Camtasia Screencasts of the Week and Meet-up in Toronto... (Visual Lounge)

Camtasia Screencasts of the Week and Meet-up in Toronto...

Posted on Friday November 17, 2006 by Betsy Weber

Your lucky day - I couldn't decide which videos I liked better, so this week you get multiple 'Screencasts of the Week'.

Today's Screencasts of the Week come from two of my fave people, Tom Green and Jim Babbage. They both contribute to CommunityMX which is a great resource if you use Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flash, Fireworks or Freehand.

Up first is Jim's video. He put together a tutorial for creating a digital photo frame in Photoshop. Jim demo'd the tutorial live in one of his labs and was asked by several student if it was included in their hand-out. So, he made a Camtaisa Studio for them. Jim told me that the tutorial is based on a tutorial from Scott Kelby's book, 'Photoshop CS2 for Digital Photographers'.

I like the video because Jim also took advantage of some new features in Camtasia Studio 4 - not only did he make the video, but he also made a MP3 and iPod version.

Click here to watch Jim's video.

You can read more about Jim here. I love Jim's motto,"Walk softly and wear a loud shirt."

Up next are some videos from all around nice guy, Tom Green (see his pic below from Flash in the Can). Tom teaches interactive multimedia at Humber College. I often see him speaking at Flash shows and he's written several great books on Flash.

I was e-mailing Jim and Tom, and I mentioned I that I was that I was going to blog Jim's video. Tom replied back that he could "Out Camtasia" Jim with his eyes closed! Those are fighting words!

Tom sent me some great videos too. Even I might be able to use Flash after watching Tom's videos. He makes it seem easy!

Check out Tom's videos:

What do Jim and Tom have in common outside of CommunityMX? They're both located in the Toronto area! I'll be up in Toronto next week visiting them and watching the LabRats shoot some new episodes. If you'd like to meet up in Toronto next week, let me know. I'll be in town Monday through Thursday. Please don't make me go to the Hockey Hall of Fame alone - drop me a line (517.410.0030 - cell)

Comments (2)

Jim Babbage :

Thanks Betsy. I'm looking forward to meetig up with you again. I mus say too that Scott Kelby's book is an excellent text for Photoshop users. I've found it very usefula nd inspiring.

One of the things I love doing is to take Photoshop-based tutorials and see how - or if - I can convert them to Firewoks tutorials. And I did jsut that with the digital frame tutorial using vectors rather than bitmap selections. No video with this one, but if anyone is a Fireworks user, they may want to check it out at the link above.