The most eagerly awaited (OK, even I couldn’t do that one with a straight face, so let me start again). The most overdue online class of the year, my “Professional Portrait Retouching Online Class” for KelbyTraining.com finally goes live tomorrow. After incorporating your ideas and input for other techniques that should be added to the class, it turned out to be a retouching love-fest that was nearly four and half hours long, so I wound up breaking it into two separate classes; a part 1 and part 2.

Description from the manufacturer: Joe Craig DVD Lighting 2 in 1, Combines two original VHS into a DVD. Advanced lighting and posing techniques . little otsebyachiny: Fully edited DVD-ROM that combines two VHS tapes: "The lighting in the portrait" and "portraits". "portraits" contains 14 chapters. From a portrait with two umbrellas, to multiple lighting. Plus tips on posing. Total 90 minutes of video.

Motivational Light is an instructional video by professional photographer Bert Stephani in which he explains his techniques and vision on photographical lighting. Its about how to find, shape and create light so it becomes the most powerful story telling tool. For more info, trailers and extra video footage, visit www.motivationallight.com. The main video runs over two and a half hours and is complimented with an hour of bonus material about post processing.

his is the first of four videos filmed in Scott We Burdick's Studio Located in North Carolina. This first video In the Studio with Scott Burdick ... is the Longest and offers a great substitute to a Workshop with Scott, as IT is as informative as the program he would offer in such a class. With limited time to satisfy his gallery and invitational exhibition commitments, Scott is not available to teach as many workshops as students would like. This is a superlative alternative to Studying with Scott.

Jeremy Cowart is a professional photographer from Nashville, Tennessee. Beginning his photography career in 2005, Jeremy quickly became a respected artistic voice in the industry. Having shot numerous musicians, entertainers and celebrities, Jeremy is also the founder of Help Portrait, a worldwide movement of photographers giving free portraits to those less fortunate. As his list of clients continues to grow, so does Jeremy's desire to improve, share, teach, and give back to those around him.

Unlike other retouching tutorials, Mastering Retouching ™ is a complete system that teaches you step-by-step how to quickly spot problem areas and eradicate even the most difficult flaws. From our HD videos to our common-sense lesson Which interface features guides to related lessons and Key Concepts, our focus is on maximizing not Only the Speed ??of your Learning BUT Also on Efficiency and Retention. Armed with the ability to correct any issue, you 'll never look at your photos the same way.

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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.

In this tutorial you will learn my method on beginning black and white sketch and taking it to finish color illustration. I'll show you how I create a Forest environment by using texture and brush creation. It will show you how I create my color palettes and over all look and feel to my environment paintings, paint textures etc. I'll go through on how to create forms from shapes and quick tricks to get the most out of your tools. Included is a 20 min brush creation tutorial with voice over that will show step by step brush creation. Also included is a. Abr brush file showing a few of the brushes I created in the tutorial along with several others you see me use in the illustration tutorial. Photoshop file with all layers included to help with following my process. -Richard Anderson

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.

Server consolidation, efficient and fast disaster recovery, cost savings, high availability and fast virtual server deployments are just some of the things you can accomplish with VMware vSphere 4. ESX 4 is the Most Powerful Virtualization Software on the market and in this Today Training course, Elias Khnaser Will guide you through the planning, Deployment and Administration of your virtual Infrastructure

In Photoshop to HTML, Nettuts+ editor Jeffrey Way takes you through the entire process of converting a design from Photoshop into a complete HTML/CSS website.

In this course, author Bill Weinman describes how to perform background processing using the Web Workers API in HTML5. Web workers provide background processing for javascript, keeping pages responsive while allowing your scripts to run independently. The course demonstrates practical examples for detecting web workers support, setting up workers, implementing shared workers, and handling errors. Are exercise Files included with the course. Topics include: Deploying a worker Detecting browser Support Communicating with Workers Understanding API Differences in Shared Workers

Winter is not the most popular season for taking landscape photographs, but Bill Fortney shows us that there is still plenty to capture at his favorite spots in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While grand landscape photography captures the beauty of a large scene, intimate landscape photography focuses on small, unique parts of that landscape and extracts from the overall scene. During this course, Bill recommends equipment for getting started with landscape photography. He talks about image composition, the importance of texture, and how he uses lines of direction when composing his photos. In later lessons, Bill takes viewers into his digital darkroom to talk about his favorite processing techniques and software. Follow along as Bill teaches photographers how to find, compose, and create wonderful, intimate landscape photographs.

In his latest class, From Oz to Kansas 2.0, master photographer Vincent Versace takes the student through the various processes and conversion options using both Photoshop and several 3rd party plug-in options. The result is a thorough explanation that yields impressive control over a wide variety of subtle aspects of black and white images converted from color originals. You will learn several conversion techniques and methods for blending various conversions with one another to give you, the artist, a finished image that is the exact image you saw in your mind’s eye when you first considered your image. From tradition and theory to practical implementation, From Oz to Kansas 2.0 is exactly the kind of class that has helped Versace develop his loyal following.

Join Corey Barker as he shows designers some fun and creative ways to manipulate text in Photoshop. Along with a healthy dose of design tips, viewers will also learn about where to find free fonts on the web, sources for type-design inspiration, how to design with smart objects, color effects, and layer styles. The last few lessons of this course cover how to design with the new 3D tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended. These final lessons are specific to CS5 Extended, but there is plenty of information in this course for every version of Photoshop. Whether you work in print or web, text effects are important design elements for users in every area and at every skill level.

There are many challenges to shooting concerts. Photographers have to deal with variable lighting conditions, moving subjects, tight spaces, and a limited time to get the shots they need. Concert photographers Scott Diussa and Alan Hess share some of what they have learned during their years of experience. They talk about their choices for camera gear, their shooting styles, how to anticipate shots, how to get a photo pass and signing releases, working around obstructions, lighting considerations, and the importance of shooting in spot-metering mode. The bad news is that it's tough to make a living as a concert photographer, but both of these instructors agree, it is a very rewarding hobby as a photographer.

For the first time in the card through window effect, the card is signed and ends clean on the other side of the window. Performed live without the assistance of anyone else.

Janine Warner is known for her ability to make Web design easy and understandable for anyone with even the most basic understanding, and she proves it yet again in this quick course that shows you how to place a full-featured shopping cart on your blog or website in minutes with Dreamweaver or WordPress. With DIY Ecommerce, if you know how to copy/paste, you’re halfway there to selling your work online. In this course, Janine gives you an overview of some of the most popular options around and teaches you how to turn a profit on your site using Google Checkout (chosen for its low fees and ease-of-use) without having to spend a fortune on set-up, programming, SSL certificates, and/or maintenance fees, so you can keep more of what you earn.

One Flash Wedding Photography By Cliff Mautner
Internationally recognized wedding photographer, Cliff Mautner walks you through challenging wedding photo scenarios and explains how to use a single speedlight for impressive effect. Working with, rather than trying to overpower ambient light, allows Cliff to capture critical wedding elements in less than traditional fashion. And by moving the flash off camera, his need to constantly reset his camera as he moves from one position to another, is kept to a minimum. Even if you’ve been shooting for years, you’re sure to gain some new insights that will save you time and make your wedding photography even better.