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Adobe Illustrator CS5 is the latest version of the industry standard vector drawing application. Now with new features such as the Perspective Tool, the Bristle Brush, Beautiful Strokes and new drawing modes, there are more tools than ever for the creation of stunning art. Professional illustrator, television animation art director and writer Dwayne Ferguson takes you on an in-depth look at Illustrator CS5, taking you through the tools you'll need to master it quickly. The end of the course includes three fun yet practical hands-on projects. Work Files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

Phlearn's mission is to provide the skills, confidence and encouragement for creative individuals to pursue their dreams, overcome their fears, and live their passions. We want to provide you with the technical knowledge to make your vision become a reality AND the confidence to craft your art true to your vision. And we want to do it all with a huge smile, because having fun is fun.

This book is really designed to be a desktop reference, but it offers more than just a quick description of the tools and features. We have incorporated examples designed to guide you through various techniques, provide our experience in tips and suggestions, and try to give you a jumpstart on how to leverage the features in Photoshop.The specific purpose of this book is to provide you with the understanding you need to get the very best results. So sit back, load up Photoshop, and enjoy the ride!

For many of us, this time of year is cold and rainy. Brad Sutton shows us how to take inspiration from the weather with a tutorial on creating reflective, rainy cityscapes on page 30. And if you want to populate those city streets with people, we present our complete guide to figure drawing on page 20 to get you started on the principles of anatomy and action. Many of these techniques were discovered by the Florentine Old Masters, and so on page 46 Joanna Michalak helps us to brush up our classical education and paint like one of the golden ages of art: the Italian Renaissance. On page 36, Anne Pogoda takes the mystery out of creating and applying your own patterns in Painter. Our Output tutorial this issue shows you how to create an Advent calendar, and you’ll find children’s illustrator Sue Woollatt’s delightful winter scene on the disc ready for printing.
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For many of us, the nights are drawing in and the weather’s getting colder. Take some inspiration from the changing seasons with our Art Study on p52, in which Cat Bounds explores the rich palettes and textures of autumn leaves. Elsewhere, Zhu Hai Bo creates an unexpected image in the style of artist Chiang Yee, bringing together an icon of the English landscape and the deft, subtle touches of Chinese ink painting on p58. By contrast on p38, reader Judy Misquitta shows us how to liven up Painter’s pastel brushes with an explosion of kaleidoscopic colour. Meanwhile, Tim Shelbourne has handled our Paint Like tutorial this issue, exploring the painting techniques developed by one of the world’s greatest and most inluential artists: Pablo Picasso. Whatever brushes you use there’s something for everyone in our Drawing 101 guide to acrylics (p66) and in our massive ten page feature on customisation, in which Jeff Johnson shows us some of the best brushes to
use and adapt when creating landscapes (p20).
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"I’m betting you’ll be as glad as I am to have this on your shelf!"–Nick Bradbury, creator of HomeSite and TopStyle When it comes to great Web sites, looks really ARE everything…
When you design a page for print, you control the size of the paper and the placement of the elements. But on the Web, the size, resolution, fonts, and even the layout of your page can vary with the browser and the system used to view your site. In this lavishly illustrated guide, Web designer Wendy Peck shares the secrets the professionals use to resolve those problems and create eye-catching Web typography that looks as good when viewed with Explorer 4 on a vintage PC as with Netscape 7 on a flat-screen iMac.

"Photoshop User" - the official journal of NAPP. It is published 10 times a year (plus bonus issues). Photoshop User is widely known as the most trusted resource for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom with lessons,advice and information "as do" for graphic designers, photographers and the world of digital art.

Advanced Photoshop magazine is packed full of expert advice for mastering professional Photoshop skills. Each edition has in-depth tutorials inspired by the latest commercial trends covering all the key Photoshop skills, from digital painting and photomanipulation, to graphical illustration and typographical effects. The magazine also has inspirational interviews with some of the biggest names in the creative world, a tailored Photoshop Helpdesk, and features looking in more detail at industry skills and services.

Photoshop Projects is the ultimate magazine for Photoshop users looking to test their skills and expand their knowledge. Easy-to-follow tutorials: Every issue is packed with step-by-step tutorials, designed to build your skills piece by piece until you can create images every bit as stunning as the ones featured in the magazine.

The 10 city After Effects templates along with a tutorial for customizing them and optimizing render quality.

This Training DVD comes with step by step creation process of 3 different 3D scenes. It is in a form of 150 pages flash book with hundreds of pics and over 80 videos. Modeling tips, texturing process, uvw mapping, photoshop post production, lighting, and materials setup - all is there. This dvd also includes a bonus scene of destroyed air village. Object prepared for V-Ray renderer and 3ds max 9 or higher (with textures and shaders).

Based on another excellent concept from David Revoy, this series is set out to provide an in-depth look at an intense modeling workflow of a Sci-Fi vehicle. The amount of detail we will be modeling is both intimidating and exciting! If you take a look at the couple preview images below you will see what I mean. No tutorial on Blender Cookie has ever reached this amount of detail.
In this series we are taking an exclusive look at modeling only, thus we will be going for more in depth than usual.

An Overview of Topology in ZBrush
Sculpting in ZBrush, artists work with highly advanced digital clay that consists of millions and millions of polygons. However, when artists need to transport those milions of polygons to other 3D applications it is necessary to engage in the polygon economy and start redistributing the wealth. This tutorial will show the artist how to retopologize a model in ZBrush as well as how to reproject the sculpting details from one model to another.

Female and Male Pose: Learn how to paint a male and female in a standard standing pose. Each video has about 5 minutes of additional footage talking about basic measurements and more refining of the painting. Both of these videos are filmed in real-time so that you won't miss a moment of the action. High res (1500 pixels wide) layered psd files of each painting are included in the bundle along with the brushes used for each painting.

In the nearly 4 hour long set of DVD's I go over philosophy, gear, exposure, modifiers, application of it all, how I compose images, what I'm looking for in a photo, what I like, what I don't like, how things go really well, how things start to suck very quickly, how to interact with clients, how to get kicked out of not just one location but two locations, and, most importantly, how to deal with a group of drunk girls out on the street.

Профессионал в области освещения Zack Arias представляет полный курс по освещению в фотосьемке. Вы узнаете как с помощью вспышки, простых зонтиков и софтбоксов сделать прекрасные снимки. Действительно мощный курс (это одно из тех немногих видео, по которым можно четко писать конспекты - упорядочено в соответствии со всеми канонами преподавания любого материала), который и без перевода вполне понятен, всем, кто хоть немного увлекается фотографией..