Making DVD Burning Kid Simple

Burning DVDs can be an extremely intricate with the variety of functions you could use like animated menus. While programs like Adobe Encore exist to this end, there remains a gap in DVD burning software for the common user. Encore may provide excellent authoring software but takes an extensive amount of time to create. What about the everyday DVD burning user?

Thats where DVDFlick steps in. DVDFlick is a program that lets you easily design and burn DVDs in the simplest form that even a small child could navigate. However, what drew me to this program was not its easy user interface but the fact that it will convert video files for you. There is no other program up to this point that will convert DivX files and burn them in one hassle-free step. Beyond conversion it still offers a simple menu setup that is just a click-and-go process. No checking for errors and using mapping functions. More complex menus are not offered, but it is heaven for someone who just wants to burn their DVDs and go on with their business.

You can check out this program completely free from DVDflick.net

Blazing Fast Photoshop- The future of mobile phone Photoshop.

Adobe now brings the brilliant design of Photoshop editing software to your iPhone. The app has very few functions of the original but it is a leap for editing for digital images on any mobile device. Some of those functions are cropping, rotating, color corrections and some basic filters.

The new app is barebones compared to the desktop software. The future of the digital imaging on mobile devices is surprisingly doable within the next 5 years. Cell phones have more than quadrupled processing speed in the last 6 years. Consider that with the fact that you can get a memory card that is as big as your desktop computer, and you’re looking at a close prospect for Photoshop.

As the program features increase, it will eventually reach a point where it is too much features for the phone of the average consumer. However, there are more practical uses like newspaper and blog reporters posting cropped and edited photos to the editor or blog in a matter of moments.

The Photoshop app does cost money like most of the programs on the iPhone . The iPhone is the only phone with this app. Adobe has not officially said they are developing for other phones but it may be the case considering the market for it.

What does this mean for other programs like Flash? How practical is it to have an app for Flash. A scaled down featured of Flash where you can create based Flash Lite features from a preselected library may be a possibility. Uploading slideshows to blogs or profiles is a definite possible function of program like that.

The future of the programs for mobile devices is not crystal clear. However, as it stands right now, mobile devices can never have the functionality of the full desktop software of programs like Photoshop. The reason has to do with the limitation of working on a small device. Even with a top-of-the-line phone, navigating the internet is not as easy on your computer as it is on your phone web browser.

FLASH CS4 IS MAKING ANIMATION CHILD'S PLAY

Flash is the most intuitive animation program, and now they are upping the bar even further with the new Bone Tool. The bone tool allows you to create shape relation structures between objects, making it easier to create more realist animation movements. Where as before you were subject to make your animations from a single pivot point.

This is very exciting news - especially for animators in Flash. The bone tool also makes a new kind of layer - the armucture layer.

Here is a quick example of that tool:

The First Foot in the Door Can Be Murder...But Still Be Worth It?

Everybody has been faced with the annoying predicament of not being able to get a job because you don't have experience, and then consequently not being able to get experience because you don't have a job. There are ways around it though. You probably are not that interested in it, but in order to network yourself when nothing else is working you will have to...

work for free!

I know it does not sound too appealing, but you still get to help create a production. You will definitely pick up on some tips while you are there. Productions are constantly over budget and many documentaries offer work for credit (credit i.e. experience). It may not lead to anything right away, but it will keep you focused on your outcome, get you some experience, and give the ability to meet people within your respective field.

Photoshop Fraud on Intersection Cameras

Tricking the eye at the light:

Besides retouching models and cropping pictures, Photoshop can be used for document forgery. No big surprise there, right? I was a little surprised when I heard about this. A group of teenagers in Maryland photoshopped images of license plates of people they hate, put them on a similar car and ran a red light. I can totally see ex girlfriends or exboyfriends getting back at each with this in the future.

For other types of license plate projects, I found this article about how to make a license plate from scratch (you don't really need it though if you can get close enough to take a picture of their license plate). But check it out here.

http://pshero.com/archives/vanity-license-plate

Leaving a fake license plate on your car can land you in big trouble. Is there another way to fool it? In this article a reporter works with the police testing a spray that you're supposed to put over your license plate, and a lens film thats supposed to trick the camera. Ultimately the reporter says it doesn't work. Seen anything work better?