Apple iWork 09 Book Trailer

Monday, June 22, 2009 Filed in: Apple | Business

Learn Flash and After Effects for Free

Friday, June 19, 2009 Filed in: Adobe | Training Products

Two totally free resources to learn Flash and After Effects. These come from the new book After Effects for Flash / Flash for After Effects: Dynamic Animation and Video with Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. This book is really great and I hope you enjoy the first two chapters.

After Effects Essentials for Flash Users

Free chapter and project files
http://bit.ly/pN1mJ

Flash Essentials for After Effects Users

Free chapter and project files
http://bit.ly/XB6Ag

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Searchable Video with Creative Suite 4

Monday, June 15, 2009 Filed in: Adobe | Business

Adobe has a great new technology that makes video searchable. I’ve written a detailed tutorial available at ProVideoCoalition.com.

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“With the proliferation of video on the Web, access to information is getting easier to find and understand (for most). The challenge is twofold: first is getting people to find and search your video for the right information and second is if the individual has an auditory impairment, so much information is only available in the audio track. This is why there has been such a big push to make video searchable online and more accessible. In this article you’ll use Adobe’s tool set to set up your video content for both goals.”

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Alpha Channels - Photoshop for Video

Friday, June 12, 2009 Filed in: Adobe

In this Adobe Photoshop podcast tutorial, Richard Harrington teaches how to make an alpha channel based upon the luminance of an image.

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Content Aware Scaling - Photoshop for Video

Friday, June 05, 2009 Filed in: Adobe

In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at content aware scaling, a new feature in Photoshop CS4, which gives the ability to stretch a part of a picture based on the subject matter.

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Cool tutorial on lighting for photographers

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 Filed in: Education | Resources

Check out this cool tutorial on lighting for photographers from Robert Louis Vanelli. In this video tutorial you will learn how to light a subject using multiple lights and what each of those lights do for the overall lighting scheme.

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