Unlimited possibilities exist for today’s fashion brands to grow their business SOLELY through Instagram. Yet most of the advice out there doesn’t apply to the fashion business.

Are you avidly using Instagram Stories yet? If not, why haven’t you jumped on the bandwagon?  Instagram Stories has quickly become the top marketing tool for many brands. It's been reported by the Instagram Statistics team that 75% of users take action after looking at an Instagram Story or Instagram Story Sponsored Ad. In this class, I will share how you can leverage the power of Instagram Stories so you can double your engagement and sales.  We will review some of the powerful features you must use to start driving more traffic to your website. We will review case studies of brands who are doing a great job with their Instagram Stories, so you can draw some inspiration from these them.  This class will provide you with a comprehensive Instagram Stories guide so you can continue to grow your business despite all the changes in Instagram Algorithm.

Laravel is the PHP framework that developers prefer for its expressive, elegant syntax. Learn what's new in version 5.6 in this quick overview. Instructor Justin Yost walks through the upgrade process, and then reviews the new features: the Artisan Collision package, job queues, dynamic rate limiting, Blade aliases for reusing components, as well as back-end features for working with the console. In chapter two, Justin covers the improvements to existing features that make working with Laravel even better, including API controller generation, date casting, and password hashing.

With Adobe Creative Cloud, you can access the entire collection of Adobe software, including powerhouse design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. The subscription model provides new purchase options as well as instant access to software updates. Explore all the suite has to offer, in this introductory overview with instructor Chad Chelius.

Get ready to have your mind (and ears) blown. AmpliTube 4, a major upgrade to the world’s most powerful guitar and bass tone studio for Mac/PC, is here and will take you to a level of hyper-realism and customization of tone you never knew possible.

Beauty Box is simple and automatic to use. This video plugin automatically identifies skin tones and creates a mask that limits the smoothing effect to just the skin areas. Just apply the filter, let it analyze the video, set a few Smoothing options, and let the plugin render to make skin retouching incredibly easy. That's it!

VUE xStream offers professional CG artists a complete toolset for creating, rendering and exporting exceptionally rich and realistic natural environments in 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave, Cinema 4D and Softimage.

OctaneRender is a popular third-party render engine for Cinema 4D. It renders images in a much shorter time than a standard CPU renderer. In this course, mograph artist Andy Needham introduces members to this critical tool for 3D modeling and design. It begins with a quick-start guide, designed to get you up and running with Octane in 30 minutes or less. Andy then explores the Live Viewer—the heart of the engine, which provides instant visual feedback on your project—and C4D layouts for Octane. Then dive deep into materials, including the blend and metallic materials introduced in Octane 3.08; the Octane lighting system; and the thin-lens camera, which enables effects such as depth of field and motion blur. Andy also reviews Octane Scatter, volumetric effects like fog, and the new Toon materials and lights. He shows how to optimize your render settings and use a multi-pass workflow to enable you to get the most flexibility and control over your scene. The course wraps up with a challenge that will allow you to practice your newfound skills.

Jenny Cruger established the simple. pure. organic. brand of motherhood photography, creating the idea of organic portraits for maternity, newborn, baby, and family sessions. Join jenny as She shows how to take natural & organic studio maternity portraits.

A unique and seamless combination of visual effects, editorial timeline and review, NUKE STUDIO lets you composite, conform, edit, color-correct, add effects and playback at 4K. With this end-to-end solution, you can run a whole project from a single desktop. As a supervisor or team lead, NUKE STUDIO’s powerful collaborative controls let you distribute shots, easily manage and review versions, share comments, and make tweaks and adjustments within a single cohesive package.

This class is one section in my much more extensive Adobe Illustrator Masterclass, also on skillshare. If you are interested in learning the pen tool and Adobe Illustrator in full detail then feel free to check out the full class.

Roberto Valenzuela is a photographer and educator who has a talent for identifying areas where photographers regularly hit roadblocks and a passion for developing clear and concise systems that allow photographers to break through those barriers and become better, more confident practitioners of their craft.