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Janie Gildow's drawing DVD workshops provide a firm foundation to the colored pencil artist. In this drawing instruction DVD, The Colored Pencil: Getting Started Right, you learn about the basics of drawing, including how to choose your pencils, erasers and papers.Janie Gildow shows you the proper grip for pressure control and exercises to improve variegated and smooth tones. She contrasts and demonstrates the major pencil techniques of layering and burnishing and discusses the benefits of each.

The second volume of the Getting Started with Vue 9 training series, Lighting & Atmospherics.No previous knowledge of Vue required. Includes project files.

The first volume in the Getting Started with Vue 9 training series, Forest Creation is a project based introduction to Vue 9 Infinite / xStream. No previous knowledge of Vue required.

Step-by-Step Basics to Get You on Your Way
In this hands-on course from Adobe Certified Expert Candyce Mairs, you’ll build a dynamic, database-driven website using ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder, an exciting interface developed by Adobe specifically for ColdFusion development.

Janie Gildow shows you the proper grip for pressure control and exercises to improve variegated and smooth tones. She contrasts and demonstrates the major pencil techniques of layering and burnishing and discusses the benefits of each. Janie describes important modifications when working on dark paper, shows you how to incise lines. She describes how blending contrasting colors is considerably different with colored pencil in contrast to liquid media. Janie demonstrates color layering and how she achieves her elegant hues. There is an important discussion about the color wheel.

How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop.
Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step instructions that are clear and concise, along with tips and tricks that author Alaric Cole has gathered after years of using Flex and teaching it to fellow developers at Yahoo! You'll understand how Flex works, how to use the MXML markup language and work with ActionScript, how to deploy RIAs to the desktop using Adobe AIR, and much more.

EDIUS, the nonlinear editing system from Grass Valley, “is shockingly good to edit with and beautifully easy to use,” says editor, filmmaker, and author Maxim Jago. “But there are a few core techniques, technologies, and tips that will make a massive difference to your editing experience, and that’s where these lessons come in.” In Getting Started with EDIUS 6, Maxim guides you through the complete workflow, from setting up the interface and importing media to working with effects, audio, and titles. You’ll also get lots of tips and techniques for managing, organizing, and outputting your projects.

In this collection of lessons we will learn how an artist can get started painting digitally inside of Photoshop.

We will begin by taking a quick tour around the user interface learning the location of important tools and panels. Next, we will learn how we can create and manage layers in Photoshop. From here we will dive into some of the most commonly used tools for digital painting, learning where they are and how they work. After spending some time learning how to select and store colors, we will jump right into setting up a composition with a sketch where we will discover the difference between resizing and resampling our artwork. Next we will take a glimpse into the painting process by first blocking in some color and then blending it together. Along the way, we will learn how to create custom brushes and patterns as well as how we can utilize these to paint textures. We will wrap things up by learning about layer masks and what we can be on the look out for to make our textures more believable.

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to get started using the compositing software Toxik. Using Toxik we can quickly color correct, mask, composite, or animate still images and image sequences. We'll begin this project by learning the basic project/composition creation process, learning how to move around the Toxik user interface, begin compositing images together and render out our finished material. We'll then move into the common uses of Toxik such as color correction, garbage masks, blending modes, and animation. This series of lessons is a great starting point to learning Toxik. By learning the tools and fundamental workflows of Toxik, we will be able to create complex effects and images in no time. This will allow us to begin exploring other areas of Toxik and start using Toxik in our own production pipeline.

In this course we will get our first look at Pixel Bender and how to use it to build filters usable in other Adobe products

If you're a beginning blogger looking for an easy-to-follow, friendly guide to help you produce an attractively designed blog or website, this is the book for you. You'll learn the basics of WordPress, one-click installs, and customizations. There's also coverage of SEO, categorizing blog posts, and social media promotion strategies, such as importing your blog into a Facebook page. This book's approach starts out simple using step-by-step examples and builds from there, enabling you to gain confidence in building your blog.

Printing a quality version of your image takes skill and a lot of photographers don't know where to start. In this course, Scott is joined by Dan Steinhardt from Epson as they discuss everything you need to know to make high quality prints from your favorite images. In the course, you will learn about individual Epson printers, how to pick a paper type that meets your needs, optimizing images for print, sharpening and printing from Photoshop, choosing a color space, making test prints, and much, much more. Follow along with course and you will be producing high quality prints in no time.

Matt sits down with best-selling photography author Jeff Revell to talk about the Canon T2i DSLR camera. The T2i is a great transition camera for photographers moving from a point and shoot to DSLR. It combines a lot of the comfort features of a point and shoot with the advanced features of a DSLR. As Jeff says, it is important to get familiar with all of the features on a camera. The more comfortable a photographer is with their equipment, the less they have to worry about changing settings and the more they can concentrate on composing a great image. Follow along with Matt and Jeff and learn about what makes the Canon T2i such a great purchase.

Need to extract data from a text file or a web page? Or do you want to make your application more flexible with user-de-fined commands or search strings? Do regular expressions and lex/yacc make your eyes blur and your brain hurt?

These tutorials heroically downloaded from the site of Autodesk and are given in normal form, so they can be viewed on the local machine.

In 3ds Max 2011: Getting Started with Reactor, Steve Nelle shows how to create realistic dynamic simulations that have objects recognize, collide and react to coming into contact with each other in 3ds Max animation projects. This course includes a detailed explanation of both rigid and soft body dynamics, reactor’s various collection types, using constraints and soft body modifiers, and how to adjust and control a dynamic simulation’s accuracy. Four start-to-finish projects are also included in the course, which show practical techniques for breaking objects apart, creating cloth simulations, adding rippling water effects to a scene, and more. Exercise files accompany the course.

In Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS5 and Business Catalyst, author Joseph Lowery introduces Business Catalyst, the hosted application for building and managing business web sites, and shows how to add complex functionality by leveraging its integration with Dreamweaver CS5. The course includes tutorials on setting up a Business Catalyst site in Dreamweaver, adding and customizing design elements such as blogs and forums, and employing the Business Catalyst ecommerce features to build an online store. Exercise files accompany the course.