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Ultimately, this book is quite competent in teaching all of the above in a step-by-step manner. Each lesson takes about a half-hour to an hour to do so if you are motivated you can burn through this entire book in a fast weekend.

This was not the case since “After Effects” is quite rich in content and complexity and it requires lots of practice and detail driven tutorials to really grasp this program. Subsequently, this book provided me with the understanding and tutorials I needed to really learn this program. I am generally a big fan of Adobe’s Classroom in a Book series. These books are usually a good way to get up to speed quickly on Adobe products.

With that said, I am rather disappointed in this book, and I abandoned it about one quarter of the way through, in favor of a different book. It doesn’t do Adobe’s usual good job of introducing basic tasks and using them to build up to more complex jobs. Instead, the book tries to introduce a lot of program features at once, and it has left me feeling somewhat confused and frustrated.

If you already know motion graphics, and are simply learning After Effects, this book may offer an effective means of getting into the swing of things quickly. But I can’t recommend it for people like myself, who are learning motion graphics. Too many details are glossed over, nearly always with the comment that if you want more information, you should consult the After Effects help.

Well, if I was going to simply wade through the After Effects help, I wouldn’t really need this book, would I? I’d recommend skipping this entry in the series in favor something more comprehensive. Hopefully, Adobe will address the problems with this book in a future edition. This book series is the way to go!

You can seriously be pretty comfortable in After Effects after going through just a few chapters. The only catch is you still have to go through the chapters and put in the work to benefit from the book. Like any Adobe software, learning comes from continuous work in the program and compounds over years as overall experience. This book probably won’t make you the world’s greatest SFX artist, but it sure is a solid foundation that will give you a strong basic understanding of the software.

I have also tried the books for InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop and can say that they are all fantastic. I highly reccomend them, even if you may know other Adobe programs already. This book is an incredibly weak companion to the sophisticated software it purports to teach.

Each lesson is nothing more than a series of “press this this, type this, click that” instructions with very little explanation of what you’re actually doing and why you’re doing it. Another puzzling approach is that the steps usually involve the typing of positional and rotational coordinates as opposed to the more intuitive use of visual motion paths to plot the movement of objects. It’s like telling you to type in the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of Dallas and Houston on a map instead of just connecting them by dragging a line from one to the other.

Press-type-and-click instructions can be very useful to show you how to actually execute the features of an application such as After Effects, but, without some explanation of the “whys,” you’re learning almost nothing. It’s like trying to learn to play piano by being told which keys to press or learning to paint by using a paint-by-the-numbers canvas.

It’s amazing to me how Adobe could give its blessings to such an inferior book about such a superior product. They need a better book. Love it. One person found this helpful. It is helpful for Digital Media 2 like 3D but it is certainly hard when learning.

See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. After Effects is a great programme with a steep learning curve.

Strangely, by default some of the controls — such as corner handles — do not work the same as in other Adobe programmes and, for instance,when you re-size something by dragging along an edge it re-sizes in both directions from the centre, which is somewhat counter-intuitive. These are a couple of the reaqsons why I was compelled to buy this book. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

This mode allows you to see graphical thumbnails of your footage in the project tap or media browser. You can make you edit more efficient by switching between Icon and list view when appropriate. Produced through the facilities of Arlington Independent Media. Raise your voice! Arlington, VA This is not the book text. Adobe Photoshop CS6 delivers magic that helps you bring your creative vision to life.

Edit raw image files and other photos with state-of-the-art photo editing. Create compelling HDR images, black-and-whites, and panoramas. Retouch images with astonishing ease and control. Design anything you can imagine—at amazing speed. Paint and draw naturally and expressively. Even put your ideas in motion by intuitively creating stunning videos. Note: This book is compatible with either the “Macintosh” or Windows” version.

These lessons are presented in a procedure-like fashion so ultimately the student learns this program with his or her “hands” rather than by verbal instruction or explanation.

Each lesson is thorough and complete in teaching the student how to import various formats, manipulate them, animate, transform and composite them into a coherent animation. Also covered are lens flare effects, text effects, and adjusting live action footage. Ultimately, this book is quite competent in teaching all of the above in a step-by-step manner.

Each lesson takes about a half-hour to an hour to do so if you are motivated you can burn through this entire book in a fast weekend. This was not the case since “After Effects” is quite rich in content and complexity and it requires lots of practice and detail driven tutorials to really grasp this program. Subsequently, this book provided me with the understanding and tutorials I needed to really learn this program. This book series is the way to go!

