Prevent Theft: Watermark Your Art

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Here’s a nightmare scenario for illustrators and photographers: you send your proofs to a prospective client and never hear back: then, a few weeks later, you see your work on the client’s Website or in its advertising. This is the reason so many creative professionals opt to send out proofs with a […]

Creating web-ready images with SketchUp Pro and LayOut

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As you probably know, working with LayOut (included with SketchUp Pro) is an excellent way to prepare printed documents and screen presentations with 3D models. What you might not know, is that it’s also a great way to prepare images of SketchUp models for publishing on the web.

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An easy way to bring 3D content into your Adobe Flash projects

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For more than a decade, the idea of creating 3D animations with Adobe Flash software has intrigued designers and developers. In early 2000, Swift 3D and Vecta 3D started a frenzy with prerendered 3D vector graphics for Flash. Not so long ago, we started getting our first glimpses of real-time 3D […]

Photoshop tip: Vignettes add focus and character to photos

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Vignetting, in photographic terms, is an effect of a camera lens that results in the darkening of a photograph around its edges. It was long considered to be an unfortunate limitation in lens design, and as technology improved, camera lenses were engineered to minimize vignetting to improve image quality.

Ironically, vignetting […]

Editing AVCHD video with Premiere Pro CS4

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Many HD camcorders are recording in the AVCHD format and until recently, it was difficult to find software that could edit AVCHD files. This video posted by David Helmly, the Sr. Business Development Manager for DV/DI for North America for Adobe, shows how Premiere Pro CS4 can edit AVCHD video.

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How to add models to Google Earth with Google SketchUp

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This video describes step-by-step how to use photographs, Google Earth, Google SketchUp and the 3D Warehouse to create and upload a model for consideration in the Google Earth 3D Building layer. If you are interested in placing models in the official 3D Building Layer of Google Earth, this video show you exactly […]

Video Tutorial: New Star Trek Transporter Effect with particleIllusion

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Recreate the transporter effect from the new Star Trek movie.

particleIllusion 3.0 is available at an academic discount price of $185

Model Your Home, Plan Improvements in 3D with Google Sketchup

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My wife and I just moved to an apartment with a great backyard, but neither of us think spatially. Using Google Sketchup, it’s been easier than I’d imagined to plan our Ultimate Patio 4000.

If you’ve got a similar kind of project that you want to mess with in three dimensions […]

Create Eye Catching Controls with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression 2

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When you are accustomed to writing code with Microsoft Visual Studio and you move to a lesser tool, it can tend to de-motivate you. Despite the fact that I thought Flash had great potential, I walked away. It hurt, too, because I really wanted to do something cool with the timeline. My […]

Upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 to CS4

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Lately I’ve fielded a lot of questions from people considering upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 (CS2) to Dreamweaver CS4. While it’s fairly easy to find information about the incremental updates: from DW8 to CS3 and from CS3 to CS4 (links at the end of this post) I haven’t found a source […]