Software: Page 182

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to create an outward explosion, useful if you want to blow out windows or doors. Also create cool glowing flame effects for added realism. Make sure you have or get some fire/explosion footage to use for your effect.

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to create a voyage tracking animation. This is the same thing you see when you're on an airplane and the screen shows you how far you've come and how far you have left to go. It's also a popular techinique used in movies to show where characters are travelling and the pasage of time. This is a very simple tutorial that's great for After Effects beginners.

Learn to change the color of someone's eyes to almost anything in a still image in this Photoshop CS2 tutorial.

Learn to smooth someone's face out in Photoshop. Remove blemishes, freckles and more from a still image! This is a very common use for Photoshop but it's usually important in film and photography to make your subject look their best.

This is a very basic split screen technique. It can be useful in many ways, and is very easy to master. See how to use it in this After Effects tutorial. The first example footage is dark so it's a bit hard to follow but the second example is much better and some good tips are given.

In this After Effects tutorial you'll learn how to make it look as if a knife is flying through the air towards someone, and almost hits them. If you want, feel free to make it hit them.

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to shatter a mirror or any other glass surface.

In this After Effects you'll learn how to make a muzzle flash. If you want, you can do his other tutorial to follow through with the mirror smashing, but it's not necessary.

Every time you place an image in InDesign, chances are you have to execute a fitting command to make it fit in the frame or area that you specified. In this video of the Creative Suite Podcast Terry White will show you ways to do it most efficiently. You'll also see how to better integrate the Bridge into your workflow.

In this Podcast you'll see how to make a form using Adobe InDesign CS2 and then export it as a PDF file. After your form is in PDF form, you can open it in Acrobat 7 Professional and create fields on top of the PDF. This enables users to fill out the form right inside their web browsers with the Free Adobe Reader. Check out this video and learn how to do it now!

This video shows you how to create and update a table of contents for one or more documents in InDesign. You learn how to manage formatting options and how to hide text that needs to appear in a table of contents but not on the referenced document page. Check out this cool video from David Blatner now!

Creating footnotes could be troublesome. But not in InDesign CS3. This video shows you how to insert footnotes in InDesign, including how to manage options for numbering, formatting, and layout.

This video shows you how to apply opacity effects to an object in InDesign, such as drop shadow, directional feather, and gradient feather. You learn how to separately control the opacities of stroke, fill, and text in an object, and create an object style from you transparency effect.

This video shows you how to create and apply table styles and cell styles, which are new features of InDesign CS3. This is great because it allows you to save all your hard work as a table template that you can use again.

This video shows you how to create, edit, and delete header rows and footer rows in a table in InDesign. The exercise files in this tutorial use special fonts, including Memphis LT Std Bold and Bell Gothic Std Light. If you do not have these fonts installed on your computer, please substitute them with a font of your choice.

This video shows you how to organize information in an InDesign table. You learn how to select parts of a table, control the table layout, select and format text in a table, and manage table options (such as borders, fills, headers, and footers). Check out this video by Anne-Marie Concepcion now!

This video shows you how to use the Text Wrap panel to make text automatically flow around pictures or other objects in InDesign. You also learn how to control the way text on document pages interacts with items on master pages. Check out this cool video created by David Blatner now!

This video shows you how to use the new variables feature in InDesign to create running headers and footers. The exercise files in this tutorial use special fonts, including Memphis LT Std Bold and Bell Gothic Std Light. If you do not have these fonts installed on your computer, please substitute them with a font of your choice .

This video shows you how to control character and paragraph formatting using the Control panel in InDesign. You learn how to save specific formatting as a style, set optical margin alignment, and create even spacing throughout a paragraph. David Blatner talks pretty fast so be ready to pay attention.

This video shows you how to use layers in InDesign to organize and control overlapping objects. You learn how to create layers, put objects on layers, and manage layer options. Check out this video created by David Blatner now!

Objects are important building blocks in InDesign. This video shows you how to create and manage the four basic types of objects in InDesign: filled shapes, graphics frames, text frames, and vector graphics. Check out this video created by Anne-Marie Concepcion now!

This video shows you how to create a new document in InDesign, specify values for document features (including bleed and slug), and save a set of values as a document preset. You also learn how to navigate using the Pages panel.

This video shows you how to use and organize panels, customize keyboard shortcuts, customize menus, and use workspaces in InDesign. You also learn about new features in InDesign CS3 by using the workspaces called "New And Improved In CS3". Check out this video created by Colin Fleming now!

One of the easiest ways to allow readers to search through your documents is by using an index. This video shows you how to create an index for a document in InDesign, and how to manage formatting options. Check out this cool video created by David Blatner now!

This video shows you how to synchronize master pages, styles, and swatches in InDesign. This will help you maintain a consistent look and feel across different documents. Check out this cool video created by David Blatner now!

This video shows you how to create and edit a JDF (job definition format) in Acrobat to automate the print production process. You'll learn how to effectively submit a newsletter to a print provider. Check out this video created by Adam Pratt now!

In this InDesign video tutorial you will learn to add single & double page spreads. Learn also how to delete and reorder pages. All you need to do is to click and drag!

Numbering hundreds of pages manually is the least thing you want to do, especially if you are using desktop publishing software like InDesign. In this InDesign CS2 video tutorial you will learn to add auto page numbering. The example shows you how to create a 10-page document, and edit the master pages.

In this InDesign video tutorial you will learn to link text boxes to let the content flow between the boxes. This is a nice trick to let you have a better control over your text on a page. Experiment with different box sizes to get the effect you want!

Don Schechter demonstrates how to capture your footage from your camera to your computer and log it for easy access later on for Final Cut Pro. Logging clips allows you to organize your footage without having to waste hard drive space.

This demonstrates how to add video in MS Word. This is a great tutorial for beginners.

OCR is usually a bad word to most computer users, but in Acrobat it's the next best thing to sliced bread. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional not only employs Optical Character Recognition for your text, it does Page Recognition to preserve the geometry of your pages. Everything stays in place and your paper documents become searchable, reusable text!

Strapped for time? Learn how to quickly format a Microsoft Publisher document so it looks like your other word processing files.

This tutorial shows you how to make a vegas style sign where lightbulbs turn on and off in sequence around the outside of a shape. Using simple photoshop files, create an animated billboard of a T.

Learn how to convert between 60i fps to 24P fps footage. This technique will also work for PAL to NTSC. This is not sexy, but very needed for the everyday conversions.

Jayse Hansen demonstrates how to create graphic elements that will grow in After Effects. Now we have a step by step tutorial. More experienced users are welcome to skip around using the included menu. Using simple masking techniques doesn't always do the trick, this in depth tutorial gives you some better techniques.

Expressing the camera: animating along a path. Rick Gerard presents a five minute tutorial movie as the second in a series that teaches basic After Effects Camera animation. In this example you'll learn how to simplify animating a camera over a still image and how to orient the camera along a path using expressions to gain complete control.

Is your webpage dull and uninteresting? How about adding a Flash movie to your page? In this video Terry White will teach you how to use Dreamweaver to do just that.

This video shows you how to style text using the CSS panel, instead of using the Property inspector in Dreamweaver CS3. You'll also learn how to tackle cross-browser CSS rendering issues using CSS Advisor. Check out this cool tutorial from Joseph Lowery now!

This video shows you how to add form fields to a form laid out in a table in Dreamweaver CS3. You use text fields and a menu to gather user information, populate a menu with values, and add a button to submit information.