Premiere Pro: desaturate color selectively in your video

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Here we walk through how to make all but one color black and white. We get into the nitty gritty of using multiple layers to do an accurate composite that will look awesome in your final video.

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Google Spreadsheets: Split a String Into 3 Separate Cells

You will learn how to split a cells data into separate cells of a spreadsheet automatically. Using the example of a date string that comes in the format YYYYMMDD without any obvious separators we look how we extract the year, month and day to separate cells. This technique will work with Google Spreadsheets or Microsoft Excel.

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InDesign: Exporting Transparent PNGs

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Here you will cover two methods of exporting transparent PNG files from Adobe InDesign. If you are trying to export image or graphic content from InDesign to be used in a web, video or motion graphics project this lesson will help you to get your images in the right format.

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Learn The Final Cut Pro X Essentials on @skillfeed

My 4-star course “Learn The Final Cut Pro X Essentials” is up on Skillfeed. With over an hour of tutorials covering everything from managing your project files to editing, exporting and creating a split screen you will be well on your way to being a Final Cut ‘Pro’.

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“Get started with Final Cut Pro X with this series of video tutorials. Covering everything from the basic interface, editing and timeline management to creating a split screen these lessons will help you on your way to getting the very best out of your video project.”

Photoshop: Create a Cool Sliced up Portrait with this Skillshare Course

In this Skillshare course you will learn how go form a video to Photoshop in order to create this slices up portrait from multiple frames of a video. This creative technique takes in skills such as exporting still images from a video, combining multiple frames in to a single layers Photoshop file and using layer masks to combine these images together into a surreal piece of digital photography. Enjoy!

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Illustrator: Chop Your Type for Cool Effects Using the Pathfinder

In this tutorial we look at how to create paths from your type and then how to combine, modify and punch holes in shapes to create cool effects. This tutorial will open up a range of creative possibilities that you can use and adapt in your own projects.

Enjoy! If you want to share the projects you create based on this tutorial just send me a tweet @benhalsall . I’d love to see what you come up with.

Sliced Up Portraits in Photoshop on @skillshare

My new lesson “Sliced Up Portraits in Photoshop” is now available on Skillshare.

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In this course you will learn how go form a video to Photoshop in order to create this slices up portrait from multiple frames of a video. This creative technique takes in skills such as exporting still images from a video, combining multiple frames into a layered Photoshop document automatically and using layer masks to composite these images together into a surreal piece of digital artwork. Enjoy!