ExpanDrive builds cloud storage in every application, acts just like a USB drive plugged into your Mac. With ExpanDrive, you can securely access any remote file server directly from the Finder or even the terminal.

Gumroad - Kindred Concepts - 004 LuVisi Character

Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x1200, 30 fps | Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 2 ch | 2.2 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Sketchvlog 4 is a good representation of my artistic compulsions. I'm hosting a new contest on ArtFightClub.net and while I can't officially compete I enjoy art battles so much that I will draw entries just for the hell of it. I decided to sketch Dan LuVisi's character (Number 4) from his book (LMS The killbook of a Bounty Hunter) and this so happens to be my 4th Sketchvlog.

Whether you're a photo enthusiast or a working professional, it's important to have a "compass point." So says David Hobby, publisher of the popular Strobist.com blog and a former staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun.

In this installment of our popular Photo Assignment series, Derrick Story shows how to get professional lighting results by using just one or two strobes that are detached from the camera and triggered remotely by Canon or Nikon digital SLRs. Photo Assignment: Off-Camera Flash covers how to improve the appearance of photos taken indoors, and reduce the appearance of harsh shadows, and get soft, beautiful light that flatters any subject. Along the way, learn lighting fundamentals and how to assemble a kit of equipment essential to any digital photographer who shoots portraits.

When you're starting with a beautiful subject, you already have the makings of a great photograph. Lightroom allows you to make subtle image adjustments that take it to the next level. Learn how to enhance a portrait of a young woman in this short start-to-finish retouching project with lynda.com author Jan Kabili. Jan will show you how to optimize tone and color, hide blemishes, brighten eyes, whiten teeth, add contour, and enhance hair.

Whether you want to fix a problem in post or simply give your video more style, this course will help everyone from motion graphics designers to video editors improve their footage. Rich Harrington uses Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems you'd encounter in real-world projects, like lens distortion, camera shake, noise and grain, and overblown exposure. Plus, you'll learn advanced techniques for speeding up or slowing down your video, rotoscoping footage, and using the numerous creative color and texture effects in Photoshop and After Effects. If your footage has ever needed some extra attention, this course is for you.

Designing Templates with InDesign
Duration: 3hr 30m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 1 ch | 1.3 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

An InDesign template is a beautiful thing. If you find yourself creating the same kind of document over and over again, a template can save you a tremendous amount of time. Working with other designers? A template can help make sure you're all on the same page. And if you need to get clients up and running on their own, a template can provide the guidance they need to execute a design successfully.

Rigging a Cartoon Character in Maya

Duration: 2hr 34m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 1 ch | 452 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Cartoon characters are known for their exaggerated movement, often created by squashing and stretching the character. In this course, George Maestri shows how to add cartoony squash and stretch to a rig in Maya. He shows how to use Maya's rigging tools to create stretchy joints, flexible torsos, and exaggerated facial expressions. Follow along to learn how to replicate these techniques and bring your own characters to life.

#HowDoYouDoThatShading? Lettering artist and graphic designer Ricardo Gonzalez (a.k.a. @itsaliving) will teach you the tricks of his famous one-liners, mixing digital with physical to create depth and detail in a monoline wordmark.

He experiments in a darkroom. She composes on a computer screen. Together, husband-and-wife artists Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor broke free of traditional notions of photography to create haunting, layered dreamscapes that challenge the medium's possibilities. Step inside their Florida compound to see their complementary work and contrasting processes—and find out how they overcame the early skepticism of their art-world peers to become luminaries in their field.

Gum printing and Photoshop. Light sensitive materials exposed by sunlight, negatives created with an Epson printer. Meet Brian Taylor, a photographer who combines the love of 19th and 21st century processes to create striking images, each a unique masterpiece with a handmade quality.

Blocs 1.5.0 Mac OS X | 16 MB

Blocs eliminates the need to write code manually, which means - anyone can create web sites. Blocs generates good code quality without unnecessary or built-in styles. Blocs provides a new level of performance and helps you focus on the visual creation of websites.

In this ZBrush tutorial, we’ll learn how NanoMesh enables artists to quickly instance models using other surfaces.