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| Information Design: Making Data Come Alive (53:47) Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Save For Web in Photoshop (27:42) Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
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Art director Anna Savoie is your guide for this comprehensive tour of information design. She shares loads of insights and tips that will help you ace the practical and aesthetic challenges of...
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Instructor Anna Savoie delivers a comprehensive look at optimizing images for the web. She demonstrates how to attain the best possible file size and resolution for your purpose, determine which...
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| A Guide to Brushes in Adobe Illustrator (26:46) Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Blend Modes in Photoshop: 5 Quick Techniques (33:53) Posted May 19, 2009 |
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It's everything you ever wanted to know about using the Brush tool in Adobe Illustrator but were afraid to ask. Instructor Anna Savoie explains how to apply brush strokes to different objects,...
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With blend modes in Photoshop, you can boost the color and contrast of a flat image, add spot lighting to an image, apply color-protecting fixes, perform non-destructive dodging and burning, and...
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| Facial Retouching with Photoshop (37:17) Posted May 12, 2009 |
Photoshop Collage Techniques (33:03) Posted May 1, 2009 |
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Faced with a less-than-glam pic of herself, instructor Anna Savoie lets loose her design expertise and Photoshop retouching tools. She shows how to eradicate spots, add brightness to teeth, smooth...
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In this tutorial, Helen Bradley chooses and merges images from various sources to create a visually coherent banner ad. In doing so, she demonstrates a variety of Photoshop techniques that bring...
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| Type Tools & Techniques in Illustrator (41:13) Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Retrofit Your Designs with Photoshop (20:39) Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
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Anna Savoie surveys the ways in which designers can employ and manipulate type in Illustrator. She explores all the type tools available, as well as the character panel, paragraph panel, and glyphs...
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Lauren Matsumoto presents ways to achieve some awesome vintage effects in Photoshop. Her techniques allow you to mimic the look of hand-tinted postcards, Futurist graphics, classic posters, and...
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| 5 Photoshop Tools You Didn't Know Existed (33:34) Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Efficiency Tips and Tricks - Adobe Illustrator (28:54) Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
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How can you convincingly turn daylight into sunset using Photoshop? How can you cut text out of an image and maintain editability? How do you knock out the background of an image and get a...
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Alison Cattelona shows the top techniques she uses to save time in Illustrator. Among these are: using the appearance panel to edit objects, employing the Envelope feature to transform and/or edit...
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| Advanced Selection Tips and Tricks in Photoshop (40:54) Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Mastering History and Layer Comps in Photoshop (38:17) Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
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This is a continuation of Anna Savoie's tutorial on basic selection techniques in Photoshop. Here, she demonstrates selecting with...
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Helen Bradley explains how to use and why you need Photoshop's history palette and layer comps. She also sheds light on how snapshots can work alongside histories, linear vs. non-linear history...
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| Creating CSS Box Layouts in Dreamweaver (31:37) Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Automate Designs Using Photoshop Data Sets (31:22) Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
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Photoshop's Data Sets feature can save you hours of tedious work by automatically inserting sets of variables into a design template, and exporting each variation as a separate file. Helen Bradley...
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| Selection Tips and Tricks in Photoshop (41:29) Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Mastering Symbols in Illustrator (44:49) Posted Jan 13, 2009 |
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You can make selections in Photoshop faster and more accurately if you know how to use the right combination of selection tools for the job. Anna Savoie gives you a thorough guide to Photoshop CS3's...
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Art director and NYU design professor Anna Savoie delivers a thorough guide to using symbols in Adobe Illustrator CS3. She covers placing symbols in artwork, creating your own symbols, modifying...
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| Practical & Creative Uses for Photoshop's Pen Tool (31:22) Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
All About Actions in Photoshop (35:00) Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
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Photoshop's pen tool is an often-neglected feature, but multitasking designers will find it very useful, as instructor Helen Bradley demonstrates in this tutorial. She explains how to use the pen...
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Photoshop actions allow you to run a set of automated tasks on a file or group of files. By incorporating actions intelligently into your workflow, you can spend much less time on tedious,...
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| Common Type Mistakes... & How to Avoid Them (44:15) Posted Dec 4, 2008 |
InDesign Time-Savers: Variables & Data Merge (34:36) Posted Nov 18, 2008 |
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Design professor Joseph Caserto surveys the most common typography errors made by today's designers... and the simple steps you can take to ensure that they don't show up in your work. Typographer's...
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Adobe-certified trainer Alison Cattelona explores two features--variables and data merge--that can help you customize data instantly in InDesign. Variables allow you to create running headers and...
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| Color-Managed Workflows (48:30) Posted Nov 13, 2008 |
Repeat & Align: Spacing Tips & Techniques in Photoshop (33:58) Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
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Picking up where her previous tutorial, Color Management Essentials for Creative Professionals, left off, Rita Amladi provides a...
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In this tutorial, Helen Bradley supplies tips for using the Repeat & Align tools in Photoshop. You'll discover quick ways of aligning images relative both to a grid and to one another as well as...
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| Color Management Essentials for Creative Professionals (44:39) Posted Oct 2, 2008 |
Photoshop Time-Savers: Leveraging Smart Objects (27:26) Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
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Adobe-certified technical trainer Rita Amladi provides a clear, helpful guide to the essentials of color management. The methods and software features she covers in this comprehensive tutorial will...
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The use of smart objects in Photoshop allows the designer special freedoms such as the ability to edit filters at any stage of your workflow and the ability to resize multiple times without a...
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