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Get The Most From The Most Widely Used Application In The Postproduction Field! Gain The Insider Tips You Need To Compose Eye-catching, Imaginative Adobe After Effects Projects Quickly And Effectively. In How To Cheat In After Effects, Second Edition Seasoned Ae Expert Chad Perkins Provides Dozens Of Concise, Step-by-step Tutorials And Lavish 4-color Illustrations To Get You On The Fast Track To Producing Amazing Motion Graphics And Visual Effects. Updated For Cs6, This New Edition Has Been Revised To Include:a Brand New Chapter On The Most Popular Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; The Cheat Format; Acknowledgments; How To Use This Book; 1 Cool Tricks Appetizer!; Fireball; Simulated 3d Text; Growing Vines; Tracked Text; Blooming Flower; Tilt Shift; Ink Spatter; Damaged Film; The Master Solid; Hot Grill; Ornate Vintage Patterns; Retro Video Game Maze; Cells Through A Microscope; Interlude: Using The Help; 2 Lights And Cameras; Creating Basic Shadows; Stained Glass Shadows; Controlling Shadows; Negative Light; Film Noir Lighting; Creating Depth Of Field; Rack Focus; Lens Distortion; Multiple Camera Angles 3d Camera Pathorient To Camera; Interlude: Lighting Is The Secret; 3 3d Objects; The Parallax Effect; Native 3d Primer; Faking Materials; 3d Illustrator Art; 3d Photoshop Shapes; 3d Shatter Scenes; 3d Text With Shatter; 3d Postcards; 3d Objects From Solids; 3d Planetscape; Echospace; 3d In Nested Compositions; Interlude: Picking A 3d App; 4 Compositing; Making A Garbage Matte; Removing A Green Screen; Pulling A Luma Key; Refining A Matte; Using Multiple Mattes; Intro To Compositing; 3d Camera Tracking; Warp Stabilize; Set Extension; Blending Away Dark; Blending Away Light Compositing Texturestemporal Alignment; Compositing With Color; Compositing With Animation; Compositing With Focus; Motion Blur; Matching Color; Premultiplied Alpha Channels; Tracking With Mocha; Mocha Shapes; Using Roto Brush; Restoring Opacity; Manual Shadow; Guide Layers; Interlude: Shooting Better Green Screen Footage; 5 Animation; The Puppet Pin Tool; Puppet Overlap; Puppet Animation; Bouncing Ball; Parenting; Rigging An Arm; Waving Sail; Animating The Blob; Animating A Photo: Part 1; Animating A Photo: Part 2; Displacement Mapping; Projection Mapping; Resizing Animation Animating Layers On And Offtext Messaged Animation; Interlude: Walt's Principles; 6 Light Effects; Hdr; Volumetric Light; Silhouettes; Bars Of Light; Welding Sparks; Light Whips; Stage Lights; Galaxy Scene; Energy Cube; Faked Light Streaks; Searchlights; Sheen; The Glow Effect; Flaring Hot Spots; Laser Beams; Trapcode Shine; Interlude: High Dynamic Range; 7 Masks And Shapes; Mask Options; Instant Vignette; Sky Replacement; From Video To Shape Layer; The Vegas Effect; Luma Matte; Alpha Matte; Animating Masks; Feathered Vertices; Motion Paths From Illustrator; Trapcode 3d Stroke; 8 Particles Particle Bootcampsparkles; Smoke Trail; Foam Basics; Custom Particles; Make It Rain; Basic Snow; Snow With Foam; Molten Gold; Light Ribbons; Steam; 3d Fireworks; Fire Texture; Campfire; Psychic Waves; Star Field; Confetti; Water Surface Disruption; Flowing Chocolate; Trapcode Form: 4d Fractal; Particular: 3d Light Streaks; Interlude: Particle Alternatives; 9 Color Correction; Reading A Histogram; Cinematic Color: Warmth; Cinematic Color: Horror; Cinematic Color: Flashback; Playing With Color; Day For Night; Reference Monitor; Before And After; Colorizing; Hue Shift; Stylizing Faking Dimension Chad Perkins. Includes Index. English