For a number of years, Lynda.com‘s online tutorials have been AU’s primary resource for software training. These excellent online training tutorials offer thousands of hours of instruction for AU faculty, students and staff. AU has a multi-year license to provide these, free of charge, to the AU community, whether they are on campus or off. […]
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Todd’s Thoughts: Web 2.0 and the Redefintion of Everything
Ok, so maybe this should be Todd’s Tips, but this is something worth thinking about. With the wild connectivity supplied to us by Web 2.0 technology forces us to re-define our notions of communication and information. As we link, we link ourselves to other people and ultimately to the Web itself. And, as Professor Michael […]
Continue readingDMS Help: The “Sin City Effect”
The so-called “Sin City effect” is a color-correction technique in which a range of colors is left saturated with color while the rest of an image (can be still or video) is completely desaturated to black and white. The effect is called the “Sin City effect” because it was used widely in Robert Rodriguez’ film […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Cool Text Effects in Photoshop
Is your text feeling a little flat in your latest Photoshop project? Feel like your words need a bit more flare? Here’ s your answer: 50 Photoshop tutorials that show you how to bring new life to your text. Check them out and make your text demand attention.
Continue readingDMS Help: Creating Grunge Effects in Photoshop
The grunge style is in. Contemporary design is loaded with images that seem to have been left out in the rain. Even so the grunge style is often very visually appealing. But how do you create these effects? Actually, the grunge look is easier than you think. Here’s a list of 40 great tutorials on […]
Continue readingWhat is AR?
“AR” is an acronym for “augmented reality.” For those who don’t know AR is adding digital images, text or information to a real-time image/video of the real world. Take the photo to the left, for example. The iPhone user is pointing the camera on his phone at a building. The application then provides the rest […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Learn Any Adobe Product on Adobe TV
Need to learn how to use an Adobe product fast? No problem. Just tune in to Adobe TV. I know, sounds weird right. But it’s not. In fact, it’s really quite awesome. Adobe TV is a massive online repository of videos about Adobe’s multimedia production software. Not only are there a HUGE number of tutorials […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: Flash, pt 5 – Getting Started with Action Script
Action Script 3.0 (AS3) is Adobe’s programming language. It is used in the applications Flash and Flex to develop interactive web applications, interactive animations and games. AS3 is a complete and fully functional object-oriented programming language which can handle a vast array of interactivity-related tasks such as handling key stroke and mouse click events to […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: Flash, pt 4 – Getting Started with Animation
Once you get to the point where you can draw in Flash with some competency you need to learn how to animate. For those of you who are AU students, the best place to go for this type of training is Lynda.com. But, if you’re not or you just want to learn how to do […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Regression – Tour of a Mac
It just occurred to me that I have spent the last year posting all sorts of articles and tutorials on how to use all this high-level software and I have never once posted anything on how to use a Mac. I know, I know. Macs are simple. Easier than PC’s in this author’s opinion. Still, […]
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