Up and Running with Photoshop Lightroom 4
English | Apr 30, 2012 | f4v | H264 960x540 | AAC 2 ch 127 kbps | 3 hrs 13 min | 850 MB

eLearning, Photography | software: Photoshop Lightroom 4, Lightroom 4 | level: Beginner | +Exercise Files

In Up and Running with Photoshop Lightroom 4, author Jan Kabili introduces the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom features for organizing, enhancing, and sharing digital photos and video clips. The course shows how to import photos and video clips from a camera and from a hard drive, explaining how Lightroom catalogs work along the way, and how to manage and organize photos and video clips with the Library module. The course also covers enhancing photos in the Develop module, including cropping, adjusting exposure, recovering details from highlights and shadows, sharpening and adding clarity, and correcting part of a photo, as well as enhancing video clips. The course concludes with a look at sharing photos: posting them on Facebook, creating photo books, exporting, and printing.

Gnomon Workshop: Introduction to Digital Painting in Adobe Photoshop with Christian Lorenz Scheurer | 2.79 GB

On the first DVD in this series, Christian introduces the fundamental techniques he uses to create digital concept paintings and matte paintings. In three exercises based loosely on digital photographs, he introduces the basic principals of digital painting in Adobe Photoshop ®. The first exercise demonstrates and illustrates three types of perspectives. The second exercise introduces painting with shape, showing different ways to create selections. In the last exercise, Christian demonstrates perspective and shape techniques, showing how to import light layers, and create separate foreground, midground and background elements. The DVD includes the photographic plates and additional bonus exercises.

Designing your own web design portfolio is never easy because we as web designers are our own worst critique. One minute we think we have cracked it, and the next we are shifting things about, changing colors, redesigning the logo – it never stops! So in this beginners course, we will take a look at one approach to designing our first web design portfolio and use it to win ourselves work, whether client work or full-time employment, having a well structured and aesthetically pleasing portfolio is a sure way of helping that cause!

Once you know what’s happening with your camera and flash you can do almost anything. Speedlights open up a new realm in your photography. They are light to carry, quick to set up. And you never know when you're going to need that extra light for a more dramatic image.

 

 

Learn how to enhance the natural beauty of a landscape photo with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In this short start-to-finish editing project, author Jan Kabili walks you through corrections for common issues you may have in your own landscape photos. She shows you how to create a mood with white balance, enhance contrast and detail with tonal adjustments, increase image intensity, make corrections to specific areas of the photo, and export the final processed photo.

Illustrator for Fashion Design: Creating Brushes with Robin Schneider
English | 2h 40m | AVC1 960x540 29.97 fps | AAC 160 Kbps 48 KHz | 492 MB

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate

Explore the power of Adobe Illustrator brushes to quickly and easily add detail to your fashion illustrations. This course shows how to create and maximize the use of pattern and scatter brushes; make brushes with start and end tiles; and control brush placement relative to the path for greater control. Packed with creative ideas and inspiration, author Robin Schneider's examples are specifically geared toward fashion design use but the techniques can be applied to any design field.

Phasing and Design Options in Revit with Paul F. Aubin

English | Feb 20, 2013 | flv | H263 640x480, 960x540 | MP3 2 ch 96 kbps | 1 hr 54 min | 1.07 GB

elearning, 3D + Animation, Architecture, CAD | software: Revit Architecture 2013 | level: Intermediate | +Exercise files

Phasing in Autodesk Revit allows you to show the complete life cycle of a project, such as a before and after or existing and proposed status, while design options allow you to save multiple iterations of a concept in a single project file. In this course, Paul F. Aubin shows how to use phasing and design options to organize multipart, multifaceted projects in Revit. The course also covers adding and assigning phases to views, scheduling phases and designating future work, working with design option sets, and presenting complex designs to clients.

"You build your business shooting for other people. You build your career shooting for yourself." From creating and choosing projects to organizing details and financing, this course will teach you how to effectively manage personal projects to grow your photography business.

