Acuities - On Aspects of Image Making - Erik Almås

Designed to complement photographer Erik Almas' lecture series on image making and career building, these tutorials reveal Erik's evolution in building and marketing his award-winning body of work. Throughout the footage, Erik encourages you to commit to the journey of defining your own photographic voice, as well as philosophies and suggestions to stay inspired about shooting and promoting your photography.

Buttry Photography - Photoshop Virtual Pastel Painting
English | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo (eng)
MP4 | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1220x916, 15.00 fps(r) (eng) | 548 MB
Genre: Video Training

Effective Site Surveys for Video and Photo Projects (2013)
with Richard Harrington

When you have a video or photo shoot to do, how do you choose your location? In this course, discover how to carefully select sites and accurately plan for your shoot. Creative pro Rich Harrington teaches the key principles and techniques for finding a location for your next video project, while mitigating risk and reducing costs for a production. Rich introduces topics like logistics, shot blocking, important iPad apps and other measurement tools for surveys, and most importantly, the creative goals of a site survey.

This course was created and produced by Rich Harrington. We are honored to host this content in our library.

This course introduces basic physics simulation principles in Autodesk 3ds Max using MassFX, a system that makes it cost effective to animate rigid body objects, cloth, and particle systems. Author Brian Bradley introduces basic concepts such as gravity, drag, volume, and density, and how Newton's Laws of Motion can help you understand the interaction of objects with these unseen forces.

Up and Running with Sublime Text 2
English | Team: N/A | .MP4 | h264, 960x600, 30.00 fps | aac, 48000 Hz, mono | 433 MB
Genre: eLearning

Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform text and code editor for OS X, Windows, and Linux with many innovative features and a thriving ecosystem of add-on packages. This course reveals some of the basic, not-so-basic, and downright hidden features of the editor, and shows you how to become a more productive developer. Author Kevin Yank shows how to write and edit basic code, tweak the editing configuration to your preference, and automate code creation with macros and snippets. He also surveys a dozen of the best add-on packages for Sublime Text, which speed up some of the more tedious programming tasks.

Laurence Holcombe is back with another in-depth collection of video tutorials about Camel Audio's super synth Alchemy! This synth is not for the faint of heart, it's a sonic powerhouse with tons of features and functions. Laurence has your back though, he shows you it all from start to finish so you can practice your own sonic alchemy with truly amazing virtual synth.

Photoshop CS6 RAW Workshop Maximize Your Photo Quality with ACR 7
DVDRip | English | MP4 | MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280×720 25fps | AAC 44100Hz mono 705kbps | 2 hr | 1.2 GB
Publication date: Jul 12, 2012 | Genre: eLearning


Your cameras RAW capture capability gives you the potential to create truly stunning images, and in this workshop from digital imaging guru Tim Grey, youll learn how to use Adobe Camera Raw 7 to get optimal quality from your RAW captures with an efficient workflow. After giving you an overview of Camera Raw and how it works, Tim will teach you how to apply a wide variety of adjustments to your images, from basic adjustments like cropping and sharpening, to advanced adjustments like HSL and split toning, to focused adjustments like spot removal and graduated filters.

Creating Product Shots in modo 6.01
English | 3h 25m | AVC1 960x540 29.97 fps | AAC 96 Kbps 48 KHz | 740 MB
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate

modo has found a strong niche in creating virtual product shots for use in advertising and marketing. By using modo, you can create highly realistic shots of your products, reducing the need for product photography. In this course, Dan Ablan leads us through the workflow required to create such highly realistic 3D renders in modo. Discover the optimal settings for modeling, sculpting, and rendering; learn how to model real-world packaging; work with UV maps, Photoshop textures, and other basic materials; and light the products effectively. Dan closes with an overview of rendering the final 3D images for print or preview.

Photoshop Freaks The Power of Digital Light with Calvin Hollywood
English | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo (eng)
MP4 | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 25.00 fps(r) (eng) | 1.19 GB
Genre: Video Training

Calvin Hollywood i back with a brand new class and this one is called: The power of Digital Light!
This is a 100% Photoshop class and its all about manipulating light, dodging and burning and much more.
Every tutorial contains a cool technique that you'll be able to use on your very own images.

