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Readdle PDF Expert 2.2 Gets One Step Closer to Laptop Power

Posted 02/25/2011 at 5:55am | by J.R. Bookwalter

If you frequently use PDF documents and an iPad in your daily life, you’ve likely discovered Readdle’s popular PDF Expert, which recently added the ability to edit PDF forms to its many tricks. This week, a new update extends the app’s power even further.

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How to Touch Up Photos of Your Friends

Posted 02/16/2011 at 11:00am | by Christopher Dack

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People are among the most important and enjoyable subjects to photograph, but portraiture can also be very demanding. People get anxious about having their pictures taken and downright upset if those pictures aren’t flattering. A little Photoshop magic can alleviate a lot of that stress.

Before you even begin editing the original, you should save a new copy (File > Save As in any application). Why not just create a duplicate of the original layer, leave it untouched, and keep everything in one file? Because there are dozens of actions you can take that’ll inadvertently affect both layers—cropping, for example, crops all layers. Remember, when it comes to photo editing, irreversibility is the devil, so work with plenty of copies.

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How To Use iMovie's Hidden Features to Create a Custom Lower Third

Posted 01/20/2011 at 11:34am | by Cory Bohon

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iMovie is a great piece of movie editing software for beginning to intermediate videographers, but did you know it can handle some advanced features like picture-in-picture? This simple trick can improve the professional look and feel of any iMovie project and we’ll show you how you can put a custom logo as a lower third in any of your videos.

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How To Transform Digital Photos into Analog Masterpieces

Posted 12/06/2010 at 10:38am | by Florence Ion

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While we’re all busy hightailing it into the digital age, photographers everywhere are also rediscovering the charming aesthetics of the analog days gone by.

Lomography--or casual, snapshot photography using Lomo cameras made in Russia--is getting hot (yes really--check out lomography.com for more). But having to purchase a separate camera for the sole purpose of taking slightly out-of-focus, high-contrast photos seems a little drastic. So if you already own either an affordable point-and-shoot or a fancy DSLR and have access to Photoshop, why not just apply a few simple filters to give that trendy look to your digital photos?

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PDF Expert 1.5 Adds PDF Document Form Filling, Signatures

Posted 11/22/2010 at 6:29am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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There are already plenty of PDF readers for the iPad, ranging from excellent to mediocre. But how many of them can actually perform advanced functions such as filling forms or applying signatures? That’s where PDF Expert comes in.

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Google Docs Can Now Be Edited On The Go with iOS Devices

Posted 11/18/2010 at 6:46am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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While there are plenty of good iOS apps that can already get the job done, Google is now flipping the switch on being able to edit Google Docs documents on the go from mobile devices including the iPad.

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PDF Expert Goes Beyond Reading on iPad

Posted 10/04/2010 at 5:35am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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When it comes to reading PDF files on the iPad, you have many choices -- including Apple’s own iBooks, which doesn’t cost a dime. But if you frequently need to annotate documents, highlight text or make notes with your PDFs, the choices were quite limited, until now.

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9 Advanced Techniques for Novice Filmmakers

Posted 09/27/2010 at 8:39am | by Steve Paris

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Apple’s iMovie and Final Cut give Mac users intuitive tools for editing their home movies from dry, amateurish “Wave to the camera, kids” productions into something that’s actually worth watching. But if you start with cruddy footage, there’s only so much you can do in post-production to improve it. Two of the biggest problems that can’t really be fixed later on are poor sound quality and a jittery camera. So when you’re ready to take your backyard epics to the next level, we offer the following improvements to your movie-making setup. They won’t break the bank, but they’ll definitely improve your work. Next stop, Sundance?

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Final Cut Pro Assembles Julia Roberts for “Eat Pray Love”

Posted 08/13/2010 at 5:26am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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Final Cut Pro is commonly used for editing feature films both big and small, but it’s particularly well-suited to challenging situations, such as the one that film editor Bradly Buecker found himself in with the new Julia Roberts vehicle Eat Pray Love, which opens theatrically on Friday.

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Final Cut Pro Screencast: Animate From the Canvas Window

Posted 05/14/2010 at 2:01pm | by Roberto Baldwin

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You can use Final Cut Pro’s keyframe tools to animate pretty much anything you can see on the screen. This is fantastic when modifying filters over time for instance, but when it comes to animating objects, it can get a little tedious to always have to resort to numbers and sliders. There is however a way to control your object and animate it straight from the Canvas window.

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