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February 8th, 2012
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| | | | Boxer Signs Director Erik Almås
Los Angeles-based Boxer Films has added director Erik Almås to its roster. As a highly talented still photographer, Almås delivers unique, memorable, and award-winning imagery to his diverse clients. He is currently repped as a photographer by Vaughn Hannigan and has worked with clients such as Toyota, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, The Ritz-Carlton, Microsoft, Puma, Spanish Tourism, and Nike. In addition to commercial work, Almås also engages his art and beauty sensibilities in projects for top clients in fashion, travel and fine art, often contextualizing the subject within hyper-realistic panoramas. Click HERE to see Almås' still photography.
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| | | | Digital Film Tools Brings the Magic of Film to New Film Stocks Plug-in
New Film Stocks photo and video/film plug-in simulates the look of analog film stocks
Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, today announced the release of Film Stocks with plug-in support for Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom®, Adobe After Effects® CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 and up, Apple® Aperture®, Apple Final Cut Pro® 6 and 7, and Avid® editing systems.
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| | | | MAXON CINEMA 4D Helps Digital Artist Barton Damer Win Big for Malaria No More Foundation
Damer’s Winning Design – Malaria Kills – Raises Funds and Awareness for Malaria No More Foundation
MAXON, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, congratulates digital artist and motion designer Barton Damer on winning first honors place in the Veer Creative Catalyst: Design for Change Competition, an international contest inviting artists to design a compelling socially-themed piece for a charity or cause of their choice.
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| | | | Blackmagic Design Announces New Intensity Shuttle with Thunderbolt™ Technology
Capture and playback amazing quality HDMI and analog 10-bit video in SD and HD
Blackmagic Design today announced Intensity Shuttle, a revolutionary new video capture and playback solution that uses Intel’s groundbreaking Thunderbolt™ technology. Intensity Shuttle makes the highest quality 10-bit SD and HD video affordable for everyone, in a truly portable solution that’s priced at only $239.
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| | | | Digital Film Tools Helps Photographers and Videographers 'reFine' Images
New photo and video/film plug-in delivers professional edge-aware sharpening and smoothing effects
Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, today announced the release of reFine with plug-in support for Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Photoshop® Elements, Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom, Apple® Aperture®, Adobe® After Effects® CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere Pro® CS5 and up, Apple Final Cut Pro® 6, 7 and X, Apple Motion® 5 and Avid® editing systems. reFine offers artists a new tool and technique for performing selective sharpening, detail enhancement, edge-aware smoothing as well as creating cartoon, pencil and pastel effects.
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| | | | Tiffen® Updates Award-Winning Dfx® Version 3 Filter Suite With Support For 64-Bit Avid Systems
Tiffen Dfx version 3.0.5 plug-in now compatible with Avid Media Composer v6, Symphony v6, and NewsCutter v10; adds camera support for Sony DSLR, NEX, SLT, and STV Models
The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of award-winning accessories for still and video imaging, motion picture, and broadcast markets today announced that its Tiffen Dfx v3 digital filter suite is now compatible with Avid 64-bit systems, Media Composer®, and Symphony™ v6.0 as well as NewsCutter® v10.0.
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| | | | Adobe Creative Cloud Offers Applications, Services, Community
With Creative Cloud, Adobe is switching from a model of software as a product to Software as a Service (SaS). By early 2012, Adobe Creative Cloud is expected to include such applications as After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop. Creative Cloud includes a hub for viewing, sharing and syncing of files, and a subscription with 20GB of cloud storage.
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| | | | Reel FX Partners with Madison Square Garden Entertainment to Bring its New 2011 Edition of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular to Life in Stereoscopic 3DLive
Reel FX [http://www.reelfx.com] reveals details of its stereoscopic CG animation for “Humbugged: Rockettes to the Rescue” – a unique scene within the 2011 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the world-famous Radio City Rockettes –“The Rockettes Magical Journey” which opens Friday, November 11th, 2011. Reel FX delivered a total of seven and a half minutes of stereoscopic CG content which will be featured on a massive 3D LED wall on-stage during the show. Reel FX Producer Greg Lyons, Digital Supervisor Glo Minaya and Senior VFX Supervisor Augusto Schillaci worked closely with Director and Choreographer of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Linda Haberman, and senior vice president, production, Madison Square Garden Entertainment Larry Sedwick from the pre-production and conceptual stages to the final dress rehearsals. The goal was to achieve a level of seamless integration between the stereoscopic imagery and live-action performers and to give audiences a new experience. Tickets are currently on sale for the annual holiday production, which runs through Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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| | | | Introducing the Diffusion Gel Kit From Digital Juice
New portable lighting modification tools for video and film production
Digital Juice® announced today that it is releasing a new portable lighting modification kit called the Diffusion Gel Kit. Diffusion Gels are heat resistant sheets of colored plastic that production crews use to soften harsh dramatic shadows and to soften the spread and intensity of their lights to avoid highlighting unwanted features that may distract the viewer’s attention from the shot’s intended purpose.
