Although this book is focused on Premiere, I find that you really need an arsenal of tools in order to use any application to its fullest. This goes for video-editing programs as well. I think Photoshop is a very underrated tool for video editors. There are so many things you can use it for to improve your video projects, including touching up frames that have dirt marks or scratches, creating professional-looking graphics and titles, and of course, creating images for matte keys. This is a brief description of how to create a graphic (in Photoshop or any paint program) that can be used in Premiere as a matte key:
note You can also choose to work with a black background and paint with white. Premiere can import any of the following still graphic formats:
Windows versions can also import the following:
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