick video I put together showing how to create incredible panorama images in ten easy steps, using Adobe Photoshop CC. I captured this one on Monday in a sunrise session in Richmond, VA with a DJI Phantom and GoPro. …and the ten steps are: Go get some awesome shots! – Just be sure that […]
Creative Cloud Helps Me Fulfill My Creative Vision
In my last post, I proclaimed my love for Adobe Creative Cloud. This post will show you the reason why. I was playing around with some of the aerial footage I captured last week in San Francisco. Just for fun, I wanted to create a HUD (heads up display) to add to the first-person experience […]
HTML5 Dev Conf Wrap-up: Snap.svg, Visual Storytelling & PhoneGap
HTML5 Developer Conference just wrapped up in San Francisco, and it was a great event. There was a lot to see and hear from the entire HTML/JS community. Adobe showed off some amazing showcases of the work that is being done with rich layout on the web and released an awesome new SVG library, Snap.svg. […]
Coming Soon – RC Aerial Photography in Adobe Inspire Magazine!
This week I was in the video studio recording some content for Adobe Inspire magazine on creative uses of quadcopters, GoPros and Creative Cloud for aerial photography and videography. Adobe Inspire is a great place to get new ideas or learn tips and tricks with Adobe Creative Cloud tools. Subscribe to the free Adobe Inspire […]
PhoneGap & Hardware Session Video now Available
The recording for my session “PhoneGap and Hardware” from PhoneGap Day back in July is now available! Be sure to check it out. There were apparently some issues with the audio, but you can still hear everything. I’d like to express a huge Thank You to everyone who attended, and to everyone who watches this video! […]
Photoshop Zoomify in HTML, powered by Leaflet
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Photoshop recently… Whether it has been retouching video or images, creating panoramas, or working with my aerial photos, it has been a lot of fun. One thing that I’ve been doing is exporting really large images to the web. So far this has been a very manual […]
New Version of My Halloween PhoneGap App
With Halloween less than a month away, I figured it’s about time to update my “Instant Halloween” PhoneGap sound effects app. I’m happy to say that the latest version is now out for both iOS and Android. It has a few new sounds, a new UI style, and has been updated for iOS 7. I […]