Color is a powerful signal in video; it can subtly project emotion, mood, time of day, and location. Learn to manipulate these visual elements in a variety of shots, from interior spaces to outside landscapes, with color grading. Filmmaker, colorist, and experienced editor Simon Walker shows how to simulate a light source and different types of light, and choose an evocative color for your footage to tell the story of a particular location. Plus, learn techniques to change the time of day, the type of room, and the overall mood of a location.

You must be more than the guy pressing the button and familiar with manual settings.
Find out your “author’s voice” or your “author’s eye”.  The singularity that makes you recognizable as a photographer, as an author.

This class was made to help you purchase and use the right lenses for your own personal photography. What decisions go into choosing the right focal length for your image? How does compression and distortion work and on what is it most apparent? What lenses are a must-have in your bag that will help you tell your own story correctly?

Welcome to the Quick Start to After Effects. Quick Starts are a series of specially-constructed courses meant to be followed in sequence and include valuable exercises to reinforce learned concepts.

Color correction is the part of the post-production process where you balance all your clips to neutralize colors and get a uniform look to all the shots. Without color correction, your sequence can look disjointed and mismatched. This is different than color grading, in which you deliberately pull the look of the clips away from the natural and true to give them a stylized look to help sell the setting or mood.

Spot-on Accent Graphics in After Effects™ is dedicated to teach how to make all those popular circle bursts, pop-animations, accent graphics and short animations that fall into this category in a quick fashion so you can chunk it at once. In PART 7 we are going to make this:

Minimal Title Opener in After Effects is a series of classes where I want to show you how you can use After Effects to create these popular title animations to open up videos. Enroll the class  to create this animation:

All my Lightroom 5 training plus the essential Photoshop for Photographers course covering nearly everything a photographer needs to know in Photosho.

Hong Kong is a brilliant, chaotic mix of the exotic and the accessible—and the perfect introduction to exploring and photographing Southeast Asia. In this course, traveling photographer and Strobist.com founder David Hobby takes us there. He'll dispel any fears you might have about traveling abroad, stoke some anticipation, and send photo enthusiasts out, armed with new, solid info and a pocket list of can't-miss photos. Learn how to spend your time efficiently and not miss any of the best photo experiences Hong Kong has to offer.

Award-winning food and advertising photographer Bill Robbins has been sharing the art and science behind shooting food and drink photographs for years. Join him as he shows how to enhance a food's color, shape, and texture and how to convey a sense of mood, environment, and story.

Photoshop CC is a continuation of the evolution of the industry standard image manipulation software. Photoshop CC begins the new method in which software is distributed by a mandatory subscription. Costs have mushroomed. But, not only does it include many time-saving and creative functions, but it is also improved under the hood as well. It runs better, faster, and mostly doesn’t crash! And for photographers there’s more to discover than ever before.

 Foundations of Photography: Specialty Lenses

In this installment of the Lighting with Flash series, photographer and Strobist.com publisher David Hobby demonstrates using strobes when shooting sports—in this case, some kids playing soccer. After providing an overview of his lighting strategy, David shoots some action shots of goalkeepers diving for the ball. Next, he shoots some portraits of the soccer players, employing a compact softbox attachment as a key light.

The Traveling Photographer: New York

In this lesson, I’m going to share with you 3 things you always need to keep in mind when composing a picture.

Do you want to know how to take amazing pictures with your phone or any other camera?

Do you want to make your photography better than just a snapshot?

Do you want to consciously create an image instead of just hoping that your photo is going to come out ok?

In this lesson, I’m not only going to tell you those 3 guidelines.

I’m also going to explain what to do to achieve a desirable effect.