Graphic Design Tutorials pt 1
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Many people find that breaking into the world of graphic design is a good deal more complex than they originally thought; and this can be seen by the fact that there are hundreds of online courses, manuals, instructional materials, and tutorials for those desirous of learning graphic design. Those interested in learning about it will find that the following tutorials will be the best for them to learn graphic design online.  1. PSD Tuts
It is a generally accepted fact that Photoshop is the best graphic design program, and the PSD Tuts website offers tutorials on everything Photoshop. For the most comprehensive list of tutorials on Photoshop online, you cannot find more excellent resources than on PSD Tuts.
2. Abduzeedo
Despite the strange name of the website, users will find that the blog offers one of the most extensive ranges of tips on graphic design and tutorials, as well as a host of links to samples of quality design on the Web.
3. Loon Design
Those interested in learning about the Adobe Creative Suite will find that the comprehensive information available on both Photoshop and Illustrator on the Loon Design website will help them to study everything they need to know about these two powerful programs.
4. Photoshop Star
Run by a 17 year old graphic design whiz, the Photoshop Star blog contains tips, tricks, and tutorials on all things Photoshop.
5. The Photoshop Road Map
Rather than trying to sort through a list of tutorials on every subject, many people find that the Photoshop Road Map website contains the best method of learning about the graphic design program. Instead of containing the actual tutorials themselves, the website selects the best tutorials from other websites around the next and provides links to them for those beginning to learn about Photoshop and its many complex features.
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Graphic Design Tutorials pt2
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In continuation from the last post on the best graphic design tutorials online: 6. Photoshop Tutor This website contains a long list of well-made and clearly presented tutorials for anyone wanting to learn Photoshop, whether advanced or beginner. 7. Pixel Mana Pixel Mana contains not only a long list of tutorials on graphic design, but includes a wide variety of free resources for those new to the world of graphic design. 8. Computer Arts Computer Arts is a magazine produced in the UK, and it is dedicated entirely to graphic design. The magazine is available for purchase around the world, but free tutorials and materials can be downloaded from the websites. The tutorials are simply the PDF file versions of those found in the magazine, but they are an excellent resource for those looking for information on graphic design. 9. Web Design Wall Those looking for inspiration for their graphic design will find the content posted on the Web Design Wall website will contain a host of the latest trends and design ideas, as well as a long list of short tutorials to help make understanding Photoshop and graphic design easy. 10. Veerle Veerle is one of the most popular blogs dedicated to graphic design, and the extensive selection of tips and tricks found on the blog will be an invaluable resource for any graphic designer. 11. NetTuts While web design is not strictly considered graphic design by many experts, there are many elements of web design that require knowledge in graphic design. The Net Tuts website is made by the experts of PSD Tuts, and the website contains a host of tips and tricks on the graphic elements of web design. These websites have proven to be an invaluable resource for many getting started in the world of graphic design, and the extensive range of information contained on these sites may be exactly what new graphic designers need to know about graphic design.
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Free Video Editing Software
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Those looking to get into the field of motion graphics find that video editing programs play a central role in their profession. Finding the best video editing software is important, especially for those who are just starting out. Those looking to commence their career in video motion graphics will find that there are a number of free video editing programs that will enable them to work with motion graphics free of cost: 1. Microsoft Movie Maker This program comes installed with Windows XP, and it is perfect for those who are just getting their careers in video editing off the ground. The program is easy to use, upgraded, and comes with a number of add-ons that make it one of the best free video editing programs on the market. 2. Apple iMovie Macintosh fans will find that the iMovie software accompanying every Apple computer will be easy to use as they get started with video editing. As with all Apple products, the iMovie software has a number of excellent features that make the program a perfect investment even for beginners, and the add-ons make it much more user friendly for those who purchase a new Mac computer. 3. Avid FreeDV This software functions with both Mac and PC, and it comes with all of the basic audio and video editing functions needed. While the program may be complex to learn at the beginning, it will be one of the best programs once users get the hang of it. 4. Wax Many have found that the Wax software is one of the most flexible programs to use for video editing, and it is excellent software that professionals and amateurs alike have found incredibly effective. 5. Zwei-Stein Despite the technical user interface, the Zwei-Stein software offers audio and video editing capabilities for as many as 256 still image, audio, and video clips.
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Nokia Camera Phones
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Tired of carrying your huge SLR camera?
There's respite as in a span of two years you would have a mobile phone with a camera more powerful than SLR cameras themselves!
We at gallerymotion.tv were quite impressed when Finnish mobile giant Nokia claimed that the astoundingly fast developing camera phone technology will make SLR cameras and even professional cameras obsolete.
"They will in the very near future revolutionise the market for system cameras," Anssi Vanjoki said in a speech in Helsinki. "There will be no need to carry around those heavy lenses," Vanjoki said, pointing to a professional photographer taking pictures of him.
The advent of cameras in phones increased the quality of communication and even photography by staggering amounts.
With real time and social networking being the norm in the new millennium, cameras have become an integral part of the average geek.
Professional photography still needs SLR cameras as the phones available at present quite obviously have limitations owing to their smaller size and weaker technology.
But it could all change when high definition video recording in cell phones arrives in the next 12 months.
"It will not take long, less than a year, when phones can record HD quality video and you can transfer it directly to your HD television set," Vanjoki said.
