http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard Richard Harrington's library of tutorials, articles, reviews and more for media professionals world wide. en-us Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT PHP Script webmaster@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_patch_heal_tools.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_patch_heal_tools.php In this tutorial, Richard Harrington uses the patch tool and healing brush tools to teach patching, healing and the vanishing point in Adobe Photoshop. Mon, 18 May 2009 16:25:51 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_masks_panel.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_masks_panel.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at how to use the masks panel in Photoshop CS4. This is a new feature in CS4 that can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly manage the masks on a layer. Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:39:23 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_trashing_preferences.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_trashing_preferences.php In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:13:08 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_depth_of_field.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_depth_of_field.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington shows how to perform depth of field blurring techniques using the lens blur feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_ichat_theater.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_ichat_theater.php In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at video sharing via iChat Theater Review, a technique for online video review that allows you to quickly share video via iChat. This can be helpful for showing a preview of a video to a client or a project partner. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:21:41 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_content_aware_scaling.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_content_aware_scaling.php In this episode of Photoshop for Video, Richard Harrington takes a look at a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 called content aware scaling. This feature allows a user to define a region or a graphic to scale or not to scale when the image is resized, giving tremendous flexibility to not have certain parts of a photo distorted when other parts are stretched. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:47:46 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_keyframing_color.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_keyframing_color.php In this episode of Final Cut Help, Richard Harrington takes a look at keyframing the three way color corrector in FCP. As details change in a movie clip you can have the filter adjust its values over time. This example uses a video of a bird starting in a bright sky and ending in water which is darker, the contrast transition is controlled by keyframing the saturation and color correction. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:46:52 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_camera_raw_2.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_camera_raw_2.php In the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington goes deeper into the camera raw interface. Richard looks at the tone curve tab which controls the contrast, the detail tab which controls the image sharpening and noise reduction, split toning tab controlling the hue and saturation, lens corrections tab and the presets tab to store settings and preferences. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:57 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_fixing_exposure.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_fixing_exposure.php In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses the common problem of backlighting, exposure and what can happen when shooting video outdoors. Proper exposure of all elements in a shoot can be a pain to achieve with a bright sun and blue sky but using the three way color corrector in Final Cut Pro, Richard is able to make all the elements pop. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:04:36 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_camera_raw_1.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_camera_raw_1.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the camera raw files and the camera raw interface. Many video professionals do not know much about the camera raw interface because it is a technology mainly used by digital photographers. The key advantage to using with a camera raw file is that the data is usually stored in the picture more than you can normally see in a single exposure. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:49:30 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_white_balance.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_white_balance.php In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses what to do to correct your film when you shoot footage with the wrong white balance setting. This is a common problem if you step outside after shooting inside and you forget to rewhite balance. Richard uses the three way color corrector to do a digital white balance on the clip inside of Final Cut Pro. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:39:13 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_auto_blend.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_auto_blend.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the auto blend command that allows you to merge multiple pictures together into a single larger document. When you have a large scan and you have to scan it in multiple pieces and then stitch it together or if you want to stitch together panoramic photos for a virtual scene this photography tool becomes quite useful. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:11:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_compression_turbo.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_compression_turbo.php In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington take a look at the elgato turbo.264. This is a USB add on device that accelereates the h.264 encoding you can do on your Mac. The turbo.264 comes with its own compression software with presets for iPod, iPhone, Sony PSP, Apple TV and YouTube. Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:29:54 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_balancing_images.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_balancing_images.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at balancing out exposure issues inside of Photoshop CS4. Mixed lighting on a photo can cause portions of the image to be too bright or too dark, fortunately Photoshop gives us some great tools to take care of these types of issues. Using a levels adjustment layer in combination with a color range selection, Richard is able to greatly control the lighting in a photo. The equalize command is also covered in this video tutorial. Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:33 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_gradient_wipe.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_gradient_wipe.php In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the gradient wipe transition. The gradient wipe transition is a highly customizable transition using greyscale patterns to create your own custom wipes. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:00:42 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_alpha_channels.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_alpha_channels.php In the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at making an alpha channel based upon the luminance in an image. Alpha channels allow you to store transparency in a graphic and transfer that transparency to another non-linear video editing program or compositing application and key or composite in real time. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:48:02 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_tracking_vignettes.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_tracking_vignettes.php In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman teaches how to use tracking to have vignettes follow a person around the screen to simulate a spotlight effect. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:58:58 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_smart_objects.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_smart_objects.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a closer look at smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4. A smart object is an embedded copy of the original object in your document, this allows you to place large images or vector graphics into your Photoshop project and then scale it up or scale it down without worring about losing the original file resolution. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:42:41 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_saturation_curves.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_saturation_curves.php In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman create the Pleasantville effect in Apple Color. Using the secondary curves, specifically the saturation curve, to isolate just the yellow in a taxi cab everything else in the video clip can then be desaturated to create this popular effect. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:33:56 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_shadow_highlights_adjustment.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_shadow_highlights_adjustment.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington gives some tips on how to fix an underexposed or overexposed image using the shadow / highlights command in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and goes through each of the advanced settings to give great understand of how you can harness the power of this adjustment tool. The shadow / highlights filter can also be used on Smart Objects in recent versions of PS, expanding the way you can dynamically utilize this tool. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:57:18 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_placeholder_composite_effects.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_placeholder_composite_effects.php In this Final Cut tutorial, Richard Harrington performs a quick placeholder effect in Final Cut Pro. Many times you will need this technique so you can figure out what shots you want to use and if it is going to be feasable to accomplish what you think is in the timeline. Richard starts by performing a chroma key on a video clip to place another clip on a TV screen. Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:53:25 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_video_preview.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_video_preview.php In this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington explains how to output a DV video signal directly to a SD video monitor from Adobe Photoshop using a digital video converter via firewire and video preview controls. This is a very helpful tool for making adjustments to your color correction for use in broadcast video. Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:35:06 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_external_editors.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_external_editors.php In this Apple Final Cut video tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the external editors tab in the Final Cut Pro system settings that allows you to associate still image, video and audio files with third party software. Richard also gives some helpful tips to make graphics coming from other software applications more compatible with Final Cut Studio. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:38:14 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_color_range.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_color_range.php Some free tricks on how to use the color range command in Photoshop. Many people use the old method of utilizing the magic wand tool for selecting areas of color, the color range selection tool has more flexibility and control. Richard walks you through using this tool and shows some new features added in Photoshop CS4. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:47:23 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_adjustments_panel.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/photoshop_adjustments_panel.php A look at the adjustments panel in Photoshop to more quickly enhance your images. The adjustments panel is a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 that allows you to quickly use adjustment layers much easier. This tool adds responsiveness and accessibility to one of the best features in Photoshop. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:46:20 GMT