Discover how to make your not-so-great footage look better using the new Rolling Shutter Repair effect. Get an overview of the effect controls and how to adjust them to get some nice results from your footage.

Transform a 2D layer into an Environment Layer and discover what an Environment Map is and how it works. Apply effects directly to the Environment Map to precisely control object reflections.

In this episode, join Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost as she shows off some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, part of the new Adobe Creative Cloud. See the blazingly fast performance of the new Mercury Graphics Engine. Learn about the new improved processing and enhanced controls in Adobe Camera Raw 7, the new photographic blur effects, how to straighten objects using the new Adaptive Wide Angle, and more. Explore many of the timesaving and user-inspired enhancements including new type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, and the all-new Crop tool. Also explore the intuitive video editing capabilities of Photoshop CS6 and 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS6 Extended.

This movie showcases the drag-and-drop video effects, effect acceleration, and video adjustment layer controls in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. It also shows the new Mercury Playback Engine's ability to play back effects with no dropped frames. Finally, it goes on to show how to effectively render out playback when needed.

In this video we'll explore Illustrator's Appearance panel. This panel not only lets you make changes to properties like opacity, blending mode, stroke, and fill, it also gives you powerful control over the effects you apply to objects.

Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.

Place and track 3D elements on 2D footage for precise visual effects and motion graphics. The 3D camera tracker automatically analyzes 2D footage in the background and places elements on that footage, with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections.

Quickly switch between solid, gradient, and pattern color effects. Apply opacity control separately to Fill and Stroke dialog boxes to achieve better control and precision. Change colors more quickly with the improved color swatch.

The mid-March update to Digital Publishing Suite introduces a new features for Enterprise users. There's a new and improved method for "restricted distribution" which allows a publisher to control who can see specific folios. The new method is much easier than the previous technique and will appeal to member organizations. Enterprise subscribers can also modify more navigation buttons including the Library and Viewer icons; and they can use a new method to link from an article to their custom store for their app.

Motion blur is something that occurs naturally in photography but there are many ways that we can create realistic motion blur in After Effects too. Colin will show you the settings and options to help you control motion blur on animations, graphics and even on videos that don’t contain any movement at all. He will also demonstrate how to add motion blur to the many animation presets that ship with After Effects.

Time Remapping, or “Speed Ramps” in some programs, is a visually dynamic editing technique that we can’t seem to get enough of these days. Premiere Pro has a unique and powerful way to control not only the speed changes, but also the transition from one speed to another. See how easy it is to create and edit time changes directly in the timeline and how to copy and paste this same keyframes right into After Effects. As an added bonus we’ve included Timewarp in After Effects which allows you to create new intermediate frames with the ultra smooth Pixel Motion effect.

No need for expensive contact lenses, we’ll show you how to use the incredible planar tracker in mocha AE to track your eyes, export them as a Mocha shape layer and apply effects in After Effects to create that “white iris of the zombie” look. Another added feature in this episode is how to use Refine Matte to control the feather, spread and choke of the mocha shape layer. This effect gives you control of how much of the original iris shows around the edge stopping the new white iris from blending into the rest of the eye.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates how to reduce the color palette of an image to create a posterized effect with the most control and maximum flexibility possible.

Join Karl Soule as he demonstrates how to use an external control surface to manipulate the controls of Color Finesse inside of Adobe After Effects.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn how to create multicomponent composite effects and to control the timing for when components appear and disappear during the animations.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn how to use Spark effects to animate components in response to user or system events.

This new effect gives you the ability to create the optical effect of a real camera lens blur. If you need to add depth to a scene, or obscure something in the frame, Camera Lens Blur will do that and make it look completely realistic. You also have complete control parameters like iris shape, blur maps, super whites, gain and threshold.

See how After Effects CS5.5 greatly eases the creation and control of stereoscopic camera rigs for 3D layers. Chris Meyer explains the resulting chain of compositions, including how to preview, where to add stereo footage, and what to render.

Learn how the new stereoscopic 3D camera rig plus resulting chain of compositions in After Effects CS5.5 are manipulated by the Stereo 3D Controls effect, including setting camera separation (inter-axial distance) and the convergence options.

Chris Meyer demonstrates the new 3D Point Control for expressions, plus the ability to tie together effects with complex arbitrary controls. He also lists the additions and enhancements to both expressions and scripting in After Effects CS5.5.

In the real world, light intensity diminishes naturally the further lit objects are from the light source. The Light Falloff feature in After Effects CS5.5 gives you the controls you need to simulate natural illumination falloff in a 3D scene—or create other light intensity effects.

Take full control of After Effects parenting system using regular and alternative parenting to build 3D cubical world. Learn how to jump the child layer to the parent’s position and discover essential keyboard shortcuts to improve your work. You can download the project from: http://www.sternfx.com/down

Colors are represented as red, green, and blue channels, and there's an additional channel that defines transparency – the alpha channel. In this video, you'll see how to control how you view the information about these channels.

