- How to Adjust Your Printer Settings to Get Great Photos
- Apr 13, 2007
- Photo printers have a number of options available to assist with getting top-notch photo prints, but they don't always make the choices clear. This chapter covers how to select the correct options in your printer driver. If you've ever been frustrated trying to figure out your printer driver options or you just couldn't get a print that looked right, this chapter is for you.
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- How To Buy and Rent Media To Play on Your Apple TV
- May 2, 2008
- In this excerpt from The Apple TV Pocket Guide, Second Edition, author Jeff Carlson tells you how to buy cool stuff to watch on your Apple TV using either your computer or the Apple TV itself.
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- How To Create Final Cut Pro Effects Using iMovie
- Oct 22, 2004
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- How to Create Scripts for Online Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer
- Oct 5, 2007
- Digital forms expert J.P. Terry shows you how to improve the functionality and usability of your online forms through scripting.
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- How To Get Your Hands on Good Digital Images
- Sep 15, 2006
- While Photoshop is a great tool for a lot of tasks, most of them center around the sizing, manipulation, and processing of digital images. While their contents may vary, all digital images are essentially the same: They are composed of pixels that contain color and luminance information. Photoshop's powerful features will allow you to adjust those pixels to better match your needs. While the destination may be the same, the path your digital images take to get inside of Photoshop will vary. Some may start out as digital images acquired with a still camera, while others may get loaded via a scanner. You may also find yourself turning to online resources to find specialized images. In this sample chapter, you'll take a look at the many ways you can acquire digital images.
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- How to Make the Most of the Internet on Your iPhone
- Feb 16, 2012
- With your iPhone, all the information you could possibly want is there, right in your hands and in the most updated form; you just need to get it. This chapter shows you how.
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- How to Make Tonal Corrections in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta
- Mar 23, 2007
- Tonal corrections are those adjustments and changes you make to the brightness and contrast of your image. For years, Photoshop's workhorse tonal-correction tools have been the Levels control and the Curves dialog box, both of which can be applied either destructively or as adjustment layers. The Levels control remains untouched in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, but Adobe has made major changes to both the Curves and Brightness/Contrast tools. Ben Long takes you through these new features in this sample chapter.
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- How to Produce a Virtual Drum Track with Logic Pro X
- Feb 12, 2014
- In Logic Pro X, you can speed up the process of producing drum tracks by taking advantage of the new Drummer feature along with its companion software instrument, Drum Kit Designer. In this lesson, you will produce a virtual drum track to start producing a new imaginary indie-rock song.
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- How to Shoot DV Outdoors Without Movie Lights
- Jan 14, 2005
- It's not always possible to use fancy movie lighting when you're shooting your amateur videos. Thankfully, there are ways to work with natural light to provide quality video lighting for your digital videos. Find out how in this article by Gerald Everett Jones.
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- How to Shop on Your Kindle Fire
- Feb 4, 2013
- This chapter shows you how to use the Shop app to buy a variety of things right from your Kindle Fire with a few taps.
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- How to Undo Any Change at Any Time in Photoshop Lightroom
- Oct 12, 2007
- Producing good digital images can require a lot of steps, but the occasional "oops" doesn't have to put you back at the starting point. Scott Kelby explains how to undo those little errors.
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- How to Use Lightroom's Catalog Export and Import Features
- Nov 30, 2007
- Martin Evening shows step by step how to import/export Lightroom catalogs from one computer to another (for instance, from a desktop computer to a laptop and vice versa).
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- How to Use Mail and Calendar on the iPhone
- Nov 9, 2007
- Gadget guru Chris Breen offers his best tips for using Apple's Mail and Calendar apps with your iPhone.
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- How to Use Photoshop Elements to Remove Glare from Glasses
- Oct 5, 2007
- In this tutorial, Matt Kloskowski describes step by step how to remove annoying reflections from a subject's eyeglasses.
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- How to View YouTube Videos From Your iPhone
- Sep 28, 2007
- Scott Kelby and Terry White save you a trip to the computer by teaching you how to access your favorite YouTube content directly from your iPhone.
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- How to Work With a Project in Final Cut Express HD
- Jan 5, 2007
- In this 60-minute Apple-certified lesson, you'll learn how to open the Final Cut Express HD program, identify and work with the elements of your editing project, organize those elements, and begin working within the Final Cut Express editing interface.
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- I Heart iMovie: Why Apple's iMovie HD Beats Windows XP Movie Maker 2
- Aug 19, 2005
- Apple's easy-to-use iMovie software turns your home movies into slick productions, often comparable to those of professional editors. Jeff Carlson explores the features that will make Windows users sick with envy.
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- iLife Basics: Shooting Good Digital Snapshots and Putting Them in Your Mac
- Jun 23, 2006
- This lesson will demystify the way a computer can talk to (and control) a digital camera. It will give you some basic guidelines for handling your camera and creating impressive snapshots, as well as dealing with less-than-ideal lighting and subject orientation. It will also introduce you to iPhoto, the iLife tool for moving those photographs from camera to Mac, and ultimately organizing and sharing them.
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- Image Management in the New, Improved Adobe Bridge CS3
- May 18, 2007
- Although Adobe Bridge isn't a new program, the updates to this file browser in the release of Photoshop CS3 make it a more powerful and useful tool for all your image-management needs. Jon Canfield shows you some useful new features that should make Bridge CS3 a more popular option for managing your media files. (And not just images, either!)
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- iMovie HD: The Camera in Motion
- Sep 30, 2005
- One of the advantages of a small camera is that it easily moves with you. However, when you're shooting, motion can become a character in its own right. Slowly moving across a scene imparts a different feeling than quickly scanning your surroundings, for example. This chapter addresses the most common ways of moving the camera to add motion to your movie, including the number one rule: don't move.
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