iPhoto (overview): Edit your photos on the fly and upload them to your favorite social networking sites straight from iPhoto.

Updates: New Full-Screen Mode, Facebook connectivity, Emailing photos + templates, New Slideshow templates, Advancement in Photo Books, and Letter Press Cards. Some of these updates are small, but when it comes to the user-friendly experience, it makes a world of a difference. Starting with the Full-Screen Mode, allowing the viewer to manage their photos in full screen now, makes the interface of this application look 10x better then before. Facebook connectivity allows users to edit, tag, upload, and track comments of your photos right in iPhoto 2011. This feature makes photo uploading so much easier to manage your content placed online, and keep up with your friend on the fly. Emailing your photos looks more professional then ever, with the new pre-set templates provided to you in iPhoto, you can easily make an invitation, announcement, postcard, letterpress and more with just a few clicks. This feature also allows you to switch photos around with a simple drag-and-drop. Resize you photos and send them off in professional looking email templates pre-set for your convenience. New slideshow templates will allow you to view your photos, and video clips right on your desktop with professional looking transitions and music. These pre-set templates will turn heads at get togethers and makes for a nice replacement of digital photo frames.

Overall, this was a very clean, and successful update for iLife 2011. Watch the video below to earn more about each new feature in the iLife Suite. Enjoy.

iMovie 11″ Overview

Hey guys, today I have a very short and simple tutorial that I feel has been done on many websites, but it can’t hurt to post one on here as well. Today, we are going to eliminate most of the “pimples” and other face and or neck blemishes from our subject. These few steps can improve the look of your portraits, and personal pictures.

What you need:

Photoshop CS2/3/4

This is a picture I took in my school studio last week, the model has a fair complexion with some problems that good ole’ photoshop can fix.

Lets start by zooming in on our subject to get a better view of his “problems”.

(Zoom)

Next, lets go in and start removing his blemishes.

Select your Clone Stamp tool. (S on Keyboard)

Find your blemished area, take your Clone Stamp and hold down Option or Alt next to the area you want to fix. You will notice your brush circle will change to a crosshair. Select the area closest to the blemish.(Please note: Make sure your brush size is close to the size of the zit, pimple, or blemish.)

After you’ve selected your area, click on the area you want to remove.

Its gone!

After some work, you can get rid of everything and it should look like this.

BEFORE

AFTER

Fonts:

Open up your web browser and go to one of the following websites:
www.dafont.com
www.1001freefonts.com
(there are more out there, but these seem to work the best for me)

Find a font you like, and hit download:

After the download has finished in your downloads window. Open up your downloads folder.

Double click on the folder, and click on the “.ttf ” file. You should then be greeted with a Font Book window and a button that says “install font” in the lower right hand corner. Now you are done, and your font is installed!

Please note, with older versions of Photoshop and Illustrator you must completely quit out of photoshop for the font to be usable. CS3 and above don’t usually have that problem, but if you can’t find your font in your font list… you now know why.

If you can’t wait to read this review, head on over to  this page to get your hands on it.

Well, I’ve had it loaded up on my iMac for about 48 hours now, and have already come to some conclusions.  First off, it’s fast.  Like a dress coming off on prom night fast.  This version hasn’t been officially tested yet, but my (very) unscientific testing showed it to be 10-15% faster than Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5.  As far as rendering content, I haven’t noticed any issues, and when I personally tested it using the Acid3 test, it scored a perfect 100/100.  So, bottom-line, as far as the nuts and bolts of internet browsing, a have to rank Chrome on par or better than the current Mac offerings.

Acid3 Test Results

Let’s move on to talk about interface and features.  The first thing you’ll notice is the “tabs on top” style layout.  This is unique among browsers in that instead of displaying the tabs below the bookmark bar, they appear where normally the title bar would be.  This would be a plus if it actually gave you more viewing area, but because they don’t push all the way up to be level with the “close-minimize-resize” button, it really isn’t adding that much.  One thing I do really like about the tabs though, is the ability to “drag out” a page.  This feature is already in Safari, but trying something similar in Firefox will result in a shortcut on your desktop.

Dragging out a tab

Something else borrowed from the Safari interface is the history based home screen that allows you to see a panorama of your most visited sites.  A nice improvement over the Safari version, though, is the ability to display the sites in a list style format.  Also on the Chrome home screen you can see recently closed tabs, which is a nice option to get back to a page you accidently closed.

On the “things like Firefox” list is the ability to apply themes to customize the look of your browser window, with a multitude of designs and colors available.

One thing conspicuously missing from the browser is a search field, located in the upper right corner in both Safari and Firefox.  Instead, in Chrome this feature is provided by typing non-urls into the address field.

Overall, I think that if you are 100% committed your current browser, I don’t see any “must have” feature in Chrome that will drive you to switch. However, if you are looking for a browser that offers a good mix of both Safari and Firefox, I recommend giving Chrome a try.  If nothing else, by downloading this non-official release version, you can say you were one of the first to use Chrome on a Mac.

~E.B. w/ MacintoshTipz

ScreenFlow Tutorial: Part 1

ScreenFlow Tutorial: Part 2

ScreenFlow Tutorial: Part 3

ScreenFlow Tutorial: Part 4

ScreenFlow Tutorial: Part 5

Watch the demo of Tune Up Below:

App Demo: Tune Up

This application is a MUST download Click There–>: TuneUp Download

Lighting: This is the most important part of Green Screening. Not only is it keep to have very bright lighting but also as important to  make the lighting even throughout the shot. Click here for a diagram for the best lighting layout, and as long as you follow this, then you will be successful.

Chroma Key Software: This is the final step in your project stages of editing. Chroma Keying is when you take the green of your project and replace it with another form of media. There are several applications/software that can do chroma keying such as iMovie 09′, Final Cut, and After Effects. Im my video I show you the easies way to chroma key in iMovie 09′.

With this step-by-step, located below, green screen tutorial I will have your videos looking more professional then ever. Hope you enjoy.