Filters are a part of Adobe Photoshop often misused or overlooked by designers. Author Nigel French teaches a creative approach to filters, explaining how to combine them both with other filters and with the Photoshop masking and blending tools for maximum visual impact. Plus, learn how to use filter blending modes, filter masks, and how to stack filters to create unique filter combinations.

Simulate the look of anti-aliased web fonts in your next website mockup. In this concise course, Chris Converse teaches you how to use paragraph and character styles in Adobe Photoshop to mimic the look of headings, body text, and hyperlinks and adjust for the anti-aliasing treatment applied by different web browsers.

Put HTML5, CSS3, and recent javascript API technologies to work and provide an enhanced brand opportunity for your clients with custom video bumpers. This short, easy-to-follow project shows how to add opening and closing video bumpers with the video tag and its javascript API. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to add these elements dynamically without additional editing, and includes instructions for troubleshooting the final presentation.

In this course, Timothy Sexton, senior retoucher at New York's Gloss Studio, builds the foundation for mastering the art of fashion retouching. The course begins with a discussion of how to evaluate an image and develop a retouching strategy that dovetails with the client's needs and the photographer's vision. Timothy also details an approach to file and layer management that simplifies creating multiple versions of a photo for client approval.

Materials are one of the key tools in CINEMA 4D for adding realism and character to your 3D models and projects. Learn how to use the CINEMA 4D toolset for creating and applying materials that add color, texture, shading, transparency, and reflectivity.

Photoshop CC for Photographers: Camera Raw 8 Fundamentals
Duration: 3h 32m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 960x600 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch | 1.24GB
Genre: eLearning

Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 8 enables photographers to open and manipulate raw-format files with an exceptional degree of control over exposure, sharpness, and other characteristics. Learn how to work with its features and take your images from raw files to polished photographs with these tutorials from teacher and seasoned photographer Chris Orwig. Discover how to improve and correct exposure problems, crop and recompose photos, and create compelling black-and-white conversions of full-color photographs.

Lynda - Photoshop CC Image Optimization
Duration: 3h 04m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 960x540 25fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch  | 475MB
Genre: eLearning

This course guides photographers through all of the key adjustments they're likely to use in the process of making their photos look their best using Photoshop. The course begins with an overview of some of the concepts related to applying adjustments, and then moves through basic, advanced, and creative adjustments.

Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Studio Portraiture | 322 MB
Duration: 27m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960x540 30fps 1600Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 128Kbps 2ch

Genre : Photography

In the Douglas Kirkland on Photography series, well-known photographer Douglas Kirkland explores a variety of real-world photographic scenarios, sharing technique insights and critiquing the results.

This course provides extensive guidance on cleaning up blemishes and distractions in photos using Adobe Photoshop CC. It begins with a basic overview of the key concepts and a review of the relevant tools available in Photoshop, then covers basic and advanced cleanup techniques. Gain confidence in your ability to remove even the most challenging blemishes in your photos.

Learn how to enhance the natural beauty of a landscape photo with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In this short start-to-finish editing project, author Jan Kabili walks you through corrections for common issues you may have in your own landscape photos. She shows you how to create a mood with white balance, enhance contrast and detail with tonal adjustments, increase image intensity, make corrections to specific areas of the photo, and export the final processed photo.

Photoshop Lightroom 4 Power Shortcuts (2012)
AAC | 96 kbps | 48.0 KHz | 1 channel | Subtitle: English (.srt) | 3h 49min | 1.62 GB
Genre: Video Tutorial / Adobe Photoshop

This course enables you to harness the diverse features in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom literally at the touch of a button. Photographer and teacher Chris Orwig shares the keyboard shortcuts that make working with the modules in Lightroom more intuitive and efficient, including ways to navigate the interface, minimizing, maximizing, and zooming panels and images as you go, as well as methods for importing images. Chris also demonstrates shortcuts for organizing images with labels, stars, flags, and collections; editing image metadata; working with video; and making a wide range of image adjustments. The course provides photo editors with a whole new way to extend their reach in Lightroom: by bringing their toolset closer to the workbench.

This course is a practical guide to constructing 3D buildings that can be used to populate video game environments. Author Adam Crespi starts with a gas station taken from a photograph—retrieving measurements and dimensions with modular blocking and planning techniques in Adobe Photoshop—and then re-creates the building in Maya with polygonal modeling and advanced texturing techniques. The course shows how to model elements such as walls, doors, and roofs, including stacking UVs on a texture sheet, and also sheds light on simulating real-world details like dirt, wear, and grime, using ambient occlusion and normal baking in a high- to low-poly workflow. The final chapter shows how to export the model to the Unity gaming engine for final cleanup and rendering.

