Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors [With CDROM and DVD]

by Richard Harrington

Book Overview

Nonlinear editors are increasingly expected to perform graphic design and production tasks that were traditionally assigned to specialists. Adobe Photoshop is the application of choice in this domain... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578202094
• ISBN13: 9781578202096
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: CMP Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best graphics guide for editors!

What an awesome book! There's plenty of practical solutions to real-world problems -- enough to inspire seasoned editors. The focus is on setting up and using Photoshop to create an efficient workflow for getting images out to video, and getting great results. It's not just another collection of razzle-dazzle tricks and effects. Exercises cover techniques on important concepts: alpha channels, pixel aspect ratios, color correction, importing graphics, testing and exporting to video. The companion DVD contains sample files for step-by-step tutorials, demo/free copies of programs/plug-ins, and 22 additional video tutorials with a wide range of useful projects. Both the book and disc are jam-packed with solid information. The author assumes you have the basics down with editing, Photoshop, and compositing, and some techniques jump into After Effects or Illustrator. Doesn't matter what you edit with, as one appendix addresses specific programs (FCP, Avid, Boris etc.) and how to integrate Photoshop with them. This book is a must-have in any editor's reference library! It's worth every dime!

Master Editor Humbled

I had occassion to discover this fine collection of wisdom during my stint as a lecturer at the Avid Master Editor's workshop in Miami, where Mr. Harrington also lectured. I aquired a copy of this book and I think it would have been a bargain at twice what I paid! This book is so chock full of good tips and brilliant strategies for setting up your Photoshop interface that I have already worn it to shreads as it gets borrowed back and forth between three edit suites. The profiles of other expert editors and graphic artists are inspiring and their full color examples offer interesting leads on how to create better titles and backgrounds.Harrington's writing style is clear and easy to understand. I only wish the publisher would insert perforated cheater cards to paste to my keyboard, the book won't last the month. Buy one - maybe two!

If you work with Video you NEED this book

So, you've been given a print file from your client and you need to get it into your video software (regardless if it's an Avid, FCP, Premiere, or anythine else for that matter).It's really simple. This book covers how to do this, and a hundred other things too.Want your photoshop/video work to look good? Buy Richard's Book.The book ranges from novice to VERY advanced (good if you're just learning to if you know the basics and you want to do some very cool things) and you want someone who is an expert showing you step by step how to do all those things.It's a rare mix that someone has both Video and Photoshop skills. Rich has them and in Spades. And happens to be an excellent professional in the field as well.There's nothing even close on the market that helps along these lines.

An Editor's Basic Shelf

Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors is a good idea, well done. I am refering to this book as much as I am refering to Trish Meyer's books. The problem with editing and graphics is that you are expected to be fluent in your main program ,but unless you also know Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, et all you are stopped dead. Add to this that Photoshop has grown piecemeal and with an eye to print, graphics, retouching, commercial photography so that the workflow is not aimed at the videoguy. What impressed me the most was that Harrington really dug deep to lay out a work flow that works for video,even including sections on each major program and how to import to them. It's not just a set of tips but a real workflow to turn Photoshop into a plugin to your main program not a hinderance.

Buy this book!

This is the book I've been waiting for since Photoshop 3.0! If you do anything with video and anything with Photoshop...it's the very best guide I've ever seen for merging the two. This has tips and tricks that I've never been able to figure out on my own before, and it will help you -- no matter how good you are (or think you are).