The award-winning Digital Media Training Series™ presents the Inside Adobe® Production Studio® Standard Edition training bundle. It includes 3 DVDs - Inside Adobe® After Effects® 7, Inside Adobe® Photoshop® CS2, and Inside Adobe® Premiere Pro® 2.0.

With approximately 20 hours of comprehensive training suitable for those already familiar with prior versions of these applications, as well as those new to Adobe’s creative products, this training bundle will have you working quickly and confidently without costly classes, phone calls to help lines, or time-consuming trial and error learning. Each aspect of the training is taught by an instructor expert in the specific craft, and expert in the pertinent Adobe application. The training includes comprehensive lessons on all of the new features of these applications, as well complete media files so that you can work alongside our instructors.

Includes:

Inside Adobe Photoshop CS2:

Learn the latest cutting edge techniques in desktop digital imaging. Great for film and video professionals, too!

This training provides a comprehensive hands-on view of Adobe Photoshop CS2, with an emphasis on new features; the preparation of web-ready graphics; and the animation and video-ready functionality of Photoshop. Travel imagery provided by Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor Steve Weinrebe will be used to guide you through a tour of the Photoshop CS2 interface, and its powerful new features like Bridge, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, Lens Correction, Warp, and Video Actions. As you optimize the color photographs provided on this disc and create a stunning interactive web site, you will review Photoshop fundamentals like tools, palettes, and filters. You will learn the intuitive, richly featured animation tools of Photoshop, import vector graphics, and create and preview animation for the web. Finally, you will input and output video, and explore the many automated and embedded features of Photoshop that allow you to prepare still images for video.

This DVD's Table of Contents...

Introduction and Section Overview

1. Introduction
2. Section Overview

Basics of Working with Photoshop CS2

1. Interface Overview
2. Tool, Palette and Menu Basics
   1. Navigation and Selection
   2. Masking and Color
3. Working with Adobe Bridge

General Image Manipulation

1. Basic Color Correction
2. Basic Retouching

Retouching in Perspective

1. Working with Vanishing Point
   1. Preparing a Picture
   2. The Vanishing Point Filter *
2. Working with Camera Raw
3. Lens Correction

Smart Features

1. Smart Objects
2. Smart Sharpen Tool
3. Reduce Noise

Preparing Images for the Web

1. Photoshop to Image Ready
   1. Creating a Web Interface
   2. Creating Rollover Buttons
2. Working with Text

Animation and Video in Photoshop CS2

1. Creating Animations in Photoshop
   1. Smart Objects and Warp
   2. Preparing an Animation
   3. Layer Based Animations
2. Working with Video
   1. Importing Video to Photoshop
   2. Manipulating Video in Photoshop
   3. Exporting Video
   4. Preparing Stills for Video
   5. Conclusion

Instructor:

Steve Weinrebe
Adobe® Certified Photoshop Instructor

Steve Weinrebe is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor and has been teaching Photoshop since 1991. Steve has over 30 years experience in commercial photography, photo-illustration and digital imaging, and has won numerous awards, including honors for some of the work contained on this disc. As President of Steve Weinrebe Productions, he routinely creates magic with Photoshop and can effectively demonstrate myriad techniques that will greatly enhance any Photoshop project. Steve holds a B.A. from Beloit College, an MBA with Honors from Temple University.

Inside Adobe After Effects 7:

The essential tool for motion graphics and visual effects.

The release of After Effects 7 offers new power and flexibility to designers in the creation of motion-graphics on both Mac and PC. From the ability to work in 32-bit color space to the powerful new Graph Editor, After Effects 7 offers a range of features to take you to the next level of motion-graphics design and animation. In this training, instructors Seth Gordon and Luis Lopez walk you through all of the new features in After Effects 7, including all you’ll need to know to create your own original broadcast and HD motion-graphic design, Flash Video Export, RAW file management, integrated workflow with Adobe Premiere, improved interface feature description and all of the other additions in this powerful upgrade to the After Effects application.

• Interface Overview
• Effects Palette / Using Adobe Bridge
• 3d Cameras and 4-way Camera Animation
• The New Graph Editor
• Camera RAW and 32-bit color space
• Blend Modes
• Animation with the Text Engine
• Animating Lights
• Rendering discreet design Elements
• Repurposing Animations/ Pre-composition
• Working with Layered Photoshop and Illustrator Files
• Round-tripping projects into Adobe Premiere (PC only)

This DVD's Table of Contents...

