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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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 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...

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...

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