As you may already know, Envato releases freebies every month on all of their Marketplaces. Here’s just a handful of them. You can visit Envato Marketplaces for more!

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VideoHive • GraphicRiver • PhotoDune • 3docean • AudioJungle

VideoHive: Creative Minds

 VideoHive’s ”EFEKT_Studio“

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Top quality design, full customization and video instructions will help improve your styling. The best thing is that you don’t need 3rd party plug-ins.

GraphicRiver: Business eNewsletter Design

 Graphic River’s ”Alexlasek“

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Professional and customizable email template design for your Business.

PhotoDune: Beautiful Woman Wearing Jewelry

 Photodune’s ”matusciac“

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Beautiful woman wearing jewelry, very clean image with copy space.

3docean: Lowpoly Wrench

 3docean “dinhtran“

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This is Lowpoly Wrench, Model has 218 Tris and texture map 256-256

AudioJungle: Determination

 audiojungle ”CraigHall“

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‘Determination’ is an uplifting and motivational track, designed for business or corporate projects such as presentations or advertising!

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We’ve all seen it at least once. You watch a music video and one of the effects you see is a strobe like frame by frame flash that goes to the beat. As requested, we’ll be taking a look at how to do just that in Vegas Pro 12. We’ll be using general features not bound to just Vegas Pro so feel free to apply these techniques to your favorite editing platform.

Inspiration

Eminem – No Love ft. Lil Wayne @ 1:25 http://j.mp/11lVScL

Harlem Shake Times Square NYC feat. NYPD @ 0:20 http://j.mp/11lVZ8f

If you used this effect in any of your videos, share them in the comments below or on our Facebook page!

Resources:
Royalty Free Music by http://audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music
Flickr Car Image by Axion23
Optical Flares: RodyPolis (http://j.mp/LXkT60)

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By default, you may or may not see all the filters available in Photoshop CS6. Let’s bring them all back in the Preferences.

In Windows, go to Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins

Mac: Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-Ins

Be sure “Show all Filter Gallery groups and names” is checked. Click OK.

You should now have all the original filters in Photoshop!

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Simply double-click the pattern to load it into Photoshop CS6.

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Overview

Download Project File .Zip 31.9 MB

Sources

Texture: http://www.tofurious.com/post-production/grunge-textures/

Flare Overlay: http://www.cutestockfootage.com/

Free Valentine Stock Footage

CuteStockFootage

Awesome Valentine Tutorials

Chocolate Text Effect in Photoshop for Valentine’s Day

How to Create Amazing Valentine’s Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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How to Use Color Match

Apply the “Sony Color Match” effect to the clip you’d like to process. This can be applied to a media, event, track, or video output effect.

They’ve added a few presets to use but since we’re trying to match the color between clips, these won’t be necessary.

First, select an image source with one of the following methods;

• Use Trimmer Image (Uses the current snapshop in the Trimmer window.)
• Paste from Clipboard (Pastes a Copied Snapshot in from the clipboard.)
• Browse for Image (Browse for an image file.)
• Clip from Screen (Capture a source image from anywhere on your screen.)

Next, adjust the strength of the effect. This will adjust the amount of color or lightness applied to your video.

Selecting the Process Lightness check box will attempt to match the brightness and contrast of the source image. In the case the effect comes out too strong, you can manually adjust that with the other Vegas plug-ins as needed.

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The channels currently using the new layout are iJustine, DeStorm, EpicMealTime, SORTED, MysteryGuitarMan, LOUD and Geek & Sundry.

Unsubcribed Trailer

On the new channel layout, you can create a trailer only visible to those who are not currently subscribed to your channel. This way, you can show new visitors what your channel has to offer and why they should subscribe.

Featured Videos

You’re provided with a much more elaborate way of displaying your uploads. You can now display your videos by specific tags. Just type in a tag and all videos tagged with that will appear.

Channel Art

You may now upload and place a header image similar to that of Google Plus or Facebook. This image is responsive and will display on all devices from TVs to your phone. I’ve provided a Photoshop template to help you get started.

Responsive Dimensions:

Full Size / TV: 2120 X 1192 px (Recommended)

Desktop: 2120 X 350 px

Tablet: 1536 X 350 px

Mobile: 1280 X 350 px (Minimum)

Download the Photoshop Template

Download .Zip 98.3KB

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Opening the Expanded Edit Mode

As with many things in Sony Vegas, there’s all kinds of ways for you to access the Expanded Edit Mode. Here’s how;

• Go to Edit > Select > Expanded Edit Mode
• Press 5 on the numeric keypad
• Double-click the event edge

Layout

You’ll notice events are now laid out differently in A/B roll tracks.

