Recently, I found a few royalty-free and beautiful photographs of mushrooms on pixabay.com. They would be great as background images for my latest Apple Motion template project. I just needed to work with the Color Balance tools in Photoshop to refine the colors in the second photo.

This video series entitled iBooks Author Essential Training by Chris Mattia has been updated as of December 2015. The sample book that you learn to create in iBooks Author is the same but some of the videos have been updated and new videos have been added for the latest version of iBooks Author.

There are a few considerations when preparing the graphics for a full-screen picture book or children's book, which will be compiled in iBooks Author. We will discuss those considerations. To simplify these tutorials, I am assuming that the target mobile device for your book is the iPad.

In this tutorial, we will work with two photographs and combine them into one image. This image will be used for a winter themed video opener that we will make in Apple Motion.

In this tutorial, we will create an SVG cut design for the Silhouette cutting machine. This design will be for a base for a 12-sided dodecahedron calendar, which I designed last year. I decided to make this year's base a 5-sided base with an indented hexagon center that will hold the calendar.

In this tutorial, we will create an SVG cut file for a pocket wedding invitation. The pocket style is very popular for weddings. What pieces will we need to design?

What do you need to include in your wedding suite design. Which pieces are standard and which are optional. This tutorial is an overview of each piece in the wedding suite. Of course, there are no rules but this can be a starting point for planning your SVG cut file design for a wedding suite.

In this tutorial, we will create a spiral Christmas tree path. It has many applications depending what you apply to the path. Have fun with the brushes in the Brushes pane.

In this tutorial, we will design an SVG cut file for a five-sided spherical ornament, which contains only two cut lines. This type of ornament is frequently made in to a Christmas ornament. But, it can be used for many other projects.

Now that we have built our template for a witch hat, we can create the final SVG cut lines for our Silhouette SVG cut file project.