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Your camera’s RAW capture capability gives you the potential to create truly stunning images, and in this workshop from digital imaging guru Tim Grey, you’ll learn how to use Adobe Camera Raw 7 get optimal quality from your RAW captures with an efficient workflow. After giving you an overview of Camera Raw and how it works, Tim will teach you how to apply a wide variety of adjustments to your images, from basic adjustments like cropping and sharpening, to advanced adjustments like HSL and split toning, to focused adjustments like spot removal and graduated filters.

In Flash Professional CS5: Character Animation, Dermot O' Connor explains the process of character animation in Flash, using nested symbols and motion and shape tweening to create believable characters. The course covers the process from start to finish, from rigging a character to creating a walk cycle animation. Along the way, Dermot demonstrates techniques such as animating eye blinks, head turns, and mouth movements during dialogue. Exercise files accompany the course.

Advanced Modeling in Revit Architecture elaborates on the basics of core elements in Revit, such as walls, floors, roofs, and curtain walls, and digs into specialized features such as in-place families, adaptive components, and the massing environment. Author Paul F. Aubin guides designers into thinking both in and out of the box, through discovering and applying industry standard best practices, employing creative and sometimes unconventional techniques and procedures, and finding ways to make models serve multiple concurrent project goals.

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.

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. The main video runs over two and a half hours and is complimented with 1 hour of bonus material about post processing.

In this exciting new DVD released by Massive Black, Shawn Barber reveals his unique approach to the art of painting. While watching Shawn work, students will learn about many of the basic elements of painting including drawing, composition, color, form, and value. Shawn also demonstrates many of the important lessons one must understand before even picking up a brush: stretching canvas, color mixing, palette setup, and choosing the right medium. Finally, the DVD features a behind-the-scenes interview with Shawn that covers his personal work, career, and what it takes to become a successful artist.

Join Sal Cincotta for his “take no prisoners” approach to the business of high-school senior photography. In this workshop he'll dig into marketing plans, business plans, pricing, and packaging. Sal will also show how to create an ambassador program so that your kids are talking about you and selling you in their schools.

Let’s face it, there are aspects of the photographic process that seem to be a mystery and lighting is one of them. The question is, how do we make sense of it all? Joel believes that if all we do is approach lighting from a technical process, the best you will end up with is a bunch of lighting ratios, schematics and the ability to hold a flash meter. What we all want is to create killer images that have impact. This is why we must approach the photographic process from a creative artistic perspective. Yes, there are technical aspects to the process, but the foundation is built on something much greater, the ability to think like an artist and use the greatest tool of all, the creative mind.

Fusion storytelling with photos and video is changing the photo business. In this workshop Vanessa and Rob show you how to stand out from your competition and make more money — using the video capabilities your camera already has!
You'll learn how to shoot video, love it, and watch what it does for your wedding or portait photography business.

Photographer David Hobby of Strobist.com follows up his Lighting Seminar DVD Set (May 2008) with Lighting in Layers, a series of real-world, behind-the-scenes assignments lit entirely with small flashes.

Take a guided tour of Corel Painter X with renowned artist and Painter Master Jeremy Sutton! This indispensable DVD-ROM is the perfect resource to help you learn the tools and techniques of a Master. In this step-by-step video guide, you will learn how to navigate your way through the Corel Painter interface, how the create artistic compositions like the Old Masters, how to sketch, draw and paint using Painter's famous brushes, how to create a painting from a photo and how to create beautiful collages using Corel Painter X.

With this drawing instruction DVD you will learn to draw as David N. Kitler shows you how to us basic shapes, locate important value shifts, understand the role of different pencil grades to create depth, locate and accurately plot objects on a page, and properly position the parts of any object, be it animal or plant, to relate to the whole. David combines these fundamentals of how to draw with confidence to help you develop a center of interest and to lead viewers' eyes around your composition.

Illustrator Insider Training: Coloring Artwork shows an expert's approach to color choice and control in Illustrator. Mordy Golding guides experienced designers and artists through what he sees are the three stages of applying color to artwork: creation, inspiration, and editing. The course also shows how to build art in a way that allows artists to make changes quickly and how to take advantage of the newer features that have been added to Illustrator over the recent versions. Exercise files are included with the course.

In the Narrative Portraiture series, photographer and teacher Chris Orwig explores the use of elements such as location and natural light to create images that tell stories about their subjects and produce a strong emotional connection. In this installment of the series, Chris shows how to incorporate aspects of a location, such as architecture, natural light, and even passersby, to create authentic, story-filled portraits. The course begins with a photo shoot on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Simple CSS is great for small projects, but what happens when your applications begin to scale? At that point, a massive stylesheet can become incredibly difficult to manage. Luckily, Sass and Compass are the solution!