Software Tutorials

10 Second Tip: Speed Up iPhoto

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by Chris Foley on February 25, 2009

Here’s the first in a new series we’re trying out called 10 Second Tips. Enjoy! We’re going into iPhoto pretty heavily this month, and here’s a great tip on reducing the amount of time iPhoto takes to launch. Check this out. Launch iPhoto, and see how long it takes to open.  It’s pretty fast, but [...]

Creating Multiple Libraries in iPhoto

by Chris Foley on February 25, 2009

iPhoto is a most excellent tool, and it’s actually quite amazing that Apple would offer this program free with all new Macs, or for only $79 as part of the iLife suite of creative applications. The new iPhoto 8 (part of iLife ’09) includes some wonderful new features, some of which I’ll be demonstrating later [...]

PixelPainter: How to Create a Motion Avatar

by Jeff Foster on February 24, 2009

Due to popular demand (okay, a few “How’d you do that?” and “Cool animated avatar!” comments) I’ve decided to show you the steps I took to animate my PixelPainter avatar in Photoshop CS4; as well as the last few steps in putting your own animated avatar (GIF) up on your Twitter account. *Tip: It’s really [...]

Audio: How to record phone conversations on your Mac

by Chris Foley on January 22, 2009

“Can you teach me how to record phone calls on my Mac?” This question comes up quite often.  There are many reasons you might wish to record some phone conversations. Perhaps you’re a journalist, and you conduct phone interviews, or you’re a therapist and you offer phone sessions.  Perhaps you’re a life-coach and you want [...]

Photoshop and the Mystery of Selecting Image Elements

by Chris Foley on January 22, 2009

By Pausha Foley. There is no end to the wonders that can be accomplished with Photoshop.  You can cut and paste, move images around, pile images on top of one another, rearrange them, recolor them and redo them in any and every conceivable way, achieving an image that has nearly nothing to do with the [...]

Complex Green/Blue Screen Keying – After Effects CS4 & Keylight

by Jeff Foster on January 22, 2009

This is more of an advanced chroma-keying (or “Green Screen/Blue Screen”) project, as is done almost entirely in After Effects CS4, but doesn’t require any external or third-party plug-ins. Only Keylight, which ships with the software. There are several tutorials out there that show you how to get a simple Green Screen background keyed-out but [...]

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