How To: Use lighting for video
Videomaker Associate Editor Tom Skowronski explains how four basic steps can be used to improve the lighting effects for a video and give it a more professional look.
Videomaker Associate Editor Tom Skowronski explains how four basic steps can be used to improve the lighting effects for a video and give it a more professional look.
The Wedge ROP is a render output driver, which can be used to change variables on the fly while rendering. This can be very useful when simulating, in that you can test out different parameters to see the different results. It's a relatively new feature in Houdini 9.5.
Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. In this episode, Ben shows you how to create rotating planets and moons in Photoshop.
Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. In this episode, Ben shows you how to dive into new features of Photoshop CS4.
Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. In this episode, Ben shows you how to transform a photo into a flashy poster in Photoshop.
Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. In this episode, Ben shows you how to retouch commercial products in Photoshop.
An instructional video by tradigital artist Merrill Kazanjian. Step 1- Scan the image
Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.
Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.
One of the best extensions for Apple's Final Cut Studio is the visual effects and digital compositing application Shake. Shake is an image compositing package used for post-production, and it enables complex image processing sequences to be designed through the connection of effects "nodes" in a graphical workflow interface.
This Photoshop software tutorial shows you how to add lightning effects to a monster castle scene in Photoshop CS3. ZAP! Remove the background behind lightning and flame images so you can add special Layer Effects, and avoid Blending Modes when necessary. Whatever your lightning and fire needs may be, no need to go to a compositing software, this Photoshop how-to will cover it all.
This tutorial shows you a few ways to use images to make custom face me components in Google SketchUp 6. Mike demonstrates how to make your own custom Face Me components in SketchUp, using some pretty funny pictures. You will need Photoshop or some soft or image editing software as well as SketchUp to follow this Face Me tutorial.
This beginners Photoshop CS3 tool will introduce you to the clone stamp tool. The clone stamp tool is most often used to eliminate parts of an image by cloning a part you DO want and "stamping" it over the parts you DON'T want. If you are new to editing images in Photoshop, you should definitely watch and learn how to use the clone stamp tool. This tutorial is best viewed at full screen.
Aperture's loupe tool is a powerful magnifier that lets you zoom portions of an image from 50% to 1600% to quickly check focus or view details in a photo.
Aperture's zoom tool makes it easy to view and edit your images up close and in great detail.
Aperture's light tables give you a completely unique way to view and organize your images.
Aperture's crop and straighten tools allow you to quickly adjust the composition of your images.
Aperture's white balance adjustment helps you improve the quality of colors in your images, correcting for a camera that wasn't properly calibrated for the lighting conditions under which it was used.
One of the advantages of shooting in RAW format is that you can often recover overexposed or blown highlights. Aperture provides two easy to use controls for restoring detail to areas in a RAW image that have been overexposed to complete white.
The enhance controls in Aperture's adjustments panel provide a number of tools for refining your tonal adjustments, controlling saturation, and for correcting color casts.
Aperture's highlights and shadows adjustment tool provides an easy way for you to brighten or reduce the brightness of highlights and shadows without affecting other aspects of your images.
Aperture's color adjustment lets you make selective changes to hues within your image.
Aperture's new retouch brush makes it simple to remove dust, blemishes, spots, and other unwanted elements from an image by simply brushing over them.
You can easily integrate images from your Aperture library into your Keynote '08 presentations using the Keynote media browser.
This tutorial will walk you through the steps of making stunning raindrop reflection images. Lindsay Adler (of Adler Photo Workshops) will cover equipment and techniques, and give you advice to make the most of your time. You don't need a rainy day, just the right preparation to create amazing raindrop reflection photos.
Create a card with an embossing machine and chalk. Any embossed image can be colored in easily with a little big of chalk for a soft effect. Watch this video card-making tutorial and learn how to use embossed paper and chalk to make a card.
This tutorial explains how to create transparent images in Adobe Photoshop and how to turn them into smart objects.
In this GIMP tutorial you will learn how to overlay textures onto images to create cool effects. GIMP is a free image editing program available for Linux operating systems.
This video demonstrates how to make a greeting card using card stock, scrapbook paper, a stamped image and a stamped sentiment. Ribbon and a floral embellishment add the finishing touches to any greeting card. Learn how to make this beautiful card by watching this crafting how-to video today!
Watch this software tutorial video to learn how to use Google SketchUp to add your own 3D models to Google Earth. Remaking Google Earth in your image will be easy once you've watched this helpful how-to video.
In this short tutorial Bill Myers shows how to extract any element from any image in Adobe Photoshop elements.
Check out this video tutorial on how to use the Runtime RAID Reconstructor software to create a destriped image with a two drive RAID 0. So, get your data back with this copy of your RAID to have recovery options for your computer. This program will collect, sector by sector.
This friendly tutorial guides us through the process of creating a simple animation from a still image, using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. Although the narration is at times difficult to understand, the tutorial provides a good way to learn one common technique of integrating Photoshop and After Effects.
This video hows you how to upload a previously saved photo onto your webpage as the background image.
Need to capture an image from your desktop? Learn how to use the snipping tool in Windows Vista, and you can grab an image from anywhere on your computer screen.
This video shows how simple converting an image to vector graphics can be using Imagaro Z.
This walks you through how to create an animated GIF image file that can be used in websites, as avatar's, as icons, etc. You'll be using Microsoft Paint to create each frame of the animation, and an application called Unfreez (found here) to animate them together.
Andy Coon made this tutorial so users of Final Cut Pro can learn how to blur out images so they won't get sued.
You know that special faded, blurred edge effect you get when you take glamour shots at a photo studio? While it looks all professional and difficult to pull off, all it really takes is some basic Photoshop tweaking.
See how to add grungie borders to your images to give them a cool effect in Photoshop. If your borders are white and the background of the background of the website or page you are uploading them to is also the borders will blend in giving it an even cooler look. This is a great Photoshop picture effect!