We've all heard the term ""Ken Burns Effect"", but do you know that this random effect will sometimes zoom into areas you don't want to zoom into? This tutorial will show you how to easily import images and give you complete control to pan, zoom, and travel across images to create customized dynamic slideshows that you can output to Blu-ray, DVD or any device. The ease and power of this tutorial comes from using custom presets for motion and effects in Premiere Pro CS5; a feature that many users tend to miss.

After Effects ships with more than 200 effects, including effects for color correction, distortion, and even audio adjustments. Search for an effect and drag and drop it onto a layer in the Timeline panel. Adjust effects in the Effect Controls panel.

Animate layer properties by using keyframes. Modify properties over time by using the Effect Controls panel and the Timeline panel. Adjust the start and end points for an effect. Change the direction of an animation and adjust a layer's opacity.

Watch how you can make short work of everyday layout tasks using these intuitive productivity tools.

Draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1, 2, or 3-point linear perspective with the new Perspective Drawing tools in Illustrator CS5.

Work faster with everyday tools in Illustrator CS5. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order, and draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask.

Paint expressively with vectors that look like natural media brushstrokes using the new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5.

Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid to generate clean, sharp graphics for the web and mobile devices in Illustrator CS5.

Create, edit, and fill shapes intuitively, directly on your artwork, using the new Shape Builder Tool in Illustrator CS5.

Whether you're helping corporate clients communicate through images, expressing your vision in fine art, or capturing life's moments at weddings, in portraits, or for news media, you're driven by the art of your craft. That's why professional photographers have long relied on Adobe Photoshop software for the ultimate in creative control and image quality. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the full tonal range of a scene—or go from photorealistic to wildly surrealistic—and automatically remove ghost artifacts. It delivers new black-and-white conversion features and a GPU-enabled crop experience. It accelerates your workflow with powerful new selection technology, integrated Adobe Mini Bridge for faster file browsing, and cross-platform 64-bit support for faster performance.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

Join Terry White as he covers some of the exciting new features found in Illustrator CS5 including Perspective Drawing, Multiple Artboard Enhancements and New Brush features.

Make fast work of common design and production tasks like image re-touching with magical content aware fill in Photoshop Extended, creating complex shapes with Shape Builder tool in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign and more.

Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.

Many of the really nice black and white work actually has a little color tint in it. We're going to learn how to introduce some color tint into your b&w and actually control where it goes to give you a richer, fuller photo that really stands out.

In this tutorial, Eran Stern teaches you how to control the scattering of light in a composition using adjustment lights. Eran creates a 3D world of dancing actors with realistic lights and shadows for a fictional show called "Born to Dance."

Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the customized waveform and talks about how to get real control of your audio keyframes.

In this After Effects tutorial, we'll look at some very useful techniques for Trapcode Particular that will give you better control of emitter position in 2D and 3D.

Control the properties of an animation using the Motion Editor. Adjust the x and y values and property keyframes. Add effects using filters.

Create 3D effects with the 3D Rotation and 3D Translation tools. Use the Perspective Angle property to control the appearance of 3D effects.

In this episode, Aharon continues to explore how audio can be used to control time, but he expands on that by showing you how it can be used to change the look of the footage as well.

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use audio to control time. You'll learn how to make your video automatically move forward in time to the music's beat!

Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to improve the look of the customized waveform and talks about how to get real control of your audio keyframes.

In this episode of FIF we will explore the fundamentals of animation and some of the various animation techniques like keyframing and motion tweening and how to use the ease in/ease out control.

Rob Sheppard shares some tips on controls to use in Adobe Camera Raw, such as cropping, luminance, lens corrections and sharpening.

Separate the x, y, and z dimensions of the Position property to gain precise, independent control over animations.

Use the Puppet tools to animate characters. Apply pins to control movement. Record movements. Preview the Puppet Overlap and Puppet Starch tools.

Martin shares his inner thinking on model selection, lighting, camera angles, hair and makeup, and how they each play a part in creating the final look

A rare glimpse into the inner thinking of talented fashion and beauty photographer Martin Evening, as he gives us a shot by shot evaluation of a recent session.

Using Dreamweaver, RC goes through the basic steps of setting up a website from start to finish. Corey is joined by special guest Rich Harrington who goes over some of the common layer controls used in After Effects.

Forget the Retouching tools, get the same results with some blend-mode magic. Find out where these tools come from historically, and how to control the flow of the viewer's eye.

Learn the basics of color correction using the Adobe Lightroom Develop Module, in a situation where the color and density of the photograph are wide open to interpretation.

Take advantage of an incredible variety of workflows when using Lightroom and Photoshop together. You'll learn what your three basic options are, and how to use them for best results.

Learn the basics of Lightroom's Synchronize command. You'll learn how to apply Develop settings across multiple photos, in the Library and the Develop modules.

Discover how to edit movie frames in Photoshop CS3 Extended Edition and control timelines with a wave of your hand. To complete your animated masterpiece, apply motion blur techniques.

Learn the basics of Lightroom's catalog. We cover where Lightroom stores your previews and metadata, how it links to your source files, and how to use Lightroom with Bridge.