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Ethics of photo manipulation
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Some of my tutorials are also available on YouTube (much smaller files)
You can also find my Youtube tutorials at the bottom of this page
created
for Indiana University School of Informatics Media Arts and Science (New Media) students by Beth Lykins
high-speed Internet connection recommended, Quicktime or Flash player required to view the movies
to save the Quicktime files to your own computer, right-click (or command-click for Mac) on the link and choose to save a copy of the file
Photoshop Tutorials Ethics of photo manipulation
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Examples of my work with explanations and descriptions
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Outer space scene from scratch (watch in the following order as the movies build on concepts from each other)
- Creating
the star field (5.9mb)
Adding a lens flare (4 mb)
Creating a planet (4.2 mb)
Adding interest to the planet with layer blending modes (5.5 mb)
Add some shazizzle (7.25 mb)
Optional - adding even more shazizzle (10.9 mb)
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Spinach balls
- File
setup (2.3mb)
Importing multiple images into Photoshop (3.9 mb)
Making circles (3.5mb)
More making circles (2.2 mb)
Auto select layer (2.3 mb)
Spherize (4 mb)
Extracting (6.2 mb)
Drop shadow (3.4 mb)
Layer Blending Modes (Flash - about 1 mb)
Image Modification and Color Correction (Flash - about 2 mb)
Contents (auto play or choose from the menu that comes with the player):
- Intro to Flash (2.2 mb)
- Flash tools (1.8 mb)
- How to create a button (2.8 mb)
- An explanation of button states (5.4 mb)
- Basic animation and tweening (9.7 mb)
- Alpha (2.5 mb)
- Frame scripting (3.6 mb)
- Button scripting ( 4.5 mb)
- Publishing a file (7.8 mb)
- FLA vs. EXE file sizes (746 kb)
- Overview of the interactive EXE application created when published (15 mb)
- Dissection of the layers (3.3 mb)
- How to import audio (2.8 mb)
- How to add audio to the timeline (6.5 mb)
- Frame scripting to control the audio (6.4 mb)
- Creating frame labels (3 mb)
- Troubleshooting audio (12.8 mb)
- Programming the play button (4.3 mb)
- Program the stop button (1.6 mb)
- Programming the exit button (13.8 mb)
- Programming the file to play in full screen mode (9.4 mb)
- An overview of movie clips (8.8 mb)
- About scenes (2.8 mb)
- Animation for the movie clip (2.8 mb)
- Creating a movie clip (4.2 mb)
- Adding a movie clip to the scene (21.5 mb)
- Deleting the movie clip scene when finished creating a movie clip (9.4 mb)
- How to change the movie clip after the scene is deleted (2.3 mb)
- How to swap an image (2.5 mb)
- Examples of the movie after the changes to the movie clip are made (21.7 mb)
- How to make an animated button (3.9 mb)
- How to create guides (1.8 mb)
- How and why to embed text (12 mb)
The template FLA file for how to work with audio..
The EXE file for how to work with audio.
Importing (8.7mb)
Working with sprites (6.7mb)
Keyframing (1.5mb)
Tweening (4.7mb)
Playback within Director (4.7mb)
Pausing the movie with Lingo (3.4mb)
Changing the length of sprites (6.6mb)
Saving .dir files (1.8mb)
Straightening an image in Photoshop CS3 (9.9mb)
Using Shadow/Highlights to bring out hidden details with Photoshop CS3(7.1 mb)
Add history edit log to the metadata of an image using Photoshop CS3 (15.1 mb)
Reading metadata through Bridge CS3 (14.7 mb)
Adding keywords to images in Bridge CS3 (9.6 mb)