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- 4h 37mof captioned HD video
- Advancedfor experienced editors
- 76 Sample Images+ 2 brushes
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DESCRIPTION
Out-of-this-world compositing and extraordinary effects! Learn how to blend multiple images into a science fiction scene, create futuristic effects, and use foreground and background elements to make a stunning parallax effect.
What You’ll Learn
- Blend images into a sci-fi scene with futuristic effects
- Build a parallax effect with foreground and background
- Cut out subjects and extend backgrounds for depth
Table of Contents
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01 - Getting Started3:50m
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02 - Create an Outer Space Background18:42m
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03 - Cutting Out a Subject18:33m
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04 - Sci-Fi HUD Graphics16:03m
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05 - Create a Realistic Heads-Up Display29:28m
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06 - Laser Effect18:40m
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07 - Adding Type19:16m
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08 - Lighting Effects & Coloring13:51m
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09 - Create an Alien Landscape Composite42:55m
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10 - Color Matching27:50m
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11 - Cut Out Multiple Subjects20:08m
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12 - Place Subjects in a Composite Photo17:50m
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13 - Create a Moving Image Parallax in After Effects29:36m
Course Downloads
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What is the Parallax Effect?
The Parallax Effect can be applied to any composite image in a way that brings new life and dimension into an image. As the camera moves, the objects in the distance appear to move more slowly than the objects close to the camera.
The included After Effects tutorial has everything you need to create your first parallax effect.
Custom Brushes
Designed by the Phlearn Team, these space-age graphics were created with versatility in mind. Mix and match the elements and play with color for your very own futuristic parallax effect look.
Discover Blending Modes
Explore artistic editing options and learn how quickly you can accomplish them with a simple Blending Mode adjustment.
Composite Panoramas for the Parallax Effect
Here at Phlearn, we’re known for giving you all we’ve got, and that certainly rings true for this parallax effect. For this tutorial, Aaron ventured into the desert to capture 5 incredible panoramas, which you’ll learn to stitch together manually.
Add Planets
Learn how to blend and color additional planets into the final image. These same techniques can be applied to just about any composite or parallax effect you create.
Lasers, Parallax and Alien Worlds
Take your Photoshop skills to a galactic level. Learn how to create multiple science fiction-themed images from scratch in Photoshop.
18 Cut-out Images Included
Not only will you receive high-resolution photos produced in the Phlearn studio, you’ll receive the cut-out PNGs to build your own parallax effect as well.
Bonus Headshots Included
After you master the headshot tutorial, test your knowledge and explore your creativity with included bonus images.
Heads-Up-Display (HUD) Graphics
Designed by the Phlearn Team, these space-age graphics were created with versatility in mind. Mix and match the elements and play with color for your very own futuristic look.
Why the Parallax Effect Sells the Scene
A parallax effect turns a flat composite into something that feels photographed in three dimensions. Because the foreground figures shift faster than the mountains and the stars behind them, the viewer’s brain reads real depth instead of stacked layers. That is why this tutorial builds the Photoshop composite on separate planes from the start: every cut-out, planet, and laser is placed with its eventual motion in mind, so the After Effects step is mostly keyframes rather than repair work.
Class Instructor
Aaron Nace
PHLEARN Founder & Lead Instructor
Aaron Nace is a photographer, digital artist, and the founder of PHLEARN. He has been teaching Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography since 2011, and has taught at Adobe MAX for more than eight years.
Aaron publishes a free tutorial every week and a new in-depth PRO course every month.
- 2M+YouTube subscribers
- 160M+video views
- 1,000+tutorials published
- 15years teaching Photoshop
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4.93 average from 3,900+ reviews · 2M+ students
Just completed the head shot tutorial, learned loads and really enjoyed it. Struggled trying to warp the text into perspective but that was due to my lack of skill 🙂
I will fell that my like is completed when i will have finish all the Phlearn Tutorials. Until then we gotta keep learning.
Its Really Cool and Fun compositing . but i face difficulty on After Effect i don,t have basic with After Effect
cool effect but the one i would like to learn is the one you do the movement on arms, legs and different parts of the body….thx…
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! And thank you! This tutorial makes things so much easier!
Yet another great tutorial. Well worth getting.
Excellent
Male models could have been more masculine, but this is just an amazing tutorial.
Yet again – max rating from me as I am downloading the tutorial (:
I am sure Phlearn has produced top quality material once again.
Love this tutorial, I always wanted to learn After Effects and you have shown some basic animation. Thank you once again Aaron, hope in the near future you can show us more after effects animation.
Awesome Tutorial, the only thing I would love to see in future Pro Tutorial would be some BTS or a bit information about how you shot the headshots. Cause the choosing the right light setup will help a lot for composites like that.
Parallax is another excellent series of tutorials at the high quality that PHLEARN and Aaron Nace provide with all their training programs. I only watched the first video-tutorial 01 Parallax Getting Started and all the information about this new training program incite my imagination and intention to learn more about photography post-production and using special effects to generate the images from our own imagination!
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