Animoto.com is an online, award winning slideshow making site. You get a free “Lite” account for making 30 second videos – which honesty, is often as long as you WANT to make them. If you pay $5/month or $30 per year, you can have full-length slideshows and for $3 you can download it as a 420p mp4 video, $6 for 1020.
Check out this drag and drop example I made – literally drag and drop! Good Morning.
How about free Photoshop brushes? Thanx to friend Cassie Nii for the tip!
Step 1: Download the brushes you want from noupe.com. http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/80-all-you-need-photoshop-brushes.html
Step 2: Drop them into your Photoshop/preset/brushes folder by following this path to get to the brushes folder:
Step 3: Add them to your brushes palette. Here’s how: http://myphotoshopbrushes.com/install_brushes These instructions are from myphotoshopbrushes.com which has a ton other stuff too - free layer styles, brushes, shapes.
Want free video clips? Here’s an article by Topher Welsh with links to 14 sources to get them from. The green screen plate samples at the bottom of the page are interesting and you’re welcome to try them out. I got some from FreeFootage and they’re nice. Not sure how I’ll use them but I got ‘em when I do i 8-).
http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/14-free-stock-footage-and-green-screen-plate-resources/
The Photoexels site has a slew of good tutorials you might want to explore. It’s has links to a bunch of really good tutorials.
http://www.photoxels.com/digital-photography-tutorials.html
If you’re interested in photographing your pets here are two great web articles full of tips for that! Good basic tips with examples.
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/9-pet-photography-tips
HMAUS, the Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users’ Society is the Oahu Apple Users Group. They have a bunch of free handout tutorials you are welcome to download.
Go to http://public.me.com/hmauscloud . Click the MacLearn link, then a topic folder. Click any handout, then the Download buttons when they appear.
Included are the basic Mac tutorials for Mac 101, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and iWork Pages, Numbers and Keynote. There are some assorted handouts for photos such as Picnik, Tabblo a free photosharing site, and how to take Screen Captures on a Mac.
If you’re interested in HMAUS workshops which we have about once a month or more, check the calendar at http://hmaus.org.
If you’ve ever seen Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski or Corey Baker or any of those NAPP gurus’ videos you know they’re really good. If you’ve never seen them check them out. They have a bunch of videos for Photoshop (Cs3 and CS4), Photography (Joe McNally), Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Photoshop Elements – from beginner to advanced – all 3-8 min or so each.
Now the free part – you can view the first 3 videos for ALL of these topics and their 6-12 or so subtopics for free. So go poke around – you won’t get it all but you will get a lot. They’re very well done! I like to use a headset – it goes in better when they’re talking d-i-r-e-c-t-l-y to my brain.
http://www.kelbytraining.com/player/index.html
Cost? They have a subscription program for like $199/yr. augh. As a NAPP member and with a special I got it for $159. When you figure a 6 hour workshop costs from $100 – $200, it’s a good spend. I’m going to try really hard to watch most of them so I do like 45 min or an hour several times a week. You’re welcome to come watch with me – I usually do it around 11:30 – midnite but I’d be happy to change my schedule for you 8-) But really, if there’s a set you’re very interested in, let me know and I’ll meet you….if I know you..and trust you…and it’s day time. I don’t carry a lot of money you know.
Hot tips from friends – Katie found this …
There were so many good shortcuts in the previous posts, it was a bit overwhelming. So I thought you might want some memory help.
No sorry, not giving out extra brains, I’m running a half quart low myself. BUT here are two handouts to help you. Print them and tape to the inside and outside of a file folder and Read the rest of this entry ?
Now that you can take pictures with your phone and HD movie cameras are reasonably priced, sooner or later you’re gonna stick your footage into a great movie. It’s actually easy….Apple easy! Read the rest of this entry ?
When your main task is editing a whole photo (brightness, straighten, effects) you may want to try a very simple online service – www.picnik.com. No need to even register, just use it! Read the rest of this entry ?
