Ben Halsall

Some useful tips for creating looping audio tracks right in Final Cut Pro X. You will learn how to create a compound clip, loop audio, extend your compound clips and change the duration of multiple transitions in one go.

Check out my new Skillshare course that will be free throughout April 2016.

In this class you will firstly learn how to make selections, create layer masks, scale, rotate and edit image location.

You will then look at how you can create gradient backgrounds, used hue and saturation adjustment layers and add colour effects to your image cut-out.

The short animated GIF below give a flavour of what will be covered. Check out the full course here.

Thanks goes to my student Shelby who reminded me that I’d made this video for one of my students taking the Digital Studio Tools course at the University of Regina in Fall 2015! Hope you have fun with it if you get a chance to check it out.

In this tutorial I use silhouettes created with the trace tool in adobe Illustrator as clipping masks in Adobe Photoshop. Type is then layered over the top of the silhouetted layers to create a cool ASCII’like effect. Then working with hue/saturation adjustment layers we look at how to colour the type on the layers below.

Digital Studio Tools will be running again at the University of Regina in Fall 2016.

Thanks for checking out my course “Introduction to WordPress”. I teach a range of design, video and web courses and have just added this new course to my catalogue. If you are interested in learning how to manage a web-site using WordPress, how to integrate it with your social media then look no further. If you have any questions then just drop me an e-mail at design@benhalsall.com.

Course Overview

This introduction to WordPress will get you running with the internet’s number one open-source web-design, content management and blogging platform.

You will learn everything you need to know to install and create your very own WordPress web–site. You will create posts, upload images and setting up forms, work with themes and learn how to customise your own sites design as well as implementing forms and the essential security features you need.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for those new to managing a WordPress website. If you need to learn how to create and edit an existing site or want to learn how to create a new WordPress site from scratch then this course is for you. We cover some of the technical aspects of how to install your very own web-server but the main focus is on using WordPress as a site management tool.

Course Outline