Premiere Pro Guru: Adjustment Layers and Nesting

With adjustment layers and nesting, you can nondestructively apply effects, color correction, and filmic looks to video footage in Premiere Pro. Here Luisa Winters explains what nesting is, when to use it, and how to use adjustment layers to apply effects to certain sequences in your timeline. She also covers masking effects; saving presets for future use; creating sepia, film, and other looks with adjustment layers; and using lookup tables (LUTs) to manipulate color in a data-oriented way.

Scenarios and storyboarding provide a reality check for your designs, allowing you to see how the interaction will play out in a real environment. This course shows how to use these tools to map your ideas about what the user needs to their day-to-day tasks and workflow. Author Chris Nodder explains how to write scenarios and transform them into visual storyboards that show elements of the interactions that are hard to describe with words alone, such as emotion, action, detail, and progression.

Use these tips and tricks to pose pose images like a pro.  See what to do with the feet, hands, head, and expression.  Learn how to direct subjects and pick killer backgrounds.  Finally, learn how to get great backgrounds for all your pictures.  You'll get to create your first artistic-pro portrait.  Who knows, maybe it will launch your photography career.  Let's get started.

In this series Sander will take you through three steps to create and complete a finished polished bird concept. He starts off with thumb-nailing and initial thinking, then takes you through creating different color palettes and scenarios for the selected thumbnail.

In this Maya tutorial, we’ll go through some of the model preparation steps and talk about some of the current limitations of the Maya sculpting tools.

Appearance may not be everything, but how something looks has a fundamental impact on how it's perceived, what it communicates, and whether it succeeds. In this course, author John McWade of Before & After magazine shares foundational graphic design techniques that will make your page, screen, product, or presentation look and perform its best.

This episode of After Effects Guru combines the powers of Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator to help you make polished logo animations for your clients. Learn how to use the Keyframe Assistant to build animations with multiple repeating elements, and animate with color, starting with grayscale values you'll use to generate different hues. Ian Robinson also provides some project-saving advice for what happens when you don't have access to the full-res version of a logo. Last, you'll learn about the best formats for outputting animated logo bugs and animations that contain transparency.

CyberLink PhotoDirector Suite 7.0.6901.0 Multilingual | 492.3 MB

Total Photo Adjustment Plus Video Color Grading. PhotoDirector 7 Suite offers an extreme blend of features that goes far beyond what you would normally expect to find in photography software. Simplified photo management tools combine with powerfully easy-to-use yet sophisticated adjustment and editing options that offer a complete, end-to-end photo editing and management solution.

A complete beginner level and easy to understand web designer course for absolute beginners. It gives you detailed explanation & practical examples on how to design a website in Photoshop and convert it into HTML & CSS.

BusyCal is an award-winning desktop calendar that combines personal productivity features for individuals with powerful calendar sharing capabilities for families and workgroups.

Interested in honing your colorization skills? Our new practice course shows how to exercise your Photoshop muscle, by taking a desaturated image and painting the color back in. John Derry also shows how to choose the best blend mode for your work and how to save your adjustments in layer groups that are easy to toggle on and off. When you're done, you can compare your results to John's copy as well as the original color image.

iStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system.

Artist and illustrator, Ria Sharon guides you through a playful exploration of sketching as a tool to nurture your artistic practice. In this 36-minute class, Ria will show you her simple (and seemingly magical) techniques to make time and space in your everyday life for creativity. You will begin a sketchbook that you can continue to come back to for inspiration in the days and weeks to come.

Many times, simply resizing your web design is not enough to create a satisfying user experience. This course helps you make your webpages more responsive to different screen sizes with HTML, CSS, and javascript. Picking up where he left off in Creating a Responsive Web Design, Chris Converse shows how to modify your existing HTML, dynamically load content, animate elements on the page, and collapse the navigation on smaller screens—while allowing users to expand menus with a tap of their finger.