Creative expression requires the right tools and when it comes to professional results, details matter. QuarkXPress 10 has been redesigned from the inside out to deliver stunning graphics, virtuoso productivity features and a design canvas to accentuate your creativity. So whether you love print or live digital, XPress Yourself with QuarkXPress 10.

Living Weather HD is a weather app like no other. It not only gives you the current weather conditions and forecast, but also puts beautiful videos matching the conditions on your desktop and an optional screensaver.

Lynda - VFX Techniques: Creating a CG Flag with After Effects and CINEMA 4D
Duration: 1h 56m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch | 1.01 GB
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

CINEMA 4D's fantastic rigid body and cloth systems and the powerful CAMERATRACKER plugin in After Effects are a great combination for tracking and compositing cloth-like materials in live-action footage. In this course, Craig Whitaker will guide you through the entire post-production process for creating a computer-generated flag—from designing a mockup from reference material and tracking the camera movement to constructing the flag using CINEMA 4D's cloth simulation tools and compositing it back into the scene with After Effects. Each step of the process is rich with lessons applicable to similar situations CG and compositing artists will face in the real world.

 

Lynda - Up and Running with Laravel | 319MB
Duration: 2h 28m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

What is Laravel? It's a popular PHP framework similar to CakePHP or CodeIgniter. It offers all of the standard MVC capabilities and provides features targeted specifically at designers. In this course, Joseph Lowery shows you how to install Laravel and Composer—its dependencies manager—and start creating pages with Laravel's powerful syntax and flexible HTML views. He'll also show how to use the Blade templating system, which will be a big help in the next chapter, when you build your first Laravel app—a user authentication app. Last, you'll check your app and see how Laravel code holds up in testing.

 

Lynda - Windows 8.1 Tips and Tricks | 276MB
Duration: 2h 11m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Beginner Intermediate Advanced Appropriate for all | Language: English

Get more done with Windows 8.1. Author David Rivers shares tips and shortcuts for working more efficiently, improving system performance, and protecting your data in Windows. The course opens with David's Top 10 list of power tips, before delving into great mouse tricks and keyboard shortcuts, display and desktop-organization tips, techniques for improving efficiency with basic but important operating system features, tips for improving system performance, and ten useful utilities.

 

Tutsplus - Adobe Premiere Elements Essentials
English | .MP4 | h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 24.00 fps(r) | aac, 44100 Hz, stereo | 2.82 GB
Genre: eLearning

Adobe Premiere Elements is the entry-level video editing application of choice for amateur video enthusiasts.

As the industry leading virtual tour software, Tourweaver 7 makes a great step forward by supporting Flash 11 Player Engine, 3D object, Google map street view, multilingual tour, as well as tons of features inherited from its predecessor. With this version of 360 virtual tour software, you can share your virtual tour onto your Facebook account and you can also publish HTML5 virtual tour for your iPhone and iPad. Full featured free trial version is also provided as usual.  

Learn how to rig an entire bird character from start to finish in Maya. Jason Baskin takes you through the complete process, starting with a virtual skeleton—positioning joints and orienting them so that they behave predictably.

When an editor has to wait for technology, creativity suffers. That doesn't happen with EDIUS® 7. It's simple: EDIUS Pro 7 is the fastest and most versatile real time editing software—4K, 3D, HD, SD, and almost any format from 24x24 to 4Kx2K, all on the same timeline, even in nested sequences, all in real time. And now EDIUS has partnered with Blackmagic Design to support its PCIe DeckLink 4K Extreme and Thunderbolt-based UltraStudio 4K capture and playback devices for the most affordable 4K workflows.  

New Riders - Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Lessons in Digital Painting
English | .MP4 | AAC LC, 2 channels, 44.1 KHz | AVC [email protected], 1008x568 pixels, @ 1032 Kbps | 683 MB
Genre: eLearning

Digital artist Bert Monroy invites you into his personal studio in Berkeley, California, to share the inspirations and secrets behind his stunning art using Adobe Photoshop. In this video, Bert continues to develop the core principles of his book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting, dissecting more paintings and taking you even further along on the path of your own creative process.

Peachpit Press - Photoshop in Motion
English | .MP4 | AVC 800x600 15 fps | AAC 96 Kbps 48.0 KHz | 863 MB
Genre: eLearning

In this online video, you’ll explore the multitude of creative possibilities that Adobe® Photoshop , and learn how to use its versatile new motion graphics tools to create dynamic animations, realistic movement, and stunning special effects.

Kolor Autopano Giga is a software dedicated to the creation of panoramas, virtual tours and gigapixel images. Based on Autopano Pro software and including all its featues, Autopano Giga goes far beyond the creation of panoramas : stitch your images in 360°, export them into Flash virtual tours, link the tours together... so many possibilities to present in a new way all the photos and places you want to share. Resolution matters? Autopano Giga also enables you to stitch in a record time several hundred or thousand images to create photos of several gigapixels.