Daniella, Josh and Phoebe applied independently to take part in the BFI Film Academy, a six week intensive filmmaking course delivered by Eastside Educational Trust. They were selected because they demonstrated a real passion for filmmaking and a desire to develop their skills beyond the work they were doing at school. With different backgrounds and levels of experience in filmmaking they came together as a team to create a short film – they contributed to all aspects of the production as well as attempting to achieve their own individual challenge in a specific role. Unlike many of the participants, these students decided to focus on a documentary about a subject which is very close to their hearts. It was hard work but their perseverance paid off and they were able to meet and interview many people to try and effect change in their community.

Learn how easy it is to apply local adjustments including modifications to exposure, contrast, sharpening and more, using the new non–destructive Radial filter in Lightroom.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates how to use Hue, Saturation, Luminance and the Adjustment Brush to selectively control color in Lighrroom Note: although this video was recorded in Lightroom, the same techniques are available in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6.

In this movie, Claudia McCue shows us how to extract pages from one document and save them in a separate PDF. She does this two different ways; one uses the Page Thumbnails panel dropdown menu and the second is by selecting the specific page thumbnails.

In this movie, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to use the Quick Select tool and the Refine Edge tool to select complex soft-edged objects.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, discover the power of making selective adjustments like dodging and burning, color corrections and noise removal using the Graduated Filter and Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 4. Note: although this video was recorded in Lightroom, the same techniques are available in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6.

InstantMovie is just what it sounds like. Simply select a few clips, choose a movie theme, and click a few buttons, and almost instantly you’ll get a fully edited video with professional-quality transitions, effects, and music.

Need to fix, enhance, or apply artistic effects just to a specific area of your photo? This tutorial shows you how to use the Smart Brush to select and apply adjustments to a specific photo area with one brushstroke. You'll also learn how to use the Detail Smart Brush to paint on enhancements without making a selection.

Learn some basic design techniques for enhancing your favorite images. Take a simple image and make it pop out of its background for extra impact. This techique is great for special event and holiday cards.

Even with the fantastic new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, the Lens Blur filter is an essential tool when a high degree of control is needed to selectively (and realistically) blur an image. In this video tutorial, Julieanne uses the Lens Blur filter with a depth map to to create a series of images that appear as if they were captured with a tilt-shift lens. Julieanne also demonstrates how to quickly apply this filter to multiple images using actions and batch processing.

Sometimes, photographs require editing in just a specific area of a picture. RC Concepcion goes over how to perform selective edits in Lightroom4.

In this video you will see how you can search and browse the FORK media asset database without leaving Adobe Premiere Pro. Now you can select timelines created in the FORK editor, clips or entire bins, and simply drag and drop them into an Adobe Premiere Pro project, and when the edit is done send the completed sequence, ready for air, direct to FORK or fulfill a placeholder from a newsroom control system.

The foundation of Harmonic’s solution is the Media Application Server (MAS), a SOA-based platform that hosts and coordinates applications that comprise an enterprise-class content management, preparation and delivery platform. Built in conjunction with MediaSmiths, the Adobe Premiere CS6 content panel allows editors to directly browse & select content managed by their MAS system, pulling the content directly into to an edit session.

In this video you'll get a chance to see how adding an Adobe Partner Panel can add additional features to your Adobe applications. I've selected Pond 5 as a featured partner to show this off. You'll be able to quickly add clips to your Project Bin directly within Premiere Pro CS6. Pond5 is free to sign up and start using. You'll have the option to purchase the HiRes versions of the clips once see how they work in your existing project. It's an excellent workflow and a great way to add clips to any project. Here's the link to get the free plug-in for Premiere Pro CS6: Pond 5 Premiere Plugin

In this Quick Tip, Julieanne quickly demonstrates how to create a 32-bit file from multiple exposures in Photoshop and then, using the Develop module in Lightroom 4.1 refines the image's color and tonality both globally and selectively - all while still working in 32-bit! In the tutorial, I don’t believe that I mentioned that when I choose Edit > In, my default setting is to hand off a TIFF file to Photoshop. That way, when I save the file, it saves a 32-bit TIFF – which is what Lightroom prefers (not a PSD file).

