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This tutorial explains how to import photos from your digital camera into iPhoto '08.

Photo albums and cards can get to be a boring way to display or share photos. This tutorial shows you how to create a calendar out of your photos using iPhoto '08. Hang it on your own wall at work or home, or send it to grandparents and family members. You will have to pay for Apple to print and ship your finished product.

Aperture's zoom tool makes it easy to view and edit your images up close and in great detail.

Using Aperture's quick preview, you can see high quality, rapid-fire previews of your full resolution files.

Aperture's light tables give you a completely unique way to view and organize your images.

Aperture's RAW fine tuning controls let you adjust the subtler aspects of how RAW files are decoded and rendered.

Aperture's white balance adjustment helps you improve the quality of colors in your images, correcting for a camera that wasn't properly calibrated for the lighting conditions under which it was used.

One of the advantages of shooting in RAW format is that you can often recover overexposed or blown highlights. Aperture provides two easy to use controls for restoring detail to areas in a RAW image that have been overexposed to complete white.

Aperture's levels adjustment provides a refined level of control over your tonal corrections.

Aperture's highlights and shadows adjustment tool provides an easy way for you to brighten or reduce the brightness of highlights and shadows without affecting other aspects of your images.

Aperture's new retouch brush makes it simple to remove dust, blemishes, spots, and other unwanted elements from an image by simply brushing over them.

Aperture 2 includes new vignette and devignette adjustments that allow you to add soft, shadowed edges to your images for an artistic effect or to correct for unwanted darkened edges of images.

Aperture's extensible architecture supports third-party export plug-ins that make it easy to export your photos directly to various web publishing sites, print service providers, and other software applications. You can find many of these plug-ins on www.apple.com.

You can easily integrate images from your Aperture library into your Keynote '08 presentations using the Keynote media browser.

iWeb '08 introduces my albums templates. My album templates is a fast way to create and navigate web photo galleries. This tutorial shows you how to use the my albums templates and create a photo album page for your website in iWeb.

By creating a blog, you can publish an online journal about anything you want. This iLife tutorial shows you how to create a blog to put on your website. iWeb makes it easy to add a blog to your site by providing templates. Learn how to create, add and delete blog entries in this iWeb tutorial.

In this series of 4 podcasts, I will go over the major updates to Final Cut Pro version 6.0.2. In this specific episode, I cover the changes to the reconnect dialog box and also changes to how clips in the trash bin act.Part 2 will show you the changes to snapping in shuffle edit and how to toggle on/off clip labels.Part 3 will show you the changes to nested sequences and the new zooming functions.Part 4 show you some of the smaller (yet important) changes in this version of Final Cut Pro.

This 3D software tutorial shows you how to vertex color paint in modo 302. Learn how to use the modo tool pipe to control and paint vertex color maps.

Do you need to print resolution renders outputed from modo 302? You will want to watch this tutorial as they discuss some basic concepts regarding resolution and irradiance cache as they are impacted at increased resolution. There are some common misconceptions about print resolution in modo 302 that are resolved as well. So watch and learn how to optimize a scene for print resolution rendering.

The new and improved Repeat last command and the much anticipated Headless modo are covered in this modo 302 tutorial! modo_cl has been proven to work nicely with render controllers such as Butterfly NetRender and modo mojo! Learn how to use the repeat last command and how to use headless modo (no interface). modo 302 is a service update, free for all modo 301 users.

Learn how to use the new displacement ratio tool in modo 302. The Displacement Ratio render option optimizes projects which utilize large displacement mapped surfaces such as ground planes or water. modo 302 is a service update, free for all modo 301 users.

This 3D software tutorial shows you how to synchronize viewports in modo 302.Get an update to the viewport system providing a flexible system for synchronizing viewports across multiple tabbed layouts. Good and good for you. 302 is a free service update for all 301 users.

The modo camera and rendering system is incredibly powerful and flexible. This new film back preset options helps you to quickly harness that power for your specific target medium. Need to render out to 2k Academy 35mm film? No problem. Imax? Sure thing. Did we mention this is an XML driven preset system so you can add your own? See how to use the film back preset render options in this modo 301 tutorial.