Introduction

1. Introduction to the Training
2. Section Overview
3. New Features in After Effects
   1. Color Channels and 32 bit space
   2. Pixel Motion
   3. Camera Raw
      

1. Interface Overview
   1. Windows and Workspaces
   2. Browse Presets
   3. Composition Dimensions
2. Transform Functions
3. 3D Space and Cameras

1. Time Remap
2. Masking
3. Using Cameras to Move Through Objects
4. Pre-Composing Layers
5. Working with Photoshop Layers
6. Sequence Layers
7. Creating Mask Wipes
8. Working with Text Preset Animations
9. Importing an After Effects Project

1. Working with Nested Compositions
2. Adding an Alpha Matte *
3. Animating a Masked Glow Effect

1. Animating Fonts
2. Rendering Out a Composition
3. Timing Out the Title
4. Adding Text Layers as a Foreground
5. Using the Thumbprint in the Background
6. Switching Red Solid with a Gradient Preset
7. Organizing Compositions
8. Working with Illustrator Layers

1. Changing the Source of Nested Compositions
2. Using a Lens Flare to Reveal Layers
3. Adding Effects to Final Title

1. Importing a Video Montage
2. Working with Camera Raw
3. Placing the Montage in the Main Composition

1. Working with Timeline Markers
2. Using Effects to Integrate Opening Movie
3. Adjusting Camera Move with Graph Editor
4. Timing Out Thumbprint with Titles
5. Time Remapping a Composition
6. Adjusting End Title and Background

Getting Out of After Effects

1. Render Queue for Output

Instructor:

Seth Gordon and Luis Lopez

Seth Gordon and Luis Lopez are creative directors of LargeLab, a design firm and production company in Los Angeles, California founded in 2000. Gordon and Lopez have more than two decades of combined production and design experience working for such clients as Focus Features, Universal Pictures, Nike, FOX, Ford, MTV, The Dixie Chicks, The Firm, and Sony. While LargeLab's work takes many forms, it almost always involves an in-depth application of Adobe After Effects, a program to which they each have promised their first born child.

Inside Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0:

Learn real-time editing for HD, SD, and DV. Capture and edit virtually any format.

In this training, Terry Nauheim, visual artist and media professor, focuses on the new features of Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0. You’ll learn to: capture and edit HD footage; take advantage of Premiere Pro’s new Multi-Camera monitor to edit 4 camera angles; edit picture and sound for a short film; export using the Adobe Media Encoder; and create a DVD interface. Other featured topics include: workspace customization; the Adobe Bridge; and dynamic linking with After Effects. Suitable for all skill levels, Terry's practical approach will have you working confidently own your own in just a few short hours.

This DVD's Table of Contents...

Introduction

1. Introduction to the Training
2. Section Overview

1. Tour of Windows and Workspaces

1. Importing Project Media
2. Still Files
3. Viewing and Organizing Assets

1. The Capture Window
2. Log and Capture
3. Batch Capture

1. Viewing in the Timeline
2. Editing Basics
3. Insert and Overlay Editing

1. Working with Audio in the Source Monitor
2. Timeline, Master and Subclip Clips

1. Timeline Audio
2. Audio Automation
3. Audio Effects
4. Audio Gain

1. Creating Nested Sequences for Source
2. Synchronizing the Sequences
3. Editing in Multi-Camera Mode
4. Working with Edited Multi-Camera Sequence

1. Balancing Colors of Camera Angles
2. Three-Way Color Corrector
3. Broadcast Safe

1. Slip and Slide Tool
2. Rate Stretch Tool
3. Effects
4. Keyframes * View free video sample on "Creating Fixed Effects in the Timeline"
   
5. Fade and Dissolves
6. Titles

1. The Project Manager
2. Clip Notes
3. Export Menu
4. Export To Tape
5. Adobe Media Encoder

1. DVD Layout
2. Altering Menu Presets

Instructor:

Terry Nauheim

Terry Nauheim is a digital arts instructor and visual artist in New York City. As an instructor, she teaches digital video editing and related digital/creative arts topics at Harvestworks, New York University's Center for Advanced Digital Applications, New York Institute of Technology, and Pratt Institute.

Her drawings and installations have been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts; Musée Art Contemporain Lyon; Nomads, a web-based "audiophile", and Works/San Jose. Future exhibitions include the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York. She is a recent participant of the Bronx Museum of the Arts "Artist in the Marketplace" program. In 2002, she received the Maryland State Arts Council Individual "New Genre" Artist award.

Terry received her MFA in mixed media/digital arts in 2001 at University of Maryland and BFA in painting at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1992 where she received a William Fett Drawing Award. She has also managed exhibition and design projects at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; the Walters Art Museum; and University of Maryland.

Specifications:

Format: 4 DVD-ROMS
Platform: MAC/PC
Duration: 20 hrs.

Includes training on: After Effects 7, Photoshop CS2, + Premiere Pro 2