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How to Use After Effects for Advanced Motion Tracking

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we are going to pick up right where we left off in the last tutorial talking about basic motion tracking. Today, you’ll learn how to apply that motion tracking data to an object. You’ll learn how to attach some text to the object we worked with in the… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Advanced Motion Tracking

Hubble’s latest: colorful cloudscapes of the Orion Nebula

The image is one of 520 that make up a larger composite photo of the entire nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally; Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç With all the hubbub surrounding the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) it’s easy to forget about NASA’s other eye in the sky, Hubble, which is still capable of producing… Continue reading Hubble’s latest: colorful cloudscapes of the Orion Nebula

How to Use After Effects for Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text

What You’ll Be Creating In this lesson you’re going to learn how to do some basic motion tracking to add text to a shot.  To follow along with this lesson, make sure to open up the motion tracking.aep file which you can download here. You’re also going to need the video file below, which you… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text

Bring on the noise: How to save high ISO files deemed ‘too noisy’

Crank that ISO, AI de-noise software is here to save the day. Shot at ISO 6400 with noise corrections made using On1 NoNoise AI. Jeff Carlson In photography, knowing when to put the camera away is a valuable skill. Really dark situations are particularly difficult: without supplemental lighting, you can crank up the ISO to… Continue reading Bring on the noise: How to save high ISO files deemed ‘too noisy’

Frame The Star Challenge 2022 — Intense Face-off in Chennai and Pondicherry

Frame The Star 2022 by Mercedes-Benz, in partnership with Better Photography and OVERDRIVE magazines, saw a total of 16 photographers spend eight days shooting in three cities. Into the Magnifying Glass After a rain-soaked first leg of the Frame The Star Challenge Face-off round in Mumbai, we flagged off the second leg of the unique… Continue reading Frame The Star Challenge 2022 — Intense Face-off in Chennai and Pondicherry

Best gimbals in 2022

Abby Ferguson Best overall DJI RS3 Pro Check Price Best small DJI Pocket 2 Check Price Best for DSLRs Zhiyun Weebill 2 Check Price Gimbals hold your camera steady so you can shoot buttery-smooth, cinema-ready footage while on the move. Gimbals are a type of hand-held support system that stabilizes your camera on three axes—tilt,… Continue reading Best gimbals in 2022

How to Master Clip Effects in Premiere Pro

In this lesson on How to Master Clip Effects in Premiere Pro from David Bode’s FREE Premiere Pro Tutorial Course, you will learn how to apply effects to your source clips to save you time and energy. What Is a Source Clip? Source clips (previously known as master clips) are objects in the Project panel… Continue reading How to Master Clip Effects in Premiere Pro

10 Top Tips for Designing a Cartoon Character for 2D Animation

If you love cartoons, why not try your hand at designing a cartoon character? After all, every expert started as a beginner. It’s easier than you think. Just follow these ten top tips and you’ll have a stunning character ready to animate in no time. 1. Keep It Simple Cartoons come in a wide variety of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Designing a Cartoon Character for 2D Animation

How to Make a Rough Cut of Your Photo Portfolio

In this lesson, the sixth in a series from Chamira Young‘s course about making portfolios, you’ll learn how to make a rough cut of your group of images by eliminating the photos that are not the best.  In the previous lesson, “How to Assemble Photos for a Photography Portfolio“, you learnt how to review your photo… Continue reading How to Make a Rough Cut of Your Photo Portfolio