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Last week we learned the basics of video editing, covering everything from the general workflow to special effects and color correction to a primer on encoding and delivery. Here's the complete guide with all the videos and notes in one convenient location. These lessons concentrate primarily on editing video in Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro, but that doesn't mean they won't be helpful for other editing software. The idea behind having the lessons with both applications is to demonstrate that when you learn one editing application it's pretty easy to learn another.
The Basics of Video Editing: The Complete Guide
There's been a lot of talk lately about the future of the Web. For instance, Wired had a cover story a couple months back proclaiming " The Web is Dead. " And when I was at BlogWorld last month in Vegas, one of the main topics was how blogs are going to survive "In a world, where browsers are no longer..."
mental_floss Blog HTML5 and the future of the Web
Windows: Building on the speed and interface improvements in the previous 3.5 release , Evernote 4.0 for Windows continues to polish the interface, decrease memory use and increase speed, and integrate better with Windows 7 and Outlook. One of the common gripes about Evernote's Windows client, largely resolved in 3.5, was the kludgy interface and slow response time.
Evernote 4.0 for Windows Is a Total Rebuild with an Emphasis on Lighter and Faster Capture
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Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. Here are some recently added bits and pieces: Attribution License
4 Ways To Reduce The Size Of A PDF File
So in my desperate search for ways to optimize PDF files, I’ve found that there aren’t many free options. Although there are a lot of shareware programs, there are also, thankfully, a few free programs can help you reduce a PDF file size. Irfanview & GhostScript [Windows & Possibly Linux ] If you don’t have Irfanview , you should really consider downloading it.
26 Ways to Engage With Customers Using Video
Are you using video to connect with customers and prospects? Videos will enhance client communication and collaboration, and help support and drive new business. In this post we’ll cover 26 ways you can engage and interact with your customers by using video in several different forms . Like its predecessors in the five A-Z guides published here on Social Media Examiner— Twitter, Facebook , LinkedIn , blogs and Lead Generation —we’ll cover a lot of territory and introduce solutions to give you ideas about where you may want to spend time exploring video options for your business. A to Z Guide to Using Video #1: Apple’s FaceTimeLearnable is a new initiative aiming to share a broad range of courses online for anyone who is interested in studying them.
Learnable: Learn Or Teach Online Courses For Free Or A Low Price
How to Create Easy Reflections in Photoshop (or Any Image Editor)
You've probably seen text, product shots, and other kinds of images with reflections since it's become a fairly popular effect. It's really easy to do in Photoshop, or pretty much any image editor (even a web-based one). Here's how to do it. The video above will give you the full rundown, but here are the steps involved: Take the image you want to reflect and copy the bottom half of it, then paste that into a new layer. Line up the pasted layer with the layer of the object you want to reflect, then flip the paste layer vertically.
Basics of Photoshop: Next Steps and Further Resources
You've learned the basics of Photoshop, but now what? Before we call it quits, let's take a look at the next steps you can take in furthering your Photoshop education and some resources that'll help you along the way. Despite everything we've covered, Photoshop is such a versatile application that there's still a lot to learn. We've actually posted a lot about Photoshop and have a few additional resources of our own to help you learn how things work. Additionally, we've pulled together some online and offline resources to help you learn just about anything else the application can do.
For our last lesson, we're going to take a look at how to use Photoshop to layout and mock up a web design from scratch. If there ever was a Photoshop lesson that required the video component, it's this one. In this lesson we look at using the Shape and Text tools to create a website design from scratch. None of these concepts can really be written out, so there is very little accompanying text with this lesson.