Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2022 release), 1st edition

Published by Adobe Press (August 26, 2022) © 2023

  • Lisa Fridsma
  • Brie Gyncild

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Table of contents

Getting Started

1 Getting to Know the Workflow

2 Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

3 Animating Text

4 Working with Shape Layers

5 Animating a Multimedia Presentation

6 Animating Layers

7 Working with Masks

8 Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

9 Using the Roto Brush Tool

10 Performing Color Correction

11 Creating Motion Graphics Templates

12 Using 3D Features

13 Working with the 3D Camera Tracker

14 Advanced Editing Techniques 

15 Rendering and Outputting

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