This course covers how to utilize frequency separation, also known as split frequency, to create clean and polished high-end images. Be sure to watch the video "Split Frequency for High End Editing" to learn the steps to create a frequency separation,

Sometimes it's really hard to find the right background for your composites or manipulations! So in todays Photoshop tutorial we're building our own background from scratch. Manni is giving you some tips and workflow hints on how to easy overcome this task with a few simple workflow techniques!

Folx Downloader Pro 4.2 (Mac OS X) | 29 MB

Friendly and easy interface will help you take the most of your downloads. Just click the link in your browser and Folx will start downloading for you. The possibility to integrate Folx with any of popular Mac OS X browsers makes downloading super easy and fun! This download manager for Mac is not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features and can do everything you need in a very simple way.

Macgo Free Mac Media Player is a media player for Mac OS X with high definition of up to 1080P and DTS5.1 audio system. Almost all kinds of media formats, like DVD, videos, audios and photos can be played with it. Also, it can play on iPhone / iPad (mini / Air) / iPod touch with AirX feature available.

GBDeflicker is an Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro Plugin for removing time-lapse flicker. Flicker can be removed in most cases by simply applying GBDeflicker's default settings to your composition.

XMind is an advanced, yet easy to use mind mapping utility that can help you offer visual support to your ideas and organize tasks. First of all, the program provides you with a user-friendly interface, where you can organize and save each brainstorming session as a different workbook. You can also use this utility to make interactive presentations, as you can bring ideas into maps and add them audio notes.

Learn 27 ways to generate traffic and promote your blog posts after hitting the publish button.

Element 3D v2.2 Plugin for AE (Mac OS X) | 311 MB

Video Copilot has released Element 3D, an After Effects plug-in that lets you import and animate 3D models, even as a particle array, and extrude text and mask shapes in real time. It’s useful for all of us, for newbies and old hands & for straight 3D and more abstract experimentation, at least if you have a more recent OpenGL graphics card.

Adding a type of design element into your images shouldn't be that hard! That is why we have dedicated this weeks episode to a crazy cool design retouch tutorial, in which we're showing you how to firstly add some design "shape" elements with awesome color gradients.

Artlantis Studio 6.0.2.12 Multilingual (x64) | 532 MB

The new, physically correct Artlantis 6 rendering engine, with its legendary simplicity, allows you to create visualizations of an incomparable beauty and quality. To create stunning images, Artlantis 6 now includes its own built-in physical engine, emphasizing physical rendering quality, precision, material accuracy, and energy consumption.

After Effects is an amazing program that can help you create motion graphics, visual effects, and titles that make your videos better, but it can be intimidating to try out. In this 45-minute course, you'll learn how to beautifully introduce objects in your After Effects projects. By the end of this class, you'll know how to seamlessly animate object buildups for your own video projects.

Learn to use HTML5 video as a design element, by running it below other text and graphics on your website. This episode of Design the Web quickly runs through the six steps to accomplishing this technique, including: setting up the video element, positioning a logo and caption over the video, making the layout responsive with CSS, and using Modernizr to adapt the layout for mobile users.

Learn how to easily author and publish sites the no-code way using SharePoint 2013. In this course you'll receive a high-level overview of the SharePoint publishing workflow and examine the three different publishing templates in action.

What would you give to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Ansel Adams in the darkroom? To watch him wave his hand beneath focused beams of light as a reverse image of Full Moon over Half Dome burned into the paper's silver surface. No two prints would ever be precisely the same. He was as much an artist here as he was in the field.