Events before the edit point are displayed on the A roll track while all the following events are placed on the B roll track.

The greyed out areas just show the rest of the events so you can get an idea of how much footage you have to work with.

Red brackets [ ] indicate which event edge will be trimmed if you’re editing with the numeric keypad. We’ll get into editing with the numeric keys in a future tutorial.

In and out points are displayed as a split screen in the Video Preview window. Once you preview your edits, this will go back into single view.

Making Edits

Making edits is roughly the same as in the regular editing window. You can adjust the edits separately by dragging each one over or all together simultaneously by dragging between the two events.

Here you can also use the Adjacent Trim (Ctrl + Alt) tool to achieve the same simultaneous movement.

You can also adjust and add transitions as needed.

Exiting the Expanded Edit Mode

Exiting Expanded Edit Mode is the same as what you did to enter it;

• Edit > Select > Exit Expanded Edit Mode
• Press 5 on the numeric keypad
• Double-click the event edge
• Press Exc.

Overall, this new Expanded Edit Mode can be very useful when getting cuts just right. Although, I don’t see myself using it often. The Adjacent Trim tool seems to do the trick most times. Though, It would definitely help if you do a lot of multicamera work. Do you think this is something you’d find yourself using a lot? Let us know in the comments!

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In this weeks Windows Tip, we’ll take a look at a small application that can disable your screensaver while certain apps are open. So you’re sitting at your desk maybe doing homework and your screens shut off or those bubbles start to appear when you’re taking notes. With Cyber-D’s AntiScreensaver, you can automatically disable the screensaver when a web browser or word document is open. You can even chose specific websites that will disable your screensaver.

Usage:

Simply download it from Cyber-D’s blogspot, and install. The installer won’t ask you to install any other annoying programs like most freeware does.

Open it up and add which programs you’d like to disable the screensaver. Everything added here will disable the screensaver once they’re opened.

AntiScreensaver sits in your taskbar and will launch when Windows starts so once you set it you can forget about it. To exit, right click it in your taskbar and chose Exit. To disable it from opening when Windows starts, un-tick it in your startup script.

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Update: To remove Cyber D’s AntiScreensaver, uninstall the program if it is located in your program list and delete the folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Cyber D’s AntiScreensaver where C:\ is the path to your installation folder (May be different for you). 

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Video

There are endless possibilities when it comes to colorizing a QR code. Take a look at some of the designs over at QRLicious for inspiration.

QR Code

We’ll begin by creating our QR code. I used goqr.me to generate mine. QR codes can contain anything from a little message to a link. I just linked it to the website for now. However, if you have a very long link be sure to use a link shortener such as bit.ly to simplify the code a bit.

Once complete, you may adjust the size of the code. Click on Options and change the Error Correction Code to “Q” or “H” depending on what works best with your final logo. The Error Correction Code adjust how much of the QR code can be covered with it remaining readable. Download the code to your computer.

Photoshop

Create a new document and adjust the size to fit your needs. I chose 1000 x 1000 px.

I added a radial gradient to the background, but you may leave it white or transparent depending on where you plan on placing the QR code.

Drag (or File > Place) the QR code file you’ve just downloaded into this new Photoshop document. Adjust the size and center it.

To center, simply select the QR code layer and hold Ctrl to select the background layer. With both the QR code and background layers selected, use the move tool to center everything vertically and horizontally.

We now need to Rasterize the QR code layer since it is currently a Smart Object. To do this, Right-click the QR code layer and choose Rasterize Layer. Now we can delete the white background.

Select > Color Range click the white background within the QR code.

Choose a Fuzziness of around 100. Click OK. Everything that’s white in the image will be selected. With the QR code layer selected, hit Delete. You’ll notice all of the white has been deleted. Now you can hit Ctrl + D or Cmd + D(Mac) to deselect the selection.

All that’s left to do is to stylize the QR code with Layer Styles. Double-click the QR code layer or right-click and choose Blending Options. Here you can add anything from a Bevel & Emboss to a Drop Shadow. Keep in mind that some of these changes may effect the readability of the code so keep testing it while designing.

I added a dark navy blue #031634 to light navy blue #033649 Linear Gradient. Again you can add any of the styles here as long as everything’s still readable by devices.

You can also experiment with the different Artistic filters to stylize the code a bit. And even add a design within the three squares of the code. Make sure it’s still readable!

That’s it! We’ve added some color to the QR code making it much more appealing.

Post your QR code creations in the comments section below!

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