Mini Video

Sep 17 2010

VIDEO: How to use Actions in Photoshop

Many, many years ago, I devised and wrote the Original Comic Art Effect tutorial for Photoshop. Since then, it continues to be one of the most popular items on the site—day in, day out. It also crops up in all kinds of interesting places—even video.

ComicElementsFinal8 VIDEO: How to use Actions in Photoshop

It wasn’t long before Photoshop power users wanted to apply the effect to dozens of images to create actual comic books. To do that meant many hours altering many images…following each step of the tutorial manually. They started to demand that I offer a Photoshop Action for the effect.

So I did.

This was great—the power users loved it. The problem was, those just-a-bit-newer to Photoshop were confused by it. Many thought it was supposed to be a Filter and would show up in that menu. They had no idea how to install it or use it—they just wanted to create the Comic Art Effect!!

So now, after many years, I have now created a video to show how it’s done. And the procedure is dead easy. In fact, since you will soon know exactly how to install and use Photoshop Actions, you’ll be happy to know that there are many places online that offer highly productive ones. For instance, here is Smashing Magazine’s Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions.

But, for now, power up Photoshop, download the Comic Art Effect Action and watch this quick video tutorial. Then get to it!!

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Sep 15 2010

The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

logmeindropbox 318x122 The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

In a previous video, I reviewed LogMeIn Ignition and mentioned that it would be really handy in those situations where you’re out on the road away from your computer and you receive an email from a client on your iPhone or iPad saying that they desperately need a file sent to them…I file that is both too large to email and not on your iPhone.

With LogMeIn and Dropbox, you can actually manipulate your home computer from your iDevice and end up with a link that you can email your client so that they can quickly access that file without you having to race home to send it to them.

In today’s video, I show you just how that is done while also giving a quick plug to YemuZip.

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The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

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Sep 12 2010

VIDEO: Send a bunch of files everywhere with Courier

Courier 318x221 VIDEO: Send a bunch of files everywhere with Courier

Courier is a cool application for your Mac that makes it really easy to send a bunch of media to a bunch of destinations.

Image you’ve ever come back from a trip somewhere with a whole bunch of pictures you want to share online. You have a dozen pictures and you want to post them to your Facebook account, but you also want to post them to Flickr and TwitPic so that different people in and around your life can see them.

Courier lets you set up “envelopes” that serve as presets for a lot of the most common places you might want to distribute photos, videos, and other files. And, as presets, you can set up one envelope to send video to your YouTube and Vimeo accounts and another to send to YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr.

Courier supports file transfers to Amazon S3, Ember, Facebook, Flickr, FTP, Vimeo and YouTube. RealMac Software has offered an extensible plug-in API so that developers can create their own plug-ins for their services to support Courier users—there are already plug-ins for TwitPic and CloudApp.

The feature I really like, is that Courier adds all your envelopes with their specific gallery and privacy settings to your Services menu so you can just select all the files you want to send in Finder and fire them off—check out the video below to see how it’s done.

Once the files are uploaded, Courier makes it really easy to share the news with the links you need right at your fingertips.

Courier sells for $19.95 US.

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VIDEO: Send a bunch of files everywhere with Courier

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