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If you're doing any type of compositing that includes live footage, there's a good chance you have a blue or green screen background that needs to be removed. This tutorial shows you just how to key out footage using Adobe Premiere Pro. Make sure you click on "video tutorial sections" in the top left corner and pick the lesson.

Rules below may not make sense if you're new to QuarkXPress, but it's basically a way of setting conditions or rules for paragraph attribute that fall BELOW the selected text. Learn just how to use the rules below option in this silent tutorial. Make sure you click on "video tutorial sections" in the top left corner and pick the lesson.

This is a quick tutorial that shows you how to import Adobe Illustrator files into Maya. If you're going to use your illustrator files in Maya, make sure the fonts can be exported because they won't all work.

This tutorial is using text imported from Illustrator, but the ideas will work for any text curves or curves that you want to extrude into 3 dimensional objects. Learning how to extrude is a must for Maya beginners.

This tutorial covers some very basic elements of Maya, but if you haven't used the software and plan to do polygonal modeling, then watch and learn how to manipulate polygons using edges, faces and other components. A great tutorial for beginner modelers!

If you want to turn a font into a connected font you will need to break the word apart, and then connect each letter. This is good for creating cursive text or just an artistic effect. Watch and see just how to connect scripts using Illustrator.

Did your child come home upset that they didn't get a gold star in class today? Well, now you can make them their own award. Watch and learn how to make a golden award badge. Be creative and make silver and bronze too! Perfect for teachers and parents.

It is possible to use the type tool to make text flow around a shape, or a path. This is a useful thing to know for any layout creation. Watch and see how to type along a path in Adobe Illustrator.

Learn how to use the page turn effect and apply it to an entire sequence or piece of footage to create a flipbook animation in After Effects.

This video shows you the different ways to select edges when using the Modeler in LightWave. It's a quick tutorial but a good demonstration of what the tool can do. Its a bit small to see exactly what keys are clicked, but if you are familar with LightWave, it should be helpful.

The node editor in LightWave allows you to create procedural 2 dimensional textures. This is better than normal mapping because it can be directly applied to UV's. Trust us, this is a good thing to know how to do once you start animating textured objects!

This tutorial shows you how to model a railroad track (or rollercoaster track) using Softimage(XSI) 3D software. We're not sure what you'll need a railroad track for, but if you do, this video is perfect for you.

This is one of the longer Photoshop tutorials but it goes over a lot of good tricks to enhance portraits. Some tools included are Liquify, adding catch lights, and skin tone adjustments by the numbers. See how to make every school photo or family portrait picture perfect! You can even make everyone smiling.

Maybe you don't have the best camera, or the best flash, but for whatever reason, you have photos with all your subjects suffering from red eye. Watch and learn how to use Photoshop Elements to get the red out without making people look weird.

This Flash tutorial gives detailed steps for creating and animating a character.

In this series of online video tutorials you'll learn how to use Reason 3.0 music recording software. Expert Jerus Arte demonstrates how to use the program, from installing it on your computer and setting it up with the right preferences, how to control the master volume, and how to use features like the NN-19, the NN-XT, the Dr, Rex loop player, and the Redrum machine. He shows you how to use effects like the compressor and reverb, and how to mix down your song into a format that can be burned...