Best-selling Photoshop & photography book author, Scott Kelby, goes over his personal workflow for retouching photographs using Lightroom, Photoshop, and a Wacom tablet. Scott also shares his Wacom settings and retouch workflow from start to finish! Learn more about Scott’s association, NAPP – www.PhotoshopUser.com Get Scott’s latest book on retouching photos www.kelbytraining.com
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Website: www.gavtrain.com There are many ways to turn a colour photo into a mono masterpiece in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I aim to keep some of the original colour and bring back through the black and white effect.
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Thanksgiving Recipes App! mhlo.co In Adobe After Effects, you can track the motion in your footage using Mocha. Mocha and Mocha Shape, both included free with Adobe After Effects CS5, give users a powerful set of tools for tracking and rotoscoping. Go ahead and open Mocha and create a new project by clicking on the icon at the very top left corner that looks like a blank sheet of paper. This will prompt you to import your clip. Once your clip is imported, navigate back up to the top tool bar and click the Create X-Spline Layer Tool button. You mouse icon will turn into a crosshair and you’ll be given a tool that allows you to click on your footage and create a map in the perspective that you need it. Once you’ve created a map on your footage, click the button to the far right in the row of buttons below your footage. It’s the Track Forward button, and it will allow you to move forward in your footage while Mocha automatically track the points of the map you created and track with them as they move in the footage. The nice thing about Mocha and this feature is the mapping feature has four points and can map in perspective. After you Track Forward, navigate to the top menu bar and click File — Export Tracking Data. You’ll then be prompted to choose a Format before you click Save. You could also press Copy to Clipboard, which will copy all of the data so you can later paste it into After Effects. Read more by visiting our page at: www.mahalo.com
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Someone recently made a post on the creativecow.net After Effects Basics forum asking how to make one layer, such as a title, look like it was stuck to another layer. One way of doing this is using AE’s motion tracking feature.
Our buddy, Andrew Kramer, has created another awesome tutorial showing how to chromakey in Adobe After Effects. Get Video Copilot & After Effects at www.tubetape.com
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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.6 First Look, a new book, which is a concise guide to everything thats the latest in Joomla! 1.6. Written by Eric Tiggeler, this book contains ample screenshots and clear explanations of all the new features of Joomla! 1.6 and their usage, whilst covering changes in all aspects of Joomla! including interface, menus, templates, and extensions.
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Joomla! 1.6 First Look book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed and how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from the existing Joomla! versions. Furthermore, this book starts off by teaching readers the general changes in interface and basic articles, and then progresses to take them through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features.
Using this book, developers will learn the various changes in Joomla! 1.6 that affect the day to day routine of organizing, adding and editing articles. Additionally, this book will assist developers to understand the new extensions overhauled in Joomla! 1.6 and the new SEO features to enhance their site's SEO, and to access Control Levels relevant to website administrators in need of fine grained user permissions control.
Packed with step-by-step instructions and illustrative screenshots, this book is ideal for existing Joomla! users, developers and designers, who wish to know about everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6. The book is out now and available from Packt.
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