LQ Graphics’ Photo to Movie, which is available for Mac and Windows platforms, lets users create slideshows easily. More specially, it allows users to pan and zoom a single photo image within itself. You can import multiple photo images and apply transition effects between them. (Photo to Movie 4.0 supports 11 transition effects.) Panning and zooming within the photo… Right, it’s the Ken Burns Effect. Continue reading
Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #15: Water Surface under the Sun
In this Photoshop video tutorial, we use various filters to create an image where the water surface reflects the shinning sun. The filters used in this video tutorial include Gaussian Blur, Ripple, Crystalize and Glowing Edges. Continue reading
Adobe Illustrator Basics for Dummies #21: Designing a Christmas Card
One episode over the last Christmas season still haunts me. My wife asked me to check out some Christmas cards at Hallmark website. I found a few good designs. And she told me to order them. That’s when I found out that I had no money on the bank account for my debit card. Oh, no… I purchased a new external hard disk drive without telling her a thing. It was a Christmas gift from me to my beloved iMac. I was afraid she would find out my secret purchase. Actually, I was very scared of no meals for the next several days. I had to do something very quickly. So I launched Adobe Illustrator to design a simple Christmas card
In this video tutorial, we use a couple of cropping functions to design a simple Christmas card. The photo image used in the tutorial comes from Webshots. Continue reading
Adobe Illustrator Basics for Dummies #20: Creating Comic Logos
Using Adobe Illustrator CS2, this video tutorial shows how to create Comic-like text without resorting to any special filters. Continue reading
Because a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator is the top request for video tutorials, according to the side-bar poll, we are now currently working on a couple of video tutorials for Adobe Illustrator CS2.
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One tutorial shows how to create comic-like logos. Comic Life is a nice app, but you can create your own comic-like logos with Adobe Illustrator. The second tutorial shows how to create a simple Christmas card. These video tutorials will be available in some 20 hours.