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Graphic Secrets for MUGs: Printing Borderless Photos in Photoshop and Elements

A UGAB Feature Article by Lesa Snider King

Resizing your images to print borderless can be an exercise in frustration. Unless you know the trick, you'll end up with a nasty white border. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do it quickly and painlessly in both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS. The best part is that both programs will figure the resolution for you automatically!

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Bio: Lesa Snider King is the author of "Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual" (O'Reilly), chief evangelist of iStockphoto.com, and founder of GraphicReporter.com. She's a proud member of DACS, NCMUG, and WAP. You can catch her graphic tips live each Wednesday night on YourMacLifeShow.com.

Right-Click: The Often Overlooked Treasure

"I'd switch to a MAC, but I couldn't imagine giving up the right-click." This lament of a PC user is a broad and correctible misconception. Right-click functionality has been built into OS X since 2001, so third-party mice would work. Even though you don’t clearly see it, the Macintosh mouse has had built-in right-click since August 2005.

This article is only about right-click, so we will ignore the clickable customizable scroll-ball and side-button features of the Mighty Mouse. The magic of touch-sensitive technology transforms this seamless top shell into a two-button wonder, in wired or wireless versions.

Read the complete article from the appleJAC Macintosh Users Group.

A Sound Start for Capturing Audio

Most editors realize that successful post-production is built on solid production, and that capturing decent audio is just as critical - if not more so - than capturing good video.  Here is a step-by-step explanation of how to set up an external condenser microphone, a basic field mixer and a prosumer camcorder – specifically, audio-technica’s AT8035 Line + Gradient Condenser Microphone, Sound Devices’ 302 Compact Production Mixer and Canon’s XH-A1 high definition camcorder - to capture audio in the field.

Read the article from the District of Columbia Final Cut Pro User Group.