PE6

For my last practical experience I messed around with the blending options for the layers and using the opacity and the transform for each duplicated layer to create a cool little effect as our school motto was being used in a logo. I was putting something together for a Google site and wanted to mess around a little in Photoshop and using the blending options I was able to create a cool effect using the opacity and some bevel and emboss on the text.

PE5

Using the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop has made a world of difference and cut my time in editing photos down by a large amount. I was using the pen tool before and in a situation like in this photo, the magnetic lasso tool works so much faster.

PE4

I have been wanting to do a lot in Photoshop as of late, trying to create logos and flyers for different things going on around school and for different websites. Photoshop has quite a learning curve for someone like me as I try and edit and learn about using layers. Here is a flyer I created as an attempt for my PE.

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PE3

So often now teachers assign movie projects for different assignments in almost every subject and in my observations all the videos are starting to look alike. The student's also notice this as they get bored with doing the same thing using iMovie and most of them by now are so proficient in iMovie that they get bored with the projects or dislike them because they have done it before. So I thought it might be fun to try some After Effects with them to get them dabbling into something a little more powerful and different from what they are used to. This third example is a title sequence created in After Effects using a particle world effect and a camera to make the text appear to be in 3D space. I had the students create a title sequence for an introduction to any video that they do. They were excited about this, so here is a short video of what it looks like in After Effects and me putting it together.

PE2

For my second trial in Adobe After Effects I wanted to try some green screen effects out and try and manipulate the objects to do what I want within a scene for a re-creation of a movie trailer that some of my 8th grade students were doing. iMovie has a green screen feature that allows you to do some green screen effects, but you can not move the scale, postion, or rotate the objects to make the green screen look realistic. This makes it difficult to film for iMovie as you have to know the exact position of the camera in order to make the


objects fit. So, in After effects I wanted to work on keying out and rotating the objects to fit the scene. Here is a look of what it looks like in After Effects as you key out the green screen using the Effects/keying/keylight effect.

PE1

I could spend hours trying to figure out Adobe After Effects and attempting to be a professional video editor, which would be awesome. So I chose to try some things out this week in After Effects for my practical experience, So check out this link to my first attempt at an earth zoom effect. It appears that the high resolution zoomed in pictures of the city can not be picked up by the video plugins, so I apologize for the beginning. This is just a simple zoom out from my house in Seoul to a view of the whole world. This could be a cool effect to start a scene or end a scene or to just show people where you live.