Realize Your Potential | F.I.R.S.T. Institute
“When you attend F.I.R.S.T. Institute, you follow your passion. You realize your potential. You find the place where creativity meets career.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTnDHugWDQ What F.I.R.S.T. Is All About F.I.R.S.T. Institute prides itself on its...
Jessi Tobin: Valedictorian Spotlight | Web & Graphics
Meet Jessi, our newest valedictorian! Jessi already had a bachelor's degree by the time she realized she wanted to pursue graphic design as a career. Now, after 11 months of intense study, she's living proof that it's never too late to turn your passion into a career!...
Render Transparent Nametags in After Effects | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Sometimes you’re working on a video in a program like Premiere, but need the compositing power of After Effects to get the job done. One of the most common workflows between these two programs is making a nametag, or lower third, in AE for use in your editing program....
Keyframe Motion in After Effects | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Keyframing is the most important fundamental of using After Effects! Watch as our videographer, Gage, teaches you how to put the “motion” in motion graphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztqPpF9FdA The Stopwatch Start with a graphic element – it can be anything!...
Motion Tracking in After Effects | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Motion tracking helps you bring your compositions to life! Whether you need to make some text look “ingrained” in the environment, stabilize your footage, or match the movement of your greenscreen work, it’s a good skill to have. Our videographer, Gage, walks you...
Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow! | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Brandon explains how to bring your Lightroom photos into Photoshop for image manipulation, and back again for finishing. Tune in below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWuDUAlf2bc Lightroom to Photoshop With the photo you want to edit pulled up in...
Water Reflections in Photoshop | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Enhance your nature photos with this popular and easy effect! Smooth out a body of water and turn its surface into mirror for a dreamy and eye-catching image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwTy5wrnL54 Duplicate the Layer In the “Layers” panel, drag...
Clean Up Photos FAST in Photoshop | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Sometimes you think you snap a perfect picture – only to find out later that there’s dust on your camera’s sensor, or a fly buzzing on your model’s face! In this installment of F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips, Brandon covers how to quickly remove imperfections with the Healing...
Easy Color Grading in Photoshop | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
Photos looking drab? Need to color grade fast? Find out how in this episode of F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips where we discuss easy color grading in Photoshop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNerLg1aak Using LUTs in Photoshop Go to the toolbar at the top of the...
Fast Masking in Photoshop | F.I.R.S.T. Quick Tips
In this new video series, our Graphic Design instructor Brandon walks you through a core concept of Adobe Photoshop in less than two minutes. Here, he teaches you how to quickly mask objects and “cut them out” of the background! ...
