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Lynda – EPK Editing Workflows 02 Creative Editing and Fine-Tuning

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Lynda – EPK Editing Workflows 02: Creative Editing and Fine-Tuning
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It can be difficult to achieve a rich look and feel for electronic press kits, or EPKs, given the fast turnaround they usually demand. But using the creative editing and fine-tuning techniques shown in this course, you can achieve ôpicture lockö at an early stage in the process.
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Lynda Real-World Design Live Presentations from Creative Leaders

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Lynda Real-World Design: Live Presentations from Creative Leaders
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Get a front-row seat to Art Center College of Design’s lecture series, where top designers from around the country share lessons from the real world of design.

The series kicks off with the 3×3: YO | LAI | DO event, featuring Yo Santosa (Ferroconcrete), David Lai (Hello Design), and Chris Do (BL:ND). This transmedia trio presents projects from the fields of branding, web, and motion design, touching on the challenges of running their own firms and the importance of story, inspiration, and constant evolution. Art Center professor and lecture series leader Petrula Vrontikis also guides the panel in a round-table discussion about managing client expectations, overcoming professional uncertainty, and more. [Read more…]

Lynda – Instructional Design Essentials Creating Video Training

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Lynda – Instructional Design Essentials Creating Video Training
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In this course, Garrick Chow shares the tips, tricks, and training techniques he’s learned from over twelve years of leading video training for lynda.com. First, he explains how video training differs from classroom instruction, and shows how to plan your content to anticipate your audience’s needs and questions. Garrick then walks through the process of writing meaningful objectives, scripting movies, and selecting software and a good location for recording, and goes over the delivery styles that create successful elearning experiences. Finally, learn how to edit your videos, and share them with students. [Read more…]

Lynda.Mograph Techniques Creating a Flat Vector look using C4D and After Effects

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Lynda.Mograph Techniques: Creating a Flat Vector look using C4D and After Effects
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Creating flat vector-based artwork that moves along the X, Y, and Z planes is a fun and beautiful way to give an animated infographic style and energy. You can mimic this 2D look with a 3D animation-like feel using the power of CINEMA 4D and After Effects combined. Artist Eran Stern shows mograph artists how to achieve this simple style of rendering using a series of project-based examples: a sophisticated particle reaction, a complex DNA chain sequence, a button, and a coin animation.
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Lynda Creating Icons with Illustrator

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Lynda Creating Icons with Illustrator
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An effective icon design conveys a lot of information in a small space. If you need to create a great custom icon and you have a copy of Illustrator, this is the course for you. First, discover how file format, size, viewpoint, and platform shape your design choices. Then author Justin Seeley will show you how decide on the scope of your set, sketch out your designs, and choose a color scheme and style. Next, youÆll ôvectorizeö your drawings and apply colors and styles in Illustrator. Finally, learn how to export your icons in the correct file formats for use on the web, in print, or on different operating systems (Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android). Along the way, Justin introduces challenges to test your knowledge and a couple of tools to help speed up your design workflow.
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Lynda – Practical Photoshop CS5 Selections

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Lynda – Practical Photoshop CS5 Selections
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Practical Photoshop CS5 Selections reveals the importance of making precise selections, whether for masking or making color and tone adjustments, and how to make them with the tools in Adobe Photoshop. Author Rich Harrington shows how to make a basic selection with the Select menu commands and the Marquee, Lasso, and Magic Wand tools, and then refine it with Expand and Contract, Smooth and Feather, Quick Masks, and other controls. The course also covers advanced techniques such as selecting with Color Range and working with channels. Exercise files accompany the course.
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Lynda – Photoshop CC for Photographers Camera Raw 8 Fundamentals Updated Oct.09.2014

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Lynda – Photoshop CC for Photographers: Camera Raw 8 Fundamentals Updated Oct.09.2014
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Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 8 enables photographers to open and manipulate raw-format files with an exceptional degree of control over exposure, sharpness, and other characteristics. Learn how to work with its features and take your images from raw files to polished photographs with these tutorials from teacher and seasoned photographer Chris Orwig. Discover how to improve and correct exposure problems, crop and recompose photos, and create compelling black-and-white conversions of full-color photographs.
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Lynda – Mograph Techniques – Mixing 2D and 3D with After Effects and CINEMA 4D

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Lynda – Mograph Techniques – Mixing 2D and 3D with After Effects and CINEMA 4D
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Mixing 2D and 3D elements from CINEMA 4D and After Effects is a snap with CINEWARE. In this installment of Mograph Techniques, EJ Hassenfratz shows you a workflow for creating 3D objects in C4D and seamlessly compositing them inside a 2D project in After Effects, while using the CINEWARE plugin. He starts off in C4D, preparing the 3D objects and materials and giving them a basic “2D” look, before showing off more creative techniques for emulating a 2D style with bend deformers and Spline Wraps. Then he explores how to use the Dynamics and MoGraph modules to add real-world physics and animation to your objects. Finally, EJ shows you how to composite everything, 3D and 2D elements alike, in After Effects using CINEWARE.
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Lynda – Mograph Techniques – Creating a Product Endpage

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Lynda – Mograph Techniques – Creating a Product Endpage
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In this installment of Mograph Techniques, Ian Robinson shows how to mix live-action footage with 3D elements to create a product endpage for a commercial. First, Ian shows how to use After Effect’s Camera Tracker to re-create the camera move on the backplate with a 3D camera. Then he jumps to CINEMA 4D to model, texture, and light the product. Ian demonstrates a multipass workflow in C4D that allows for more flexibility once the renders are brought back into AE. Finally, back in AE, you’ll learn to composite the footage and add editable type and effects to the scene. [Read more…]

Lynda – Illustrator CC One-on-One Mastery (Updated Oct 02 2014)

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Lynda – Illustrator CC One-on-One Mastery (Updated Oct 02 2014)
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Join Illustrator master Deke McClelland for the fourth and final installment of his signature One-on-One series on the vector drawing powerhouse, Adobe Illustrator. In this course, Deke shares step-by-step tutorials and expert-level insights on the most robust features, helping you achieve Illustrator mastery for yourself.
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