• We all know how to hear, it's natural, but knowing how to listen is a learned skill. It takes practice and it takes thought. Knowing how to listen is the key to making better and faster decision during the process of recording music. In this video, Fab shows you how to focus your attention on parts of the signal, explains memorization process and habits and warns you against the most common bad habits.
• Because a lot of the listening process is based on emotions, intuition and impressions this video uses psycho-acoustics to show you the most common pitfalls of focused listening.
• Please resist the irresistible urge to spoil the process for other viewers by leaving hints in the comments. You punks know who you are, darn kids these days…

The best professional mixing engineers are typically also the best professional lazy people. Instead of having to manually ride faders constantly engineers decades ago invented an automatic volume automation tool and called it a compressor. In this tutorial, Fab Dupont explains the most essential controls on this powerful and often confusing studio staple.Fab explains what each knob does and gives you easy-to-remember tips that will simplify the process of dialing in your own compressor settings.

Want to change just part of a photo? Selections are your dance partner, and the Marquee Tool is the promo king!

In this tutorial, learn to use multiple variations of the Marquee Tool to make rectangular and elliptical selections in Photoshop.

Joey D'Anna shows how to integrate the Relight ResolveFX plugin into fixed node trees to maximize its usefulness, capability, and performance.

After demonstrating Resolve 18.5 on the show floor at NAB, I was very impressed with the new Relight ResolveFX. The plugin works by using machine learning to generate a normals map of an existing image and then, with that normals map, build a lighting matte for color grading.

Ian now takes us through adding the finishing touches to the Matte Painting and explains the method of creating a focal point in your work.

Level: Beginner | Duration: 40m 35s | Audio: English | By: Ian Vicknair

• Displaying reference for our work is never perfect. Software like PureRef can help, but what if you want to have your reference closer to where you're actually working? Like a physical art canvas could do.
• Well, we can do that with this trick using Artboards! Through this trick, we can turn the dead space around our photoshop canvas into an infinite area for our reference!