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Want to make some great looking satin silk on your computer screen? Watch this video to find out how using Adobe Photoshop.

Have a two picture of a landscape that you want to turn into one photo? This video will show you how to arrange two pictures into one by using one of one of Adobe Photoshop's most handy features: photomerge!

Want to create the surface of the moon on your computer screen? This tutorial will show you show to use Adobe Photoshop to make a planet.

Want to make a metal blob using Adobe Photoshop? This is a very cool how-to video for those into digital manipulation. This will teach you how to make liquid metal.

ParticleIllusion (pIllusion for short) is a stand-alone computer graphics application which allows users to create animated graphic bases on the particle system technique. In this particleIllusion video tutorial you will learn to import a background. The background could be still images and AVI files.

In this particleIllusion video tutorial you will learn how to render AVI and sequential PNG files. Learn to export the files with enabled Alpha Channel. This allows output of PNG files with transparency

If you have a group of large files that need to be sent to a client, you might want to compress it into one single file for easy access or even protect its content from outsiders with a password. This video will teach you how to create password-protected zip files with WinRAR. WinRAR provides full RAR and ZIP file support, and can decompress CAB, GZIP, ACE and other archive formats. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so...

Poser is a 3D rendering and animation software program optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional form. In this Poser 6 video tutorial you will learn how to add new figures. Learn how to change the default character to the "Ben" figure, and add "Katie" figure to the same scene. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

Moving the camera back and forth between different positions can be a troublesome task. In this Poser video tutorial you will learn how to use camera dots to record camera positions and then remove the dots. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

Animating characters in Poser is amazingly easy. In this video tutorial you will learn how to make characters walk in Poser. You'll see how to use the walk designer, create a walk path, and walk the character along the path. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

In this video tutorial you will learn how to perform single-frame head morphing. Learn to use the face room, adjust facial features with morph, fine-tune the adjustments, and apply it to the current model on stage. It's easy... and fun to do it too! Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

Do you want to turn yourself or someone into a 3D character? In this Poser video tutorial you will learn how to create faces from existing pictures. Learn how to create a model's facial features from a front and side photo, and render the face with photographic textures. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

You can manipulate other objects beside human figure objects in Poser. In this Poser video tutorial you will learn how to link imported objects to models using the Change Parent menu. Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to start the video. There is no sound, so you'll need to watch the pop-up directions.

Ever wonder how to get the audio file out of your favorite dvd? Find out how to use AoA Audio Extractor to extract audio from a video file. Video quality is poor on this demonstration.

Learn how to export your Camtasia projects in to Quicktime movies for easy sharing with colleagues and friends.

Have you been downloading or recording TV shows with your tuner card? Do you want to archive your collection of TV shows and free up space on your hard drive? In this video, CNET How-to Theater teaches you how to burn the shows to DVD.

Want to give your home-brewed DVDs and CDs a more professional look? You can do it easily simply by adding labels! This CNET video teaches you how to print labels on DVDs and CDs.

Do you have an iPod, and a bunch of music CDs? Ever wonder how to digitize the CDs into MP3 collections? Learn the easy way to rip songs out of your CDs in this CNET video.

Sharon Betts shows you how to change your Password in FirstClass. For those teachers who are not very computer savvy it is great because it has a step by step tutorial on how to change your password.

This video demonstrates how to capture a video of your screen without using any cameras. The video walks you through downloading and installing the right program and running the program to make your video.

This video shows how to reduces video size for uploading. This makes the video take less storage space on your computer.

There will be plenty of times that your movie footage, or video clips or images will need color adjustments. Watch and learn how to do color correction (especially for balancing white) using Final Cut Pro. Learn about indoor vs outdoor color temperatures.

This tutorial will give you a brief overview of how to apply different effects to your images or videos in Adobe Premiere Pro. Specifically, they go over applying color effects, but the process is the same for any effect you may choose. You won't need your speakers on to follow along: this video has no sound. Be sure to click video tutorial sections and click on the lesson.

Raptips.com has put together a video complication about a music making software called GarageBand. GarageBand is only available on Mac computers. It is a very easy to use and a fun program. This teaches you how to make your own songs and beats.

Do you ever get digital noise in dark suits or shadows? This tutorial will show you how to tone down the noise specifically in the shadows using Photoshop.

This is a great tutorial for commercial photographers because it will show you the steps needed to replace a monitor display within an image. Basically, lcd computer screens when photographed, often dont show their screen image, and this tutorial will show you how to replace it!

Yes, you read that right! There's a hidden space monkey screen option in Photoshop CS2 that will change the default image when Photoshop is loading. Watch this video and see just how to find it! The video was made around Easter, so it's a Photoshop Easter Hunt!

This tutorial will show you how to use the new Black & White adjustment layer found in Adobe Photoshop CS 3. You'll also get some cool tips on keeping or adding color to get a real pop to your pictures! If you watch the full video, the end has a section on creating a distressed edge. Lots to learn in this video!

This video will show you how to blur text using Photoshop without having to rasterize it. Rasterizing is an older process that used to be required for blurring, but is no more! This method, called blurry live type can be used in any version of Photoshop.

This tutorial will teach you how to brighten and revive under-exposed pictures by using the Histogram tool and the Highlight and Shadow adjustment tool in Photoshop CS. This is a pretty cool visualization of how to redistribute pixels and color correction.

We're not sure why you'd want to turn a picture of a sunny day into one of rain, but if you do, this is the tutorial for you! Learn how to simulate rain using Photoshop with this clear and concise video.

Learn how to create artificial fog out of cloud layers in Photoshop. Turn any day in to a gloomy foggy day with this trick, of course it will be easier if you start with an already "cloudy" picture. Well paced, and well articulated, this tutorial will be easy to follow.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to use the tools available in Adobe Photoshop to create fire without having to resort to plug-ins. A lot of tools are needed for this effect and some of them are the liquify command, gaussian blur, wind, rotating canvas back and forth and repeating filters. With so much covered, you'll be sure to learn something new from this video.

Some of you may be too young to remember television that didn't come in perfectly, but this tutorial will help recreate the effect. Watch and see how to add a tv scanline effect to an image using Adobe Photoshop.

This clear tutorial will explain how the sepia toning technique works and how to nondestructively convert a grayscale or black and white image to a sepia toned image. For the archivist in all of us, you'll have historical looking pictures in no time!

This is a tutorial from Jeff Bensch that has been customized by the creator to show you how to create vector based flames in Photoshop. Make sure to download the fonts from the links below the tutorial first. These are some cool flames for all you hot rod fanatics.

This tutorial will show you how to quickly use clouds and other tools to create a texture with some nice dimension to it. This is a great starter example, and we suggest you experiment with colors and variations of your own!

Don't you hate it when you go to print your term paper or document and find that paragraphs or sentences are cutoff? Well, this tutorial will show you how to link text together using Quark Express so each page will start and finish just where you want it to. A must for any page layout, magazine or project. Make sure you click on "video tutorial sections" in the top left corner and pick the lesson.

Color is an important part of any page or design layout and in this tutorial you'll learn how to open the color tool, append PMS colors and apply them to your QuarkXPress document. Make sure you click on "video tutorial sections" in the top left corner and pick the lesson.

You've found the coolest footage every but the soundtrack is terrible! This tutorial will show you how to remove an audio track from video footage using Adobe Premiere Pro. Ironically, this tutorial has no sound either! Be sure to click video tutorial sections and click on the lesson in the top left corner.