Free eBook : Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects & Compositing Studio Tecniques
This book is about creating visual effects–the art and science of assembling disparate elements so that they appear to have been taken with a single camera, of making anordinary shot extraordinary without making it unbelievable. The subject matter goes deep into core visual effects topics–color correction, keying, tracking, and roto among them–that are only touched on by other After Effects books, while leaving tools more dedicated to motiongraphics (Text, Shape layers, many effects, and even a few specialized tools such as Motion Sketch) more or less alone…
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6 Critical Misconceptions That New Freelance Graphic Designers Have About Success
by Jeremy Tuber -
Freelancing can be a rewarding and lucrative career option for talented designers, but becoming successful goes beyond how to design cool collages in Photoshop or cartoons in Illustrator. This article sheds some light on the biggest and most costly mistakes designers make in opening their doors as freelancers.
1. The most talented designer is always the most successful
Talent is certainly helpful, but the designers that make the big bucks know how to articulate value to their clients, how to market and how to sell. I’ve seen designers that had all the talent in the world…
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Adobe After Effects CS5 – Getting Started
by Tom Womack –
What’s new in After Effects CS5? Let’s get started.
Adobe CS5 is a watershed moment and it travels in great company. With the release of 64 bit versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop, we are getting used to 64 bit versions of Windows operating systems. Windows 7 has been road tested now. The incredible difference in available memory alone makes the previously tedious, long winded tasks a pleasure as you get to zoom down the timeline instead of going for another cup of coffee. Being able to view high def videos such as…
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Graphic Design Techniques : How to Save Vector Art
When saving vector art, either save it as an Illustrator document if more editing is necessary or save it as a PDF if the design is complete. Find out how to best save a vector image with tips from an experienced graphic artist in this free video on graphic design. Expert: Jason Bio: Jason has been a graphic artist for more than eight years. Filmmaker: leighton silvestro
Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Website Designing – Alternate Source of Income for Website Designers
by Alan L Smith –
The demand of website designing is on an increase. This does not mean that all the website designers have work. There are some designers that have a lot of work while there are some others who do not have any work. If the designers who do not have any work are just ignored, they will have no other option but to initially live on the savings and later look for other work. There are different ways through which these sorts of designers can generate some income for themselves.
The designers need to have reliable…
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Four Valuable Lessons About Graphic Design
by Mel White -
What You Should Know about Graphic Design
The more information you provide, the more likely the final result will match your objectives.
Graphic designers work on an hourly rate
It pays to remain loyal
Trust your instincts!
When it comes to graphic design, I am an idiot. I’m not embarrassed to admit it, although I probably should be since I manage the marketing for three exhibit companies. Yet, there’s rarely a day that I don’t make graphic design decisions about our websites, sales literature, email marketing broadcasts, and trade show displays. Does my lack of graphic design expertise show? I…
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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Vector Folder Icon
Check out this nice little tutorial on creating a fully vector, shiny, folder icon using Adobe Illustrator CS4. This tutorial is compatible with older versions of Adobe Illustrator as well. We will talk about using gradients and subtle shadows to create the illusion of depth in an illustration as well as masking different effects to get both a neat little text effect and a shiny surface on our folder. Sit back and enjoy or follow along for a complete learning experience!
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Adobe ® Photoshop® Lightroom ™ – (Free Podcast)
This podcast series is designed to give you access to the real story behind Lightroom. Not only do we take you behind the scenes with the engineers on the Lightroom team so you can hear their personal thinking on the program, but we also interview industry leaders and artists to gain their insight into the art and craft of digital photography. Your input has helped make Lightroom great, so keep it coming. Thanks very much, and always remember Rule #5. George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adobe Systems Inc. – Adobe ® Photoshop® Lightroom ™
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Electric Stream Animations: Adobe After Effects Tutorial
Learn how to make custom lines animate in streaming plasma and electric patterns. Then render out an SWF that can be imported into flash for your website animations. Wiki Facts: Adobe After Effects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation. Both After Effects and some non-linear editing systems (NLEs) are layer-oriented, meaning that each…
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Graphic Design Techniques : How to Make Vector Art
Vector art can be made in Adobe Illustrator using a variety of shapes, tools, brushes and effects. Create vector art shapes with tips from an experienced graphic artist in this free video on graphic design. Expert: Jason Bio: Jason has been a graphic artist for more than eight years. Filmmaker: leighton silvestro
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