Photoshop for Painters
By Traian Boldea
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Podcast Description
Now the computer is a part of painters traditional tools. Here you will find my seminars on Photoshop and Final Cut, some workflows, and some of my researches on integrating computer into a painter studio.
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| 1 | VideoFCP about projects | boldea.ro | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoFCP workflow | boldea.ro | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoFCP importing | boldea.ro | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFCP interface | boldea.ro | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoFCP launching | boldea.ro | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFCP auto conform sequence settings | boldea.ro | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoFCP using Mondrian to reach Kuler's comunity | boldea.ro | 11/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoFCP multiple CC3 to bring saturation down to broadcast safe | boldea.ro | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoFCP Qmaster setup on one multicore computer | boldea.ro | 11/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoPS Auto Adjustments | boldea.ro | 11/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoPS Intro to Levels with Histogram | boldea.ro | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoPS Intro to The Histogram | boldea.ro | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoPS More on drawing Paths, Append to Homework #4 | boldea.ro | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoPS Save Custom Shape | boldea.ro | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoPS Text on Paths | boldea.ro | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoPS Paths | boldea.ro | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoPS Fill | boldea.ro | 10/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoPS Stroke | boldea.ro | 10/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoPS Magic Wand and Refine Edge | boldea.ro | 10/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoPS Vanishing Point Clone Stamp for Drawing | boldea.ro | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoFCP Ripple Sequence Markers | boldea.ro | 10/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoFCP Roll and Extend Edit | boldea.ro | 10/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoFCP Moving Clips in Timeline | boldea.ro | 10/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoFCP Timeline editing controls | boldea.ro | 10/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoFCP Edits | boldea.ro | 10/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoFCP Filmstrip Overlays | boldea.ro | 10/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoFCP share window | boldea.ro | 10/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoFCP new sequence preset | Create a new sequence preset from Audio/Video settings. I’m doing this for my screen captured video. I’ll use ProRez 4x4, 25fps, 1920x1200 square pixels, RGB boldea.ro | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoFCP bad photoshop export to mov | I do not know why... And I did not save the psd so... it will remain without the second try... glad we have soundtrack, maybe it will loock like I wanted the bad photoshop export... Thanks god is art and anything goes :) boldea.ro | 5/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoFCP 99 tracks - Experimental | Photoshop animation, multiplied on 99 tracks. As I would not trust the help files that there are maximum 99 video tracks that can be used :) boldea.ro | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoFCP and Photoshop warp transform - Experimental | No big deal... photoshop warp transform, fcp time transforms, opacity on V2, and blur effect boldea.ro | 5/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoFCP In and Out for Dummies | There are no cuts, just edit Points! boldea.ro | 4/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoFCP Ripple and Roll | Trim with selection tool or ripple tool Trim incoming clip and outgoing clip with selection tool, roll tool or extend edit command boldea.ro | 4/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoFCP Trim using playhead and shortcuts | Mark clip, Move in or out point to the playhead, Shift X to delete the selection boldea.ro | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoFCP Markers | Types, shortcuts, how to use. I = Mark In Option + I = Clear In O = Mark Out Option + O = Clear Out X = Mark Clip Option + X = Clear In and Out Shift + A = Mark Selection Ctrl + A = Mark to Markers ` = Add Marker Cmd + ` = Clear Marker at the current position of the Playhead Option + M = Extends the Marker to the current position of the Playhead Ctrl + ` = Delete All Markers Shift + ` = Relocates the Marker to the Playhead location M = Add Marker M = Edit Marker at the current position of the playhead Option + M = Moves Playhead to the Previous Marker GREEN = sequence Markers and Audio Peaks Markers PINK = Clip Markers RED = Edit Markers (Made on the fly with add edit command - Ctrl V) BLUE = Multiclip Markers (When Cutting on the fly a multiclip in viewer) boldea.ro | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoFCP Generators duration | Creating generators more than two minutes long boldea.ro | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoFCP sync the sequence to a nested one | If you need to edit the content of a nested sequence to match the edits from the “master sequence” (the one that contains it). Using markers. Simple technique. boldea.ro | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoFCP ways to Play | Space = Play Shift Space = Play Backwards Home = First frame End = Last Frame Shift + I = Go to In Point Shift + O = Go To Out Point J = Play Backwards K = Stop L = Play Forward Tapping K Two Times = Play Backwards Double Speed, Tapping K Three Times = Backwards X 3, and so on Tapping J Two Times = Play Forward Double Speed, Tapping J Three Times = Forward X 3, and so on K + hold J = Play Backwards in Slow Motion K + hold L = Play in slow motion K + J = Move One Frame Backwards K + L = Move One Frame Forward ; = Go to Previous Edit ‘ = Go to Next Edit Up Arrow = Go to Previous Edit Down Arrow = Go to Next Edit Left Arrow = Go to One Frame Backward Right Arrow = Go to One Frame Forward Shift + Up Arrow = Go to Previous Marker Shift + Down Arrow = Go to Next Marker Shift + Left Arrow = Go to One Second Backward Shift + Right Arrow = Go to One Second Forward Option + K = Go to Previous Keyframe Shift + K = Go to Next Keyframe Shift + \ = Play In and Out Shift + P = Play to Out \ = Play Around Option + \ = Play Every Frame Ctrl + F2 = Play X 5 Backwards Ctrl + F3 = Play X 4 Backwards Ctrl + F4 = Play X 3 Backwards Ctrl + F5= Play X 2 Backwards Ctrl + F6 = Play Backwards Ctrl + F7 = Play X 2 Ctrl + F8 = Play X 3 Ctrl + F9 = Play X 4 Ctrl + F10 = Play X 5 Ctrl + F11 = Play X 6 Ctrl + F12 = Play X 7 Option + G = Move Backward to a Gap Shift + G = Move Forward to a Gap Control + G = Delete Gap Press Play on any VCR, CD deck, or other audio or video device, and the machine runs at “playspeed.” Fast forward and fast reverse are examples of “nonplay speeds,” as they are moving the media in unusual directions and velocities. When you edit, you will learn to live with video and audio played at many nonplay speeds (from very slow creeping or stepping, to high-speed scanning), all of which are important depending on what you are doing. Playspeed reverse, a special case where the video moves in normal playspeed but backward, provides almost as much information to the editor as the more familiar forward direction. Audio scrubbing There are two ways to hear sound moving at nonplay speeds. The first is with the pitch changing as the speed changes (a familiar sound from old analog editing days). The second (a nifty modern invention) holds the pitch constant regardless of the speed. The shuttle controller allows for the pitch change; moving slowly with the jog wheel, for instance, holds the pitch constant. The shuttle knob Perhaps the best thing about shuttling is that the audio pitch increases or decreases with speed; the material you’re watching sounds slower or faster. It’s a nice feedback for the user about speed and direction and can be useful in the rhythmic motions that are part of selecting a frame to edit. The shuttle knob, while cool, is only so fast. In fact, at full crank it moves about 20X playspeed. It skips frames to move this fast, but you still see much of the action on the tape. (Most cameras, by the way, can only shuttle at 10X speed and still let you watch the video.) The jog wheel This is another device borrowed from professional videotape machines, where it doesn’t quite “play” the videotape so much as “nudge” it forward or backward a bit at a time. This is called “jogging” and it’s important. The jog wheel is open ended and loose; it rolls and rolls in | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoFCP trashing the preferences | Quit FCP. Open your System Drive. Follow the path: Users > Name > Library > Preferences. In the Preferences Pane look for “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist”. Drag the FCP plist to the Trash. In the same Preference Pane, look for the Final Cut Pro User Data Folder. From inside the Data Folder, drag ‘Final Cut Pro (v) Prefs’, ‘Final Cut Pro Obj Cache’ and ‘Final Cut Pro Prof Cache’ to the Trash. Do NOT empty the Trash. Launch FCP and check all your settings. All FCP setting will have reverted to default. Don’t forget to reset your Scratch Disk settings. Once FCP is up and running, empty the Trash. boldea.ro | 4/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoFCP getting help | As a self taught oriented person you usually get your knowledge out of internet files, help files or just as you work. Lets review some of the options. Just try, work, experiment and learn your way around as you go. The help contextual menu, when you write a word in the search field and you are going to be presented with all the commands from the menu bar. A special tool inside FCP is button list. You can view all the commands listed and you can search thru them. The help user files. You can use the build in os x app, Preview, to view or search them. Or you can use Acrobat for the same tasks but in different manner. And of course searching the internet. boldea.ro | 3/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoFCP still freeze duration settings | When importing still images the duration is set upon your preferences. User preferences