Certain projects call for a 'roughed up' look and feel. Whether its for a t-shirt graphic that seems like its been washed a million times or a poster print that appears intentionally old, this class will teach you how to achieve a vintage and distressed look.

The relationship between the filmmaker, the actor, and the camera is an integral part of every production, but is rarely discussed. In Actor/Director Film Lab, Robert Milazzo explores cinematographic craft and collaboration and its relationship to acting and performance.

Professional athletes and elite exercisers may be able to train full-time, but what about those of us who want a better body or to achieve amazing feats of physical performance but have busy lives and jam-packed schedules? Athlete and author Ben Greenfield will arm you with the tools, strategies, and systems you need to look, feel, and perform at your peak physical and mental capacity, without spending your entire day exercising or dieting.

Join Craig Heidemann as he unveils the 10 key tax and accounting issues facing photographers today and outlines the information you file your taxes properly. Craig will teach you how to classify your employees and expenses, allocate for insurance premiums, and the hidden secrets of the IRS 20 factor test. Plus, Craig will demonstrate how to handle a sales tax or income tax audit.This 90-minute session will give you a solid working foundation in accounting basics that will ensure your hard work pays off. Don't just survive — THRIVE!

Ableton Live is the most efficient platform for electronic music production for djs, producers and sound designers. DJ and producer, Andrew Luck will take you through some of the coolest, and most commonly overlooked, features in Ableton Live.

Ableton’s Push Controller is not just another MIDI controller, it’s basically its own instrument. Whether using it in a live DJ set or simply speeding up your creative workflow in the studio, Push can help you program drums and melodies faster.

Ableton® Live is a powerful tool for producing music and taking your music from the studio to the stage. Learn the best way to work with it in Ableton Live 9 Fast Start with Isaac Cotec.Isaac will teach basics of mixing audio and using Live for live performance. In this class, up-and-coming producers with develop a solid foundation for working with Live.

This is a visual and non-technical class which explains the simple steps of creating great photos. Yes, shutter speeds and apertures can be important, but this class focuses on all those other elements that are part of the creative photographic process.

The strongest portrait photography businesses have one thing in common: a dedicated, strategic plan for artistic and financial success. Join creativeLIVE instructor Lori Nordstrom as she goes through 30 Days to Design Your Portrait Business, an intensive course that will give you the step-by-step tools you need to survive and thrive as a portrait photographer.

Photoshop is an essential tool for all working professionals, no matter what industry. Join legendary Photoshop pro Dave Cross for an intensive 30-day series on everything you need to know about this unparalleled — and often overwhelming — program. Dave will teach one hour every day for 30 days, covering everything from setting goals to expert retouching strategies. Taught in bite-size chunks, this series will help you improve your skills, efficiency, and creative ability. At the end of this intensive series, you will understand basic techniques for every photo editing task, innovative hacks to improve your workflow, and which tools to use (and which ones you never have to learn). In addition, you learn how incorporating a non-destructive workflow will boost both your productivity and creativity. This is not just a passive, sit-back-and-watch class: you will be encouraged to actively take part by completing assignments and participating in live Q&A and feedback sessions. If you want to take your Photoshop skills to the next level, join Dave for 30 Days of Photoshop.

The world is facing a number of environmental, economic, and social challenges. Our future depends on sustainable solutions that improve our lives, without adversely affecting our neighbors or our ecosystems. Designers have a unique role to play in the way forward. Watch this course to explore the tools, resources, and best practices of sustainable design. Designer, educator, and author Scott Boylston covers the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability. He walks through technical and social innovations that are making real change possible, across a variety of disciplines.

The interaction between culture, people, and trends is the driving force behind influential brands. Cultural strategy reveals how and why consumers think, act, and feel-now and in the future. This course is for anyone who wants to harness their creative abilities to shape brands, and ensure that those brands not only participate in the cultural zeitgeist, but also contribute to it. In this course, Gerard Crichlow discusses the four truths of purpose-led brands. He helps strategy teams get to a creative idea, summarize their findings, and communicate those findings to a creative team. He wraps up the course with a review of a campaign ecosystem done well.

Creative Cloud Libraries allow you to access your assets anywhere—from any device. This course shows how to collect and organize images, colors, text styles, and other elements created in various Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps into CC Libraries, and share those assets between applications. Learn about the CC ecosystem and the libraries in Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Animate, Capture, Dimension, and more. Plus, discover how to share and search libraries and use libraries as a collaboration tool for your whole design team.

