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Quick Tip: So You Don’t Have Soundkeys

In today’s Quick Tip, we are teaming up with our sister site Aetuts+ to learn how we can use Adobe Soundbooth to isolate the audio we want and replicate some of the functions that Trapcode Soundkeys offers. Anyone with the Adobe Master Collection or Production Premium can follow along.

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Open Mic: What Is the Best DAW for Beginners?

Each week we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance.

Imagine a friend wanted to get into audio, and asked you about the best software to get started with. What advice would you give him?


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The Preset Manager in Photoshop

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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 26: The Preset Manager is a bonus tutorial in this series and will explain how to use Photoshop’s preset manager to help you manage your collection of Photoshop brushes, gradients, swatches, and more. Let’s get started!

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Learn to Create Effect of Rapid Movement on Photoshop (Part 2)

In Part 2 (of two) of this tutorial learn how you can create the effect of object rapid movement using as an example a fast moving car.

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Learn to Create Effect of Rapid Movement on Photoshop

Step 1

Open PSD file that was created on Part 1 of this tutorial. Duplicate car layer by selecting car layer and using Ctrl+J. On new layer (Car Copy) go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:

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Step 2

Apply Edit > Transform > Skew to this layer:

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Step 3

Change blending layer mode to Dissolve.

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Step 4

Finally set Opacity for this layer to 10%.

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Step 5

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush and erase dust in the hood area and side of the car.

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Step 6

Duplicate layer with the car once more (Car Copy 2) and merge this layer with layer we’ve just been working on (Car Copy) . As a result we get three layers: background layer, layer with the car and the layer with processed car (it’s situated above others).

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Step 7

Select top layer and go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

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Step 8

Change blending layer mode to Lighten.

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Step 9

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush again and erase the exposed part in hood area.

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Step 10

Merge all layers with the car and we will have again only two layers: background layer and car layer. Duplicate car layer using Ctrl+J and go to Filter > Liquify for copied layer.

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On the end you should have something similar to what i have:

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Step 11

Change blending layer mode to Linear Dodge (Add).

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Step 12

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush one more time and erase everything from the front side of the car.

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Step 13

Create a new layer on top. Go to Gradient Tool, select Transparent Rainbow (standard Photoshop gradient) and make sure option Linear Gradient is selected. Fill new layer with this gradient.

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Step 14

Go to Edit > Transformer > Warp with layer selected.

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Step 15

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush one more time and erase gradient from the front side of the car.

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Step 16

Change blending layer mode to Overlay.

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Final Image

Create a new layer, assign Soft Light blending mode for it. Pick up soft-edged brush and using the Brush Tool lighten the nearest headlight and the hood around the headlight and darken the edges of the image. To lighten we use white color (#ffffff), to darken – the black one (#000000). In the end set the layer opacity down to about 30%.

Learn to Create Effect of Rapid Movement on Photoshop

And our tutorial is finished.

Part 1

Part 1 of this tutorial has been published here.

Android Essentials: Enhancing Your Applications with App Widgets

A great way to improve your application is by providing an app widget to accompany it. App widgets are simple controls can be placed on places like the Home screen, informing the user of important updates within the application. App widgets remind the user you’re your app exists and help encourage them to use the […]

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Senior iCloud product manager John Herbold leaves Apple

John Herbold, a senior product manager for Apple’s iCloud service, has updated his LinkedIn profile to show that he’s no longer with the company in Cupertino. Herbold’s LinkedIn now shows that he works for a company called HealthTeacher, and his work at Apple is in the past. He also says that working with Apple “was a great privilege. Now I get to take that experience and apply it to the enormous challenge of materially improving youth health.”

Herbold is only the latest in a growing line of big Apple executive exits, including Bertrand Serlet a little while ago, and Ron Johnson from the company’s retail division. Still, for a company as big as Apple, all of these exits are likely just more indicative of usual turnover rather than a motivated mass exodus.

Senior iCloud product manager John Herbold leaves Apple originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon unlimited data to end in July

Bad news, Verizon users. The rumors were true, and Verizon will be ending its unlimited data plan this July. According to AllThingsD, Verizon confirms it’s moving “to a more usage based model in July,” with exact details to come later on.

Unfortunately, it’s unclear what Verizon still plans to do — the company has said that its unlimited plans were always only for a temporary time, though AT&T of course grandfathered its unlimited plans in (and I’m still using one, though I can’t ever change it or add things like hotspot or tethering). It sounds like Verizon wants to shut down the plans for good, but there may still be a chance for someone on on an unlimited plan currently to keep it.

We’ll have to see. In the meantime, yes, change is in the air for affected Verizon users. With mobile bandwidth rising as quickly as it is, these companies are pushing as quickly as possible to move towards more usage-based plans.

Verizon unlimited data to end in July originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dev Juice: Help me fix my UIView animations

Dear Dev Juice,

I’m having an issue with UIView animations, that I’m struggling to describe in keywords, so I can’t find anything helpful with Google. The problem is that I can’t seem to work out how to make a UIButton move relative to the bottom of the parent view, as I shrink the parent view.

I’ve managed to get the other views inside the parent to scale with an autoresize mask, but I cannot for the life of me work out how to make the bottom (or even center) of my button clip on to the bounds of the view.

Not sure if that accurately paints the picture, and I’m not sure if it’s relevant, but I’m making a widget for NotificationCenter. Hope you can help, I’m tearing my hair out.

Thanks,

Rory W.

Dear Rory,

It’s still the autoresizing mask you have to deal with, but you need to be working with the struts instead of the springs.

The Autosizing pane in Interface Builder lets you establish a fixed distance between a view and its parent’s edge. Imagine setting a view at 40 points from the top and left of the superview. Enabling the top and left struts in the inspector fixes that view at its relative position. When you use a right or bottom strut, those distances are also maintained. The view must either move or resize to stay the same distances from those sides.

The equivalents of struts in code are UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin, UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin, UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin, and UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin.

These flags allow a view to resize by expanding or shrinking in the direction of a given margin without affecting the size of any items inside. Although each of these correspond to the struts of Interface Builder’s Autosizing pane, they act in the opposite way. In IB, struts fix the margins; the flags allow flexible resizing along those margins.

Enjoy your afternoon sip of Dev Juice!

Dev Juice: Help me fix my UIView animations originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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WWDC Interview: WebIS

Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine and MacNews) interviews Chris McSorley of WebIS, makers of PocketInformant, at WWDC 2011. Chris was kind enough to tell us about their thoughts on the announcements on WWDC, and how it will affect their plans moving forward.

TUAW and MacTech Magazine teamed up to speak to developers at WWDC 2011 about the keynote announcements and how Apple’s new technologies will help them and their customers. We’ll bring you those videos here, MacTech.com and MacNews.com. Also, check out the free trial subscription offer for MacTech Magazine here.

WWDC Interview: WebIS originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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