How to Use After Effects: Precomposing

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn about precomposing in After Effects using an example project. When working in After Effects, there will be times when you will need to precompose your layers. For example, let’s say you have a text element that you need to use multiple times. Instead of duplicating your… Continue reading How to Use After Effects: Precomposing

7 Tips for Stunning Black and White Portrait Photography

The post 7 Tips for Stunning Black and White Portrait Photography appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by John McIntire. Black and white portrait photography is beautiful, it’s powerful, and it often seems to communicate more than just a subject. But how can you capture gorgeous black and white portraits? What are… Continue reading 7 Tips for Stunning Black and White Portrait Photography

These landscape ‘photos’ were generated by an AI

This landscape doesn’t really exist. Stability AI, generated by Aurel Manea Romanian photographer and artist Aurel Manea has used a new text-to-image AI to create beautiful, almost-photorealistic, landscape images.  First noticed by PetaPixel, Manea used Stability AI’s Stability Diffusion—a DALL-E 2-like text-to-image generation tool—to make the series of incredible landscape “photographs.” By using prompts like… Continue reading These landscape ‘photos’ were generated by an AI

This camera lets you choose what to photograph—and ignores the rest

Using several diffractive layers, the camera filters out unwanted information in the light propagation phase before it is recorded. Bijie Bai, Yi Luo, Tianyi Gan, Jingtian Hu, Yuhang Li, Yifan Zhao, Deniz Mengu, Mona Jarrahi & Aydogan Ozcan The concept of selective imaging—the idea that you only keep the parts of an image you need—isn’t… Continue reading This camera lets you choose what to photograph—and ignores the rest

How to Use After Effects for Advanced Camera Tracking

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of camera tracking. To follow along, make sure to open up the camera tracking.aep file, which you can download here. You’re also going to need the HYPERLAPSE LOUVRE.mov file which you can download from Envato Elements: Louvre Museum To start, I’m going to create… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Advanced Camera Tracking