In Photoshop CS3 Creative Photographic Techniques, professional photographer Chris Orwig goes beyond the basics, exploring the use of Photoshop to create beautiful and inspiring images. From first viewing a scene to preparing photos for expert output, Chris takes photographers through the whole process of creating great pictures. He also covers understanding color, making color corrections, working with special effects and filters, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Katrin Eismann - known worldwide for his work and lectures on restoration, retouching, and transforming images. Katherine advises professional photographers, artists and teachers. Among its clients are such well-known companies like Eastman Kodak, Apple, Adobe, American Film Institute and the Professional Photography Association. She received a Bachelor of Art Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology, specializing in the photographic images to be processed digitally. In 2002, their accomplishments Katherine added another title - Master of Art of Science - produced at the Faculty of Fine Arts in New York. The biggest dream of Katherine - learn how to get photos that do not require retouching and restoration, cropping, conversion and color correction.

The demand for cartoon illustration is booming. The creative industry is crying for artists who can work digitally. Photoshop has become the leading software for cartoonists and illustrators worldwide. Whether you're cartooning for your own enjoyment, or you're a traditional cartoonist looking to make the leap to digital, these lessons will walk you through the process of turning a sketch into a cartoon illustration. Patrick's approach is easy enough for a beginner to learn cartooning, but is also full of valuable information for working industry professionals.

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.

"SKETCHING THE PORTRAIT WITH CASEY BAUGH," is number one in a series of advanced Charcoal Demonstrations by American Artist
Magazine competition winner, CASEY BAUGH.

Like Most visitors you CartoonSmart Probably Think of tourself at Least as an Intermediate Photoshop user, Because at a Basic Level it is a very intuitive program and easy to teach yourself. But a bad habit that many self-taught users fall into is relying too much on Filters when they need to do something visually complex (and that includes yours truly, the author of this coyrse summary).

Video tutorial on retouching in Photoshop. Text from the back Cover: As you know Already, the high end Retouching Industry Has Been very Tight lipped about the techniques to use They Produce World class results for Magazines, Advertising campaigns, billboards and Displays Throughout the World. The Only That Have Been techniques readily available to the Public Have Been SO Called the "Smooth or Soft skin" Methods That Simply blur or smudge the skin texture INTO an unrealistic Plastic Doll mess.

In this DVD, Carl Grace goes from basic to advanced techniques for how to use color in a tattoo. With over four hours of detailed footage and discussion, Carl explains his step-by-step process of applying color to the skin. He introduces warms and cools, different tones and values of color, and how to layer and blend to create a nice, clean piece, as well as how to create focus in your composition. Machine and needle set-up and stencil application are also discussed. Whether you are a seasoned professional looking for new ways to incorporate color, or a beginner wanting to challenge yourself with color layering and blending techniques, this DVD is the perfect tool to help you learn the correct methods to achieve a painterly, full-color tattoo.

Six DVDs showcasing all aspects of portrait photography ... classic, traditional portriature, children, families, high school seniors, location and environmental techniques, extreme styles, intimate portraits, and black & white relationship photogrpahy.

The course goes into the techniques used in doing visual effects work with 3DS Max and its plugins - Thinking Particles, Rayfire, and FumeFX. Coming from a feature film production background, the focus is on quality and efficiency. It is a holistic view of the process - from planning, through fragmentation, rigid bodies, particles, fire / smoke, down to management and assembly.

A visual-practical DVD guide to professional beauty and portrait retouching using flexible solutions for a variety of photo retouching jobs, from flawless magazine covers to reality portrait retouching.

Completely new, updated and greatly expanded (11.5hours), Beauty & Hair Retouching High End Techniques - Series Two is hosted by the world renowned retouching artist, Natalia Taffarel. She is famous for her natural and completely seamless retouching style that is all about beauty and details.

A visual-practical DVD guide to Professional Beauty Retouching portrait and using flexible Solutions for a Variety of Photo Retouching jobs, from flawless magazine Covers to Reality Retouching portrait. This is an Educational tool Aimed at Intermediate to Advanced Photoshop users.

Kinetic typography is an art form that combines text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation designed to accompany spoken word or music. In this unique workshop, art director, author, and motion graphic designer Angie Taylor shares her considerable knowledge of this form. You’ll work along with her as she builds a complete kinetic typography project from start to finish. Along the way you’ll learn how to create and animate text layers directly within After Effects using animators and 3D features, set up Photoshop files for animating in After Effects, and use a variety of effects and techniques to create numerous text animation styles within a single project. You’ll also get lots of tips and tricks for animating 3D cameras and lights and learn how to use expressions and scripts to simplify the processes involved.

Creature and Environment Rendering. Digital Rendering Techniques with Nick Pugh. This demo Shows the Digital techniques Nick uses to render a Creature in an environment. The creature was previously created in the "Originality in Design" DVD. The lecture stresses the importance of maintaining the design language established in the first phase, while fully realizing the surrounding environment. Over the course of this demo, Nick discusses topics such as the use of channels, layers, rendering foliage, water reflections, creating depth and soft foggy lighting. All of the work is done in Adobe Photoshop

In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen focuses on two elements of web development: accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), demonstrating why they are important and how they work. The course also shows how good coding practices and modern web standards can make a site accessible and more visible to search engines and social networks. Exercise files are included with the course.

In this series of lessons, We Will be Exploring many of the tools and features of MARI That Will allow you to texture your models faster and with More Precision. This course Will begin by discussing the basic workflow of projecting texture detail onto your geometry within MARI as well as important features and settings that you will want to be aware of at an early stage of your texturing process.

In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen focuses on two elements of web development: accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), demonstrating why they are important and how they work. The course also shows how good coding practices and modern web standards can make a site accessible and more visible to search engines and social networks. Exercise files are included with the course.

This comprehensive educational and instructional DVD on lighting is an hour long and packed with information. There is no fluff in this DVD, just useful and relevant information. This DVD enables you to put this knowledge to practical use right away and create stronger and more effective portraits.
In the DVD, light three models with different skin types; two women and one man, in a variety of settings, from soft and beautiful, to dramatic and moody. One of the great features of this DVD is that when I photograph the model, the RAW file of the image capture is displayed, so you can freeze the frame and review all of the information immediately. At the end of each section, the lighting equipment used for that setup is shown.

Authored by: Mario Hewardt
Duration: 4h 55m
Level: Advanced
Released: 12/21/2011
Learn the internals of .NET and how to master the powerful Debugging Tools for Windows debuggers.