Get a basic overview of how you create new folders, move files into folders, and delete files within Creative Cloud.

In this movie, learn about the new Content-Aware Patch tool. See how to use this tool to heal away undesirable portions of an image. Select a specific region, and Photoshop automatically defines a randomized fill pattern. Consider it a more selective version of Content-Aware Fill.

In this lesson you'll see how you can use a selection as the basis of a targeted adjustment.

Adobe continues to improve CSS management capabilities in CS6 through the addition of support for multiple classes. Learn how to apply multiple classes to elements at virtually any point through the CSS workflow in Dreamweaver.

Napp Instructor Matt Kloskowski goes over some of the basics and benefits with making selective adjustments to images using the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 4.

With the Pattern feature, you can create swatches based on shapes you create, then apply them to selected artwork and edit them any way you want.

There are lots of different ways to select items in Illustrator, including the Selection and Direct Selection tools, the Select Similar options, and the Layers panel. We'll explore the various options in this video.

The InDesign toolbar contains a lot of tools, many of which are hidden or "nested" underneath the tools you see initially. In this video you will see the primary tools used to select, rotate and size objects. You'll also learn how to use the Type tool to edit text and create frames with or without borders, switch tools using your keyboard, and navigate with the Hand and Zoom tools.

Take a quick look at Julieanne's favorite 6 features in Photoshop CS6 including improved processing in Adobe Camera Raw, the intuitive new Blur Gallery, time-saving type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, powerful video editing tools, and the redesigned Crop tool, and auto-select interpolation.

Download Photoshop CS6 Beta from Adobe Labs to try it out.

Use the clone stamp tool in Photoshop Touch to duplicate image elements for a surrealistic effect. Russell Brown shows you how to use this technique to keep your file sizes small.

Russell Brown shows you how to create a silhouette using the Scribble Select tool and some basic layering in Photoshop Touch on the Ipad 2.

Spy Hop on TV is the newest addition to the Youth Documentary Arts Program. Spy Hop was able to partner with KUED to offer a special project, Spy Hop on TV, to eight, advanced documentary film students. KUED asked students the question “what does freedom (Civil Rights)” mean to you from as youth perspective? Students created four short films in teams of two. The selected film topics addressing this question include education equality, Salt Lake City’s refugee population, religious freedom and LGBT issues in the Salt Lake community. The four short films premiered on KUED on May 16th, 2011 and the resulting partnership has received positive feedback and praise from the community.

Spy Hop on TV is the newest addition to the Youth Documentary Arts Program. Spy Hop was able to partner with KUED to offer a special project, Spy Hop on TV, to eight, advanced documentary film students. KUED asked students the question “what does freedom (Civil Rights)” mean to you from as youth perspective? Students created four short films in teams of two. The selected film topics addressing this question include education equality, Salt Lake City’s refugee population, religious freedom and LGBT issues in the Salt Lake community. The four short films premiered on KUED on May 16th, 2011 and the resulting partnership has received positive feedback and praise from the community.

Spy Hop on TV is the newest addition to the Youth Documentary Arts Program. Spy Hop was able to partner with KUED to offer a special project, Spy Hop on TV, to eight, advanced documentary film students. KUED asked students the question “what does freedom (Civil Rights)” mean to you from as youth perspective? Students created four short films in teams of two. The selected film topics addressing this question include education equality, Salt Lake City’s refugee population, religious freedom and LGBT issues in the Salt Lake community. The four short films premiered on KUED on May 16th, 2011 and the resulting partnership has received positive feedback and praise from the community.

Spy Hop on TV is the newest addition to the Youth Documentary Arts Program. Spy Hop was able to partner with KUED to offer a special project, Spy Hop on TV, to eight, advanced documentary film students. KUED asked students the question “what does freedom (Civil Rights)” mean to you from as youth perspective? Students created four short films in teams of two. The selected film topics addressing this question include education equality, Salt Lake City’s refugee population, religious freedom and LGBT issues in the Salt Lake community. The four short films premiered on KUED on May 16th, 2011 and the resulting partnership has received positive feedback and praise from the community.

