Lynda.com Photoshop CS5 Tutorials | Creative Effects  (+ Exercise files)
English | .mov (QuickTime) | 960x600 (16:9) | 07:00:00 | 937.6 Mb

In Photoshop CS5: Creative Effects, Chris Orwig flexes the muscles of this powerful program to create unique and eye-catching photographic effects. This course demonstrates how to enhance images by adding light for emphasis, adding drop and directional shadows, and using the HDR toning controls, motion blur, and film grain creatively. In addition, learn how to create a vintage-style photograph or a panorama, use infrared and solarization, apply creative layer blending, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course.

Drawing Life Through Line and Form
English | Team: N/A | .flv | h264, 1280x720, 15 fps | aac, 44100 Hz, Stereo | 737 MB
Genre: eLearning

By gaining a better understanding of how we can translate lines to forms, you'll be able to breath added-life into your own drawings and sketches.

We'll begin this process by examining what defines a line, shape, and form. From there we'll explore how we can use contour lines and cross contour lines to add more dimension to a flat object. Following this, we'll learn about line weights and how we can apply them to add volume. Along the way we'll also explore how we can capture action and movement by drawing continual gesture lines.

After Effects is Adobe’s product for creating motion graphics and visual effects. It’s amazing what Text Effects you can create using After Effects, with a bit of imagination and some knowledge. A visually appealing text that is both original and creative, draws attention and leaves a deep impression on anyone who sees it. So join us as Dave Bode will take you through some advanced text techniques that includes Kinetic 3D Rotations, Letter Morphing and much more!

Watch artist Joseph Linaschke explain the creation of his gallery hanging of large black-and-white prints on metal and discuss the many challenges he faced along the way. He backward-engineers his process in Aperture for us, showing how he reviews his images, crops and straightens them in preparation for conversion, scales them without introducing any loss in quality, and then makes the final adjustment to black and white. Finally, learn about the file output and setup that went into the final set of prints.

Every day Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, sits down to a blank canvas on his PC, whether in CINEMA 4D, ZBrush, After Effects, or any number of digital tools, and explores the limits of his imagination. His Everyday Project, where new art is a daily routine, is now in its sixth year, and he is constantly learning new software, adopting new techniques, and being pushed by the limits he creates for himself. But he's also driven to create things that other people might find useful. Beeple's art is released under a Creative Commons license, which allows others to download, use, and rework his original digital files.

VFX Techniques with author Lee Lanier introduces common yet critical visual effects for film and television. This installment shows how to remove an unwanted building from a live-action plate and replace it with a new digital matte painting.

CreativeLIVE - Adobe Photoshop CS6 New Features by Lesa Snider
English | Audio: wmav2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
WMV | Video: wmv3, yuv420p, 960x536, 700 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r) | 4.8 GB
Genre: Video Training

Lesa Snider returns to creativeLIVE for an intensive look at the newly released Adobe Photoshop CS6. Whether you've already upgraded or are still deciding, you'll learn practical yet non-destructive editing techniques you can use every day. This 3-day course is a perfect companion to Lesa's previous CS5 class on creativeLIVE.

This ground-breaking 6th release of Photoshop Secrets for Digital Photographers, will blow your socks off! Colin has pulled out all the stops. All the workflows have been fine-tuned to take advantage of the new features in Photoshop CS6. Don't just learn the features, integrate the skills into your every day workflow.

You have upgraded Photoshop, now upgrade your workflow. Not only will you discover the essential new features, you will learn how to integrate them into your daily Photoshop habits. There are a lot of new features in Photoshop CS6, (One of the biggest upgrades ever) discover the best way to save a ton of time and get unbelievable results.

Lynda Artistic Video with Photoshop (English/2012) | 1.72 GB
Genre: Video Training

This course illustrates how to create artistic video within the familiar interface of Photoshop. Author Ian Robinson looks at editing video with video groups, stylizing video with Smart Filters, and rotoscoping with vector masks. Animation is also covered, from animating brush strokes and adding and editing keyframes to exporting your final output.