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Lynda The Art of Color Correction Color Grading for Locatiions and Times of Day

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Lynda The Art of Color Correction Color Grading for Locatiions and Times of Day
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Color is a powerful signal in video; it can subtly project emotion, mood, time of day, and location. Learn to manipulate these visual elements in a variety of shots, from interior spaces to outside landscapes, with color grading. Filmmaker, colorist, and experienced editor Simon Walker shows how to simulate a light source and different types of light, and choose an evocative color for your footage to tell the story of a particular location. Plus, learn techniques to change the time of day, the type of room, and the overall mood of a location.
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Lynda – Up and Running with Civil 3D

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Lynda – Up and Running with Civil 3D
English | Size: 627 MB
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Great engineering projects begin with Civil 3D. Learn to get up and running with this powerful CAD program in these tutorials, with author Jon Michael Roberts. Discover how important it is to set up Civil 3D properly to streamline drafting tasks, plot styles, and establish design criteria for your particular organization. Jon then shows designers the differences they can expect to see between AutoCAD and Civil 3D, and the different design options Civil 3D offers. The final three chapters are dedicated to grading, laying a driveway, and creating a pipe network to an example single-family home.
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Lynda – Stereoscopic 3D Environments in Maya

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Lynda – Stereoscopic 3D Environments in Maya
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3D movies are more popular then ever, and many blockbuster films today are made or reissued in 3D. Although the process may seem very complex, it is surprisingly easy to create these effects in Maya. In this course with industry pro David Mattingly, you’ll learn how to set up and render stereoscopic 3D environments in Maya. First, you’ll become familiar with stereoscopic 3D basics and the important terms you need to know. Next you’ll use a simple 3D environment to become proficient with adding a stereo camera and adjusting it to match the scene. You’ll learn where to buy the inexpensive 3D glasses needed to view your scene in true 3D on a regular home computer. In the last section, you’ll open up a full 3D environment, add and animate a 3D camera, and render out a viewable 3D scene. In just an hour, you’ll be up to speed on creating your own stereoscopic 3D environment.
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Lynda – Photoshop Curves Workshop

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Lynda – Photoshop Curves Workshop
English | Size: 341 MB
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The Curves adjustment in Adobe Photoshop has a reputation for being challenging for some photographers. In this workshop, Photoshop expert Tim Grey takes you step by step through every aspect of the Curves adjustment, helping you truly understand the concepts behind it so that you can quickly and easily maximize tonal range, optimize contrast, and enhance your photos’ color balance. Note: This course was recorded in Photoshop CS5, but was created with users of both Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS4 in mind.
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Lynda – Photoshop CS5 Top 5 with Deke McClelland

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Lynda – Photoshop CS5 Top 5 with Deke McClelland
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In five movies, author Deke McClelland covers five of the most important new features in Photoshop CS5 and shows how these powerful functions can be integrated into workflow immediately and efficiently. Photoshop CS5 Top 5 starts with the small stuffùthe Straighten button, the Mini Bridge, and content-aware fillùthen builds up to powerhouse features such as High Dynamic Range (HDR) Pro, the new Refine Edge command, and Puppet Warp. The course winds up with a demonstration of how to use the bristle and mixer brushes to convert a portrait photo into a hand-drawn painting. In the end, we hope you’ll feel inspired, empowered, and ready to take on Photoshop CS5.
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Lynda – Photoshop CC One-on-One Mastery Oct 01.2014

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Lynda – Photoshop CC One-on-One: Mastery Oct 01.2014
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Join Photoshop master Deke McClelland in the fourth and final installment of his popular Photoshop CC One-on-One series. In this course, Deke shares step-by-step tutorials and expert-level insights on the most powerful features, helping you make your own way to true Photoshop mastery.
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Lynda – Photoshop Black-and-White Workshop

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Lynda – Photoshop Black-and-White Workshop
English | Size: 350 MB
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There’s nothing quite like a great black-and-white image. In this workshop, author and trainer Tim Grey shows you how to create the best possible black-and-white interpretations of color photographs using Adobe Photoshop. From very basic grayscale conversions to advanced multiple-channel blending using layer masks, Tim explores a wide variety of methods that you can use to produce the best black-and-white results. Afterwards, tackle a set of real-world projects that combine a variety of techniques to produce the final image. Note: This course was recorded in Photoshop CS5, but was created with users of both Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS4 in mind.
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Lynda – Drawing One-Point Perspective

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Lynda – Drawing One-Point Perspective
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Learn to draw (digitally!) in one-point perspective with SketchBook Pro 7. Artist Victor Osaka explains what perspective is, who uses it, and why it is so hard for some of us to learn. To learn perspective, Victor shows you how to practice one-point perspective using a photographic guide. He will then go over detailing (adding color, shading, and textures) to further enhance the sense of perspective in your drawings. Through the magic of time lapse, you’ll watch Victor create a series of “speed paintings,” where he shows you how to paint and use layers to develop and organize your artwork.
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Lynda – Basic Roadway Design with Civil 3D

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Lynda – Basic Roadway Design with Civil 3D
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Roadway design is one of the most powerful capabilities of Civil 3D and one of the most common design tasks performed with it. It requires the use of several major Civil 3D features—alignments, profiles, and corridors—and an understanding of how they fit together in a complete road-design model. Eric Chappell shows you how to use these features to establish the path of your road, specify elevations, and define the makeup and cross-sectional elements of your design. The final chapter contains bonus tutorials on designing intersections—complex traffic junctions that Civil 3D makes surprisingly simple to design.
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Lynda – Applied Responsive Design with James Williamson

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Lynda – Applied Responsive Design with James Williamson
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Following the concepts introduced in Responsive Design Fundamentals, senior author James Williamson demonstrates the practical applications of responsive design and shows how to enrich the appearance and behavior of your website across multiple devices.
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