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Import a Photoshop file as a composition
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Article source: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aft7am_importpsd.html
Nest a Photoshop sequence in your Adobe Premiere Pro project
In this short video tutorial, discover the advantages of nesting a layered Adobe® Photoshop® sequence in your Adobe® Premiere® Pro project. Any changes you make to the nested sequence are reflected immediately in the master sequence, and any effects you add to the nested sequence are applied to each clip in the sequence.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
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- Buy
Adobe Photoshop CS2
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- Buy
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro
Where to go from here
For more information about Adobe Premiere, see the following:
- Animate a layered Photoshop file, by the experts at Adobe and Total Training
- Using a matte is key with imported logos, by Ed Gaskill
- Get to know Adobe Production Studio, from “Total Training Video Workshop for Adobe
Article source: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/premierepro/articles/prp2am_nestpshop.html
Edit your Encore DVD menus easily by opening them in Photoshop
In this short video tutorial, you’ll learn about the amazing integration between Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 and Adobe Encore® DVD. See how easily you can edit the menus in your DVD projects by using the Edit Menu in Photoshop command in Encore DVD.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds
Requirements
To complete this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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- Buy
Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Try
- Buy
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Encore DVD 2.0 and Adobe Photoshop CS2
Where to go from here
For more information about Encore DVD 2.0 and how you can team it with other Adobe applications, check out the following resources:
- Instant recipes for menu design (PDF, 241K)by the experts at Adobe
- Keep motion in your DVD menu live (PDF, 138K)by the experts
Article source: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/encore/articles/enc2am_pshopcodes.html
Working the text in Photoshop
Adobe® Photoshop® gained typographic prowess late in its career; in fact, for a long time it was downright painful to get good-looking type out of it. But that’s all changed now. It’s like the folks on the Photoshop team took a look at the typography in InDesign and suddenly said, “Hey, we can do that!” Photoshop lets you tweak kerning, leading, color, hyphenation, and more to your heart’s content. You can set beautiful type in Photoshop… but that doesn’t mean you should.
Figure 1: Vectors and pixels together at last
Note that this vector text sits both behind and in front of the bitmapped image.
To achieve the effect, we copied some of the image onto a new layer, added a layer mask (which is invisible here), and put the text in between the two layers. Note that we converted the text to a layer clipping path
Article source: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshop/articles/phscs2at_typography.html
Letting an image edit itself
We confess to being lazy. One of the ways that laziness manifests itself is that we’re always looking for simpler solutions, which in the field of digital imaging can be difficult and occasionally dangerous. But using the contrast, darken, and lighten blend modes to adjust tonality Adobe® Photoshop® is one of those few solutions that is both simple and safe.
Bruce calls this “letting the image edit itself” because rather than having to place curve points and carefully manipulate them, the image content does all the work. If you need more contrast, apply a Soft Light or Hard Light layer. The blending mode takes the contrast that’s already in the image and increases it, with no danger of clipping, and no futzing around in the Curves dialog box. Likewise, when you need to lighten or darken an image, Screen and Multiply do those things proportionally, again with no
Article source: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshop/articles/phscs2at_selfedit.html