 

 

Tell a more compelling story in Adobe Edge Animate with an animated infographic. In this course, learn how to illustrate your data and animate charts, text, and other artwork. Author Chris Converse explores techniques that work across multiple browsers and platforms, and even in digital magazines and ebooks.

 

 

YouTube is a revolutionary video-sharing platform that has facilitated broadcasts of user-generated content—hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded every day. In this course, Jason Osder shows you how to view, upload, and share videos on YouTube. Learn how to start an account, build a following, promote videos on Facebook and Twitter, and shoot and edit film specifically for a YouTube audience. Plus, get tips on troubleshooting video, such as removing compression artifacts and analyzing video performance.

 

 

With a focus on nature and conservation photography, Cristina will provide an overview on photography fundamentals and how to operate in various environments. Plus, she will walk you through the creative process, from conceptualizing to pre-visualization to shooting, this course will set you on the path to Shooting What You Love.

 

 

Validating web forms is a critical skill for any web developer, ensuring that the data that's submitted is complete, accurate, and nonmalicious before it's sent off to the server. Join author Ray Villalobos in this course as he shows how to validate input from site visitors with HTML5, javascript, and jQuery and then process the data with PHP. Plus, learn how to email form data and save it in a MySQL database so that it's ready for other applications.

Are you finding it hard to get to grips with UI Design, then do not fear as Ryan is here to teach us how to create some great graphic elements for the web in Photoshop. You will learn how to create classy buttons, ribbons, multimedia elements and much much more! Come and join Ryan and take your UI designs to a whole new level.

Photoshop is the most powerful image editing software available today - used by photographers and graphic artists for image enhancement and editing, print and web design, and digital art . Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor Michael Brown is ready to teach you everything learned over his 25 year career applied to the newest CS6 version of Photoshop. His vast experience in real world photography and imaging gives him the ability to present Photoshop from a practical user's point of view suitable for beginner through advanced students.

Join John Greengo for an in-depth step-by-step tour of the Sony STL-A99. With a hands-on introduction to your camera's operations, detailed instructions on how all the menus work, and instruction on how to shoot great photos with this specific camera model

Join Sony Artisan of Imagery, Me Ra Koh, for a workshop on Breaking Through Creative Barriers. In this course, Me Ra will outline her signature “10 Stages of Growth for a Portrait Photographer.” This comprehensive guide is designed to highlight the different phases of a photographer’s journey and will outline the various challenges each photographer faces during their professional career.

We’ve all seen banners on the Internet; they’re more common than pictures of cats with bread on their heads. If you’re a designer and you’ve been tasked with creating a banner, there’s a lot more too it than just throwing a few elements into place. Your banner has to be effective, accomplish the task at hand and look good. Gary Simon has all the details on how to make the perfect banner, and he’ll walk you through it in this course. Soon you’ll be making powerful banners in no time flat!

Join industry expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland in the fourth and final installment of his popular Photoshop CS6 One-on-One series. In this course, Deke puts his own spin on the most powerful features in Adobe Photoshop, including the Art filters, which enable you to transform an image into a digital painting, and Photomerge, which can stitch together multiple photos into a single panorama. Plus, dive into the extended features like 3D lighting effects, the Puppet Warp and animation toolset, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, video editing, automated adjustments with actions, and much more.

 

 

Get ready to have a blast learning how to create character-based composite images with photographer and retoucher Glyn Dewis! Starting from scratch, Glyn will teach you every step in his process; from cool ways to use social media for brainstorming and communicating ideas to the importance of building your own stock image library while on location. Glyn demonstrates how he works with non-professional models and shows you how to bring all the elements together in Photoshop. Along the way you’ll learn numerous tips and tricks and leave the class inspired to go out and create your own fantastic composites.

 

 

Come get inspired with Mia McCormick as she sits down with Erik Valind, a commercial photographer based in Florida, to discuss the ins and outs of being a professional photographer! Erik and Mia touch on topics ranging from how to get started in the photography business to how to stay connected to clients and fellow photographers.