Stellen Sie sich auch oft die Frage, wie man Haare und andere detaillierte Objekte moglichst gut freistellt? Maike Jarsetz zeigt Ihnen, wie?s geht: Schauen Sie Ihr uber die Schulter und erfahren Sie, wie verschiedenste Photoshop-Werkzeuge und -Funktionen eingesetzt werden, um uberzeugende Freistellungen zu erreichen. Sie lernen Techniken mit unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden und sie verrat Ihnen eine Menge Praxistipps, wie Sie durch geschickte Kombination dieser Techniken noch bessere Ergebnisse erreichen. So stellen Sie bald nicht nur Haare schnell und perfekt frei!

Sometimes the most difficult part of creating a website is a step that is often overlooked: converting a graphic design into HTML/CSS files to be used on the web. In this workshop, expert web developer and trainer Candyce Mairs shows you how use a design created in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as the basis for a website created with Dreamweaver.

Virtually all digital images need some degree of sharpening to look their best, but it’s not always easy to find the right way to go about it. This workshop from leading Photoshop expert Tim Grey will dispel many myths and misunderstandings about sharpening, teach you the underlying concepts involved in sharpening, show you a wide variety of methods you can use to apply sharpening, and help you determine which technique is best for a given image.

Calvin Hollywood, award-winning photo artist based in Heidelberg, Germany, shares the secrets of his success in this in-depth workshop. Starting with the nuts and bolts of image editing in Photoshop – including working with layers, masks, color correction, and RAW conversion – he moves on to more advanced topics like beauty retouching and creating composite images from multiple sources. Every step of the way he shows you his own personal techniques and workflow, so you can bring the Hollywood look to your own work. Calvin loves to explore paths you won’t find in any other documentation or textbook. So if you really want to make your photos stand out, be inspired by the best of Calvin Hollywood!

Learn the nuts and bolts of advanced web application programming! Join Edward Tanguay as he dives into PHP programming. In his workshop, you will learn that it only takes a few minutes to get an Apache web server, a MySQL database, PHP 5.3, and the Eclipse editor up and running using the free XAMPP installation tool. Edward will then cover the PHP syntax, such as operators, loops and variables, before moving on to make you a PHP expert, tackling object orientation, databases, XML parsing, web services, security and much more. The training also includes important new features of PHP 5.3, such as namespaces, lambdas, and late static binding. Once you complete this video training, you will have the skills you need to build next-generation dynamic websites.

In this unique workshop, digital artist Uli Staiger walks you through the process of using source images, a downloaded 3D object, and Photoshop's tools to create a striking composition. After combining source images and creating layer masks, you'll add a 3D object, lighting, and details like steam, corrosion, and a stream of water.

In this workshop Jeff Foster — video producer, compositor, visual effects artist, and author of "The Green Screen Handbook" — teaches you the basics of green screen compositing and setting up a streamlined roto workflow with After Effects and a Wacom tablet. You’ll get real-world tips on getting the best mattes and keys from your green screen shots, stabilizing and tracking footage in After Effects, and using the Roto Brush feature to create quick and accurate mattes of anything that moves in the frame. You’ll also learn how to create more believable composites by matching your foreground and background plates, using roto-spline masks, and applying match-moving techniques.

With HTML5 and CSS3 bursting onto the scene far more quickly than anticipated and the rapid spread of web-enabled smartphones and tablets, designing and building a website has suddenly become more complex. Fortunately, javascript libraries like jQuery reconcile browser incompatibilities and make light work of adding dynamic features, and Dreamweaver CS5.5 has risen to the challenge by providing the tools you need to build modern websites with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery.

Watch it. Learn it. Do it.
This exceptional value includes all of Volumes 1–3 of the Wacom MasterClass collection, including lessons from artists Angie Taylor, Steve Caplin, Daniel Lieske, and Uli Staiger. In addition to a basic course covering the tablet’s tools and settings, you get training on everything from beauty retouching and painting in Photoshop to drawing in Illustrator and motion design with After Effects. The package also includes crash courses on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Aperture, Painter, SketchBook Pro, ZBrush, and 3D with Photoshop, all designed to get you working right away. Each class features lessons with picture-in-picture live footage of the artist working with their pen and tablet, enabling you to see and learn from their techniques up close.

You might not think that automation and creativity go hand in hand, but sometimes they do. By automating tasks where appropriate in Photoshop, you can streamline your workflow and free up time to work on the artistic aspects of photography. In this workshop from Photoshop expert Tim Grey, you’ll start by learning core automation concepts and using basic automation tools to process multiple images quickly and easily.