This 3D software tutorial shows you how to use the edge split command in modo 302. The Edge Split command is a basic and yet very useful command to segment a mesh or create smoothing breaks.

This 3D software tutorial shows you how to animage with the vertex map deformer in modo 302. The vertex map deformer provides a simple method for accurate control over subtle organic animations. In this video we utilize the deformer to create the "jiggle" in a gelatin desert. Yum! modo 302 is free to all registered modo 301 users.

This modo 302 tutorial explores re-use of existing content in order to create a plate of jello which will later be animated with the vertex map deformer. During the modeling of the jello we employ the enhanced Edge Extend too from modo 302. Modo 302 is free to all registered modo 301 users.

This modo 302 video shows briefly how to use the enhanced Symmetry Fix tool which now has a topology traversal method. This new method dramatically improved the ability to heal meshes that have become asymmetrical. modo 302 is a free service update for all modo 301 users.

Luxology community member Greg Leuenberger takes us on a tour of the good ship, customizing modo 301. Learn how to download and add a script and then bind it to a hand-dandy pie menu all within modo 301.

This four part tutorial explains the process of leveraging image Synth to create a seamless, tiling image of bricks in Photoshop. The tips and techniques learned in this series will prove useful for any number of texturing challenges. Learn how to create seamless textures using the imageSynth Photoshop plug-in and this tutorial.

This 3D software tutorial teaches you the power and simplicity of the group mask in modo 301. When you hear the term mask, you probably think of layer masks, but group masks are different and more complex. See how to use a single procedural, image or vertex map texture to modulate multiple complex material and texture sets in modo 301.

This 3D software tutorial provides a couple gems on how to improve rendering speeds when working with transparent materials such as glass and indirect illumination in modo 301. Learn how to use the irradiance cache (IC) output buffers and get a little insight into modo rendering.

This video explains how to create a translucent material by creating a paper lantern in modo 301. Along the way you might pick up some basic modeling and texturing skills as well! Work on creating and applying translucent materials in this modo 301 tutorial.

Modo community member Roger Harris explores his techniques for modeling, texturing and lighting a glass bottle in modo 203. If you are new to modo, this tutorial series should help you learn the basics of the software by taking you all the way through a project. Learn basic modeling, texturing and lighting in this modo tutorial.

This 3D software tutorial shows how to combine the power of mesh and image based sculpting outlining a solid workflow for modo 301. The process begins with pure mesh sculpting for medium level detail, uses mesh to mesh baking to create a sculpt image, adds further detail with image sculpting and finished with fine detail via a bump layer. Learn how to sculpt in layers in this modo 301 tutorial.

This short modo 301 tutorial gives a quick explanation of the Parametric Ink when used in Displacement mode. Modo's parametric ink allows you to modulate the color of the ink depending on a number of 3D parameters, including displacement.

Sculpting UV's? Absolutely. You can pre-process a mesh with any modeling tools before you lay down UVs in modo 301. This is an incredible time saver and brings UV editing into the 3rd dimension! See how to UV sculpt in this modo 301 tutorial.

This is a 3 part series produced by modo community member Paul Hartsuyker. The series was created in response to a challenge presented to the modo community to model a complex folded die cut package. Follow along with this modo tutorial and learn how to create advanced package designs like this die cut package.

The new Import Reference feature in modo 301 allows you to import meshes or entire projects into a master project. This is a powerful and efficient workflow enhancement for modo 301. The import reference system provides a powerful assembly based workflow as you will see in this tutorial.

This 3d modeling software tutorial shows you how to disable the channel controls in modo 301. If you are a pure modeler in modo 301 you may not want to have the animation control widgets on your user interface. This video will show you a quick and simple way to "clean up" your modo UI.

Symmetry allows "mirrored" modeling, painting and sculpting in modo 301. This video examines how to activate symmetry and shows the results of using symmetry to model in modo 301. This is a great way to save time and model accurately.