Up and Running with Photoshop for Design is a streamlined introduction to Adobe’s flagship image-editing application, specifically geared to lovers of graphic art and design. Expert Deke McClelland shows how to make designs and artwork come alive, in the shortest time possible. The course covers the basics of selections, masks, layers, type, effects, painting, and smart objects. Exercise files accompany the course.
Features:
- Getting around an image
- Creating accurate selections
- Creating a layered composition
- Scaling and rotating layers
- Creating realistic layer effects
- Painting with the brush tool
- Tracing outlines with the pen tool
- Creating editable effects with smart filters
- Saving an image and preparing it for print
Release Name: Lynda.com.Up.and.Running.with.Photoshop.for.Design-QUASAR
Size: 866 MB
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Learn to think like a painter in Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop and render images from photographs that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist’s tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
Understanding that resolution is in the brush strokes
Understanding the subject
Removing lens distortions
Using the traditional paint color swatch set
Making shadow and highlight adjustments
Simplifying details with filters and Smart Blur
Cloning layers
Using custom actions
Working with canvas texture
Creating physical surface texture effects
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In Premiere Pro: Color Correction and Enhancement, Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Sengstack streamlines the color-correction workflow and provides practical methods for improving the color and tonality of footage in post-production. The course details basic color-correction concepts, addresses colorcasts and exposure errors, and shows how to match color among multiple clips. The course also covers secondary correction techniques, such as limiting tonality and color modifications to specific portions of a clip with track mattes, and shows how to create stylized looks by tinting footage, incorporating gradients and vignettes, and using the Magic Bullet Looks plug-in. Exercise files accompany the course.
Features:
- Touring the vectorscope, YC waveform, RGB parade, and YCbCr scopes
- Analyzing clips for color and tonality issues
- Adjusting tonality with RGB Curves and levels-style controls
- Making specialized tonality edits
- Adjusting color channels using RGB Corrector
- Animating track mattes
- Compensating for changing lighting conditions within clips
- Isolating and changing a single color
- Creating film-like looks
- Working with third-party plug-ins
Release Name: Lynda.com.Premiere.Pro.Color.Correction.and.Enhancement-QUASAR
Size: 1791 MB
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HTML5: Geolocation in Depth shows how to add location tracking to a web application with a combination of JavaScript, CSS and HTML5. First, author and HTML5 expert Bill Weinman provides a thorough explanation of the geolocation API, including considerations every developer should take into account, such as data dependability, power usage, and privacy concerns. The course then covers how to detect support for geolocation, retrieve coordinates from a device (whether once or continuously), handle errors, and integrate the results with Google Maps to create a location-aware web application that will run on many mobile browsers. Exercise files are included with the course.
Features:
- Understanding how geolocation works
- Detecting geolocation support
- Getting coordinates
- Continuous tracking with watchPosition()
- Integrating geolocation with Google Maps
Release Name: Lynda.com.HTML5.Geolocation.in.Depth-QUASAR
Size: 73 MB
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In Animation Tips and Tricks with Flash Professional author Dermot O’ Connor introduces a variety of real-world issues that animators commonly encounter and practical solutions to them in Flash. The course covers how to apply gradients to create subtle texture and light characters, reducing the flat look of most cartoons; how to simulate natural phenomenon such as wind, fire, and clouds; how to mimic 3D space; and how to add fades and transitions to create custom cuts between scenes. The course also includes a look at staggers, which can be used to create camera shake, tremor effects, and extreme character reactions. Exercise files are included with the course.
Features:
- Overlapping and animating colors
- Creating lens flares
- Animating hair with shape tweens
- Animating an explosion
- Animating smoke with particles
- Animating a scream
- Using Virtual Cam
- Lighting a 3D shot
- Animating cross dissolves
Release Name: Lynda.com.Animation.Tips.and.Tricks.with.Flash.Professional-QUASAR
Size: 587 MB
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Creating Particle and Fire Effects with Maya, author Aaron F. Ross employs Maya particles and fluids to generate stunning special effects simulations, including exploding fireworks, tumbling snowflakes, and burning flames. Following a project-based approach, the course shows how to emit and render particles, write expressions to control and fine-tune effects, and animate and shade dynamic fluids. Tutorials on batch rendering and compositing in After Effects are also included. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Laying out the scene
- Sketching particles on a Live object
- Connecting particles to Fields such as Gravity
- Emitting particles from particles
- Varying particle shader attributes
- Modeling and shading for the Particle Instancer
- Importing and instancing geometry onto particles
- Randomizing particle rotation with Creation and Runtime Expressions
- Adding Turbulence
- Rendering depth of field with mental ray
- Creating 3D Fluid containers
- Emitting dynamic fluid attributes from an object
- Animating a dynamic fluid
- Using a fluid for atmosphere
- Modulating light intensity with a noise expression
Release Name: LYNDA.COM.CREATING.PARTICLE.AND.FIRE.EFFECTS.WITH.MAYA-JGTiSO
Size: 1147Mb
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Lynda.com Up and Running with InDesign-QUASAR | ISO | 417.99 MB
Genre: Video Training
Up and Running with InDesign is a streamlined introduction to Adobe’s popular publishing application. Expert Deke McClelland shows how to design polished multi-page documents for print and electronic output, in the shortest time possible. The course covers the basics of formatting type, flowing text, placing images, and combining type and graphics. Exercise files accompany the course
Topics include
Getting around a document
Making text frames
Creating paragraph styles
Adding bullets and numbers
Repeating elements with master pages
Cropping and scaling artwork
Wrapping text around a graphic
Preparing a document for print
Exporting a PDF file
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Lynda.com After Effects Apprentice 04 Layer Control-QUASAR | 1.97 GB
In this installment of After Effects Apprentice, Chris Meyer focuses on ways to edit and enhance layers in After Effects. Through a series of Quizzler challenges and Idea Corner examples, Chris shares alternative ways to employ modes, sequencing, and adjustment layers, while special sidebar movies cover the subjects of creating seamless loops, animating effects points, understanding pixel aspect ratios, and employing Brainstorm to explore the variety of different looks that effects can create. The course also covers tricks for enhancing boring footage and tips for converting scans into moving sequences.
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Lynda com Google SketchUp 8 Essential Training – QUASAR | 1.23 GB
Genre: Video Training
In Google SketchUp 8 Essential Training, author George Maestri explains how to model and render 3D objects and scenes using Google SketchUp 8. The course covers the fundamentals of the application, from navigating the user interface, manipulating objects, and building basic shapes to importing objects from Google Earth, animating a scene, and modeling organic terrain using the Sandbox tools. The course also explores SketchUp Pro features, which are available as an upgrade. These include tools for creating dynamic components and adding interactivity, as well as sophisticated importing and exporting options for working with outside applications.
Exercise files accompany the course.
INSTALLATION
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Lynda.com – Deke’s Techniques of June 2011 | 297 MB
Duration: 1h 09m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×540 15fps 300Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 128Kbps 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Deke’s Techniques is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
June Techniques:
Glossing up a heart in Photoshop
Creating a classic heart in Illustrator
Putting wings on a horse
Creating a raised bevel effect
Kerning within a single character
Making slats of uniquely textured wood
Creating synthetic wood grain
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