At the moment there are only a handful of very powerful camera phones, including Samsung B600 (10MP camera), which was unveiled back in 2006; Sony Ericsson CyberShot 12MP camera phone; Nokia's 12MP N series candy; and a bunch of 8MP gadgets like the Nokia N86, Samsung Innov8, Samsung Pixon, Sony Ericsson W995, LG Renoir, Sony Ericsson C905, LG KC780 etc.
A few upcoming phones with colossal cameras are LG Crystal, LG Viewty Smart, Samsung i8910 HD, Sony Ericsson Aino etc.
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Drag Racing Honda Civic
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Honda | W+K | Channel 4 | documentaries
Throughout the rest of the year, viewers of Channel 4 and More 4 will be able to watch an unusual series of documentaries sponsored by Honda. The major motor company wants to feature members of its expanding client base who use their Honda products in exciting and unordinary ways. The search, which is conducted nationwide, has already began. Honda has not given specific criteria of what it's looking for and everyone's encouraged to submit their Honda story – as long as it's unexpected, and perhaps just a little silly. And where might one be found? Maybe a member or two is signed up in the British Hot Rod Association, the country's largest drag racing organiser. Given the Honda Civic's huge availability of modification parts and suitability for compact drag racing, it's easy to imagine there's a Honda Civic racer out there just itching to say, “Well, let me tell you about this time…”
People interested to get in the show could simply go to the Honda Documentary website and submit a picture or video of them and their product, along with a brief description of their unique way of enjoying their Honda.
The site will feature submitted entries which could make into the final Channel 4 documentary. One entry that's already on the site is that of Robert Mitchell's, whose Honda CR-Z GT he had modified and customized until the hybrid car is practically just running on cool and other people's envy. Think your Honda too needs to be seen and appreciated by the whole country? Then pick up that cam, Honda's waiting.
Viral video by ebuzzing
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Dell XPS Gala
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Dell XPS
What do you use your laptop for? Work? Office applications? Games? Movies? Music? Likelihood is that you will have chosen all or most of the above however, honestly think about what your laptop is most suited for. The typical laptop is idealized as a notebook but also something which supports and offers media capabilities. On the whole, the experience does not transcend the purposes inteded for it. For example, there are many online forums asking which audio format is the best, which usually leaves the MP3 and the AAC formats being respectedly supported with much spirited debating. For most people, their argument degrades to nothing but their own conceived opinions about what they hear from their speakers... but most laptop speakers cannot relate their subtle differences to your ear and many listen through their laptops.
The Dell XPS is something quite different as it is a high performance machine dedicated to media. Gaming, TV, Online TV, Music, Movies; they all encompass the main-front of the Dell XPS with some great features included that ensure that media is the main focus. The objective is a complete immersive experience, similar to a fully loaded desktop media system but as portable as any laptop. With the ability to link up to a 3D TV and run 3D blurays from the computer, your choice of a 720p or 1080p HD screen, your choice of processor type and software and JBL speakers as standard, this laptop promises to give you a great media experience with visuals to soak into your surroundings and sound to radiate throughout the entire room.
Standard features included with all XPS laptops are:
- Performance graphics, and a vibrant HD screen to watch today's latest movies and videos in high-definition as part of the superb visual experience offered.
- Immersive sound with high-end integrated speakers. The Dell XPS laptops come with JBL designed and certified speakers as standard
- The first ever Integrated web cam on a computer that to be certified by Skype, supporting HD video chat at 720p
- Full internet connectivity capability (Wi-Fi)
- An HDMI port to connect to a TV, a 3D TV or monitor
- TV tuner connectivity.
Check out the Youtube video here. For more information, visit the links given at the top of this post.
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How Does REAL 3D Work
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Of course there will be some who already know the answer to this, but there are others who are aweinspred by REAL 3D. The days of the horrid red and green filters are over and here comes the age of a clearer 3d experience.
So how does 3D work? It is all about sending a different image in each eye. With one eye red and one eye green, the image that goes in one eye has one of the colours filtered out while the other eye has the other colour filtered out. This means that each eye receives a different image and perceives what it sees in 3 dimensions.
However, each image has to be slightly different in order for 3D perception to come into play, primarily shot in two different angles whose distance is determined by the distance between the eyes. When those images are sent to different eyes, the brain views the seperate image as one by putting them together.
This is best represented with a stereogram picture. Below are 2 images of a daffodil side by side. Each image has been taken from a slightly different angle but there are no filters to automatically trick your brain into viewing both images as one so this requires some manual interference. Cross your eyes until both images start to move together until they form one image:
If you succeeded with this, you will see a 3D daffodil. By refocusing your eyes you are merging the two images together so that your brain views them as one.
So that is how 3D works, but what about REAL 3D where there are no coloured filters to distract you from the image you are seeing? Well, there are indeed two types of filters in the glasses, one in each lens. Instead of filtering out lights of different colours, they filter out lights of different polarisations using polarising films. The film shows two images, one which emits vertical lightwaves and one that emits horizontal lightwaves. Below is an image of the polarisation filters at work:
The small slits in the filters are large enough to only let through waves, meaning that once turned by 90 degrees there is no way that light of a corresponding wavelength can enter the eye. Try this: if you have a pair of REAL D glasses, get two monitors and put them side by side, placing one horizontally. Split the daffodils in 2 and change the aspect of the image so it is flipped horizontally. Put the horizontal image on the horizontal monitor and the vertical image on the vertical monitor and put on your 3D glasses. Because each image is taken from a different angle and computer monitors refresh horizontally, each eye will only see one image and your brain will put them together, recreating the effect of real 3D.
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