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Overflowing with more Photoshop Style Layers to produce effects quickly
In series 10 of my Adobe Photoshop 7 Style Layer tutorials, I have created 2 more effects that you can implement into your Style Layers palette to give your designs or text elements a new look quick and easy. The effects are named “Phantom’s Opera” and “Basketball.” These Style Layers will work well with either objects or text as the examples display. Detailed instructions have been added to help the user install and implement the Style Layers into their next Photoshop project. Have fun and enjoy the effects!
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MacBU's New Presentation Templates Offer Mac and PC Users Artistic, Versatile Design Options
Spotlighting style and creativity, Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) today announced at Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo the availability of 17 new Microsoft PowerPoint templates designed specifically for Mac users.
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QuickTime Authoring and Macromedia's Formerly 800 lb. Gorilla
If this were, say, 1977, you just might see a TV commercial that goes something like this:"Do you know me? I used to be the top dog of multimedia authoring before my parents decided to toss me in the back seat with my brother Authorware. That's why I carry the American Express card." Then you'd see that famous green card, blank of course, magically be filled in with the name "Macromedia Director," complete with accompanying old-school clackety-clack typewriter noises.
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Adobe Premiere Pro Group Product Manager Richard Townhill explains why Premiere is now Premiere Pro
In this candid interview with DMN's Charlie White at DV Expo in New York, Adobe Premiere Group Product Manager Richard Townhill talks about the company's upcoming nonlinear editing application, Premiere Pro. In development for nearly three years, the application has been completely re-written. It's clear that the application was meant to directly compete with Apple's Final Cut Pro. In part one, Townhill compares Premiere Pro with Final Cut Pro, and tells about the new features in this entirely new editing application.
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Adobe challenges Apple with Mac-free NLE
The 90-pound weakling of nonlinear editing, Adobe Premiere, has just been entirely re-written, turning it into a muscle-bound bully into whose face competitors would be foolish to kick sand. Emerging from a two-year-long metamorphosis is Premiere Pro, a brand new iteration of one of the granddaddies of digital video editing. The best news is, the age-old editor managed to retain just about everything you might have liked about it, while adding so many new pro-level enhancements that it becomes obvious once you dig deep into it there was one specific target in the minds of those at the reins of its development effort: Apple and its popular video editor, Final Cut Pro.
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Display LA is designed to help content creators and A/V specialists make better choices and better images. Top industry professionals will provide their insights and the benefit of their experiences. Among noted speakers are world-renowned video artist Bill Viola, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, color expert Charles Poynton, and technology guru Mark Schubin.
Company Continues Its Plan to Launch 50 Products In 15 Categories With Barrage of New Digital TV Offerings
Gateway, Inc. today announced its entry in the LCD TV market and additions to its plasma TV line. The company expanded its family of digital TVs with two thin and compact LCD models, and extended its line of plasma TVs with a 50-inch high-definition version and a 46-inch enhanced-definition model.
Formac Electronic Inc. announced the Gallery 1900 OX, a new flat panel display with 19.0" viewable screen and SXGA resolution of 1,280 by 1,024. The latest member of Formac's award-winning LCD line displays the identical digital information of a standard 17" SXGA LCD on a 25% larger screen area, which is beneficial for text intensive applications such as word processing, web browsers, databases and spreadsheets.
Music production tool due in August
Apple has announced that Soundtrack, the music production tool introduced as a feature in the new Final Cut Pro 4, will soon be available as a standalone application as well--next month, in fact--for $299. Soundtrack is a suite for for creating royalty-free music scores. It automatically matches audio loops regardless of tempo and key and offers real-time arranging and mixing. It will support Mac OS X.
VAIO W Series Delivers Multimedia Capabilities
Sony unvelied its new VAIO PCV-W500GN1 desktop, with a 17.5-inch wide format bright LCD, integrated DVD/CD-RW drive and Giga Pocket personal video recorder. It has a small footprint and advanced design highlighted by a white aluminum finish and acrylic accents.
Already Commercially Deployed, Massively Scalable RTC Platform Signals New Era in Online Communications
Santa Cruz Networks today unveiled the world's first Internet platform that allows PC users to unify their online communications, letting them interact -- face-to-face and in real-time -- with colleagues or friends around the globe.
43- and 50-inch Models Feature Vivix Processing Technology on a Modular Card
Runco International, provider of video technology for high-end home theater, has released its new 16:9 widescreen Cinema Wall CW-43MC and CW-50MC plasma display monitors.
Two New Products Aimed at Education, Government, Corporate and Home Users
CTX International Inc. today announced an expansion of its display product portfolio with the introduction of its new PD4600 46-inch plasma display, and in another announcement, showed a first-ever computer monitor with a built-in camera and microphone to facilitate easy video conferencing.
JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY is bringing affordable, portable high definition (HD) to DV Expo East, demonstrating the JY-HD10U, the world's first professional hand-held camcorder with full HD recording capabilities. The JY-HD10U is part of a complete "High Definition for the Masses" approach being proposed by JVC to accelerate the adoption of HDTV by the production community in the United States.
Company Publishes Pocket-Sized Guide to Producing Great Videos
A good camcorder is no guarantee that you'll be able to produce good movies (if it were, we'd all have some darn good films with which to entertain our friends). Still, it's a step in the right direction. Couple it with some expert advice from a video mentor, and even the most inexperienced filmmakers can produce great looking videos to share with family, friends, and the world at large. The new "Digital Video Pocket Guide" (O'Reilly, US $14.95) by Derrick Story is a complete guide to shooting the type of videos you've always aspired to--from understanding digital video technology and selecting the right camera for your needs to mastering good video technique.
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