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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book 2026 Release (Web Edition)
- By Lisa Fridsma, Brie Gyncild
- Published Apr 13, 2026 by Adobe Press.
Web Edition
- Your Price: $44.79
- List Price: $55.99
- Estimated Release: Apr 13, 2026
- About this Web Edition
- macOS 10.13 or greater
- Windows 8 or greater
- iOS 14 or greater
- Linux
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Description
- Copyright 2026
- Edition: 1st
- Web Edition
- ISBN-10: 0-13-556152-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-556152-2
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book 2026 contains 15 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:
- Gain hands-on experience creating, manipulating, and optimizing motion graphics for film, video, the web, and mobile devices.
- Learn how to animate text and images, customize a wide range of effects, track and sync content, rotoscope, manipulate timing, correct color, and remove unwanted objects.
- Create a variety of 3D shapes with distinctive and adaptable materials.
- Customize cameras and lighting to create compelling 3D content.
- Design Motion Graphics templates for editing in Adobe Premiere.
- Deform and animate objects and video using robust Puppet tools.
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the books Getting Started section to unlock access to:
- Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
- Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step
What you need to use this book: Adobe After Effects 2026 Release software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Getting Started
1 Getting to Know the Workflow
2 Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
3 Animating Text
4 Working with Shape Layers
5 Animating a Multimedia Presentation
6 Animating Layers
7 Working with Masks
8 Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
9 Using the Roto Brush Tool
10 Adjusting Color and Mood
11 Creating Motion Graphics Templates
12 Using 3d Features
13 Working with the 3d Camera Tracker
14 Advanced Editing Techniques
15 Rendering and Outputting
Appendix: Tools For Troubleshooting
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