Lynda – Photoshop CC 2015 for Photographers Fundamentals [Updated Mar 22 2016]

March 23, 2016, 8:15 am

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Photoshop CC 2015 for Photographers provides an introduction to Photoshop aimed specifically at the needs of photographers. In this installment, teacher Chris Orwig covers the most essential skills: cropping, improving exposure, painting color and light with masks, converting to black and white, thinking creatively with filters, retouching, and publishing photos online and in print. In addition, the series is sprinkled with segments that inspire viewers to think photographically and shoot with Photoshop's capabilities in mind.

Topics include:

Understanding Photoshop's role in today's workflow
Making basic corrections in Camera Raw
Working with multiple documents
Resizing images
Cropping images
Working with layers
Improving basic exposure and tone
Making precise selections
Selectively correcting with masks
Adding, changing, and removing color
Converting to black and white
Adding blur with filters
Sharpening and reducing noise
Retouching
Making picture-perfect prints

https://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Photoshop-CC-2015-Photographers-Fundamentals/373795-2.html

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Uartsy - Jewelry Design in Zbrush + Project Files

March 23, 2016, 10:54 am

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Jewelry design is a fine art that has exploded thanks to the advent of digital sculpting and 3D printing. In this course, world-renowned jewelry designer, Tomas Wittelsbach, will teach you his complete production workflow, giving you all the techniques you'll need to create your very own reproducible high-end jewelry.

The 5 most important lessons

-The tools and techniques in ZBrush that work best for jewelry concepting and design
-How to add intricate details, like sculptural elements and gemstones, to enhance your designs
-How to take sizing into account and adjust your designs to fit your clients perfectly
-Prepare your model to be 3D printed using ZBrush, MODO, and other industry standard software
-How to convert your ZBrush sculpts into wearable physical objects, like rings, necklaces, and more

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Baketool-1.401

March 23, 2016, 11:18 am

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https://cgcookiemarkets.com/all-products/baketool/

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Pluralsight – Illustrator CC Pen Tool

March 23, 2016, 11:32 am

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Knowing your way around the Pen tool is a vital skill for vector drawing in Illustrator CC. In Illustrator CC Pen Tool, you will learn how to use the Pen tool with ease. You'll learn how to sketch with the tool as well as about libraries and outputs. Next, you'll move onto more intermediary lessons: drawing great curves and decorative drawing. Finally, you'll discover how you can add last details to finalize your sketch. By the end of this course, you'll be able to use the Pen Tool in Illustrator CC like a pro.

Software required: Adobe Illustrator CC.

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/illustrator-cc-pentool

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BakeTool 1.401 [CGCookie Markets] [Blender Addon]

March 23, 2016, 11:34 am

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The Ultimate Bake Solution

BakeTool is the In-House solution developed by Cogumelo Softworks for Bake Rendering with Cycles and BI. For those that work with Interactive Ambient , Arch Viz, Games… and need a Blender Baking Solution for your Assets, Full scenes, High Poly to Low Poly Normal Maps and others, Bake Tool is just what you need.

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Lynda – After Effects Apprentice 18: 3D Text CINEMA 4D Lite

March 23, 2016, 12:45 pm

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After Effects CC comes bundled with the 3D application CINEMA 4D Lite. But many new users are intimidated by 3D space. After Effects Apprentice offers three training courses just for C4D beginners. In this installment, After Effects expert Chris Meyer shows you how to create, extrude, and animate 3D text in C4D Lite, and believably composite it over a 2D background inside After Effects. The tutorials cover creating 3D text from scratch, animating with effectors, texture mapping and lighting the text, working with 3D cameras, and rendering. Chris also shows a workflow for extruding Illustrator artwork for animation.