Do you want to incorporate 3D into your Adobe Illustrator design workflow? If so, then this course is for you! Discover how to use Cineware for Illustrator, a powerful, free plugin that gives artists the ability to render 3D objects from Cinema 4D and place them into illustrations and images with realistic lighting and shadows. Tony Harmer shares how to get started with the Cineware plugin, including how to launch Cineware, work with 3D cameras, and frame your scenes. Tony also shows how to work with materials—discussing transparency, reflectance properties, and UV options—and demonstrates how to build a simple scene. To wrap up the course, he goes over options for exporting your files.

Canva is an easy way—without any graphic design experience—to create professional graphics for social media, presentations, newsletters, business cards, brochures, gift certificates, and more. Flexible design templates provide the correct layout for your target destination, letting you focus on the design, not the size or file formatting. And because Canva lives on the cloud, you can access your graphics from anywhere you can get online. Learn how to get up and running with Canva in this short, fun training course from Canva expert Marley Baird. Marley shows how to add and edit images, work with typography, and use the built-in design templates to build your next project with Canva.

Autodesk Fusion 360 is a complex piece of software for modeling both onscreen assets (3D renders and animation) and offscreen physically manufactured elements. It provides parametric tools that allow a designer to edit components as specs change—without starting over from scratch. What's more, projects can be shared among a group of designers using 360's cloud-based design management system.

Looking for a full-featured CAD program that runs on your Mac? Meet AutoCAD for Mac, a leading computer-aided design and drafting application that runs natively on Apple computers. In this course, Jim LaPier covers the basics of AutoCAD for Mac, including the interface, file management, and toolsets. Jim shows you how to create and modify 2D geometry, work with layers, add dimensions, add annotations, and plot your drawings. He explores how to work with layouts, advanced objects, and 3D-modeling features.

The Astute Graphics plugins can help you be more precise, efficient, and creative with Adobe Illustrator. In this course, learn how these plugins can revolutionize the way you draw and edit artwork in Illustrator. Instructor Mike Rankin explains what each plugin does and discusses how these plugins can offer more efficiency and features not available in the native Illustrator tools. Mike covers drawing and editing with VectorScribe and InkScribe, aligning and arranging objects with ColliderScribe, creating beautiful symmetry with MirrorMe, and adjusting color and applying effects with Phantasm. He also goes over tools in DynamicSketch and WidthScribe that make drawing with a tablet even more natural and intuitive.

ASP.NET Core, the Microsoft web development framework, includes an optimized developer experience, better performing runtime, and cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux. In this course, Jess Chadwick introduces the basics to get you up and running with ASP.NET Core, and creating your own professional quality applications. He explores setup and installation, working with the ASP.NET Core framework, and the techniques you need to manage data, reuse code, construct web APIs, and secure your new applications. All of this is included along with industry-standard best practices such as dependency injection and the model-view-controller pattern for more modular code.

Adobe XD CC is an innovative tool used for UI and UX design and prototyping. In this course, instructor Tom Green provides an overview of the features and functionality in this design and prototyping tool, as well as how it can help you design compelling digital experiences. Tom gives a tour of its capabilities and features and shows the different ways you can share your prototypes. Plus, he covers productivity-boosting features like the Repeat Grid tool, explains how to go from concept to interactive prototype, goes over how to use voice interactions, and more.

Mother’s Day is a celebration of the special bond between mother and child and there is no better person to capture that magic than the world’s most beloved baby photographer, Anne Geddes.In A Mother's Day Card Shoot, you’ll watch Anne Geddes at work as she creates one of her iconic images. Moms, crafters, photographers, and fans of Anne can watch as she prepares and shoots an image that will be transformed into an unforgettable Mother’s Day card.

Not sure where your next sale will come from? A subscription product or business eliminates the guess work and is a great way to secure a steady paycheck. Find out how it is done in A Crafter's Guide to Starting a Subscription Business with Mei Pak.

Expanding into retail sales after selling online is a huge transition, but you don’t have to make the leap alone!Join Katie Hunt to learn about proven wholesale strategies that can add additional revenue to your business.

In this information-packed session, fashion photographer Lindsay Adler will dive into her top five favorite tools for improving creativity in Photoshop. She will cover her go-to favorites like blend modes, color adjustment tools, brushes, and more!