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| | | | Steele Studios Completes On-Air Stereo 3D Graphics “Refresh” Package For Client 3NET
Debuting November 4, Steele’s All New S3D Graphics Package Is Comprised of Over 60 Elements,Including Main Logo Open, Interstitials and Promos
Currently celebrating its 15th anniversary year, Steele Studios, a leading creator and producer of visual content for television, film, music videos, and commercial projects for Fortune 500 companies, has completed and delivered a massive, on-air Stereo 3D graphics package for its client 3net, the joint venture, 24/7 3D television network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX. Jo and Jerry Steele, co-founders, Steele Studios, made the announcement.
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Lite Bite for Photoshop: Using Masks on Groups
 Using masks to speed up web design can help you show multiple graphic ideas with the least amount of effort for best effect. In this tutorial, Martin Ainsworth willl show you how to add a mask to a folder and add content to it.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Martin Ainsworth on 01/11/2012 | | | | |
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Lite Bite for Photoshop: Creating Custom Actions
 In this "Lite Bite" tutorial, quickly setup custom actions to speed up your photography workflow in Adobe Photoshop to rotate and add adjustment layers for 'Cross Processing' and 'Black & White.' This is a valuable time saving tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Martin Ainsworth on 01/04/2012 | | | | |
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Photoshop and AE: 3-D Models
 In this episode of Video Adrenaline for Photoshop and After Effects, Richard Harrington explores the interaction between Photoshop and AE when creating 3D models. Learn how to use Photoshop to retexture a model and import as a live 3D model into After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 09/21/2011 | | | | |
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Photoshop and AE: Animating the Lens Blur Filter
 In this episode of Video Adrenaline for Photoshop and After Effects, Richard Harrington explores how to use the Lens Blur Filter in AE CS5.5 to create variable depth of field. This filter is an improvement on the last version of the same.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 09/14/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop and AE: Content Aware Scale in Video
 In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine new features in Adobe After Effects to stabilize a shot with Content Aware Scale and Content Aware Fill in Adobe Photoshop to change the background. You'll become better prepared to use these powerful tools in your own project after viewing this informative tutorial.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 08/31/2011 | | | | |
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Photoshop and AE: Content Aware Scale
 In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine Photoshop and After Effects to look at a great feature called Content Aware Scale. In Photoshop, you can detect skin tones or choose to protect a selected area from transform, but be able to completely re-scale an image while leaving the selected area unchanged. Richard then brings these concepts into After Effects for video in the next installment of Video Adrenaline for Photoshop and After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 08/24/2011 | | | | |
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Photoshop and AE: Device Central
 In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine Photoshop and After Effects to utilize a helper application designed for mobile -- Device Central CS5.5. In 2010, more money was made on mobile phones just delivering text and sms messages than all of Hollywood put together. In the future, getting content to mobile devices will be increasingly important. You're going to want to know how to get content to a wide range of devices.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 08/17/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Adobe Photoshop
The Best of Free - What the Font?
 In this economy, you need to get the absolute best value for your dollar, and as the expression goes, sometimes you get what you pay for...but not in this case. What The Font? is a free web and iPhone resource to help you figure out what font someone is using in a video, print or any other medium, quickly, easily and free!
Review, Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Kevin P. McAuliffe on 08/14/2011 | | | | |
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Photoshop and AE: Fixing Underexposure
 In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine Photoshop and After Effects to fix underexposed footage items.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Richard Harrington on 08/10/2011 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Illustrator un-intentionally scaling .pngs?
by Chris Noll in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
Hoping someone has an answer, I have been searching for days with no resolution. I use illustrator to create backgrounds for games. I have been using the "Save for web and devices" to export as 24 bit pngs. for the most part thsi works but there is always some little...
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| | | |  | Re: Illustrator Black Prints Brown...
by Vincent Rosati in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
Can you ensure that your Illustrator / File / Document Color Mode is set to CMYK. Then make sure you're viewing CMYK in the Color palette. The C: 75 M: 68 Y: 67 K: 90 color is pretty rich, but might not produce the color that you want. C: 40...
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| | | | | Illustrator Black Prints Brown...
by Cara Maib in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
I have an Illustrator document that is all zebra stripes in pure black, but no matter how I try to trick the program, it prints in a dark brown instead. These are the colors as they stand: H: 344 S: 11 B: 0 R: 0 G: 0 B: 0 #000000...
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| | | |  | Expand bounding box without resizing artwork
by Kirk Smith in the Adobe Illustrator Forum
I've got a raster illustration that I'm trying to live trace into vector artwork. Illustrator is doing a really good job of tracing it, but unfortunately there's something I can't seem to overcome. The raster image goes right to the edge of the image on the left and right, so...
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In this installment of Photoshop and AE Video Adrenaline, Richard Harrington demonstrates how to combine Photoshop and After Effects and use gradients to create custom backdrops.