The first course in the series, After Effects Apprentice 17, includes an overview of the C4D Lite user interface, as well as important setup information you need to know whenever you use live C4D layers in After Effects. We recommend you watch it first if you have no prior experience with C4D.
Topics include:

Extruding 3D text and Illustrator artwork
Beveling letters
Creating animations using the Fracture object and plain effector
Texturing and lighting
Adding a camera move in After Effects
Using multipass renders
Simulating glass-like effect distortions
Improving render quality

https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/After-Effects-Apprentice-18-3D-Text-CINEMA-4D-Lite/449102-2.html

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Lynda - Shooting and Assembling a Sports Action Composite

March 23, 2016, 3:49 pm

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Great athletes make great action shots. But an action shot shows just one moment of action—it doesn't show the arc of a golfer's swing or the form of a runner's sprint.

By combining your camera's burst mode with Photoshop, you can create a composite that shows an athlete in action. In this course, photographer and educator Seán Duggan shows how. After mapping out a plan for lighting, composition, and more, he photographs the subjects. Then, the action turns to Photoshop, where he assembles the composite using layer masks and some careful retouching.
Topics include:

Planning the composite
Choosing a camera, exposure, and lighting
Choosing the sequence images
Aligning layers
Using layer masks
Retouching
Masking images together
Cleaning up the background

https://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Shooting-Assembling-Sports-Action-Composite/443029-2.html

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OZYMANDIAS James Oaksford

March 23, 2016, 5:48 pm

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Buy the 6 page Ozymandias comic, along with a small series of sketches, a one page mini-tutorial (included in the comic PDF) talking about the process, and the full PSD of the entire thing so you can see how completely nightmarishly disorganized my process is :)

The comic itself is available for free on tumblr: This bundle is for those of you who asked for me to put it on gumroad, so thank you- thank you so much for your support. It means the world to me, and I'm so happy to finally let this comic out!

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OZYMANDIAS James Oaksford

March 23, 2016, 5:59 pm

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OZYMANDIAS James Oaksford

March 23, 2016, 6:05 pm

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OZYMANDIAS James Oaksford

March 23, 2016, 6:11 pm

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Dialogue Scene in Maya

March 24, 2016, 7:20 am

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Dialogue Scene in Maya

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Dialogue Scene in Maya

March 24, 2016, 7:33 am

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Dialogue Scene in Maya

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Gumroad - Blender 3d Add-On: Hard Ops 007 Pro

March 24, 2016, 12:29 pm

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PLEASE IF THIS IS USEFULL TO YOU; SHARE AND SUPPORT ORIGINAL CREATORS.

https://gumroad.com/l/hardops/

This add on is more than just an add on. It's a lifestyle. A toolset to help you with concepting hard surface forms. It comes with objects, an additional insert add on, a mirroring add on and even tutorials to show you how to use it. The tutorial files are also included so it's definitely worth the cost. There's tutorials that could cost many times as much however I am keeping it low and adding to it just as an add on. So if you're asking about future updates the answer is yes. I will keep updating it for as long as I am using it and at least try to keep it working with subsequent versions of Blender while improving it. The goal was to make buying this add on a no brainier by providing a quality product along with quality tutorials. At a low price.

Sure you can accomplish the same without it. But without Hard Ops, I definitely wouldn't want to. https://youtu.be/ubrCMr0K85g

With this workflow you can work faster and get more freedom when it comes to modelling. Sure I could have just done tutorials on this process but instead I wanted to make something you take with you. That you integrate into your life and you grow with. And that is a value a tutorial just can't quite match.

Hard Ops is a hard surface toolkit designed for concept mesh creation in Blender. The operations are not designed with subdivision in mind however it is an option if needed. This tool requires Looptools to be enabled and Booltool to be installed and enabled for maximum enjoyment. Hard Ops are intended in situations where speed is more ideal than topology and the tools are subject to change at a moment's notice. Please approach this tool with an open mind and leave your topology at the door and have fun. Credit goes to far too many people to name however understand this plugin has been a team effort and is still and may always be a work in progress. For questions contact me at masterxeon1001@gmail.com

https://masterxeon1001.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/hard-ops-007-intro-guide/

I have worked hard on making it more stable, functional and accessible. If you are familiar with my workflow and style you will find this to be a indispensable tool allowing you to create like never before.

As I use it more features and changes can be expected to be added. But I can say with pride that this is the closer to a Beta than it is an Alpha.

