Even if you're normally level headed, "your brain on money" is different, and it can keep you financially stuck. In this course, financial therapist Amanda Clayman reveals ways you can adjust your financial habits and manage your cash flow in a positive way.

Families are an integral part of working in Revit, and the key to creating custom content. They group similar elements with shared parameters (such as walls or windows)—and while there are predefined families available in Revit, creating your own families is a great way to build a library of custom content. This course will teach you the ins and outs of family creation in Revit 2016.

Digital Tutors - Creating Custom Shaders in Houdini

Duration: 1hr 22m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2 ch | 374 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

In this Houdini tutorial, we'll explore under the hood of a shading network.

Foundations of IT Security: Operating System Security

The operating system is where many attacks are targeted, which makes OS-level security just as important to your organization as network security. OS security is a key component of the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Security Fundamentals exam (98-367). In this course, Foundations of IT Security series creator Lisa Bock will also review user authentication, assigning permissions and Active Directory, along with creating audit policies, and how you can protect servers and email.

Money Pro is the one place for bill planning, budgeting and keeping track of your accounts. Easy sync with iPhone/iPad versions. Money Pro works great for home budgeting and even for business use.

SketchUp is a great tool for quickly visualizing an interior design project. Ed Cotey shows you how to develop a floor plan quickly, using an imported AutoCAD file and a number of SketchUp tools to build the walls, insert doors and windows, create and use materials, and apply special effects such as styles and shadows. Plus, learn to set up scenes for use in client presentations.

The powerful adjustment controls in the Develop module of Lightroom 5 can help you optimize the appearance of your photos: from general contrast and tone adjustments to retouching and creative tints. Learn how to boost color, sharpen details, crop and straighten images, and add subtle effects like split toning and vignettes. Author Tim Grey also shows you how to use Lightroom and Photoshop together to apply adjustments that go beyond the capabilities of Lightroom alone.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll go over a proven process for conceptualizing products for industrial design.

Logos are a critical part of the modern visual landscape. To learn how to create your own, it's important to be able to identify the components and design techniques behind the most successful examples, from the Nike swoosh to the Coca-Cola ribbon. In this course, Nigel French deconstructs popular logos in order to explain why and how they work, and offers a methodical approach to creating a logo in Illustrator. These tutorials combine theory with nuts-and-bolts techniques that emphasize simplicity and readability: the principles that ground the best logo designs.

What does it take to be a graphic designer? Design is a complex art that involves many different skills and tools, but by breaking it down into four main topics, Justin Seeley shows how you can get your start in the design world. First he covers the theory: high-level concepts like layout, typography, and color.

onOne Perfect Photo Suite 9.5.1.1646 Premium Edition MacOSX | 547.89 MB

Perfect Photo Suite Premium Edition is your photography. Easier. Faster. Better. Perfect Photo Suite Premium Edition includes all of the onOne Software products and works with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. All seven of the products in the suite even work as standalone applications now.   

NUKE Compositing: Alien Portal
Size: 609MB | Duration: 2h 20m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Practice your NUKE compositing skills while you build something truly out of this world: an alien portal. In this project, VFX compositing guru Steve Wright uses footage shot with a RED camera, a CG-rendered character, and a matte painting—assets included with the exercise files.