Photography > Features

Filmmaker Michael W. Dean reveals how to make a compelling video from your still images and music, make it fit broadcast standards, and get it shown on TV. In Part 1, you learned how to create a TV-ready video. Here's the crucial final step: rendering the video onto a broadcast-ready DVD and putting it in the hands of producers in a way they can't refuse.

tags: dvd, filmmaking, video editing, video production

Photography > Spotlight: Inside Aperture > Features

In this first of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the top half of the Adjustment palette brick by brick. This article is a terrific reference piece that that should come in handy time and time again. Next week in Part Two, Ellen picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the adjustments.

tags: aperture, photo developing, photo editing

Photography > Features

Filmmaker Michael W. Dean reveals how to make a compelling video from your still images and music, make it fit broadcast standards, and get it shown on TV — with a potential audience of millions — for free. Part one of our two-part series focuses on the practical creation steps: processing images correctly for video display, adding an effective soundtrack, and then creating video.

tags: photo production, slideshow, video production, audio production

Mac > Features

Most of the features of VectorDesigner are available in higher-end vector drawing programs, but the $70 cost of VectorDesigner is hard to beat. Moreover, if you've never used a vector drawing program before, the simple features you'd end up using in a higher-end program aren't much different than the standard features in VectorDesigner -- and in VectorDesigner, they're easy to find. Adam Goldstein delves into his discovery from the Macworld Expo floor.

tags: macworld, raster image, software, vector image

Audio > Features

Part of the joy of playing electronic musical instruments is exploring the unique banks of sounds inside. This month, we speak again with Francis Preve, a Top 10 remixer who also works as the principal sound designer for Ableton and a consulting sound designer for Korg. Hear how he creates the sounds behind the hits.

tags: ableton, audio production, korg, synthesizers

Photography > Spotlight: Inside Aperture > Features

Aperture 2.0 is faster, easier to use, and produces better images, says Joe Schorr, Apple Senior Product Manager. In this interview with Derrick Story, Joe explains how Aperture 2.0 meets those lofty claims. This chat covers a lot of new ground.

tags: aperture, image decoding, quick preview, raw