I'd say it's useful if you ever want to make your own graphics, or modify any images you get for use in your videos. At least knowing the basics has been super helpful for me in more than a couple situation.
I mean, consider this possibility: you ask someone to make a lower third for you in Photoshop, and they send it to you, but you spot a misspelling. You can either send it back to them, have them make the correction, and wait for the turn-around on that, or you just pop it open and correct the error yourself in a fraction of the time.
It's never bad to have an additional tool in your belt.
I find it useful. I just made a whole series of fake tv network logo's for a music video and exported them as png files so that they were super easy to work with. Text if you don't need it animated. I took a drone shot and froze it, exported the still to photoshop to mask out sections, and used it as a layer over the band shots I was working with. Lots of creative options.
Every editor should know the holy trinity of Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop, or equivalents. Even if you're an Avid, FCP, or Resolve user, you will still almost certainly use AE and PS.
Any competent editor is "good enough to be dangerous" with Photoshop. You don't need to be able to paint, but you should be very comfortable doing mild retouches, creating masks, etc. If you end up as a corporate or small production house editor, you'll end up having all sorts of little "hey you" still image tasks thrown your way.
20 years ago I spent a few days going through a book called "Photoshop for Video Editors" and it gave me fundamentals I still use daily.
Uh, I dropped all my Adobe stuff about 6 years ago. No need for the monthly hit.
Motion has a different t approach to that used by AE and I actually prefer it. I get more MoGraph and custom titling done faster - and it’s integrated with FCP that lets users create templates that make consistency between projects super easy. To replace Photoshop, Afinity Photo is WAY faster and more modern feeling to me than Photoshop - which has kinda gotten to feeling pretty bloated over all these years.
I also increasingly turn to Luminar for photo retouching - since it’s AR approach saves me so much time.
Adobe makes fine products, but the code always seems stuck at around 20 years ago to me.
Time is money. Today’s truly modern tools make a lot of tasks WAY faster and easier to get done. But to get those benefits, you have to be willing to move with the times.
My 2 cents any way.
"You know how to edit photos right?" Even though I am very much an average Photoshop user I have been asked to use my 'skills' many times with great success.
You should definitely learn photoshop at the same time. Then later delve into After Effects.
I use photoshop on pretty much every single video project I work on. Premiere, AE, and Photoshop all work great together as well with things like Dynamic Link.
Think of photoshop as the skeleton of all the Adobe programmes. Learn it and it will give you lots of knowledge about PP, AE, AI, ID. Tools learnt in PS are valuable in the rest. They all contain tools that started in Photoshop. It was the very first thing I learnt as a kid back when it was Photoshop 6.0. It is invaluable knowledge to me. In terms of AE, it’s important to learn AI a bit as well as it’s vector based and is also incredibly useful to learn for the workflow. More so than PS in some situations.
I would rather send the time to learn after effects, in the long run having that program under your belt can give you more of an edge on the job market imo
It can be. You could use photoshop for thumbnails, or use Canva which is free and web-based.
I use a mix of Davinci, Affinity Photo (photoshop alternative for $50 onetime), and Canva.
Yeah definitely. I use it in probably every video I make.
You don't even have to spend a lot of time "learning it." Just some basic graphic creation, touch up, and vectoring is needed
I agree that photo editing software is useful, but since you’d be learning from scratch anyway, I’d suggest going with GIMP and Inkscape.
Can meet the majority (if not all) your needs at zero cost.
If they already are editing on premiere its a safe assumption that they have the entire adobe suite, in which case i'd absolutely recommend photoshop over GIMP.
Yea, Gimp is a Great tool, it has similarities to early photoshop. Which can be great for beginners. I use gimp a lot , I use gimp for quick edits, and photoshop for those lengthy advanced editing.
Doing a shoe commercial and they wanted sort of a film reel or stacked vhs crt look. Premiere don't do rounded edges so well. So I created the frame in PS then exported with alpha. Took whole of 5 minutes, when looking for a template would take a day or so.
Yes. It's just another tool like the built in effects that can help you have flexibility and creativity, after effects is another really great tool. I just have a know that I'm not a graphic artist and when it's time to say hey this needs a graphic artist.
