Ever wanted to learn how to create AMAZING photoshop efftecs like this? Now you can. This website, Creative Closeup, has a massive repository of Photoshop tutorials for creating a wide array of dizzying effects. Want to give your little brother the power to wield raw energy (or put his head on a corndog)? You can […]
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DMS Help – Free Adobe Video Tutorials
Of all the video tutorials out on the web these days, the ones on tutvid.com are some of the best. Not only that, their website is easy to use and specific tutorials are easy to find. Tutvid (presumably a contraction of “Tutorial Video”) is a website that offers comprehensive video tutorials on a few of […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – About Web Hosting and a Recommendation
**This recommendation comes strictly from Todd, based on his personal experiences with the hosting company noted below, and is in no way a paid promotion or advertisement.** There are a lot of web hosting companies out there on the web… Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. Perhaps you’d like to know what web hosting is […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Using an FTP Client to Upload Files to a Website
While small websites can be built and stored locally, for the real deal, you’ll need to get web hosting. And, once you’ve paid for web hosting, you’ll need a way to get your files from your computer to the host’s server. Often times the hosting company will provide some limp FTP client as part of […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Learn Basic Web Design & HTML
Some folks might think that learning HTML is a little old skool, but it’s the foundation of everything that appears on the Internet; a working knowledge of it is essential for anyone who intended to do anything on the web. In this video tutorial (also appears below), the instructor takes you step-by-step through the bare-bones […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Easy Video Importation into iDVD
While iDVD is one of the simplest DVD creation programs out there, sometimes it can throw folks for a loop. Say for example, you had a video that you made and it’s lingering in some folder somewhere. You open up iDVD, find a template and then what? Now, you can use the “Import” command […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Video Tutorials for Adobe Applications
There are zillions of videos and tutorials on the web about Adobe’s products. While many of these can be useful and some of them even dead accurate, why go to the barrel for an apple when you can get it off the tree. Here’s the tree: Adobe’s Design Center Video Workshop. The workshop includes tutorials on 47 […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Simple CSS Tutorial
Lately we’ve had some requests for CSS help here in Media Services. Apparently there are some classes here that have their students hand code CSS for various projects. Moreover, for anyone in the web design, communications or journalism worlds, it’s good to have some idea of what CSS is and what it can do. This […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Extracting Audio in iMovie
Let’s say, for example, you have to do a project about campus. You get a FlipCam from Media Services and you shoot some video. You record some voice-over and you’re ready to put your video together. But, when you look over your footage you find that the audio from the footage you shot of campus […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Shooting Video for iMovie
Using the right tools to edit your video is important, but even more important is capturing the best video possible, even before you start editing. A good editor can make a good movie from bad footage, but with good footage, he or she can make something great. In this short video tutorial, you can learn […]
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