Here is a quick and easy tutorial on how to dodge and burn in Photoshop!
Halftone Effect in InDesign: Two Ways
The halftone effect can spice up any of your designs and the process is pretty simple. The layer can be used on all sorts of designs including both text and images. One of my favorite ways to use it is to place it over photos when I’m making zines.
Learn how to perfect the halftone effect in under ten minutes with this video!
Snowball Mic Set-Up
The Snowball mic is one of the easiest and simplest mics to use for audio recording. Better yet, it producers top-tier sound with little fuss.
When you get your Snowball mic, the first thing you want to do is assemble it.
- Screw the tripod into the mic base
- Plug the provided cable into the back of the microphone and the other end into your laptop
- A red light should turn on at the top of the mic. This means the mic is on.
3. Select your desired recording setting
- Narration (best for audio recording)
- Music (best for recording music)
- Meeting Room (best for recording large areas)
When you open Audition, the Snowball mic should appear as the Host audio track. This means you’re ready to record, all you have to do is hit the red button in Audition and get started!
Here is a helpful video that goes over Snowball mic set up:
One Minute Tutorial! Pathfinder Demo
The pathfinder tool can be useful in uniting and editing simple objects into more complex designs. This demo shows how to make famous logos using only pathfinder.
Exporting a PDF in InDesign
A quick 2 minute tutorial on how to export a PDF in InDesign.
Changing Text in InDesign
Learn how to adjust the size, weight, kerning and tracking of your text bodies in InDesign.
Placing Images in InDesign
Watch this quick 5 minute video on how you can place an image, or multiples at once, into InDesign.
Matching Clip Loudness
Whenever recording more than one person speaking, or when mixing multiple audio files together, it’s important to have a consistent sound level. This way, your listeners won’t have to constantly adjust their headphones or speakers to match the sound level, you’ll have already done it! Plus, matched sound loudness just sounds so much better. Here’s a great video on how to get really precise loudness matching.
Setting up your external microphone in adobe audition
If you have an external microphone, say a USB microphone or an audio interface system you’re plugged into, you need to configure some settings before you can record audio from the mic. Here’s a quick video on how to configure your settings! Disclaimer: the video was filmed in 2014, so your adobe audition interface should (hopefully) be updated from that older version. Even though he’s using Audition from 2014, the settings are still basically the same.
Setting up your Multitrack: a quick explainer
Super quick video to give you everything you need to get started with editing in a multitrack! Multitracks are the best way to edit and mix audio.