Comments on: Upcoming Photoshop Workflow Video Suggestions Help

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:25:56 +0000

Hi Nick,

I was wondering if you could perhaps do a tutorial on the integration between Photoshop and After Effects. I know it doesn’t have to do with photo editing, but I am very familiar with both programs.

The issues I run into the most is when I create media to animate, I have no idea what size to make the images. When I use the presets for HD video in photoshop, it tends to look pixelated in AE. When I make them higher res it looks better, but I want to save HD space and render time. I am not sure how to find a happy medium between the two. What’s big enough?

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:09:10 +0000

Nick, what I want to see doesn’t necessarily have to do with photography. But I would like to see a tutorial, or a set of them dedicated to building out in photoshop a comp that you would use to animate in After Effects. Not just hocus pocus, but things of the “cool” nature? ya know?

By: thegorilla

thegorilla — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:38:08 +0000

Really great suggestions everyone. I really appreciate that! Keep them coming. This stuff is really helpful to steer the site in the right direction.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:09:47 +0000

I agree with a previous post regarding working through many photos (~200), binning/sorting, and then adjusting with an artistic eye. The thought process involved in making the photo artistic is immensely helpful.

By: bobby

bobby — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:10:25 +0000

keep doing what you have always been doing, i have noticed that this site is slowing down… and there seems to be more posts regarding ‘soft-subjects’ i.e. creative field discussions or resume tips. though i value the merit in said posts, i believe that what truly makes greyscalegorilla is the motion tutorials… cool tutorials from a cool guy, plain and simple.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:10:31 +0000

I would love an in depth tutorial that covers 3D Texturing in Photoshop that takes a 3D scene created in Cinema 4D that’s then exported out to a format the Photoshop can recognize. I would also like a tutorial about Photoshops new timeline and what cool stuff you can do with video in Photoshop CS4 and CS3 Extended, which is what I currently use.

Outside of Photoshop tutorials I would buy a tutorial package that shows how to integrate Cinema 4D and AE together to create some cool motion work. There’s a similar package called, ‘Making it Look Great 6′ that’s out there, but it doesn’t really go over all the cool stuff you can do with it comes to replacing buffered parts of you models/scenes with AE Comps and video clips. Free sections of Cineversity do a better job explaining the workflow between Cinema and AE then that package with their News Bumper tutorial series and I’d bet you can show us some neat tricks that would be a big help. Thanks

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:54:09 +0000

That Heerko has a good point, i’m always using photoshop, illustrator and AE at the same time and before i know it i’ve got a folder full of the same picture saved into different programs and folders for comps and pre-comps and no matter how organised I try to be it always ends up as a big annoying mess …or maybe that’s just me… but i’m still interested in how you complete a brief with the whole adobe package at your disposal

By: xavier

xavier — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:58:10 +0000

hi Nick, I would love to see how you prepare your images when you take them from a scanner. I know digital is what people use today but if you like lomo then you´ll have some film that you would like to scan right?

By: Colin Davis

Colin Davis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:56:21 +0000

1) Organization of photos / management
2) Different rigs (this is not really workflow but still interesting)
I will post more if I think of it.
C

By: Chris Culp

Chris Culp — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:13:43 +0000

All of your portfolio advice for Motion Designers has been really helpful for me personally.
It would be great to see a similar perspective for digital photographers. Like a “How to Take Photos and Get Paid”. For example, workflows on processing for a film production, like Gregory Wilson mentioned, a workflow for dealing with a large batch of fashion / model photos & processing them, masking & compositing for product shots and things related to photos being used in print/web design.