If you love cartoons, why not try your hand at designing a cartoon character? After all, every expert started as a beginner. It’s easier than you think. Just follow these ten top tips and you’ll have a stunning character ready to animate in no time. 1. Keep It Simple Cartoons come in a wide variety of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Designing a Cartoon Character for 2D Animation
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How to Process Raw Photos With Filmulator (Free for Windows and Linux)
Filmulator is an open-source raw photo editor based around the filming developing process, with a library management feature to help you organise your photographs. It’s free and available for both Windows and Linux users. Here, we’ll take a look at its main features and walk you through how to edit your images. How to Process… Continue reading How to Process Raw Photos With Filmulator (Free for Windows and Linux)
100 Free Photoshop Actions (And How to Make Your Own)
Photoshop actions capture all of the steps needed to transform a file and let you apply them with just one click. And with a single click, you can take the creative photo effect and workflow steps from another artist and add them to your own picture, creating everything from improved portraits to radically altered double-images. … Continue reading 100 Free Photoshop Actions (And How to Make Your Own)
Webb’s latest ‘distant star’ photo is actually… a slice of chorizo
Distant star or yummy snack?. Étienne Klein The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been sending home some pretty spectacular photos lately, from cartwheeling galaxies to the “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula. So when French scientist Étienne Klein tweeted a photo of the JWST’s latest work, the Internet was excited to embrace it. Unfortunately,… Continue reading Webb’s latest ‘distant star’ photo is actually… a slice of chorizo
20+ Stunning images with complementary colors
In 1961s, Fred Herzog photographed a woman on the street, with just her green skirt and red stockings visible in the frame. In 1972, Helen Levitt photographed kids in New York City, dressed in various shades of yellow and purple. In the 1980s, Martin Parr photographed an ice cream shop in an English beach suburb,… Continue reading 20+ Stunning images with complementary colors
How to Use the Essential Sound Panel to Edit Dialogue in Premiere Pro
In this lesson from David Bode’s FREE Ultimate Premiere FAQ course, you’re going to learn about the Essential Sound panel and how you can use it to punch up and clean up your dialogue for better mixes. To address your audio issues in Premiere Pro, you going to use the Essential Sound panel to fix issues with… Continue reading How to Use the Essential Sound Panel to Edit Dialogue in Premiere Pro
How to Use the Essential Sound Panel for SFX and Ambience in Premiere Pro
In this lesson from David Bode’s FREE Ultimate Premiere FAQ course, you’re going to learn how to use the Essential Sound panel to deal with sound effects and ambience. SFX To edit your sound effects, start by highlighting them and tagging them with SFX in the Essential Sound panel. Loudness Next, work your way through the… Continue reading How to Use the Essential Sound Panel for SFX and Ambience in Premiere Pro
OBS Quick Start: How to Create Live Video for Free With Open Broadcaster Software Studio
Open Broadcaster Software Studio (OBS Studio, or often just OBS) is an open-source program that is a fast way to get into live video streaming. Plus OBS Studio is free. Streaming Software When you live stream, you need either a software or hardware encoder to convert your audio and video into a format that can… Continue reading OBS Quick Start: How to Create Live Video for Free With Open Broadcaster Software Studio
How to Add Graphics and Overlays to Live Video With Open Broadcaster (OBS)
Open Broadcast Software Studio, or OBS for short, is the ‘go to’ software for quick and easy, free (and open-source) broadcasting and streaming. The interface is simple to use and allows you to customise your video with graphics—it’s a great tool to add polish and professionalism to your broadcast. Let’s take a look at a… Continue reading How to Add Graphics and Overlays to Live Video With Open Broadcaster (OBS)
Tips from a pro: How to improve your insect photography
Cuckoo Wasp. John Hallmén shot this preserved specimen in the studio using a full-frame camera and a Mitutoyo microscope objective with a morfanon tube, mounted on a Nikon PB-6 bellows. He made 178 exposures and later combined them in them in post. John Hallmén This post on insect photography has been updated. It was originally… Continue reading Tips from a pro: How to improve your insect photography