The Levels effect is a standard tool for adjusting contrast and color values, but it can be confusing knowing which way to drag the sliders to achieve a specific look. To help myself I created a quick reference guide which is colour coded to make adjustments easier. View guide
The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
6 Responses to this post
January 10, 2007 at 3:30 am |
Awesome! I just got Mark’s book about a month ago and i love using levels now too and this little guide you’ve taken the time to make is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
January 12, 2007 at 7:48 am |
I’m looking forward to see a Curve guide
March 13, 2007 at 2:13 am |
Thanks for creating and posting this!
Best, Anthony
October 9, 2009 at 1:00 am |
Thanks just what I needed to help me.
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