Intro to Podcasting

Recording and Mixing a Podcast with Music Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: Recording in Waveform, noise cancellation, trimming, basic transitions, Multitrack effects Result: An audio file with background music and a voiceover What is Adobe Audition? Adobe Audition is used for recording and mixing audio, such as voiceovers, music, podcasts, or voice…

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10 Photoshop Essentials for Beginners

10 essential things to get started with Photoshop Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: Reference image used through out guide: Adi Kavazovic (2021) 1) Pixel sizes Images in Photoshop are raster graphics, meaning the image is compiled of millions of pixels. A disadvantage of raster images is that images can only be upscaled…

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Visualising Data in Illustrator

NOTE: Click on each screenshot to enlarge them. In each set of images, the first screenshot will be from Windows 10, the latter in macOS Big Sur. Interchange Ctrl/Cmd (⌘) keys for shortcuts depending on your operating system. Any further differences will be noted Configuring Your Artboard Once you open…

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Using a DSLR Camera

Digital Single-Lens Reflex cameras, or DSLRs, combine the optics and mechanisms of single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras with the digital processing of image sensors and computers. Difficulty: Medium What you will learn: Manual mode, understanding components of exposure Manual Mode On the left side of the top of the camera, there…

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Processing Photos in Lightroom

Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: Histogram, cropping and transforming, temperature, tone, saturation/vibrance, sharpening and noise reduction, distortion correction, metadata removal Download Reference Photos: guide-student-practice-0789.dng Result: Step 1 – Preparation Open “Lightroom Classic“. Note: do not use “Lightroom” (old name: Lightroom CC). Lightroom Classic is desktop-based with its photo library stored on the computer, meanwhile,…

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Tracing Technical Drawings

Traditionally, archaeologists would digitise illustrations of artifacts by scanning them as high-resolution images. However, a flaw to this method is the loss of detail when the pixel-based image is scaled. A more modern process has been digitising illustrations into vector graphics instead. Using this method, archaeologists can preserve the details…

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Basic Sequence in Premiere Pro

Difficulty: Basic What you will learn: Create a project in Premier Pro, Import media, Create a simple sequence, Export finished standalone media file. Step 1 – Setup your workspace It is important to organise your assets so you do not lose things. If you do this correctly, you can copy…

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Earth Day Poster

Difficulty: Basic – Medium What you will learn: Basics of shapes, layers, tools and text in Illustrator. Result: Step 1 – Setup file and background Select ‘Art & Illustration’ then select ‘Poster’ in blank document presets that appear when you open Illustrator. Can also make a new file with File >…

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Basic Edit in Premiere Pro

Difficulty: Basic What you will learn: Create a project in Premier Pro, Import media, Edit using a variety of tools, Export finished standalone media file Step 1 – Setup your workspace It is important to organise your assets so you do not lose things. If you do this correctly, you…

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InDesign Basics: Type Tool

What is Adobe InDesign? A versatile application in the Creative Suite, InDesign blends word processing, illustration, formatting, and visual edits into one program. Used to publish magazines such as Vogue and Time, edit basic architectural drawings, or designing your student diary and textbooks, it combines basic features from a range of programs into…

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