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Phil South

Phil South has been writing about tech subjects for over 30 years. Starting out with Your Sinclair magazine in the 80s, and then MacUser and Computer Shopper. He’s designed user interfaces for groundbreaking music software, been the technical editor on film making and visual effects books for Elsevier, and helped create the MTE YouTube Channel. He lives and works in South Wales, UK.

Using EasyCAP to Grab VHS and Consoles on the Mac

Using EasyCAP to Grab VHS and Consoles on the Mac

The EasyCAP DC60 is a cheap old school video capture device. If you have a ton of old VHS or video game consoles, this is one of the very best cost-effective ways to grab walkthrough videos.

Mac – Jan 21, 2016

HDR Environment Lighting in Blender 3D

Master HDR Environment Lighting in Blender 3D

HDR has come to mean those brightly coloured tone-mapped landscape images people post on the Internet. But that’s not what HDR is. This tutorial will explain what HDR environment lighting is and how to get the effects in Blender 3D.

Productivity – Jan 13, 2016

Mastering 3D Lighting in Blender

Mastering 3D Lighting in Blender

To get good lighting in 3D graphics images, you need to have a grasp of lighting in the real world. This tutorial will help you master 3D lighting in Blender.

Productivity – Dec 24, 2015

Blender 3D Rendering - Intermediate

Mastering 3D Rendering in Blender

In this article we cover rendering engines, settings for rendering, quality levels & more for taking Blender scenes & turning them into still images & video sequences.

Productivity – Dec 18, 2015

Blender 3D Animation Basics

Blender 3D Animation Basics

In this article we cover the basics of animation – keyframes and motion. We also give a quick-start intro to rendering your finished work as a video which will lead into a forthcoming article covering rendering in depth.

Productivity – Dec 10, 2015

Turn MIDI Files into Multitrack Music with Reaper

Turn MIDI Files Into Multitrack Music with Reaper

In this article you’ll learn to add MIDI files to Reaper and how to orchestrate & mix a final product, in this case, a fine example of Classical Chipmusic.

Productivity – Dec 2, 2015

How to Capture the Sound of a Cave

How to Capture the Sound of a Cave

In this article we explain how to steal the sound of a real world space like a cave or tunnel, and use it in your music and sound design. All this is made possible by the magic of convolution reverbs.

Software Hacks – Nov 27, 2015

Grab All Images From a Web Page with Automator

Easily Download All Images from Web Pages in Safari with Automator

Ever wished that you could download all images from Web pages at once? In this article we show you a simple three-part Automator script on Mac that does that.

Mac – Nov 23, 2015

Raspberry Pi Camera Basics

Mastering the Raspberry Pi Camera

The RasPi has a cheap camera module you can just plug right into the board, and you turn it into a surveillance camera. In this article you’ll learn to fit and set up the Raspberry Pi camera and adjust the basic settings to take stills or video.

PC Guides – Nov 17, 2015

Blender 3D Advanced Modelling

Blender 3D Advanced Modelling

Continuing from our previous article on Blender 3D modelling basics, this article discusses advanced modelling techniques using subdivisions and loop cuts.

Productivity – Nov 12, 2015

Pop Art Retro Screen Prints using Pixlr

How to Create Pop Art Retro Screen Prints Using Pixlr

If you are looking for a new graphics technique using layers, you may want to try this great retro 1960s pop art screen print effect. We’ll show you how to get this cool effect using Pixlr.

Productivity – Nov 11, 2015

Blender 3D Lighting and Rendering Basics

Blender 3D Lighting and Rendering Basics

In this article we will teach you to light your scenes using virtual lights inside Blender 3D and render your scenes as a still, a cross-platform software.

Productivity – Nov 4, 2015

Blender 3D Materials and Textures Basics

Blender 3D Materials and Textures Basics

In this article we show you how to texture objects that you make in Blender 3D using photographic bitmaps and graphics you create.

Productivity – Oct 28, 2015

Blender 3D Basics

Blender 3D Basics: The Getting Started Guide

In this article we give you a beginners’ guide to building objects in 3D with Blender, a free cross-platform 3D graphics and video software.

Productivity – Oct 21, 2015

Cool Effects Programming with Reaper

Create Cool Sound Effects with Reaper

There are a lot of effects that come with the DAW software Reaper. In this article we show how to create sounds and provide fun presets to get you started.

Productivity – Oct 14, 2015

Camera Tracking in Blender

Introduction to Camera Tracking in Blender

Blender is a wonderful 3D program. In this article we show the facility for camera tracking in Blender and suggest ways to use it for visual effects.

Productivity – Oct 7, 2015

Green Screen Visual Effects with Blender

How to Add Green Screen Visual Effects with Blender

Blender is an open-source cross-platform 3D graphics program. This is an introduction to node-based compositing & how to do a green screen composite shot.

Productivity – Sep 3, 2015

You and Linuxsampler Can Make Beautiful Music Together

Make Beautiful Music with Linuxsampler – An Open Source Audio Sampler

Linuxsampler is a cross-platform and open-source sampler project. In this article we show how to sample and configure instruments & create a retro drumbox.

Productivity – Sep 2, 2015

Music Production on the Cheap with Reaper

Music Production on the Cheap with Reaper

Reaper is an affordable fully-featured DAW for Windows and Mac. If you’re looking to get into music production, here’s how to use Reaper to do the job.

Productivity – Aug 27, 2015

Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Word Processor

Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Word Processor

In this article we describe the basic software & hardware needed to turn a Raspberry Pi into an easily portable desktop word processing machine.

PC Guides – Aug 25, 2015

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