Software Tips: Page 32

This tutorial shows you how to use the lattice tool, which is one of the geometry manipulator methods, in Blender.

This tutorial shows you how to use the retopo feature in Blender to surface drawn lines.

Learn how to apply customized skin to a character in iClone by Reallusion.

A downloaded application that allows you to change your menu bar look to open up some more stats you can check up on.

You can use Picasa to put some effects on your photos. Also, Picasa provides some simple tuning options for your digital photos.

A video tutorial on how to get free streaming TV and radio using the VLC media player. A simple one click procedure to get free streaming television and radio.

Using Windows Media Player, you can share files among a group of computers and easily access files regardless of where the media is stored. See how to share files in Media Player.

Put your DJ skills to the test by burning your own CD or mix in Windows Media Player. Burned music CDs make an inexpensive but thoughtful gift, and they're really simple to copy.

The first step in your Aperture workflow is to import images, either from your camera's memory card or from your hard drive.

The tether command allows you to tether your camera to your Mac and capture images directly into Aperture. It's fast, easy to set up, and gives studio photographers immediate full-screen feedback while they shoot.

In Aperture, you can easily select multiple images to view them side by side. this convenient feature makes it easy to compare images and to make changes to a group of images simultaneously.

Aperture's compare mode lets you keep one image fixed in the viewer while you cycle through your other images for easy side-by-side comparisons. This feature is useful for choosing the best out of a group of similar shots.

In addition to stacks, Aperture also provides a special stack mode that lets you easily compare all of the images in a stack to determine which one you want to be the pick.

You can add keywords as metadata to your images to enable you to search images by common characteristics or subject matter and to keep your library organized.

Using Aperture, you can easily convert images to black and white and add color tints to enhance your photos.

Aperture provides two sophisticated sharpening tools, edge sharpen and sharpen. Both help you improve the fine details in your images. Most images from digital cameras need a little sharpening, especially RAW files.

Aperture's metadata inspector is a one-stop location for editing the metadata associated with your images. Some of this metadata is automatically stored within the image files of your digital camera, and aperture automatically reads it when you import your photos. You can add other metadata, such as keywords, yourself.

All digital cameras automatically record the date and time each photo was taken and store this time stamp as metadata within each image file. In Aperture 2, you can change these time stamps. This is particularly useful if the clock in your camera is set incorrectly or if you're trying to synchronize photos taken by multiple cameras at a single event.

When you've finished editing your images, Aperture lets you export your photos in a number of formats.

Aperture's full-featured printing system lets you create high-quality prints or contact sheets.

You can use Aperture's web pages feature to create websites using images from any project, album, or folder.

You can use Aperture to present sophisticated slideshows of all the images in an album or project, complete with music and transitions.

This tutorial gives an introduction to using Xara Xtreme for drawing and illustration, including web graphics.

Demonstrates how to create static and animated 3D headings, titles, buttons and logos with Xara3D. Ideal for web pages and emails.

This demo shows how to quickly and easily create watermarks for your photos using Xara Xtreme.

Learn how to create great looking gel style buttons for your website, using Xara Xtreme.

This tutorial demonstrates how to create animated banner ads using Xara Webstyle - no skill required!

This tutorial will show you how you can convert a regular sized picture into a printable, multi-page poster using the free software PictureRazor.

This video shows you how to create your own customized subtitles for videos and movies with the freeware Subtitle Workshop.

This video shows you how to add subtitles to AVI or other video files using the subtitles provided by www.moviesubtitles.org.

Control anyone's computer remotely using the free program Crossloop. This is great for performing remote technical support.

Use the free program SyncBack to automatically back up your important stuff to whatever medium you want.

Once you've designed your first couple of pages how you want, it's time to share your new site with your friends and family. To publish your site to .Mac, you must have at least a trial .Mac membership. When you're ready, just hit the Upload button in the toolbar.

After you've published your site, you might decide you want to add additional pages over time. To add an additional page to my site, all I have to do is click the "Add Page" button in iWeb.

With comments, your blog isn't just your journal, but a place for friends, family, and others to communicate. Use iWeb to allow comments on your blog.

You already know you can create photo pages by selecting a photos template and dragging in individual photos from your iPhoto library. Now there's an easy way to add entire photo albums to your site, each with their own dedicated photo pages.

This video covers network paths and how to use them and understand how they work in Houdini. This is part of learning how to use the interface properly.

When building models in Houdini, you usually build things in parts, and have to merge them together - this tutorial will show you how.

This tutorial covers parenting objects and creating hierarchy relationships in Houdini.

This tutorial shows you how to change the user interface colors in Houdini.