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How to make ghosts in Photoshop

So this is how they do it? All of those ghost hunters out there? They use Photoshop? Or are they really real ghosts? With these PS skills, who cares if they're real or not… it's too hard to tell anymore ...

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How to model a human head with great edge flow in Maya

One of the hardest things to replicate in Maya are human heads. But this makes the whole process seem like child's play. Even if you don't use Maya, this is still a pretty interesting video to check out. See ...

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How to chroma key video in Final Cut Pro

Chroma keying can be difficult if you've never done it before. So can green screening. This video makes it easy for the Final Cut neophyte, discussing the important facts on making a seamless green screen ...

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How to make a crowd with Particular in After Effects

Hiring tons of extras to fill a room to capacity for your next music video may not be feasible, so what do you do? Hire only a few and green screen, then use After Effects. Using Particular, it's easy to turn ...

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How to create a realistic leaf in 3ds Max

This is a great beginner's tutorial for opacity mapping of leaves in 3D Studio Max. It's hard to believe it's this easy to create a realistic leaf with a piece of software like 3D Max (ahem… we're talking ...

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How to clean up a bad key job using Vector Blur in AE

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to clean up a bad key job ...more

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How to color correct in After Effects

In this video tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates how to change the look and feel of your footage easily with his new ...more

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How to color correct with effects in After Effects CS4

This Adobe CS4 tutorial gives you an introduction to color correcting ...more

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How to control velocity in After Effects

This quick After Effects software tutorial shows you how to control velocity when animating. You will learn velocity keyframing and how to ...more

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How to convert video to cartoon in After Effects

In this three part tutorial Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz explains the process of converting video to cartoon by using only After ...more

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How to copy expressions to other layers in After Effects

In this video tutorial, CreativeCow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you ...more

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How to copy masks & paste them as keyframes in After Effects

This tutorial shows you the proper way to copy a mask in After Effects ...more

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How to create "horror movie" text in After Effects

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to make ''Horror Movie'' style text appear on a wall in part one of this After Effect tutorial. In part two ...more

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How to create & enhance text wipe-on effects in After Effects

In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a ...more

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How to create 3D extruded text in After Effects

Aharon Rabinowitz shows you several popular techniques and tools for creating 3D extruded text in After Effects. Some of the solutions he ...more

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How to create 3D objects in After Effects

This movie shows you how to create actual 3D objects in After Effects without expressions or 3rd party software. This example uses the ...more

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How to create 3D text in After Effects

In this video tutorial, animator Traylor Woodall demonstrates how to create 3D text or logos in Adobe After Effects without 3rd party ...more

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How to create a "running lights" effect in After Effects

This tutorial shows you how to make a vegas style sign where ...more

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How to create a 3D scene in After Effects

This video shows you how to turn a scene or composition into a 3D scene in After Effects.

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How to create a cross-processed LOMO effect in After Effects

Give a vintage look to your footage similar to that obtained from LOMO ...more

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How to create a custom shape extruder in After Effects

In this video tutorial, Jerzy Drozda Jr (aka Maltaannon) demonstrates ...more

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How to create a digits man in After Effects

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern will show you a cool technique for filling an image of a human head with ...more

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How to create a fireball in After Effects

Devin shows you how to create a fireball or energy ball effect in this After Effects tutorial. There are many ways to create a fire ball ...more

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How to create a flock of birds in After Effects

In part 1 of this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to build and animate a bird in After Effects 3D. In part 2, it will join a ...more

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How to create a frosty shape in After Effects

In After Effects, there are several effects that will help you to edit simple shapes into more complex images. Here is a procedure to ...more

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How to create a frozen time effect in After Effects

In this video tutorial, Andrew Kramer demonstrates how to create 'Time Freeze'. This effect is currently being used in 'Heros' and other ...more

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How to create a ghost effect in After Effects

In this Adobe After Effects tutorial Tony Reale shows you how to create a ghost effect for your films.