Apply brush-based, pressure-sensitive sharpening to your image exactly where you want it with the powerful new Protect Detail option for the Sharpen tool. Prioritize specific areas for sharpening to draw attention to the focal point of an image, such as the eyes of a portrait, and enhance fine details and textures without adding distracting noise or artifacts.

Watch Keith demonstrate how to use the new Flash Builder plugin for SAP Netweaver Gateway to associate data within two datagrids, binding data from an SAP service, then retrieving details of a selected item in the first datagrid and displaying it in a second datagrid.

Learn about using Acrobat.com to host your form online, making it accessible by anyone, or only groups you select. See how to configure an Acrobat.com account to allow forms to be shared and distributed.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators illustrate options and strategies for exhibition of youth media work.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators discuss how they use media as a means to develop critical thinking.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators share their experiences and suggestions for working with young people with unique challenges and offer suggestions.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators offer tips for facilitating youth expression in media work.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators describe techniques that help develop the best ideas and facilitate productive brainstorms.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators share their experiences with community collaboration.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators demonstrate what happens when youth are encouraged to be creative and collaborative.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators explore approaches to human rights as a topic for youth media.

In this video, Paul Trani discusses the challenge of scaling complex animations across multiple screen sizes, and offers a couple workflows for accomplishing this in Flash Professional CS5.5.

The Adobe Foundation hosted in 2009 the first Adobe Youth Voices Summit, a three-day digital media immersion event for 100 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) and educators, held at Stanford University. The summit, took place July 30 - Aug. 1, 2009, and brought together youth from undeserved communities around the world for creative workshops focused on all aspects of digital media, including film making, photography, animation and design. The first-of-its-kind summit was designed to empower youth to create media for social change and foster a deeper sense of social and civic engagement.

How to specify that different-sized PDF pages print on the correct paper size in Acrobat or Adobe Reader X (not 10.1.2 or later).

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne Kost explains two different methods for selectively colorizing an image to differentiate the subject from the background using Adobe Camera Raw.

Learn how to use Acrobat X Std. or Pro. to send PDF attachments and convert email to PDF directly from within Outlook 2003, 2007, and the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010. You can easily convert selected email messages or complete folders, and can archive your email as a PDF Portfolio.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals essential shortcuts and little known features that will make navigating the grid view in Lightroom far more efficient.

There are lots of cameras available today and each one offers different features and benefits. In this video tutorial series, you'll learn to select the appropriate camera, become familiar with the basic operations, and explore popular shooting techniques.

In this tutorial, Sr. Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine takes you through the process of setting up the Adobe Audition for Mac beta to record in the multitrack environment. You'll be taken step-by-step through the process of selecting the correct sound device, adjusting session properties, basic tracking, adding track & clip effects, creating busses, and performing a final mixdown.

Download the Audition for Mac beta

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates what you can do in Lightroom’s Develop module to enhance your photographs using color and tonality to change the mood and atmosphere of an image . We all know that the goal is to capture the best photograph in camera, but what happens when we aren’t at the right place at the right time? Julieanne will show you how to make subtle changes to increase the photograph’s emotional impact.

In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how to select multiple images to work together as diptychs and triptychs. Learn how to select photographs with similar attributes such as color and shape, mood and lighting, line and form will help to unify two (or more) photographs, perhaps even creating new meaning through the relationship of the imagery.

Find out which method of tagging images works best for the photography you do, and simplify the creation of collections of images.

Perhaps the best tool in Photoshop CS5? You be the judge. Colin Smith shows you how easy it is to create high quality cutouts. He takes a photo of a woman and then removes her and places her into another photograph. So quick and easy!

