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.
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DMS 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 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 [Awesome] Help –
Watch this and tell me it’s not an awesome intro. Any interest in learning how to do this? Or maybe you’d like to learn how to add amazing special effects to your PREEXISTING film. Or maybe you need to spice up your motion graphics portfolio? Either way, you MUST see Video Copilot (the video above […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Awesome Photoshop Effects to Jazz Up Your Project
Photoshop CS5 (academic price): $250 Stock photo of a blonde holding back her hair: $5 Taking the time to check out the tutorial below on how to spice up the photo of the blonde: $0 + 60 minutes Putting this image up on the board during project presentations in your class (and consequently showing up […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Learn HTML and CSS. Now!
Kind of a sad state of affairs, no? I think one thing we can take away from this image is the idea that there are so many WYSIWYG applications out there that actually writing HTML code has become a sort of lost art. But it shouldn’t be. HMTL (Hypertext Markup Language) and its companion CSS […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Action Script 3.0 Tutorials for Flash
One of the most difficult things about using Flash can be adding interactivity. Animation is easy, more so in Flash than After Effects. But when it comes in interactivity in Flash users often find themselves quickly mired in Action Script. Adobe’s latest iteration of Action Script, 3.0, is nearly a misnomer. Gone are the days […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Learn to Shoot Good Video
Have you ever felt like this when you finish a video? Felt like you’re carrying the corpse of your dead idea? Editing can obviously be a big part of making a good video, but before you ever even get to the editing suite, there’s a lot you can do to make your video amazing. You […]
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 […]
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