Wow, it has been a busy January! Finishing up with some big web freelance jobs to free time and energy for the new GoodLearning launch. In a few days, those should all be wrapped up. Launching the Treasure Teams Kickstarter project to try funding our new online / real-world scavenger hunt game. I’m not too [...]

In 2012, goodlearning.com is switching gears. You’ll still learn valuable creative technical skills, using freely-available software. Now, you’ll do it all while building your own games, start to finish! You learn valuable skills in a meaningful context: completing real-world projects. I’ve written and read lessons that just sit out there like islands, isolated from any [...]

Faking  a tilt-shift photography technique can be pretty easy on the right image. Numerous internet tutorials show you how, and there’s even an Adobe Air program that automates most steps for you. However, all those techniques break down when your photo has large vertical areas throughout, such as buildings in a downtown area. Let me [...]

Have you ever wanted to save a complex selection of pixels in Paint.net to use later? Many image editing programs let you save and load a selection as its own channel, but as of Paint.net version 3.5.5, this ability is not built-in. Have a look at this video to see one easy way of saving [...]

As I’ve shown in the “Power of Basic Selections” tutorial, selecting specific pixels for editing is an important skill. The Magic Wand tool helps select areas of similar color quickly and intelligently, saving lots of time we would otherwise spend painstakingly selecting pixels with other tools. This tutorial shows Paint.net’s Magic Wand tool in action, [...]

Learn to use the basic selection tools in Paint.net to work on specific areas of your image. Rectangle selection tool Ellipse selection tool Lasso selection tool Selection mode Selection constraints This video uses a “Wonder Woman” image produced by Vinnie Tartamella and found at DeviantArt.com. See Vinnie’s work at: http://vinroc.deviantart.com/

Learn to easily export video captions from Camtasia Studio to an SVB file for use with YouTube video captioning. Benefits If you make the effort to export your Camtasia Studio video captions, your caption text: Can be indexed by web search engines. Can be translated into other languages. Appears crisper than it would as Camtasia [...]

We use two distinctly different types of 2D graphics: Bitmap, or Raster graphics, and Vector, or Object graphics. Watch this video, under 8 minutes long, to understand the important differences between these two graphic types.

2D and 3D graphics work very differently, but there’s a place for both in your creative world. Watch this short video – under 3 minutes – to understand the basic differences between 2D and 3D graphics.

Just as WordPress version 3 came out with more custom taxonomies capabilities, I wrote a detailed tutorial for NetTuts+, explaining what a taxonomy is, and how to add custom taxonomies in WordPress. Check out Introducing WordPress 3 Custom Taxonomies on NetTuts+.