the editing tab. boldea.ro | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoFCP 3 ways to export alpha from Photoshop | Save as psd (the alpha is embedded in RGB channels) Do your alpha channel and save to a alpha capable file Export/render movie. Qt, Animation, Millions of colors + boldea.ro | 3/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoFCP export from Photoshop Stack | A image sequence, right out of camera, aligned using stacks, cropped, Layers to Frames, (optionally draw on the layers). Exporting from photoshop. As qt mov with animation codec and straight alpha. boldea.ro | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoFCP export form Photoshop | Exporting from photoshop. As qt mov with animation codec and straight alpha. Way better than Flash to qt. boldea.ro | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoFCP media manager | Get all your files used in the project in the same folder with a new project right next to them. Fresh and Go or Fresh and Back up boldea.ro | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoFCP keyframing | Basic keyframing boldea.ro | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoNote. Moving to FCP | I’m moving to FCP for the second semester. And Now I’m a ACT :) boldea.ro | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoOther Brushes 1 | Eraser, Background Eraser, Magic Eraser, Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge. The Eraser tool changes pixels to either the background color or to transparent. If you’re working in the background or in a layer with transparency locked, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. You can also use the eraser to return the affected area to a state selected in the History palette. You can work with any brush created using the brush palette to work with the brush tool. The only difference is that you cannot use Color Dynamics. Magic Eraser tool changes all similar pixels to transparent. If you’re working in a layer with locked transparency, the pixels change to the background color. If you click in the background, it is converted to a layer and all similar pixels change to transparent. The Background Eraser tool erases pixels on a layer to transparency as you drag; this allows you to erase the background while maintaining the edges of an object in the foreground. By specifying different sampling and tolerance options, you can control the range of the transparency and the sharpness of the boundaries. The background eraser samples the color in the center of the brush, also called the hot spot, and deletes that color wherever it appears inside the brush. It also performs color extraction at the edges of any foreground objects, so that color halos are not visible if the foreground object is later pasted into another image. Lets take a look at the options for setting the limits modes for erasing: Discontinuous to erase the sampled color wherever it occurs under the brush; Contiguous to erase areas that contain the sampled color and are connected to one another; and Find Edges to erase connected areas containing the sampled color while better preserving the sharpness of shape edges. Another options is Tolerance were you can enter a value or drag the slider. A low tolerance limits erasure to areas that are very similar to the sampled color. A high tolerance erases a broader range of colors. Select Protect Foreground Color to prevent the erasure of areas that match the foreground color in the toolbox. The Sampling option can be set to: Continuous to sample colors continuously as you drag; Once to erase only areas containing the color you first click; and Background Swatch to erase only areas containing the current background color. For the background eraser tool only the brush tip shape options are available. To lighten, darken or desaturate areas of the image you can use Dodge, Burn and Sponge tools. Dodge and Burn are based on a traditional photographer’s technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print. The more you paint over an area with the Dodge or Burn tool, the lighter or darker it becomes. You can work with any brush created using the brush palette to work with the brush tool. The only difference is that you cannot use Color Dynamics. To start using those tools you need to specify a range of grays from the options bar. You can choose between Midtones, Shadows and Highlights. In the options bar you have also access to the exposure and the airbrush option. To increase blur, sharpness or to mix colors like you would put your finger thru wet paint you can use blur, sharpness or smudge brushes. For those brushes you will not be able to use the texture, dual brush, color dynamics, wet edges, airbrush and protect texture options in the brush palette. You can work using Normal options or choose between Darken, Lighten, Hue, Saturation, Color and Luminosity. You can also choose the intensity or to sample all layers. Additionally for the smudge tool you have the finger painting option. boldea.ro | 1/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoHomework 6 - short version | Layers. No Audio. boldea.ro | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoHomework 6 - long version | Layers. No Audio. boldea.ro | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
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