Video2Brain - Introducing WordPress: Learn by Video with Joe Chellman
English | May, 2012 | mp4 | H264 1280x720 | AAC 1 ch 64 kbps | 4 hrs 25 min | 470 MB

WordPress is among the most popular blog software on the Internet, and with good reason: It is powerful, approachable, and free. In this Learn by Video course (created in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press), web designer and trainer Joe Chellman teaches you what you need to know to use WordPress to create your own blog, from installing and configuring the software to adding and managing content. You’ll also learn how to customize your blog by choosing a “theme” (a visual design) and adding plugins, as well as how to maintain your site by backing it up and updating the software when necessary. After completing this course, you’ll be empowered to create an awesome website for yourself and nearly anyone else!

Mastering Color by Richard Robinson
English | MOV | H264 1163 kbps 29.970 fps | 960x720 | AAC 128 kbps 48 KHz | 1.37 GB
Genre: elearning

If you could only have one color theory DVD in your collection you'd be hard pressed to find a more thorough course than the one Richard Robinson has prepared for artists of all skill levels in his "Mastering Color" DVD.

Creating Shader Networks in Maya and Mental Ray with Exercise Files (2013)
with Aaron F. Ross

Dive deep into the Hypershade window and shader creation with Maya and the mental ray rendering engine. In this course, author Aaron F. Ross shows how to create materials and shaders for 3D objects, characters, and landscapes, with reflectivity, transparency, and amazing texture. Become more comfortable building shader networks and open up a lot of new possibilities for creative surfaces in Maya.

iOS SDK: Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location
English | 1h 45m | AVC1 960x540 15 fps | AAC 96 Kbps 48 KHz | 255 MB
Genre: eLearning | software: iOS 5, Xcode 4 | Level: Intermediate

This course shows iOS developers how to add location awareness and maps to Apple iPhone and iPad applications. Discover how to show customers and clients where you're located and share directions with them.

Ctrl+Paint – Perspective Sketching 2: Form and Design | Compressed to 191 MB

 

• Do you already know the general rules of perspective sketching?  This followup to Perspective Sketching 1 applies the basic principles to a wide variety of subjects.  Packed with examples, the videos explore characters, creatures, vehicles, and environments (both from reference and from imagination).  Each demonstration focuses on the underlying structure of imagined objects, and how details can be applied to this foundation.  Additionally, the demonstrations each follow slightly different procedures - showing that there is no single 'best' way to use perspective in your artwork.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom In A Book [Includes Lesson Files and Tutorial]

Publisher: Adobe Press | Language: English | Pages: 432 | File Format: .pdf, .epub + Lesson files

 

Home:  www.adobepress.com/store/adobe-photoshop-cs6-classroom-in-a-book-9780321827333 

File Size: 106Mb(Book) / 1.04Gb(Book+ Lesson files) / 420Mb(Tutorial)

• Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom In A Book - The official training workbook from Adobe Systems. Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS6 choose Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS6 and how to manipulate images, edit motion-based content, and create image composites.

Continuing our best selling series on the Fundamental production techniques for dance producers comes volume 6: Dance Music - Song Structure and Arranging.

SPSS Statistics Essential Training (2012)
with Barton Poulson
In this course, author Barton Poulson takes a practical, visual, and non-mathematical approach to the basics of statistical concepts and data analysis in SPSS, the statistical package for business, government, research, and academic organization. From importing spreadsheets to creating regression models to exporting presentation graphics, this course covers all the basics, with an emphasis on clarity, interpretation, communicability, and application.

HTML5 + UX: Engaging Ecommerce
with Joseph Lowery

The HTML5 + UX series combines HTML5, CSS3, and recent javascript API technologies to work—enhancing your web projects with interactivity and multimedia. This installment shows you how to build features that allow visitors to your online store to filter their selections interactively via sliders, drag items onto wish lists, and automatically save them locally. Author Joseph Lowery uses this scenario as an opportunity to introduce concepts such as HTML5 form elements with javascript enhancements, local content storage, and drag-and-drop.

The Trance Music Mastery VIP Program teaches you everything you need to know in order to create really amazing trance music – AND: there are not many programs as thorough and comprehensive as this one.

Gain new perspective on two of the greatest achievements of human culture-music and math-and the fascinating connections that will help you more fully appreciate the intricacies of both.

 

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.

3ds Max Textures and Materials with Steve Nelle

 3ds Max 2010 Textures and Materials with instructor Steve Nelle takes an in-depth look at the art of creating lifelike skins and textures for three-dimensional surfaces using 3ds Max, one of the world’s most widely used 3D packages. This course covers popular material and shader types, including mental ray ProMaterials, methods for properly positioning maps, and some of the lesser-known advanced features of the Material Editor. Techniques are demonstrated using three practical project examples. Exercise files accompany the course.