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Don't have the money to shoot film or to rent a fancy-smancy variable frame rater camera?  Here's a little post-production secret on how to use Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools and Compressor to make amazing looking slow-mo footage straight from your DV/DVCAM camera!

In a world... where many post production houses are finding themselves not only having to face the big expensive question of upgrading their NLE systems but also the debate of whether or not, as Apple so soothingly states, "to make the switch." I've seen it happen both ways, a large multi-avid-workstation facility goes FCP to save some bucks. A small independent ...

Another conceptual field for artists is that of imaginary, fantasy and magical imagery. Sci-Fi is within this order. This involves the creation of pictorial imagery that does not exist except in the mind. This may well be one of the most creative conceptual areas, but this also falls outside of the scope of this book. Some of this type of ...

  Drawing is best described as an abstraction of reality, where contours are delineated by symbols we know as lines. We have a cultural convention that regards line as a demarcation that encloses form. Pure contour drawing leaves out a lot of information; it is the most minimal and efficient method of representation. Monochromatic, modeled drawing may give us much more ...

What I offer is the application of a standard, i.e., a marker for progress, and a roadmap to greater and more frequent successes. I propose an approach to painting that is just as much a basis for willful deviation as it is a guide. Even one who wishes to “color outside the lines” acknowledges that the lines exist in the ...

    Critique ‘Your work is nice,’ An artist must learn how to accept critique, a good artist however, who is interested in self development , craves critique. All critique is good but if you are interested in looking beyond a painting’s nice looks, here are a few steps to help.  I believe the three steps to a good critique are ...

 This is the introduction and first chapter of a book I am wrting on the subject of concept as linked to theoretical and technical matters for primarily realist painters. The material here is copyrighted and I request that users will respect that with regard to its being redistributed. You may borrow quotes with credit to the author for private use. Copyright ...

This is some simple steps to designing a charcter that is uniquly yours! 1. find basic baody shape doing this allows you to identify them by body silloette, even with others. 2. facial featuers they should have unique eyes and nose simple detials that get them noticed 3. related colors they should wear related colors always 4. emotions give them own ...

Some amazing Art was displayed here. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. That may not mean much to most of the art world’s hipper denizens, but it will to visionary and psychedelic-art fans for whom the chapel has been a mecca since it opened in 2004. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Slide ...

Using Layer Masks & Save Hundreds of Dollars   I read Valerie's Tutorial: 6 Steps to Using Masks in Photoshop, and saw that someone had commented that it was interesting but she had no idea why she might need them. Here's why:   Filters that allow selective alterations, for example many in the Nik series, invisibly use layer masks. You ...

This is a 500 word glossary of technical terms related to books, book design, and printing.  From AA (Author's Alterations) to X-height.  No one needs to know all the words to build a book or to get one printed.  But it helps to know something.  Bookmark the page to have it available whenever you need it.  Hope it helps, Walton ...

Make Your Own Book Part 1 Imposition   This article is for the average person—who is not a book artist. If you’re making your own book I’m assuming you’ll be printing it on your own printer or getting it printed at Kinko’s, Sir Speedy, Staples, Office Max, etc.    When you plan to make a book you need to think ...

I have been doing collage for a long time.  When I got Photoshop 5 (or 4), I began to shift from scissors to scanners.  Unlike working with paper, where the are limits to what you can cut especially if the paper is brittle, once scanned, pixels are pixels.  This means that instead of cutting out an entire tree as a solid, ...

How to Take Pictues of Your Work Things were harder in the film only days, and professional photographers used copy stands to do make slides of your work.  The good news is that if all else fails--or is impossible for you--you can use an inexpensive, hand-held, digital camera, shoot with a flash, at a framed and glazed  image and, with almost ...

Among the most important things to learn once learning to draw is realizing the formula almost every artist uses to fill a white sheet with more and more lines till she completed the drawing. Although apparently complicated this formula consists of several separate and simple tasks. Most creative persons follow intuitively these separate tasks stepwise in the proper order. Unfortunately while ...

To correctly mount your Canon EF-Efs lens follow these steps. 1) Locate the red dot on your camera's lens mount. 2) Locate the red dot / white square on your lens. 3) Match red dot to red dot - match white square to white square. 4) Dont force the lens into the mount. Let it softly rest in the mount. 5) ...

New York, NY      To correctly use your "Expo Disc": A)  First you place the device on your lens. B) Then you take a shot (while your camera is set to auto white balance) of your light source. If you are outside, take a picture of the sun. If you are indoors take a picture of the light source. C) ...

  Artist Beryl Brenner,Celebrations: Art Glass Exhibit This winter, Artist Beryl Brenner is teaming up with the National Capital Art Glass Guild to exhibit her stained glass artwork Celebration At The Beach House. The show will be exhibited at  Annmarie Gardens, a Smithsonian Affilliate  The show will be lasting from November 28 - February 15, 2009   This exhibit will complement the new ...

Teachers across disciplines and grade levels have discovered that writing essays and research papers can serve many purposes in the classroom. Writing-across-the-curriculum theorists suggest a variety of write-to-learn activities, from free writing in journals to summarizing class lectures to working with papers through multiple drafts. In the composition literature, support for these activities has come largely from intuitive arguments about the ...

When choosing a photograph for the tilt-shift effect, bear in mind that you want to give the impression of a miniature model. Miniature models are usually viewed from above so try and choose a photo with an elevated viewpoint. Buildings, roads, traffic