Tutsplus: Premium Courses - Introduction to Web Typography
English | .DMG | 721MB Genre: eLearning
Learn to incorporate excellent typography principles into your next web site design! This course by Ian Yates is designed to to take you through the absolute fundamentals of web typography, so whether you’re a beginner, or simply wish to refresh your knowledge, you’ll get a great overview of web typography fundamentals and practices through a practical web design project. As a special bonus, download the source materials for each lesson to complete the typography project along with Ian.
In this course, we’ll cover the essentials of what you absolutely must know about CSS3. This means we’ll review the basics, like border-radius and box-shadow; but, we’ll also work our way up to more advanced techniques, such as using animations to add flair to your designs.
KelbyTraining - Creative Lighting for Photographers with Joe McNally
English | 01 Hours 26 Minutes | 480x320 | MPEG4 | 29.97fps 1665kbps | AAC 128kbps | 1GB Genre: eLearning
Joe McNally takes you to, what only can be called not the prettiest of locations to teach you just how far a little creative lighting can take your shot… and tell a story. Join him as he uses a lot of different lights in a lot of different ways to tell a story with a beautifully lit, if not so beautiful, ending.
video2brain - Pavel Kaplun: Der Weg zum perfekten Covergirl
Language: German | ISO | 3.45GB Genre: eLearning
Many of you certainly know perfect photos that appear in fashion magazines. But not everyone knows what kind of work behind these glamorous images inserted. Olga Seifert will show you how to create a simple girl from a true cover girl.
Look at the Champion on the shoulder and learn valuable tips on makeup, hair style, styling, accessories and Posing! In subsequent chapters, the post-production techniques will be demonstrated using the Seifert Olga and Pavel Kaplun in Photoshop. Learn how to perform the beauty retouching, soften skin, without the structure is lost, perform minor cosmetic "beautification operations". Recently shown how to lay out the cover of a fashion magazine. Learn how a noble background is equipped with a pattern, how to create exciting titles and work with text. From unvarnished model for Cover Girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, is the motto of this project.
The Soldering Basics DVD
English | MPEG2 | 720x480 | 29.97fps 2937knps | AC3 192kbps | 2.65GB Genre: eLearning
Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal (solder) into the joint, the filler metal having a lower melting point than the workpiece. Soldering differs from welding in that soldering does not involve melting the work pieces.
Tutsplus Premium Course - Digital Painting for Concept Art
English | 1280x720 | H264 | 29.97fps 2204kbps | AAC 128kbps | 867MB Genre: eLearning
All too often, artists are quick to think of Photoshop as a digital canvas, and approach it from an old paradigm. The problem is that Photoshop plays by some fundamentally different rules. If you adjust your mindset to acknowledge the inherent strengths of the software, you’ll be much more prepared to make large-scale changes to the image at a moment’s notice – an invaluable skill in the concept art industry.
A dramatic upgrade doesn’t have to be difficult. Nothing transforms the look and function of prized kitchen space like new cabinets and countertops. Now both are easier than ever to install with detailed guidance from Gregory Paolini’s illustrated book integrated with DVD video. Simply watch this master cabinetmaker execute on video exactly what he’s explaining.
CreativeLive: Setting Up a Home Studio with John Cornicello HD
English | 4hr 39mn | 1280x720 | H264 | 23fps 2224kbps | AAC 96kbps | 3.75GB Genre: eLearning
A photography studio is expensive to rent — especially if you don’t use it every day. If you've been wanting a studio that's nearby and convenient, what could be more convenient than in your own home?
Starting Strength, 3rd edition
Publisher: The Aasgaard Company; 3rd edition | ISBN: 0982522738 | November 11, 2011 | PDF | 347 pages | 229MB Genre: eLearning
Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. The second edition, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, has sold over 80,000 copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. Along with Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd Edition, they form a simple, logical, and practical approach to strength training. Now, after four more years of testing and adjustment with thousands of athletes in seminars all over the country, this third edition expands and improves on the previous teaching methods and biomechanical analysis. No other book on barbell training ever written provides the detailed instruction on every aspect of the basic barbell exercises found in SS:BBT3. And while the methods for implementing barbell training detailed in the book are primarily aimed at young athletes, they have been successfully applied to everyone: young and old, male and female, fit and flabby, sick and healthy, weak and already strong. Many people all over the world have used the simple biological principle of stress/recovery/adaptation on which this method is based to improve their performance, their appearance, and their quality of life. SS:BBT3 is your complete guide to developing strength -- the foundation of athletic performance and the key to long-term health.
Digital-Tutors: Particle Integration with ICE and Lagoa in Softimage 2011 with Chris Glick
English | Duration: 1 hrs. 36 min | VP6F | 1280x720 | 15.00fps 1000kbp | MP3 96kbps | 831MB Genre: eLearning
In this high-level tutorial we will learn how to handle data between ICE clouds and get around many common issues in ICE and Lagoa. The objectives for this fast-pace, intensive course include successfully transferring data between two ICE trees, create custom particle effects and understand how data flows in Softimage. By the end of this training, you will have the ability to solve these types of ICE problems in your own projects. Before following along with this tutorial, you should have experience using Softimage and ICE as we cover what would normally take hours to accomplish in a shorter span of time. If you are an artist new to Softimage, ICE or Lagoa, we have several courses to get you started.
Digital-Tutors: Softimage Render Tree Reference Library: Illumination Nodes with Kyle Green
English | Duration: 2 hrs. 56 min | VP6F | 1280x720 | 15.00fps 1000kbp | MP3 96kbps | 758MB Genre: eLearning
In this collection of lessons we will discuss the various nodes found in the Illumination section of the Render Tree. We will be discussing topics such as creating realistic car paint, exploring subsurface scattering materials to simulate translucent surfaces, overriding shadow color and transparency on individual objects, shading hair strands created in Softimage, rendering soft-shadowing effects using ambient occlusion, as well as many other tips, tricks, and techniques for using the Softimage Illumination nodes.
In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.
