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Freelance Confidential: Now Available
We're very proud to announce the release of Freelance Confidential, Rockable Press's newest book on freelancing. This book aims to provide the hard numbers...
Adrian Try
21 Mar 2011
Music & Audio
Why 1/10 Is My Favourite Shutter Speed
In teaching a student the other day, I came to realize one of my own truisms; 1/10th of a second is my favorite shutter speed. This is not to say that I...
Peter West Carey
21 Mar 2011
Photo & Video
Free Mac Utility App: Structurer
At the end of 2010, we released an exclusive Mac utility app, called Structurer. This app allows you to rapidly create file/folder structures for your new...
Jeffrey Way
21 Mar 2011
Code
Quick Tip: Create a Nice Award Medal Icon
In the following tutorial you will learn to create an icon of an award medal. You will use various shapes and pathfinder techniques to make this great...
Andrei Marius
21 Mar 2011
Design & Illustration
Freelance Confidential: Now Available
We're very proud to announce the release of Freelance Confidential, Rockable Press's newest book on freelancing. This book aims to provide the hard numbers...
Activetuts+ Editor
21 Mar 2011
Code
Create a Paint Brush in Photoshop
Creating still-life objects in Photoshop is often great practice for learning how to create other objects. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to...
Stephen Petrany
21 Mar 2011
Design & Illustration
Create a Sci-Fi, Vector Portrait Made of Symbols
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create vector images made from any symbols, having previously processed a bitmap image in Photoshop and using a...
Iaroslav Lazunov
21 Mar 2011
Design & Illustration
Android User Interface Design: Working With Fragments
The new Fragment API for Android, introduced in Android 3.0, allows for easier dynamic user interfaces. In this tutorial, learn how to convert a two-screen...
Shane Conder & Lauren Darcey
21 Mar 2011
Code
Enhance Your Workflow: BS Compositing Bundle - Plug-ins Presentation
This is a presentation of a bundle of three Pixel Bender plug-ins: "bs-Smart Set Matte", "bs-Mix Color" and "bs-Mix Layer". The tutorial shows the parameters...
Bartek Skorupa
21 Mar 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
Getting Started with Unity
Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation, which just happens to contain the most powerful 3D engine this...
MSFX
21 Mar 2011
Code
Modifying Keyframes with KeyTweak
Mamoworld, home of Mathias Möhl and friends, has published a new quick tip tutorial (embedded below), Modifying Keyframes with KeyTweak. Mathias says...
Rich Young
21 Mar 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
'The Soviet Machine' - Day 7
Today Martin Kostov brings us the 7th and final day of his epic 'Soviet Machine" tutorial series. In the final two videos Martin guides us through the...
Martin Kostov
21 Mar 2011
3D & Motion Graphics