If you Think Engaging Web sites Take a Long time to create and require a skill set Special, Think again! All it takes is Adobe Fireworks CS4 and Candyce Mairs' workshop. Join her as she dives into the Fireworks CS4 web workflow, revealing how you can simplify web site design and prototyping.

The advent of HTML5 has opened up new frontiers in the world of web design, and in this course you’ll learn how to exploit the power of HTML5 to make the best-looking, smoothest-functioning, and easiest-to-use web pages possible.

Grass Valley’s EDIUS is well-established as the nonlinear editor of choice for many broadcasters, partly because of its fantastic real-time support for multiple formats (which makes it great for news broadcasting) and partly because it is one of the most user-friendly systems on the market. In this workshop from experienced editor and trainer Maxim Jago, you’ll learn all the core editing skills, workflows, and technologies needed to unlock the potential of EDIUS and its very powerful real-time effects, multi-format editing, and multi-camera support.

You might not think that automation and creativity go hand in hand, but sometimes they do. By automating tasks where appropriate in Photoshop, you can streamline your workflow and free up time to work on the artistic aspects of photography. In this workshop from Photoshop expert Tim Grey, you’ll start by learning core automation concepts and using basic automation tools to process multiple images quickly and easily. Next, you’ll explore actions, an incredibly powerful tool for processing one or more images in a consistent way. You’ll see how actions let you apply creative effects consistently to your images and prepare images for sharing. Finally, you’ll work through a variety of real-world projects that reinforce what you’ve learned and demonstrate some of the many ways you can employ automation in your own workflow. This Learn by Video workshop is published in partnership with Peachpit Press.

In her career as an animator, Angie Taylor has developed some powerful techniques for creating quick but compelling 2D animation, and in this workshop she shares those secrets with you. You’ll learn how to import layered files and paths from Illustrator into After Effects and how to animate flat vector artwork in both 2D and 3D space, and you’ll explore options for outputting your animations. The videos are short, focused, and solution-oriented, and all the project files are included so you can follow along as you go.

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.

Analyze and Optimize the Color in Your Video
Color correction is one of those sets of skills many editors put off for another day — partly because they can make do with simple adjustments, and partly because many of the controls and options are a little alien. In this course, master editor Maxim Jago demystifies color correction and gives detailed explanations of the key controls, options, workflows, and best practices for color correction with Premiere Pro. After being introduced to the standard tools for measuring color and light, you’ll learn about the Fast Color Corrector, the Three-Way Color Corrector, and other color correction effects. You’ll also learn how to fix and match color with presets, as well as how to use After Effects and third-party plug-ins to do the few things that Premiere Pro can’t do. After competing this workshop you’ll have all the skills you need to “fix it in post.”

Adobe stellt mit dem Adobe LiveCycle Designer eine rundum professionelle Formular-Autorenumgebung bereit – als Teil von Adobe Acrobat oder der Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite unterstutzt Sie der LiveCycle Designer bei der Automatisierung von Geschaftsprozessen, der Datenintegration und Einbindung in Backendsysteme. Dieses grafische Autorenwerkzeug bietet die umfassende Losung, um PDF-Formulare auf XML Basis zu entwerfen, die zugehorige Logik zu definieren und das Ganze an gesetzliche Vorgaben anzupassen.

Adobe Encore CS5 ist Ihr Werkzeug, um Blu-ray Discs zu produzieren oder DVD-Projekte und Flash Player fur das Internet zu erstellen. Sven Brencher erlautert den Workflow von A bis Z und Sie erhalten Einblick in die Gestaltung von Menuvorlagen mit Photoshop und erfahren, wie Sie Sequenzen von Premiere Pro und After Effects importieren. Au?erdem sehen Sie, wie Sie das Flussdiagramm optimal einsetzen und animierte Diashows erstellen. So gelingen Ihre DVD- und Blu-ray-Projekte reibungslos!

In diesem „Making of“ verfolgen sie detailliert, wie die Bildkomposition „Be a Superstar!“ von Pavel Kaplun entsteht. Der Fotokunstler und Photoshop-Experte verrat die Tipps und Techniken, die zu diesem herausragenden Bildergebnis gefuhrt haben. Das gesamte Bildmaterial wird mitgeliefert, so konnen Sie jeden Schritt 1:1 nachvollziehen. Damit ist das Video-Training ideal fur Photoshop-Anwender mit Grundkenntnissen. Werden Sie zum Superstar der digitalen Bildkomposition!