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This tutorial shows you how to use iMovie '08 to add music to your movie or video. Background music can set the mood and tone of any movie you create, so have fun!

Adding sound effects is a great way to add meaning and punch to your movies. In this tutorial you'll learn how to use sound effects in iMovie.

iMovie allows the average computer user the ability to quickly make movies out of your digital video footage or home movies. This is not the most professional way to color correct your footage, but it should be sufficient for the average Mac user. Follow along and see how to adjust color using iMovie.

In this tutorial you'll see how to add stylish titles to you movies in iMovie '08. This is a quick and easy way to make your movies look more professional, and help you remember what it's about.

Once you've finished editing and creating your movie in iMovie '08, you'll probably want to share it with your other Apple products (iPhone, iPad, iPod, AppleTV) so you can watch it. See how to do this in this iMovie '08 tutorial.

When creating a slideshow in iPhoto '08, you can customize each slide and save the slideshow in your library. This tutorial goes over how to create and customize a slideshow.

iPhoto '08 has a great feature built in that allows for ultimate laziness in sharing photos. Ooops! We mean convenience... iPhoto '08 allows you to email photos to your friends without having to open your email until the VERY end.

In this tutorial you'll see how to turn your photos into greeting cards and postcards using iPhoto '08. A great way to do something fun with your vacation or party photos.

Most of the time, digital pictures do not come out perfectly. This tutorial shows you how to improve photos by fixing red eye and other common color correction options.

It's not as hard as you think to create your own monograms for your wedding invitations, napkins or whatever else you need. With so much needing to be controlled by others, just think how helpful it will be to have one more thing you can take care of yourself! See how to create monograms in MS Word.

This tutorial demonstrates a new way of working with fine lattices such as trees to create complex cut-outs quickly in FluidMask.

This tutorial is designed to get you started with compositing quickly in Toxik using the Reaction tool and Layout editor. This is great for anyone who wants to jump right in and start working in the software.

This two part video goes over using XML Conform workflows and Digital Intermediates workflows in Smoke. The videos are a touch dry, but they cover the material in a well paced and thorough presentation.

In this tutorial, Bert will show you quickly how to use a bunch of different layers to create a ray gun shooting and exploding it's target. It will help if you already have some Photoshop knowledge for this one.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make realistic looking neon tubes. The most popular use is of course, for neon signs, but feel free to branch out and get creative. It will be helpful if you have some previous Photoshop experience to follow this video.

In this tutorial, Bert will create diamonds using the filters in Photoshop. The key to this project, is learning how small changes in positioning and filter values, will create completely different looks.

It's been called the "Sin City" effect, and a myriad of other names, but really all you're doing is adding selected color to black and white photos or comic-type images. See how Bert suggests achieving this effect in his tutorial.

Bert demonstrates how to pull things and objects out of an image using Photoshop's Extract Tool.

The universal solvent takes center stage as Bert demonstrates how to create realistic looking water droplets and explains how in imaging it is important to study reality in order to re-create it.

Bert uses examples to explain the difference between layer masks and alpha channels. Both work the same way, but for a totally different purpose.

In this video, Dr. Brown, a senior art director at Adobe, shows you how to use the auto blend tool in Photoshop CS3. It's amazingly simple and yields great results.

Photoshop's Warp command transforms layers into a predefined shape. Bert Monroy used it on the glasses in Lunch in Tiberon, here he types the word "Digg" and demonstrates many of the effects you can create with it.

Everybody at some point in time wants to or has to make text that looks like ice. So, if you're doing it for fun or for a project, here's a tutorial to show you how to make ice text that is melting.

One of the great things about Photoshop is the ability to fake perspective and make things look 3-dimensional. In this tutorial Bert goes over using perspective and vanishing points.

Bert is here to show us how to create realistic rain in Photoshop, specifically the ripples and splashes you get on a lake or pool when it's raining out, and then a general rainy window.

This tutorial shows you how to use the vanishing point filter to easily move images around and automatically have them adjust to the proper size and angle.

In this tutorial, Bert shows you how to make a realistic 3D looking wine bottle, complete with label. This uses the 3D part of Illustrator and is great for those of you without access or time to use an actual 3D software package.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to use Illustrator to make cool and dramatic headlines. The main step, is changing the type into an outline, which is just a vector based image of the type. This allows you to easily manipulate the text as an object and do some cool things to your headline.

In this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn how to make interlocking patterns with perfect symmetry, for example holes cut into metal or reptile skin. Of course, the key to this is the interaction with light.

What lurks in the shadows? Is it something scary and frightening? Nothing so nefarious in this insightful episode of PixelPerfect in which Bert casts light upon the mysteries behind creating advanced shadow effects within Photoshop.

This "glow swirl" effect is doable via drawing a flashlight really fast at night and then taking snapshots of its path (we used to draw fun doodles and write our names in "glow" lighting with our roommates in college). However, since such night snapshots are hard to capture on camera, Photoshop can do you for you instead in far less time.

Mimicking reality in Photoshop is a pain, but it's certainly achievable and quite laudable if you do a fine job. If you would like to create lifelike water reflections using Photoshop, this tutorial is the place to go. Check out the video to learn how to create photo-realistic light reflections in water.

The brush engine was developed back in Photoshop 7 (before CS) and is what makes Photoshop a true painting program and revolutionized the way Photoshop works. In the longest episode of PixelPerfect yet, Bert explains and demonstrates the inner workings of the brush engine. This is a great tutorial for those that are new to Photoshop.

The universal solvent is back. It looms, floating in a condensed visible mass, then bursts from its vaporous state, streaking to the earth at teminal velocity. Those blurred droplets called rain are a pretty simple thing to create, it's just a couple of filters and you've got it. Bert takes it a few of steps further to create a whole stormy scene with rain, lightning and an ominous sky. Oh, and there's a pirate ship in there too.

Your name may not be forever minted in stone or gold for all of posterity to gaze at, but you can certainly bling up your family name by making your own name plaque using Photoshop. This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to put your name - or whatever word you want - in a shiny golden/wooden plaque with a brass plate. You'll be using filters as well as several other tools.

A very important thing to keep in mind when you're creating images from scratch or even putting things into existing images is the concept of perspective. Bert goes back to basics to teach this concept, starting with a horizon line and adherence to the rules of mother nature.

It might take Einstein to help explain the complex physics of bending light, but when it comes to bending pixels, it is an art commonly referred to in Photoshop as displacement. Displacement can let you use the lumonosity values of one image to bend the pixels of another; a "relativity" of sorts. Bert explains how this all works in this episode.

This tutorial shows you how to create a customized iDVD project using iDVD '08. It's a short video so it gives you a good overview of the basics, but get creative and branch out on your own.

iDVD '08 has some nice features that let you fine tune your DVD before you actually burn it to disc. This tutorial shows you how to burn your iDVD project onto the final DVD.

This tutorial shows you how to add additional menus and features to your customized DVD using iDVD. This is great for sub-menus and other things that may not be added automatically.