This super quick tutorial shows you how to create the glitch effect in After Effects in under five minutes. The effect text is provided in the video notes and the video walks you through using the displacement layer. Happy creating!
Liquid Transitions in After Effects
Learn how to created liquid transitions in just five minutes!
Animated Video Templates on Powtoon
Powtoon is an amazing website the offers free templates for animated videos.
Edit in-website, add your own text, and export your videos with help from easy-to-follow instructions as you go. Whether you’re creating a news briefing, an educational video, or anything else these templates are easy to use and customize.
Here’s a tutorial on how to edit a video template:
Animated Transitions in Premiere Rush
Check out this super quick video on how to create animated transitions in Adobe Premiere Rush. These tools help add life to your videos in ways that basic transitions can’t. Try it out!
What is LinkedIn Learning/Lynda?
LinkedIn Learning/Lynda is a site that offers video courses taught by experts about business skills, software skills, and for what you are probably here for… creative skills!
As Simmons students, we have access to the site which is a great resource for learning and freshening up on skills. There are courses on Adobe programs, specific skills and techniques, networking, productivity, industry standards, the list goes on.
In order to access the site, head over to lynda.com (LinkedIn Learning) and follow the “sign-in” link. From there, choose the option “sign in with your organization portal” using your Simmons login and password.
Voila!
The full courses can be rather long, but they are broken up into digestible sections that are a few minutes long.
Take this Illustrator 2021 Essential Training course for example.
The full course is 5.5 hours…
But the sections are only a few minutes each.
If you are looking to learn something specific, you can browse through the contents of the course and jump to where you need to be.
Per usual, the Lab Agents are always here to help you out and walk you through any issues you may be having. Happy learning!
Procreate & Brushes
In Comm 246: Digital Imaging for Design you will be using the iPad and the app Procreate. There are also some Brushes you may hear Prof Grabiner refer too. Check below for how you can get them for yourself.
Procreate
Procreate is an iPad specific drawing app. You can get it from the app store for $9.99. It’s totally worth it if you like drawing, making some small graphic design projects or GIFs and other easy animations. You can exported you work as a .psd file so you can edit in Adobe Photoshop on your computer.
You can buy it in the app store the link is here:
Procreate Brushes
There are two types of brushes that we have for the CommLab iPads below are links to where you can get them for yourself if you want.
Bardot Brushes
Genevieve’s Design Studio Watercolor Toolbox
Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Programs
Check out a compiled list of the Default Keyboard Shortcuts for Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, and Spark.
What are keyboard shortcuts?
A keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys providing quick access to a particular function within a computer program.
Why do people use keyboard shortcuts?
Keyboard shortcuts help you get things done faster and easier! Essentially, it’s doing actions you may normally do with your mouse with your keyboard instead… (think pressing the space bar when pausing/playing a Netflix show.)
Each Adobe program allows for you to customize your keyboard shortcuts, but for now, here are guides for default shortcuts for various Adobe Programs you may find yourself using!
Adobe Photoshop: Animation
Want to know how to animate better in photoshop? Check out what Adobe has to say first:
PHOTOSHOP HAS TWO WAYS TO ANIMATE
Frame Animation & Timeline Animation
Creating an Animation using Frames
Creating an Animation using the Timeline
You can also watch this following video to see it in action.