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  • How to Build a Stereo, Filtered Delay Combinator in Reason

    How to Build a Stereo, Filtered Delay Combinator in Reason

    Recently I have been using Record and Reason (combined) as my main production platform. Im finding it to be a great environment to work in. Obviously I have a few gripes, but Record is still in its very early stages.One thing that always struck me about the application was its lack of a serious stereo delay unit. Although the advanced reverb and standalone delays are great, I felt I needed something with a little more firepower to use in my projects. Of course delay u

  • Open Mic: Tell Us How You Learned to Play Music

    Open Mic: Tell Us How You Learned to Play Music

    There has been a bit of discussion in the comments recently about the best way to learn music. How did you learn?Each Tuesday we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and heres your chance.How did you learn to play music? Was it a good way to learn? Do you have any comments or interesting/embarrasing stories a

  • Modeling the Human Face in Illustrator

    Modeling the Human Face in Illustrator

    With a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a female portrait easily. This process will have you creating anatomically correct human faces in no time.Final Image PreviewBelow is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month.Tutorial DetailsProgram: Adobe Illustrator CS 3Difficulty: Intermediat

  • Design a Bold and Vibrant Portfolio

    Design a Bold and Vibrant Portfolio

    Learn how to design a bold and vibrant portfolio website, using a combination of lighting techniques and blending options.

  • 24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

    24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

    Implementing AJAX technology can be a hit or miss thing. Do it well and youll have users raving over the slickness it provides to the general user experience while if you mess it up, youll be at the receiving end of their wrath. Here are 24 tips to guide you with implementing AJAX technology within your web application.1. Understand What it All MeansFirst up, you need to understand what AJAX is, what it stands for and how it has revolutionized parts of the internet. Youll nee

  • Best of the Web – January 2010

    Best of the Web – January 2010

    The first month of the new year has wrapped up and there was a ton of great content for all the Photoshop Fans. This month was bursting with tons of freebies that the readers could check out and download, for example this month we are featuring some great free font packs, as well as some great 2010 wallpaper packs. On top of that we have some great high quality tutorials that deal with some very interesting 3D techniques. So lets get into this wrap up of January 2010.Tutorial Wra

  • How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

    How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

    This ones another collaboration with my good friend Toma Alin Gabriel. In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.Final Image PreviewTake a look at the final result first. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join PSDTUTS PLUS for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below or view a larger version here.Tuto

  • Get Inspired – #027

    Get Inspired – #027

    Here is another amazing selection of designs for your inspiration, enjoy! If you would like to submit something to Media Militia, please use Twitter and include @mediamilitia in your tweet or email contact@mediamilitia.com

  • Photoshop How-To: Making Warhol-style Images

    Photoshop How-To: Making Warhol-style Images

    This story is taken from "Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Studio."The brightly colored, slightly posterized image made popular by Andy Warhol is almost a clich these days, but there's no denying that the style has impact. After all, by employing this method, Warhol was able to turn mundane soup cans into works of art and make Liza Minnelli an international style icon.read more

  • Get the Best Web Images Out of Photoshop

    Get the Best Web Images Out of Photoshop

    If you take a look at Photoshop's File menu you'll see a command, about midway down, called "Save for Web & Devices." It's actually two commands. There's the "& Devices" part, which lets you save an image for display on virtually every cell phone except the iPhone. No offense, but if I had to rank this feature, I doubt it'd make my Top 10,000.read more

  • Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 1

    Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 1

    They say that limiting your options can lead to creative solutions. This is certainly true for Web designers and typography. Since the beginning of the Web, our typographic choices have been limited by the fonts available on other people's computers. The so-called "Web safe" fonts - Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, and a few others - have dominated Web site typography because we can't always be sure that the person on the other end of the Web brow

  • How to create waved Valentine background with hearts

    How to create waved Valentine background with hearts

    In this tutorial, youll learn how to create waved Valentine background from scratch in Photoshop. Well be using Custom Shape, Pen Tool and Layer Style for creating Valentine illustration. Lets get started!Final Image PreviewCreate a new document (File>New) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Using the Rectangle Tool (U), lets represent a big rectangle reserved for background we want

  • Knowing The Basics Of The Video Mode On Your DSLR Cameras

    Knowing The Basics Of The Video Mode On Your DSLR Cameras

    2009 was an excellent year in the video industry with the introduction of the Video DSLR revolution. Now amateurs and pros can get their hands on video techniques and looks that were previously only able to be achieved at $30,000 and above mark using complicated and expensive cameras.Here are some basic terms you will need to know when it comes to DSLR Video:Framerates:The number of frames taken in a single second by the camera. (fps: frames per second)60 fps

  • New Google Analytics, Custom CSS and Custom Javascript implementations in TTG Pages 3.4

    New Google Analytics, Custom CSS and Custom Javascript implementations in TTG Pages 3.4

    TTG Pages 3.4 is now available. With any luck, this will be the last update to this one for a while, because I do have other projects Id like to spend time on. This update brings several new features and revisions, a few new styling options, and some bug fixes.One big change is the engines [...]

  • Highslide Poll: Does anyone use the Shared Resources feature?

    Highslide Poll: Does anyone use the Shared Resources feature?

    This is a question for users of TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. The shared resources feature was an experimental idea built into the gallery. At this point, Im wondering whether anyone actually uses it. Would anyone miss it if it were gone?The argument against future inclusion of the feature has several points:1) [...]

  • Fotomoto reveals Collections; Digital download services coming soon

    Fotomoto reveals Collections; Digital download services coming soon

    As a part of their greater plan to redirect their own increasing traffic to the benefit of their users, Fotomoto has unveiled Collections, culling together the best work from its members into groups of featured images. Valentines Day is the theme for the first collection, featuring 67 handpicked images. Taken as a whole, the collection [...]

  • Your images are precious, but so is your email

    Your images are precious, but so is your email

    As digital photographers, we live in constant fear of the crash. Its not a matter of IF, but WHEN. The crash is inevitable. At some point, one of your precious hard drives will head down the dark path of no return, taking gigabytes upon gigabytes of precious data with it. Obsessively backing up our work [...]

  • 82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

    82 CG Superheros, Villains, and Iconic Movie and Video Game Characters

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  • Boot Camp for Your Ear: Detecting Intervals with Song Associations

    Boot Camp for Your Ear: Detecting Intervals with Song Associations

    As a rocker at heart, I was never much interested in music theory. I picked it up as a matter of requirement throughout my education in bits and dribbles, though it seemed at the end of the day all I could do was read notes off a staff—a musical technology that’s not even really used in my genre.The problem with the prevailing ideas about music theory and how supposedly useless it is, is that they lump a whole bunch of knowledge under one small label. Some of what we call

  • Win Bobby Owsinski’s Book “How to Make Your Band Sound Great”

    Win Bobby Owsinski’s Book “How to Make Your Band Sound Great”

    If youre part of a band, then this book is perfect. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! One random commenter will be chosen as winner. Too easy.Win Bobby Owsinskis Book How to Make Your Band Sound GreatFor the chance to win Bobby Owinskis book How to Make Your Band Sound Great (pictured above) all you need to do is comment. Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you. This giveaway is open worldwide, but

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