The Complete Guide to Creating Photoshop Filters By Dave Nagel
I realized some time ago that it's simply too difficult for new readers of our publications to go hunting through the tutorials archives here to find all of the parts to our Filter Factory tutorial series. To date there have been six parts--two specific tutorials on generating 3D effects, one on customizing the interface of completed filters and three general pieces on working with the Filter Factory's expressions, functions and operators to generate effects. To this we now add our seventh and final part and conclude the series.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 11 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at sending and sharing documents via email.
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Accessing Camera Archive Data for Other Programs By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
A Camera Archive is a complete back up of the contents of a videotape (for tape-based cameras), or a memory card or hard drive (for file-based cameras). Normally the video in a camera archive is only accessible from within Final Cut Pro, but what if you need to use some of the archived video in another editing program? You could import the needed video into Final Cut Pro and then export it from a project, but that is quite a bit of work. With a bit of care video from a camera archive can be made available to be imported directly into other software, and this tutorial will show you how.
...Read More »
Importing from iPhoto or Aperture By Diana Weynand, James Alguire and RevUpTansmedia
If you are an avid user of iPhoto or Aperture, Apple's consumer and professional photo management tools you probably have shoeboxes worth of photos, all carefully organized, cropped, color adjusted, keyword tagged, and now just crying to be seen. Somewhere. Anywhere?
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 10 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at reviewing changes.
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GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition By Wen-mei W. Hwu, Mark Harris and Michael Garland
The NVIDIA Fermi GPU architecture introduces new instructions designed to facilitate basic, but important, parallel primitives on per-thread predicates, as well as instructions for manipulating and querying bits within a word. This chapter demonstrates the application of these instructions in the construction of efficient parallel algorithm primitives such as reductions, scans, and segmented scans of binary or Boolean data.
...Read More »
SmartDraw VP - the world's first visual processor
SmartDraw VP, the world's first visual processor, is a powerful tool for use in architectural, engineering and construction industries. The solution, which is fully automated and geared toward users without expertise in visual design and drawing, has an extensive variety of templates for visuals like floor plans, maps, flow charts, various diagrams, strategy plans and more.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 9 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at tracking changes.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 8 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface. In this installment we continue to look at using graphics in Word, this time it's using WordArt.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 7 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at Text Boxes in Word. The course explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 6 of 13 By David Rivers
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at SmartArt in Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 5 of 13 By David Rivers
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this installment we look at working with shapes in Microsoft Word.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 4 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using pictures and clip art.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 3 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this segment David discusses creating columns in publishing view.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 2 of 13 By David Rivers
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using parallel columns.
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Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 1 of 13 By David Rivers
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 10 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 9 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Basics for Working with DVD Video By Rob Boirun, BurnWorld
On a typical day I usually receive around 5-7 emails about how to do a certain DVD burning tasks. To me these are simple answers and over the years I just assumed that the answers I was providing is now common knowledge. However this is clearly not the case as more and more people are just starting to get familiar with their DVD burners. So I decided to write about some of the hidden 'secrets' that everyone should know about while working with your DVD burner.
...Read More »
Updated: 300+ Free After Effects Tutorials Mega List
After Effects has always been a popular topic for our writers and editors. We thought it would be helpful to list - with direct links to them on our After Effects Channel - the more than 300 different After Effects tutorials we have so far. In this list are After Effects training videos, After Effects hands on tutorials and techniques, and lots of After Effects Quick Tips. All professional quality, and all free! Enjoy!
...Read More »
The Complete Guide to Creating Photoshop Filters
I realized some time ago that it's simply too difficult for new readers of our publications to go hunting through the tutorials archives here to find all of the parts to our Filter Factory tutorial series. To date there have been six parts--two specific tutorials on generating 3D effects, one on customizing the interface of completed filters and three general pieces on working with the Filter Factory's expressions, functions and operators to generate effects. To this we now add our seventh and final part and conclude the series.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 11 of 13
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at sending and sharing documents via email.
...Read More »
Accessing Camera Archive Data for Other Programs
A Camera Archive is a complete back up of the contents of a videotape (for tape-based cameras), or a memory card or hard drive (for file-based cameras). Normally the video in a camera archive is only accessible from within Final Cut Pro, but what if you need to use some of the archived video in another editing program? You could import the needed video into Final Cut Pro and then export it from a project, but that is quite a bit of work. With a bit of care video from a camera archive can be made available to be imported directly into other software, and this tutorial will show you how.
...Read More »
Importing from iPhoto or Aperture
If you are an avid user of iPhoto or Aperture, Apple's consumer and professional photo management tools you probably have shoeboxes worth of photos, all carefully organized, cropped, color adjusted, keyword tagged, and now just crying to be seen. Somewhere. Anywhere?
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 10 of 13
In Word for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at reviewing changes.
...Read More »
GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition
The NVIDIA Fermi GPU architecture introduces new instructions designed to facilitate basic, but important, parallel primitives on per-thread predicates, as well as instructions for manipulating and querying bits within a word. This chapter demonstrates the application of these instructions in the construction of efficient parallel algorithm primitives such as reductions, scans, and segmented scans of binary or Boolean data.
...Read More »
SmartDraw VP - the world's first visual processor
SmartDraw VP, the world's first visual processor, is a powerful tool for use in architectural, engineering and construction industries. The solution, which is fully automated and geared toward users without expertise in visual design and drawing, has an extensive variety of templates for visuals like floor plans, maps, flow charts, various diagrams, strategy plans and more.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 9 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at tracking changes.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 8 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface. In this installment we continue to look at using graphics in Word, this time it's using WordArt.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 7 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. In this installment we look at Text Boxes in Word. The course explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 6 of 13
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects. In this installment we look at SmartArt in Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 5 of 13
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this installment we look at working with shapes in Microsoft Word.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 4 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using pictures and clip art.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 3 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this segment David discusses creating columns in publishing view.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 2 of 13
In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. In this lesson we look at using parallel columns.
...Read More »
Word for Mac Essential Training: Part 1 of 13
David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 10 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 9 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit.
...Read More »
Basics for Working with DVD Video
On a typical day I usually receive around 5-7 emails about how to do a certain DVD burning tasks. To me these are simple answers and over the years I just assumed that the answers I was providing is now common knowledge. However this is clearly not the case as more and more people are just starting to get familiar with their DVD burners. So I decided to write about some of the hidden 'secrets' that everyone should know about while working with your DVD burner.
...Read More »
Updated: 300+ Free After Effects Tutorials Mega List
After Effects has always been a popular topic for our writers and editors. We thought it would be helpful to list - with direct links to them on our After Effects Channel - the more than 300 different After Effects tutorials we have so far. In this list are After Effects training videos, After Effects hands on tutorials and techniques, and lots of After Effects Quick Tips. All professional quality, and all free! Enjoy!
...Read More »