Wedding Photography for Everyone Fundamentals with Chris Orwig (2013)

If you're a photographer (an enthusiast or a pro), you'll eventually be asked to photograph a wedding: a task that's both a privilege and a challenge. You're capturing one of life's most significant milestones. You're shooting an event filled with unpredictable moments that can't be re-created, and you need to be involved without being intrusive. It's a balancing act that professional wedding photographers work hard to perfect.

Have you wondered if using a CSS framework will speed up your site development? In this course, senior author James Williamson introduces the types of frameworks available-including the most popular choices among working web developers-and provides an honest assessment of the pros and cons to using a framework. He guides you through downloading a framework, setting up a directory structure, and building a framework-based site, such as structuring the HTML and working with forms. A separate chapter explores layout grids, often included with CSS frameworks, which provide a simple system for laying out page content.

Element 3D Essential Training (With Exercise Files)
English | 4 hrs 57 mins | AVC (.MOV) 960x540 15fps | AAC 48KHz mono | 2.44 Gb
Genre: eLearning

Creating Simulations in MassFX and 3ds Max
English | 3h 53m | VP6 1280x720 15 fps | MP3 128 Kbps 44.1 KHz | 1.99 GB
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate

This course introduces basic physics simulation principles in Autodesk 3ds Max using MassFX, a system that makes it cost effective to animate rigid body objects, cloth, and particle systems. Author Brian Bradley introduces basic concepts such as gravity, drag, volume, and density, and how Newton's Laws of Motion can help you understand the interaction of objects with these unseen forces.

Creating Shader Networks in Maya and Mental Ray with Exercise Files (2013)
with Aaron F. Ross

Dive deep into the Hypershade window and shader creation with Maya and the mental ray rendering engine. In this course, author Aaron F. Ross shows how to create materials and shaders for 3D objects, characters, and landscapes, with reflectivity, transparency, and amazing texture. Become more comfortable building shader networks and open up a lot of new possibilities for creative surfaces in Maya.

iOS SDK: Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location
English | 1h 45m | AVC1 960x540 15 fps | AAC 96 Kbps 48 KHz | 255 MB
Genre: eLearning | software: iOS 5, Xcode 4 | Level: Intermediate

This course shows iOS developers how to add location awareness and maps to Apple iPhone and iPad applications. Discover how to show customers and clients where you're located and share directions with them.

SPSS Statistics Essential Training (2012)
with Barton Poulson
In this course, author Barton Poulson takes a practical, visual, and non-mathematical approach to the basics of statistical concepts and data analysis in SPSS, the statistical package for business, government, research, and academic organization. From importing spreadsheets to creating regression models to exporting presentation graphics, this course covers all the basics, with an emphasis on clarity, interpretation, communicability, and application.

HTML5 + UX: Engaging Ecommerce
with Joseph Lowery

The HTML5 + UX series combines HTML5, CSS3, and recent javascript API technologies to work—enhancing your web projects with interactivity and multimedia. This installment shows you how to build features that allow visitors to your online store to filter their selections interactively via sliders, drag items onto wish lists, and automatically save them locally. Author Joseph Lowery uses this scenario as an opportunity to introduce concepts such as HTML5 form elements with javascript enhancements, local content storage, and drag-and-drop.

3ds Max Textures and Materials with Steve Nelle

 3ds Max 2010 Textures and Materials with instructor Steve Nelle takes an in-depth look at the art of creating lifelike skins and textures for three-dimensional surfaces using 3ds Max, one of the world’s most widely used 3D packages. This course covers popular material and shader types, including mental ray ProMaterials, methods for properly positioning maps, and some of the lesser-known advanced features of the Material Editor. Techniques are demonstrated using three practical project examples. Exercise files accompany the course.

Analyzing Your Website to Improve SEO Updated (2012)
In this course, search engine optimization (SEO) expert Peter Kent walks step-by-step through the process of reviewing the content and markup of an existing web site to improve its ranking in search engine results. This course offers a consultant's take on how to analyze each component—from keywords to content to code—and determine what improvements are necessary to become more visible to search engines like Yahoo!, Bing, and Google.