Nathan Smith from godbit.com did capture a video tutorial on creating an animation with Fireworks. The screencast was taken with the free video capturing tool Wink. Unfortunately it does not contain any audio. Nevertheless everybody who knows Fireworks a bit will be able to easily follow the steps. Additionally Nathan did write a step-by-step guide along with the video.

Find all infos here.

Tubetorial is a new portal publishing flash based videos on:

• Internet marketing strategies and techniques
• Legal issues for Internet content producers and marketers
• Web development and technology tips

Bloggers might be interested in the tutorial series How to Build a Profitable Home on the Web.

The tutorials are all in english.

Today Adobe® announced the release of Captivate™ 2 for coming October.

Captivate 2 software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills.

Several new features were added to the software. One which excites me most is:

Engage the learner by focusing attention on specific areas. Simply gray out the rest of the screen or magnify a particular screen area with a zoom effect. Both effects can be combined for maximum awareness. The zoom effect retains all interactivity of the enlarged area so learners can focus on practicing a particular task.

Zooming into a scene was not possible with previous versions and by some, who know Camtasias great zooming feature, really missed.

The crew of the German Textpattern resourceblog started publishing videotutorials lately.

Captivate is of course expensive: $599. Qualified educational end users get a reduction of $199.

An OS(Opensource) screencapture tool is WINK. Price: 0$

At first glance, Quicksilver is a launcher for MAC OS. When opened, it will create a catalog of applications and some frequently used folders and documents. Activate it, and you can search for and open anything in its catalog instantly. The search is adaptive, so Quicksilver will recognize which items you are searching for based on previous experience. It also supports abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each. When not in use, Quicksilver vanishes, waiting for the next time you summon it.

Quicksilver’s greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses.

If you like to learn more about Quicksilver, watch a screencast done by Steve from Insert Title Blog.

Domen Lombergar is a young & highly talented slovenian digital creator and artist. On his website you find lots of free video tutorials on Phtoshop (effects) like

• Faking Fog in Photoshop
• Advanced Batch Processing
• Nondestructive Sepia Toning

and much more…

He runs as well a community for aspiring digital artists on artworld.si.

Links
Domens devianart page

If you’ve ever wrestled to get a decent shot of the outside and inside when shooting indoors on a sunny day, or been disappointed to find your subject silhouetted when shooting into the sun, Joshus Keay has a Photoshop fix for it.

Watch his videocast Five Minute Foto Fix on photojojo.com.

In case you don’t already watch them, I felt like I should point out to anyone who regularly uses Photoshop that there is a great resource in video tutorials (in the form of the poorly named vodcast) at photoshopkillertips.com

You can get the feed here, which you can plug into apple’s itunes or your favorite feed reader.