You can seriously be pretty comfortable in After Effects after going through just a few chapters. The only catch is you still have to go through the chapters and put in the work to benefit from the book. Like any Adobe software, learning comes from continuous work in the program and compounds over years as overall experience.

This book probably won’t make you the world’s greatest SFX artist, but it sure is a solid foundation that will give you a strong basic understanding of the software. I have also tried the books for InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop and can say that they are all fantastic.

I highly reccomend them, even if you may know other Adobe programs already. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. After Effects is a great programme with a steep learning curve. Strangely, by default some of the controls — such as corner handles — do not work the same as in other Adobe programmes and, for instance,when you re-size something by dragging along an edge it re-sizes in both directions from the centre, which is somewhat counter-intuitive.

These are a couple of the reaqsons why I was compelled to buy this book. I have not been disappointed. It is really excellent at slowly inculcating lasting knowledge of this — one o Adobe’s most powerful programmes and one of the industry standards for post-production.

Worth every penny. One person found this helpful. Easy to follow. Excellent content. Would have given this 5 stars, but for the fact that the CD that comes with it was slightly warped and therefore completely useless. Lesson Files were available to download from an external source so this wasn’t an issue in the end.

Report abuse. I really do enjoy these books – they are great for those just starting out and maybe intermediates who use but don’t always understand why they are doing things – AE can be confusing! Great series, well written but nothing really new for the professionals! Use this. This book is an incredibly weak companion to the sophisticated software it purports to teach. Each lesson is nothing more than a series of “press this this, type this, click that” instructions with very little explanation of what you’re actually doing and why you’re doing it.

Another puzzling approach is that the steps usually involve the typing of positional and rotational coordinates as opposed to the more intuitive use of visual motion paths to plot the movement of objects. It’s like telling you to type in the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of Dallas and Houston on a map instead of just connecting them by dragging a line from one to the other.

Press-type-and-click instructions can be very useful to show you how to actually execute the features of an application such as After Effects, but, without some explanation of the “whys,” you’re learning almost nothing. It’s like trying to learn to play piano by being told which keys to press or learning to paint by using a paint-by-the-numbers canvas. It’s amazing to me how Adobe could give its blessings to such an inferior book about such a superior product.

They need a better book. I am generally a big fan of Adobe’s Classroom in a Book series. These books are usually a good way to get up to speed quickly on Adobe products. With that said, I am rather disappointed in this book, and I abandoned it about one quarter of the way through, in favor of a different book.

It doesn’t do Adobe’s usual good job of introducing basic tasks and using them to build up to more complex jobs. Instead, the book tries to introduce a lot of program features at once, and it has left me feeling somewhat confused and frustrated.

If you already know motion graphics, and are simply learning After Effects, this book may offer an effective means of getting into the swing of things quickly. But I can’t recommend it for people like myself, who are learning motion graphics. Too many details are glossed over, nearly always with the comment that if you want more information, you should consult the After Effects help.

Well, if I was going to simply wade through the After Effects help, I wouldn’t really need this book, would I? I’d recommend skipping this entry in the series in favor something more comprehensive. Hopefully, Adobe will address the problems with this book in a future edition. A tutorial driven book whereas the student completes 11 lessons total with the end goal of creating an 18 second movie playable for either television or web. Note: This book is compatible with either the “Macintosh” or Windows” version.

These lessons are presented in a procedure-like fashion so ultimately the student learns this program with his or her “hands” rather than by verbal instruction or explanation.

Each lesson is thorough and complete in teaching the student how to import various formats, manipulate them, animate, transform and composite them into a coherent animation. Also covered are lens flare effects, text effects, and adjusting live action footage. Ultimately, this book is quite competent in teaching all of the above in a step-by-step manner. Each lesson takes about a half-hour to an hour to do so if you are motivated you can burn through this entire book in a fast weekend.

This was not the case since “After Effects” is quite rich in content and complexity and it requires lots of practice and detail driven tutorials to really grasp this program.

Subsequently, this book provided me with the understanding and tutorials I needed to really learn this program. This book series is the way to go! You can seriously be pretty comfortable in After Effects after going through just a few chapters. The only catch is you still have to go through the chapters and put in the work to benefit from the book.

Like any Adobe software, learning comes from continuous work in the program and compounds over years as overall experience. This book probably won’t make you the world’s greatest SFX artist, but it sure is a solid foundation that will give you a strong basic understanding of the software. I have also tried the books for InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop and can say that they are all fantastic.

I highly reccomend them, even if you may know other Adobe programs already. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries.

 
 

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