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Rich Young

Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area. His After Effects and Premiere Pro round-ups provide viewers with an easy-to-digest summary of developments. He also supplies info and links for tutorials that allow users to do things in After Effects they thought were possible but weren't sure.

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Comparing 3D type options for After Effects

Posted on September 3, 2014

While some may claim that the After Effects CS6-era Ray-traced 3D renderer is a minor feature that you can ignore, it’s...

Digital beauty treatments: Cosmetic fixes, blemish removal, and skin retouching in post-production 1

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Digital beauty treatments: Cosmetic fixes, blemish removal, and skin retouching in post-production

Posted on August 31, 2014

Digital beauty treatments and cosmetic fixes in post-production often involve isolating skin with tracking and mattes for color correction...

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Premiere Pro News Notes #09

Posted on August 30, 2014

Here's another collection of news on tutorials, tips, and related tools assorted with Adobe Premiere Pro. Imagineer Systems mocha 4...

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Optical Kerning preference in After Effects

Posted on August 27, 2014

Optical kerning is a newer feature in Adobe apps. If you have a tendency to forget about kerning, be...

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MaskTracker+: quick planar tracking inside After Effects

Posted on August 19, 2014

MaskTracker+, a new AE script from Mamoworld, expands the Rigid Mask Tracker in After Effects, opening up planar tracking...

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Premiere Pro News Notes #08

Posted on August 1, 2014

A series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools continues. And...

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Using CycoreFX plug-ins in Premiere Pro and After Effects

Posted on July 9, 2014

Over the last several years a few users have experimented with using CycoreFX (“CC”) plug-ins built into After Effects...

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“Unmult” with and without special plug-ins

Posted on June 27, 2014

Third-party unmult plug-ins for After Effects are used to create a composite with an alpha channel of a layer...

Alpha channels: premultiplied vs straight 24

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Alpha channels: premultiplied vs straight

Posted on June 20, 2014

Alpha channels are grayscale channels in addition to the color channels of a file. They define transparency and often...

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Creative Cloud 2014 June Release

Posted on June 18, 2014

This April, Adobe revealed many of the new features of Creative Cloud at NAB 2014, but that was for...