With this trick you can convert audio faster than any audio converter can do. And of course it's support batch conversion. All audio editing tutorial in this blog always use adobe audition to perform it.. :D So, this tutorial also use it.

I utilize the batch processing utility in adobe audition that could convert many audio files sequentially with a super conversion speed.
Here is the trick:
Goto file menu - batch processing, look the screenshot below:

First, add audio files you want to convert. Then change the destination where you want to save converted audio. Next, click the new format and change it with the setting you want.
For example if you want to compress your file to save disk space:
output format *.mp3
Single channel (give a checklist to "convert to mono" option)
pilih yang 56kbps, 44100hz
Then click run batch

The process will start automatically. The audio file is imported to the workspace then immediately converted to the selected new format. This happens less than 15 seconds per file, according to the length of your audio file too.
Try it... :D

You want to change your hair color but you worried about the impact of your hair's health? Easy, you can colorize your hair virtually using photoshop :D
Here is how....

You may think that the method is very easy, just replace the hair color. But doing this will remove the hair texture and make it look terible, really... :D

Here is the step by step tutorial to change hair color. I use variations to replace the hair color but still keep its texture:

- Open the file you want to edit

- Select the hair of the object using seletion tool. You can choose lasso tool, magnetic lasso tool or quick selection tool. To make your selection more detail, you can use magnetic lasso tool and zooming the object while selecting.
Here is the result, not a detail selection actually.. :D

- Goto image - adjustment - variations. Here is the preview of effects you can apply to hair.

- You can choose color, adjust color intensity, customize the settings till you get the best result you want.
- Finally, here is the results. Pretty cool right? :D

Tips:
You can use feather to make the outer selection smoother, set the px from 5 - 10. It enough to make it smooth.

Lose power effect is to apply a speed manipulation to your waveform. It's generating an effect like a turntables lose it power, so the song is going slower and then stop. Here is a trick that you can do it easily using adobe audition.

Import your song then select which part that you want to apply the effects, then goto effects tab - time/pitch - pitch bender. Here is pitch bender dialog box

There's already include in preset the lose power effect, click on it then apply the effect. You can edit the preset with your own configuration till the effect meet your requirement.
Higher graph means the faster tempo (the audio tone become higher too, like a chipmunk voice :D), and vice versa.

That's all, don't forget to save the audio... :D

Actually this tutorial is very easy to do. You only need photoshop, here is how to do it:

Open your photoshop and import the photo you want to change its background, for example I will change the sky of this photo, and replace it with another "sky".

First create a selection to the area you want to remove. You can use quick selection tool (W) to perform this.

To make the outer of selection area smooth, you can use feather (Shift + F6) and set it to 5px.
After that press M to make the selection movable.
Open another "sky" photo and put it beside the first photo. Drag the selection to second photo.

By using move tool (V), drag the selection back to the first photo. The sky from second photo will be cropped to the first photo.

The final step, move the sky that we cropped before to match exactly with the first photo. Background is successfully replaced... :D

Tips:
- Make sure the color tone of both photo is equal or same. Otherwise, the photo won't look natural.

There's so many software out there that we can use to create a slideshow. Even some of them provide an automatic feature to create slideshow, just drop photos and background music then the slideshow is created. Now I will show you how to create a photo slideshow using corel video studio x2.

By manual create photo slideshow, you can get a better slideshow because it's more structured then automatic one that use random transition and random style. Plus you can build the "mood" of photo slideshow itself.

At first import the image sequences to corel workspace. Usually still image had a duration to 3 seconds by default. You can set it later.
It's better that you edit the photo first before import it to corel. You can crop, adjust brightness/contrast, etc to beautify the photo.

After that, you can add background music to it, right click insert audio - to music track.

Add pan and zoom effect to every photo, drag pan and zoom effect from preset menu. You can also add more effect to make your slide more dynamic. You can customize the effect one by one if the default style not suitable for your photos.

Now we goto transition effect. Corel provide many kind of transitions such as push, flashback, fade, etc. Every selected transition will by preview in the preview panel. Drag the transition you want and put it between 2 photos. I usually use crossfade transition... :D

After everything is OK, now set the duration of each photo to appear. You can set the duration of each photo by dragging the yellow area in photo. Make it equal with the song duration so when the song fade out, the slideshow fade out too.

After all is OK, export your slide into video format or directly burn it to DVD.

Tips:
- Set the slide transition according to the beat of your background music. That's will make your slideshow better
- Set your slide speed according to the background music's beat
- Avoid black bar in your slide. Black bar usually appear when you use a portrait photo, avoid it if you want to make your slide better looking.. :D

Here is a simpe tutorial about applying a glowing effect to any objects in your workspace. This object could be a brush, shape, cropped photos, etc. Here we go:

First, you can create a blank new file or just open the image you want to edit. Create a new layer by clicking ctrl + shift + n. For example I use brush (B) to create an object. Double click the brush's layer in the layer tab, then you got layer style dialog box.

Checklist the outer glow option, then customize the setting with you want or you can just follow the above screenshot. Click OK to apply glowing effects to the object.
You can expreiment with other style and settings :D

Now I share you a tutorial to create a karaoke version song. Karaoke song had 2 channel of audio, instrumental (usually on left channel) and song with vocal (usually on right channel). This tutorial is using adobe audition so make sure you already had the software :D
I use adobe audition version 1.5

Ok, first import the audio that you want to make it karaoke version to audition workspace. The song you load must be stereo channel otherwise this tutorial isn't work.
Navigate to effects tab - amplitude - channel mixer. Here is channel mixer, move the slider like the picture below.
Actually this is not the best settings, it depend on your song itself so hear the preview and drag it slowly to get a best result (inst. only on the left - vocal on the right)

As the final touch, you can amplitude the volume of instrumental channel only because instrumental channel usually need more gain then the vocal channel. Just make it balance... :D

To amplify the selected channel, goto effects - amplify/fade. Gain it a few dB (for example 3dB)
If you enter too high value then it will be over gain so be sure to enter the right value. You can always hit preview button to hear the changes... :D

OK, now you're done. You can now save it to many kinds of audio format.

If you had any question, contact me via comment below :D