
Explore the Photoshop video and animation workflow, from adding assets and arranging clips to animating text, applying filters, and exporting polished video projects.
Discover who benefits from Photoshop's animation and video features, the prerequisites to enroll, and note that dedicated video editors may prefer other software.
Organize your Photoshop working files by placing the working files folder on your desktop, using save as to avoid overwriting originals, and creating an exercise folder to delete after lessons.
Relink missing assets in Photoshop by locating moved video files. Video references remain on disk while the document stores still frames, and folder changes break links.
Master the Photoshop video workflow: import assets into the timeline, trim and arrange clips, adjust speed, add audio and text, apply filters, animate with keyframes, and export in multiple formats.
Walk through a project in Photoshop's motion workspace to explore video tracks, layers, and keyframes. Learn how to adjust audio levels, apply crossfades, and animate transforms.
Tour the Photoshop timeline in the motion workspace, navigating clips and groups, using the playhead, scrubbing, trimming, splitting, and transitions like cross fades to craft precise video edits.
Learn to use and enable timeline keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, including spacebar play, arrow navigation, 10-frame jumps, home/end, and snap behavior, with toggling tips.
Learn how to start a video project in Photoshop's motion workspace, and efficiently add multiple clips, audio, and stills with the plus add media workflow, ensuring proper video timelines.
Rearrange, trim, and delete clips on the Photoshop motion timeline, practicing starting a new project, dragging clips, using the trim tool, and applying fades to polish the edit.
Learn how to change clip speed in Photoshop to create slow and fast motion, manage duration and audio implications, and align audio with speed changes by duplicating audio tracks.
Learn how to apply video transitions in Photoshop, using crossfade or fade between clips, adjust duration, color options, and understand how crossfade shortens project length.
Learn to import audio into Photoshop via the standard add audio clips dialog box or by bringing audio in as a video clip for MP3 and other non-supported formats.
Learn to balance audio in a Photoshop video project by adjusting clip-by-clip volume, applying fade in and fade out, and using crossfade workarounds to smooth transitions.
Learn to blend narration, music, and sound effects in Photoshop video projects using crossfades, volume adjustments, and timing to balance dialogue with background audio.
Learn to manually create audio crossfades in Photoshop by fading out the left clip and fading in the right, overlapping tracks for smoother video audio transitions.
Learn to add text, shapes, and graphics to Photoshop video projects, arrange layers with new video groups, place text above clips, and manage transparency and layering for polished motion graphics.
Explore creating a text clipping mask in Photoshop to display video inside bold text, using the motion workspace, layering the video above the text, and applying an alt/option clipping mask.
Create 3-D text in Photoshop's video production workflow and motion workspace, convert to 3-D extrusion, and fine-tune camera, lighting, and reflections for a realistic scene.
Apply motion presets to still images to pan, zoom, and rotate for engaging slideshows. For video clips, convert to smart objects to enable motion while managing audio and keyframes.
Apply and animate filters on video clips by converting to smart objects, using oil paint and other filters, and using fades to morph between unfiltered and filtered layers.
Learn to apply layer styles to video in Photoshop, including outer glow and bevel, then create picture-in-picture with cropping, framing, and audio adjustments.
Master adjustment layers for video in Photoshop to fix tonality and color using levels, curves, and color balance, applying across clips or a tracked group with masks and vignette.
Learn how to control transform properties with keyframes in Photoshop, animating scale, rotation, and position to create picture-in-picture effects and timed layer entrances in the timeline.
Master animating opacity in Photoshop with keyframes, controlling clip opacity across tracks, adjusting timing, holds, and blending modes, and overcoming single-clip keyframe limitations.
Animate layer styles over time in Photoshop by keyframing bevel, stroke, drop shadow, gradient, and pattern overlays on text and shapes.
Master text warp in Photoshop by using hold keyframes to create gradual transitions between warp states, and learn to keyframe arc, flag, and other transforms over a video background.
Render and export Photoshop video projects via the render video dialog, choosing between HD 264 and Quick Time, with settings for quality, size, frame rate, and transparency.
Export a Photoshop timeline to H.264 (.mp4) by rendering with HD presets like 1920x1080 at 29.97 fps, suitable for YouTube and Vimeo.
Discover why Photoshop's quick time export offers few options and creates large files, often making it nonviable, while examining animation and uncompressed presets at 1920x1080, 29.97 fps, and transparency.
Thank Digital Juice for providing HD clips and stock footage used throughout the course and highlighting their assets, including music, sound effects, graphics, animations, templates, and plug-ins for video editing.
End the Photoshop tutorial video and animation masterclass with encouragement to explore more courses on our platform, share feedback, and apply your new skills.
If you already use Photoshop you know it's packed with amazing and powerful features that can preform stunning transformations and enhancements on digital imagery. This course shows how you can take your already learned skills of image manipulation and apply them directly to video.
In this Photoshop for Video Editing training course, Infinite Skills introduces you to using the highly effective tools to use Photoshop in a way you never thought possible.
Photoshop is not usually the first program that comes to mind for managing your video, but Adobe has added powerful video editing and animation tools to Photoshop, and we can show you have to use them!
The course starts off by explaining who can benefit from the Photoshop video features, and what prior knowledge you will need to get the most out of this tutorial. You will cover the basics of the production workflow in Photoshop, then jump right into managing your video assets. You will learn how to arrange and trim your video, add, adjust and mix audio, how to apply transitions to your clips and how to animate using filters, layer styles and more. This tutorial also covers adding text to your video, and even animating it! Finally, you will learn how to export your finished project. Extensive working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons with the same assets that he is using.
Once you have completed this computer based training course for Video and Animation with Photoshop, you will have the skills to manage your video projects right through Adobe Photoshop. You will be confident in importing your video, editing it, adding fancy transitions and fun animation, and finally exporting it to share with your friends and family!