Learn how Phil Ice examines qualitative and quantitative approaches used to assess the effectiveness of select Acrobat.com and Connect implementations. He focuses on the methodological basis of the studies and how they can be applied to future work involving Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and other applications and assesses how the techniques used can be leveraged for future research.

Select soft edges and areas of fine detail by using the improved Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialog boxes. View underlying layers to create realistic composites, and finesse selections by using refinement brushes.

Use the Selection tool to grab objects or even objects within objects, such as text in a text frame or images within an image frame. Learn how to click through a grouped object to an object behind.

Learn how to use the Draw Behind and Draw Inside drawing modes to efficiently achieve various layer effects in Illustrator CS5.

The Blob Brush and Eraser tools perform pathfinder operations behind the scenes as you draw. Draw over existing brush strokes with the Blob Brush to merge the strokes. Select objects before drawing with the Eraser tool to erase only selected areas.

Navigate the stacking order in an Illustrator document by using the Selection tool. Select and isolate grouped objects and go into Outline Mode to view them more clearly. Learn how to select objects beneath the selected layer.

Choose the Selection tool to select an object or group of objects or the Direct Selection tool to select individual paths or anchor points. Choose the Group Selection tool to select nested groups. Use modifier keys to add or subtract from selections.

Make rectangular and elliptical selections with the marquee tools or freeform selections with the Lasso tool. Constrain, add or subtract from, and move selections. Use modifier keys to change the tools' behavior.

Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds faster using a revolutionary new approach that works much like the Quick Select tool in Photoshop.

Create, preflight and publish documents faster. New and enhanced tools and on-object controls help speed up and simplify repetitive, everyday tasks such as selecting and editing frames and frame content, adjusting the white space between images, or creating grids. The ability to create pages with different sizes in a single InDesign file, and other productivity features in InDesign CS5 let you complete your page layout in fewer steps.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost shows us how to get great results with the Lens Blur Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

In this episode you'll learn how to create a Flash web gallery directly from the images you have selected in Adobe Bridge CS4

Gabriel Powell shows you how to select, compare, and present images in Adobe Bridge. This tutorial is from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Learn by Video - the official training for the Adobe Certified Associate exam: www.peachpit.com/learnbyvideo.

Export to DVD, Blu-ray, or Flash from the same project. Use the Build panel to select a format and establish settings.

Edit text by changing its font, color, size or content. Learn how to select a text layer for editing and use the type tools to make your changes. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Learn about the automatic selection tools in Photoshop Elements, which select areas of an image based on color and tone. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Discover a couple of tricks for selecting photos in the Organizer. Learn how to select multiple photos at once or select noncontiguous photos. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Edit text by changing its font, color, size or content. Learn how to select a text layer for editing and use the type tools to make your changes.

Learn about the automatic selection tools in Photoshop Elements, which select areas of an image based on color and tone.

In this Photoshop Tutorial, instructor Richard Harrington shows you what's new with the select color range command in Photoshop CS4.

Select one portion of an image. Use the Magic Wand, Brush, and Move tools to perform independent edits.

Learn the basics of video editing. Select and trim video. Set the in point and out point of a clip. Select multiple files and place them in the Timeline.

Select mobile devices in Adobe Device Central and create After Effects compositions tailored to their video specifications.

Select mobile devices in Adobe Device Central and create After Effects compositions tailored to their video specifications.

Learn the basics of video editing. Select and trim video. Set the in point and out point of a clip. Select multiple files and place them in the Timeline.

Create and name compositions. Select NTSC, PAL, and film presets, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. Nest multilayer compositions.

Start by using the Quick Select Tool and Marquee Tool for making a selection in Photoshop CS3. Then, easily modify the selection with the new Refine Edge feature.

Jim DiVitale shows how to use the Photoshop Lens Blur filter. A photograph is changed to a selective focus image with exact control of what is sharp and what falls out of focus.

Julieanne Kost shows several ways to select and compare images in order to edit a series of images, and then stack based on time or custom groupings.

The case of the missing control (command) click - This is the story of a happy web designer who used Adobe Photoshop. He thought his favorite feature went missing in the new version.