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Join one of the world’s best wildlife photographers, Moose Peterson, in his own backyard, as he teaches you all the basics from choosing gear to choosing settings of wildlife photography. By starting out in your own backyard, you have the greatest access to your subjects, the best opportunity to influence your environment, and the most amount of time to put your knowledge into practice. The skills and techniques you develop in your own personal wildlife studio can be applied to any other destination you choose in pursuit of all types of wildlife.

Join Lindsay Adler, Fashion and Portrait Photographer, and learn how to create striking beauty imagery using one, two, or three lights in your setups.
Lindsay starts building the foundation with just one light, then teaches you how to expand on that with a second light, before getting even more creative with a third. This class is all about taking control of the light, choosing the right modifier, (whether a beauty dish, silver dish, ring flash, or even some unusual light sources you’ve never tried before), and always making sure your setup meets your end goal.

Don’t let bad weather ruin your next photo shoot. Learn how to make great photographs with Joe McNally, internationally acclaimed photographer, as he calls upon his years of on-location experience to give you the tips and tricks you need to get the job done in a variety of locations and uncooperative weather. Joe starts by introducing the gear he takes with him on location and then walks you through his process of making the most of whatever nature has in store at each unique destination.

Direct sunlight light is known for really bright highlights, really dark shadows, and it is not flattering for portraits. Join Lindsay Adler, fashion and portrait photographer, in Central Park at high noon where she teaches you how to take control of midday light. You’ll learn how to use diffusers to even out the light, how to use reflectors to fill in the light, and how to take advantage of a variety of other tools and techniques to conquer midday light.

In this series of lessons, we've planned a course that is perfect for users who have never touched Photoshop. This course is geared toward users who are new to Photoshop and so we'll focus on building good habits and having fun using the software. This series of lessons is aimed at being short, to the point, and something you can go through quickly. Our goal is to not force a lot of terms and processing on you but to present some fun projects that you can follow along with and use to grow your confidence.

Every day, no matter where we are version of each application, there are constant questions that users do to themselves or throw them trainers and consultants. This course is a reference video2brain quickly and conveniently to those questions about Adobe Photoshop that assail us always.

With After Effects CS6 create high-impact motion graphics and cinematic visual effects for the presentation on the big screen, the TV, the PC and mobile devices. In this video tutorial will introduce you to Todd Perkins step by step in this powerful software. Learn how to create compositions properly animate graphics, design effects, remove a green screen background and much more.

In this class Aaron Sims will be discussing the creative process and challenges of creating an effects-heavy short film from ideation, to planning, to creation. The class will discuss the challenges, both creative and technical, involved in producing a film like Archetype. Aaron will demonstrate some of the techniques he used in the various pre-production, production, and post-production phases of the Archetype project.

Learn in-depth techniques for retouching images to perfection, helping your clients look their best, and expressing your creative vision! Whether retouching skin, whitening teeth or reshaping body features, Photoshop allows you to perfect reality as well as express your creative vision. In this workshop portrait and fashion photographer Lindsay Adler will cover essential retouching techniques and teach how Photoshop allows you to make the impossible possible! Lindsay will cover countless creative Photoshop techniques: creating porcelain skin, changing colors, displacement maps, adding textures, adding makeup in Photoshop, quick retouching plugins, and dozens of other techniques you can apply to your own photography.

The series includes an introduction to one-point, two-point and three-point perspective along with examples of projecting from plans, transferring scale, drawing inclined surfaces, plotting ellipses, shadows and reflections in perspective.

Learn how to restore valuable antique images and enhance your images. This training disc will show you how to transform faded, damaged photographs into beautiful images that are as clear and crisp as the day they were taken - and how to turn casual snapshots into great looking images. This DVD is a comprehensive guide to fixing practically anything wrong with a photo in over 8 hours of interactive training.

Collection of Best Photoshop Tutorials

Pixar’s Renderman@ is a core rendering technology that has been powering production pipelines since 1985. Leading digital effects houses and computer graphics specialists use Pixar’s RenderMan@ because it is the highest quality renderer available anywhere and has been production tested through successful use in feature films for over ten years. RenderMan’s powerful features such as programmable shading language and anti-aliased motion blur allow designers to believably integrate stunning synthetic effects with live-action footage. RenderMan is used for Pixar’s own feature film productions.

iMovie for the iPad is an incredibly easy-to-use movie editor, but you might be surprised what it's capable of. In this workshop, expert photographer Joseph Linaschke will steer you through the application and get you producing your first movie in no time. You’ll learn how to build incredibly fun and simple “movie trailer”-style videos, following pre-designed shot lists that guide you to shoot exactly what’s needed, as well as how to do more advanced, customized editing, mixing video, photos, music and even your own voice recordings into your final movie. This course was recorded on iMovie for iPad, but the same software runs on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

Autodesk® Softimage® software is a high-performance 3D character animation and visual effects application. Intuitive, nondestructive workflows, together with the innovative ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) and Autodesk® Face Robot® facial animation toolset, extend Autodesk® Maya® or Autodesk® 3ds Max® software pipelines. With new creative tools, a new high-fidelity interactive environment, and extended customizability, Autodesk Softimage enables you to meet the evolving challenges in visual effects, post-production, and 3D game development.

In this series of Softimage tutorials we will learn facial rigging techniques in Softimage. Throughout the tutorial we’ll focus on providing animators with the control they need to create believable expressions with a control rig that computes fast. We’ll creatively explore several techniques and tools that can be used to create natural deformations.

In this tutorial we will learn about the concepts, tools and workflows for utilizing the Ptex texture mapping system inside MARI. We’ll get started with this course by taking a few moments to understand what Ptex texture mapping is and why it may be important to our production pipelines.

Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of Apple OS X, adds more than 200 new features to the operating system. In this workshop author and expert Chad Chelius shows you how to take advantage of all the power that Mountain Lion puts at your fingertips. After learning how to install and set up the software, create and work with user accounts, and find your way around the interface, you’ll get tips on using Mountain Lion to surf the Web, send email, play audio and video, and much more. And you’ll be introduced to new features like dictation, the Notification Center, and the Reminders, Notes, and Messages applications.

In this series of tutorials we’ll be focusing on painting values in grayscale and how to preserve them when applying color to our grayscale illustration in Photoshop. We’ll begin this process by establishing the direction of our light source and adding some base values. From there we’ll explore a layered workflow of developing our shadows and lighting and we’ll continue with refining and adding details to our grayscale composition. Finally, we will walk through a process of painting color on our grayscale illustration using various blend modes, allowing us to preserve our values. As we will see, through this process, we can render a grayscale image to completion and paint color in a non destructive fashion. Applying these techniques to your own workflow will allow you to focus on values first and save some time when painting color.

If you’re an Adobe Creative Cloud user, you’ll find that the Dreamweaver 12.1 update gives you access to some exclusive new features. In this workshop David Powers takes you on a tour of these features, which focus on new HTML5 elements and multimedia, including video, audio, and animations created with Edge Animate. You’ll also learn about changes to the workflow in creating forms, the new Live Search feature in the Mac version of Dreamweaver, and a little bonus for javascript developers.