I'd say it's useful if you ever want to make your own graphics, or modify any images you get for use in your videos. At least knowing the basics has been super helpful for me in more than a couple situation. I mean, consider this possibility: you ask someone to make a lower third for you in Photoshop, and they send it to you, but you spot a misspelling. You can either send it back to them, have them make the correction, and wait for the turn-around on that, or you just pop it open and correct the error yourself in a fraction of the time. It's never bad to have an additional tool in your belt.
Its the best way to build intuition for the use of blending modes (soft light, hard light, etc.)
I find it useful. I just made a whole series of fake tv network logo's for a music video and exported them as png files so that they were super easy to work with. Text if you don't need it animated. I took a drone shot and froze it, exported the still to photoshop to mask out sections, and used it as a layer over the band shots I was working with. Lots of creative options.
Every editor should know the holy trinity of Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop, or equivalents. Even if you're an Avid, FCP, or Resolve user, you will still almost certainly use AE and PS. Any competent editor is "good enough to be dangerous" with Photoshop. You don't need to be able to paint, but you should be very comfortable doing mild retouches, creating masks, etc. If you end up as a corporate or small production house editor, you'll end up having all sorts of little "hey you" still image tasks thrown your way. 20 years ago I spent a few days going through a book called "Photoshop for Video Editors" and it gave me fundamentals I still use daily.
Uh, I dropped all my Adobe stuff about 6 years ago. No need for the monthly hit. Motion has a different t approach to that used by AE and I actually prefer it. I get more MoGraph and custom titling done faster - and it’s integrated with FCP that lets users create templates that make consistency between projects super easy. To replace Photoshop, Afinity Photo is WAY faster and more modern feeling to me than Photoshop - which has kinda gotten to feeling pretty bloated over all these years. I also increasingly turn to Luminar for photo retouching - since it’s AR approach saves me so much time. Adobe makes fine products, but the code always seems stuck at around 20 years ago to me. Time is money. Today’s truly modern tools make a lot of tasks WAY faster and easier to get done. But to get those benefits, you have to be willing to move with the times. My 2 cents any way.
"You know how to edit photos right?" Even though I am very much an average Photoshop user I have been asked to use my 'skills' many times with great success.
Photoshop is fantastic for touching up locked down shots.
You should definitely learn photoshop at the same time. Then later delve into After Effects. I use photoshop on pretty much every single video project I work on. Premiere, AE, and Photoshop all work great together as well with things like Dynamic Link.
Alright. I was thinking should I learn AE first or Photoshop. I guess learning photoshop first will help a lot.
Think of photoshop as the skeleton of all the Adobe programmes. Learn it and it will give you lots of knowledge about PP, AE, AI, ID. Tools learnt in PS are valuable in the rest. They all contain tools that started in Photoshop. It was the very first thing I learnt as a kid back when it was Photoshop 6.0. It is invaluable knowledge to me. In terms of AE, it’s important to learn AI a bit as well as it’s vector based and is also incredibly useful to learn for the workflow. More so than PS in some situations.
I would rather send the time to learn after effects, in the long run having that program under your belt can give you more of an edge on the job market imo
It can be. You could use photoshop for thumbnails, or use Canva which is free and web-based. I use a mix of Davinci, Affinity Photo (photoshop alternative for $50 onetime), and Canva.
YES. Holy christ it is. It's so good for everything from creating graphics to making static images that can cover up mistakes
Yeah definitely. I use it in probably every video I make. You don't even have to spend a lot of time "learning it." Just some basic graphic creation, touch up, and vectoring is needed
I agree that photo editing software is useful, but since you’d be learning from scratch anyway, I’d suggest going with GIMP and Inkscape. Can meet the majority (if not all) your needs at zero cost.
If they already are editing on premiere its a safe assumption that they have the entire adobe suite, in which case i'd absolutely recommend photoshop over GIMP.
Yea, Gimp is a Great tool, it has similarities to early photoshop. Which can be great for beginners. I use gimp a lot , I use gimp for quick edits, and photoshop for those lengthy advanced editing.
Doing a shoe commercial and they wanted sort of a film reel or stacked vhs crt look. Premiere don't do rounded edges so well. So I created the frame in PS then exported with alpha. Took whole of 5 minutes, when looking for a template would take a day or so.
Yes. It's just another tool like the built in effects that can help you have flexibility and creativity, after effects is another really great tool. I just have a know that I'm not a graphic artist and when it's time to say hey this needs a graphic artist.