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How to create a hand scanner in After Effects

Learn how to create a Hand Scanner in Adobe After Effects. This is an advanced level tutorial so you should at least know your way around ...more

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How to create a head explosion effect in After Effects

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to make a head explosion ...more

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How to create a Kung Pow tongue effect in After Effects

This After Effects tutorial gives a basic overview of how to create ...more

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How to create a logo hold in particleIllusion

Aharon Rabinowitz answers the common question: ''How do I make my logo stay up longer in particleIllusion?'' If you've ever had trouble ...more

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How to create a nearly invisible man in After Effects

Learn how to create a nearly invisible man, using the displacement ...more

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How to create a pond ripple effect in After Effects

An After Effects tutorial on creating a pond surface effect and simulating an underwater video. Start with footage of a person looking down ...more

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How to create a shotgun blast using 3ds Max and After Effects

In this 2 part tutorial, Michael Park will demonstrate how to create a ...more

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How to create a skybox or skydome in After Effects

In this week's podcast Creative Cow Leader Jerzy Drozda shows you how to create a Skybox, the illusion of distant or even infinite 3D ...more

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How to create a slow motion knife throw in After Effects

Learn how to create a slow-motion knife throw effect using After ...more

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How to create a Star Wars lightsaber in After Effects

This tutorial creates several authentic lightsaber effects. Kramer ...more

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How to create a teleport effect in After Effects

This tutorial will teach you how to recreate a teleport effect using only plug ins that come with After Effects instead of Trapcode's ...more

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How to create a Time Ramp in After Effects

This is a basic tutorial teaching time re-mapping / ramping effects in Adobe After Effects.

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How to create a volume meter in After Effects

After watching this tutorial you will learn how to make your Volume Meter more dynamic by reacting to sound playing in the background while ...more

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How to create a voyage tracking animation in After Effects

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to create a voyage tracking ...more

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How to create a working radar screen in After Effects

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How to create advanced glitter using expressions & Particular

In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates ...more

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How to create After Effects CS4 projects

This After Effects tutorial is for beginning users new to the software in general. It explains the difference between projects and ...more

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How to create an animation in one layer in After Effects

In this quick tip for after effects users, CreativeCOW contributing ...more

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How to create an explosion in After Effects 7.0

This software tutorial shows you how to add an explosion to your footage in After Effects. You will need to find footage of an explosion ...more

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How to create an invisible effect in After Effects

Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern with the help of his brother Yuval will show you a simple method to create the famous invisible ...more

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How to create an odometer in After Effects

This After Effects podcast tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to set up a basic odometer, ready for manual keyframed animation. If ...more

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How to create an outward explosion in After Effects

This After Effects tutorial shows you how to create an outward explosion, useful if you want to blow out windows or doors. Also create cool ...more

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How to create and wiggle 3D text in Adobe After Effects

Learn 3D text in Adobe Illustrator! Then use it in Premiere Pro or ...more

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How to create animated text effects in After Effects CS3

In this After Effects tutorial you will learn how to create some ...more

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How to create basic text animation in After Effects CS3

Watch and learn how to create some basic text animation in After ...more

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How to create cloning and levitation effects in After Effects

Have you ever wondered how there could be so many Agent Smiths ...more

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How to create custom particles in Particular in After Effects

This software tutorial shows you how to create custom particles in ...more

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How to create custom shapes in After Effects

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to move beyond the Basic shape tools to create your own custom ...more

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Dean Potter, one of National Geographic's Ten Adventurers of the Year, set a world record for base jumping in 2009. Via NatGeo: "On a sunny afternoon in mid-August, Dean Potter stepped onto a ...

Ew. Livestream of Patient's Brain Being Sliced. Watch Now.

Neuroscience (live!) resumes its 50 hour slicing session 8:00 am PST this morning. According to Gizmodo, "Studying Henry Gustav Molaison, more commonly known as Patient H.M., and his memory ...

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Rosemarie Fiore is badass. She makes art with pyrotechnics, amusement park rides, Atari, guns, and pinball machines. Though all of her work is cool, I have to say my favorite piece is Fiore's larger ...

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Breakdancing. Acrobatics. Gymnastics. Human jump roping fits in all. And why not? It's frickin' awesome. (Image credit: Flickr user envycleopatra.)

Indian Spiderman Defies Gravity (and Death)

Real life spiderman, Jyothi Rai of India, spends his time entertaining tourists by scaling walls of the Chitradurga Fort. The daredevil works completely harness free. Inspired? WonderHowTo's Climbing ...

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