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This Lightroom tutorial is about a feature that a lot of people miss in the Develop module called Auto Sync. It comes in really handy when you're trying to work on multiple photos at the same time.

Learn how to save a custom print template in a format that would let you send it to a printer or some one else to print. Technically, there really is no way but in this week's Lightroom video I've got a workaround for you.

Managing Panoramas (henceforth known as panos) and HDR photos in Lightroom is an important step in making your life a lot easier if you like that type of photography. What happens after shooting a lot of either type of photography is that your library becomes really cluttered. As if the clutter wasn't bad enough, it just becomes flat-out difficult to start processing these types of photos. So instead of ditching Lightroom when you shoot at pano or HDR set, check out this week's video and give...

Here's a video on how to process your panos in Lightroom. Learn how to take those raw files and process them with a panorama in mind (it's really a lot like processing a regular photo with just a small change at the end). We'll process them in Lightroom and then take it through the Photomerge feature in Photoshop to finish things off.

Fortunately, Split Toning is really easy and, as you'll find out, after watching this video you'll know pretty much all there is to know about it.

Learn how to create a string of 3D, multi-colored Christmas lights and turn them into a custom pattern brush that you can draw with along any path.

Take a multi-layered document and give yourself a really simple way to view different combinations of different objects in Illustrator.

In this technique, we'll create a blend of 3D objects in Illustrator and export it as an animated Flash file. We'll create a series of objects that emulate the rotation of an item through space. We'll create one 3D object and duplicate it, adjust the 3D settings, and then blend the two.

In this episode I show you how to create and utilize smart playlists. You may be asking yourself, what exactly is a "smart" playlist? A smart playlist is a playlist that is constructed based on parameters that you set via drop down menus in iTunes' smart playlist dialogue box. Here we go.

Watch and learn how to make an R&B beat.

A quick tutorial that shows you how to bleep out words in Final Cut Pro.

This tutorial tells you how to desaturate the image and leave a single color using Final Cut Pro.

This quick and simple tutorial shows you how to add text to a video in Final Cut Pro.

Andy Coon made this tutorial so users of Final Cut Pro can learn how to blur out images so they won't get sued.

Learn how Jerad creates the 300 Movie Effect in Photoshop Camera Raw.

You know that special faded, blurred edge effect you get when you take glamour shots at a photo studio? While it looks all professional and difficult to pull off, all it really takes is some basic Photoshop tweaking.

Create a cool backlight as you see in the screenshot using Photoshop.

Add some pop to the sky in your images using Photoshop.

The one thing missing from you baseball card collection is card of yourself when you were playing in your little league baseball game. Maybe you want your son or daughter to be immortalized forever, just like the professionals. Photoshop can help. This video tutorial will show you how to create a sports card in Photoshop. This applies not only to baseball, but also hockey, football, soccer, basketball, etc., etc. This makes a great gift for any sports collector! Now you just have to find...

See how to add grungie borders to your images to give them a cool effect in Photoshop. If your borders are white and the background of the background of the website or page you are uploading them to is also the borders will blend in giving it an even cooler look. This is a great Photoshop picture effect!

Learn how to mask a subject out of an image and transfer them to a new background using Photoshop.

Fix up a dull sky by replacing it with a new one!! This Photoshop tutorial shows you how.

This tutorial shows you how to use Photoshop to add motion (or motion blur) to an image.

This tutorial shows you how to use the color categories feature in Outlook 2007 to manage email.

his video is on Dspeech, a freeware tool that uses Microsoft's SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface) to convert text to spoken word. What's special about it is it lets you make an MP3 of the text, so you can listen to it on your computer, in you car or on your MP3 player. It's great for listening to notes.

Truecrypt 5.0 adds many new features, most importantly Windows system partition encryption. To put it in slightly inaccurate layman's terms, this means encrypting your entire C: drive. Even if you already write your sensitive data to an encrypted space, files are sometimes squirreled away in unencrypted temp space or in the page file where they may be recovered. Using Truecrypt to encrypt your Windows XP system partition will help eliminate this problem.Update: I did some more testing after...

Metadata is data about data. Different file formats store extra data about themselves in different ways. This video will cover metadata that can be used during a forensic investigation, namely MS Word doc metadata and the metadata stored in a Jpeg's Exif data.

THC-Hydra is a remote dictionary attack tool from The Hacker?s Choice group. It?s a well made tool that supports a lot of protocols and options. The following protocols are supported: TELNET, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP-PROXY, SMB, SMBNT, MS-SQL, MYSQL, REXEC, RSH, RLOGIN, CVS, SNMP, SMTP-AUTH, SOCKS5, VNC, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, PCNFS, ICQ, SAP/R3, LDAP2, LDAP3, Postgres, Teamspeak, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, LDAP2, Cisco AAA.

A tutorial on making an .iso file using Infrarecorda or Magic ISO software.

This FXhome tutorial shows you how to use the muzzle flash engine in EffectsLab & VisionLab. It covers potential uses, anatomy of a muzzle flash, canvas controls and toolbox attributes.

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a an often-missed tool in After Effects (Grow Bounds) that can help you out in a pinch, by expanding the boundaries of your footage.

In this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you an often-missed feature in After Effects that can help you when trying to create transparency in an image by using the layers below as the source of that transparency.

In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Tony Ross, you will learn to create an Action/ Title Safe template in Flash. Use this as a guide when making animations or motion graphics going to DVD or TV. Using rectangle tool, transform window, saving layers as a guide, and learn to save a document as a template.

In this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a menu item for speeding up the process of copying expressions to other layers, without typing or altering the current values in After Effects.

In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates another, more advanced method for creating shimmering glitter particles using Trapcode's Particular in After Effects. The main advancement is the implementation of 3d rotation of the glitter particles, as well as using expressions to convert the rotation of the particles in all 3 axis to drive a greyscale map, which in turn is used to color the particle using colorama and create the shimmer effect when the particles face the...

reative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern demonstrates a cool way of designing a text title for a Telenovela soap opera opener using Illustrator open type font. Part two continues to animate the vector shapes using After Effects and finalizing the design for our Telenovela opener.

Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune demonstrates how to use the tools available in particleIllusion and After Effects to get a particle emitter source to track an element in a video clip. Part One details how to animate the Layer Offset in particleIllusion to eliminate motion in the clip that is caused by movement of the camera that filmed the scene. Part Two concerns the animation of the emitter itself so that it accurately tracks the video element. art Three shows how to mask the emitter layer...

In this 2 part tutorial, Michael Park will demonstrate how to create a shotgun blast at the camera using 3D rendered particles and distortion trails along with some 2D footage to create a convincing effect. In part 1 of this tutorial, we will use 3ds Max to create the 3D shotgun pellet geometry and material, as well as the distortion trails to be later used in the After Effects composition. In part two Michael will add the 3D footage together with 2D footage in After effects and use different...

Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz introduces you to Shape Layers, one of the most powerful features in Adobe After Effects CS3.

In this Apple Motion tutorial Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen effect using generators, filters, masking, vector masks, behaviors and keyframing inside Apple Motion.