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Skillshare – Editorial Illustration – Draw Idioms the ‘Designy’ Way with Mikey Burton

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Skillshare – Editorial Illustration – Draw Idioms the ‘Designy’ Way with Mikey Burton
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Category: Tutorial


Get out your pens and paper! Join acclaimed “designy” illustrator Mikey Burton for a 45-minute funfest on bringing an editorial illustration to life. Bite-sized lessons show each step of his sketching, illustrating, and texturing process – and then challenge you to illustrate a fun idiom of your own.
Throughout the class, Mikey illustrates an idiom, shares how he got started in editorial illustration, and talks through work for clients as diverse as Converse, ESPN, TIME magazine, and the New York Times. Plus, each lesson is brimming with insights on creative confidence and the value of creating work you love.
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Pluralsight – Photoshop CC Working with Curves

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Pluralsight – Photoshop CC Working with Curves
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Category: Tutorial


The curves adjustment in Photoshop is the most detailed way to adjust color values of an image. In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of color theory, and how it applies to image manipulation, automation, and color correction in Photoshop. Software required: Photoshop CC.
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Lynda – Photoshop Selections Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Lynda – Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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Take charge of Photoshop and make better, more targeted image adjustments with selections-including hard-to-select objects like hair, fuzzy edges, and color ranges. Rich Harrington reveals the importance of precise selections, whether you’re masking, changing color and tone, or even storing transparency, and shows you how to make them with the tools in Adobe Photoshop CC. Dive into the Select menu commands and the Marquee, Lasso, and Magic Wand tools, and then learn how to refine your selections with Expand and Contract, Smooth and Feather, Quick Mask, and other controls. Photoshop power users will also enjoy advanced techniques involving the Color Range command and alpha channel selections.
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Lynda – Photoshop Selections Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Lynda – Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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Category: Tutorial


Take charge of Photoshop and make better, more targeted image adjustments with selections-including hard-to-select objects like hair, fuzzy edges, and color ranges. Rich Harrington reveals the importance of precise selections, whether you’re masking, changing color and tone, or even storing transparency, and shows you how to make them with the tools in Adobe Photoshop CC. Dive into the Select menu commands and the Marquee, Lasso, and Magic Wand tools, and then learn how to refine your selections with Expand and Contract, Smooth and Feather, Quick Mask, and other controls. Photoshop power users will also enjoy advanced techniques involving the Color Range command and alpha channel selections.
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Lynda – Photoshop Insider Training Rethinking the Essentials (updated Feb 24, 2017)

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Lynda – Photoshop Insider Training: Rethinking the Essentials (updated Feb 24, 2017)
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Category: Tutorial


If you’ve been using Photoshop for years, you probably have various techniques and workflows committed to muscle memory. That’s great, but are you taking advantage of everything Photoshop can now do? The software has evolved greatly over the last 25 years, and many people don’t always understand or take the time to learn new features and work them into their routines.
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Lynda – Photoshop CC 2017: Nondestructive Exposure and Color Correction

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Lynda – Photoshop CC 2017: Nondestructive Exposure and Color Correction
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Ever look at a photo and feel disappointed that it doesn’t convey the original scene? This course reveals how to use Adobe Photoshop to enhance the color, contrast, and sharpness of a photograph to help ensure richness of real life is displayed. Using tools from adjustment layers to filters, discover how to nondestructively transform your photos. The course also covers how to work with raw images and perform special-case adjustments such as color matching and tinting. [Read more…]

Lynda – Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Lynda – Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
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Design and create amazing works of art using the powerful vector-based drawing program-Adobe Illustrator. This comprehensive training is the first in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Learn how to create multipage documents with artboards; how to draw anything you can imagine with the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools; and how to start adding color to your artwork with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text, and painting digitally, with or without a tablet. Each chapter should leave you with a new set of skills-and a sense of accomplishment.
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Lynda – Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Lynda – Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced
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Learn how to be the best Adobe Illustrator user you know. This comprehensive, project-based course is the second in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. In this course, Deke doesn’t just talk about how to leverage different Illustrator features-he ties each concept to a clearly-defined task, ensuring that you close out each section of the course with a practical understanding of the concepts. Discover how to convert scanned line art to scalable, vector-based path outlines using the automated Image Trace feature. Plus, learn how to make a logo using the transformation tools, create an emoji with the Gradient tool, and turn a simple circle into an intricate origami flower with the program’s dynamic effects. [Read more…]

O’Reilly – Learning Path – Beginning UX Design

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O’Reilly – Learning Path – Beginning UX Design
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Your audience has astonishingly high expectations when it comes to user experiences, putting the pressure on you to deliver a UX they can’t resist-on whatever device they choose to use. In this Learning Path you’ll acquire the skills to design multi-device experiences that enchant your users anywhere. [Read more…]