Attached is also detailed documentation as well as previous versions in case you have issues with newer versions.

So now ask yourself... Are you ready for a Hard Op?

customer testimony

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You are like:

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Pew Pew new awesome features"

"It's official, Xeon is the #1 bro. "Oh you need solid tutorials man? Say no more, I already made them!" "Oh and I know you didn't ask for this but I went ahead and made them into a nice little playlist for you too, so you dont have to." You definitely earned yourself a repeat customer man. I'm gonna get the next add-on day one."

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Photoshop Creative - Issue No. 137

March 24, 2016, 8:06 pm

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Photoshop Creative - Issue No. 137

Requirements: PDF Reader 36 MB

Overview:

Photoshop® Creative is the perfect magazine for learning more about Adobe’s outstanding application. Each issue is packed with inspirational tutorials covering the whole scope of the software, from creative projects, to practical guides to using tools and techniques. Whatever you use Photoshop for, Photoshop creative will help you become a better digital artist.

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Tutsplus – Mastering Blending Modes in Adobe Photoshop

March 24, 2016, 11:05 pm

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Blending modes in Photoshop are a “workhorse” feature. They perform a lot of heavy lifting and make many of the other features a lot easier, with very little ceremony or attention. Yet the work they do can be nearly irreplaceable when you use them properly.

This course is divided into chapters that match the logical sets of the Blending modes, and each chapter contains instruction on what that set of modes is designed to do. The end of each chapter includes a practical project on how to use the blending modes discussed in that chapter.

As you finish this course, you will have a solid understanding of what the different modes do, and how to make the best use of them. Having a solid understanding of Photoshop’s blending modes can change the way you approach compositing and digital artwork.

http://design.tutsplus.com/courses/mastering-blending-modes-in-adobe-photoshop

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ORPALIS PDF Reducer Professional 3.0.0

March 25, 2016, 3:17 am

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ORPALIS PDF Reducer Professional 3.0.0 Multilingual

The Professional Edition of ORPALIS PDF Reducer allows users to benefit from all the advantages of innovative and highly sophisticated size-reducing tool for PDF files without any restriction. Besides the graphical user interface, you can call every functionnality of PDF Reducer from CLI (Command Line Interface) to take advantage of these features inside your batch scripts or even integrate it in your own applications.

Need smaller PDFs for ﬁle storage, ﬁle sharing or fast web view purposes?
Use ORPALIS PDF Reducer to select either individual files or entire folders to minimize the size of your PDFs and images. Make web publishing of PDFs a snap allowing fast web view or just save time when sending them via internet. And get everything done really fast!

A powerful PDF solution for your team.
- Managing documents is time consuming and is one of the biggest productivity killers in the workplace.
- Don’t waste valuable time converting files, PDF Reducer Pro compresses and saves as PDF all your images too.

The best software for everyday document management tasks.
- Powerful. Easy to use.
- Reduce the size of those heavy PDF files, then store or send them easily.

Unrivaled lossless data re-compression
- Innovative and highly sophisticated techniques which restructure existing content and apply the most effective compression scheme based on data type. - Documents are printable and zoomable without loss of quality.
- PDF Reducer is able to serialize several compression algorithms on images in order to (surpass) the limitations of some compression schemes.

Remove unwanted or unused objects
You might have received PDFs containing additional, unwanted objects: let PDF Reducer remove them for you.

Automatic color detection and layout analysis
Usually, scanning batches of papers under scanner's color-mode implies mixing together colored and B&W documents. PDF Reducer automatically identifies the B&W ones and encodes them as plain B&W thus dramatically reducing the file size.

Raster images re-sampling and re-composing
Decrease un-necessary high resolution to dramatically reduce the file size whitout affecting the viewing experience.

Content segmentation and optimal compression
Segments embedded images, separates text, finds similar bitmap sections and makes optimized recompression.

Fast web view support (linearization)
Add to your large PDFs the ability of being viewable for web-users even before the PDF file download is complete.

Input file formats
With PDF Reducer version 3 you can downsize a large variety of images and documents. Nearly 100 input files formats are now available besides PDF, including raster images formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, JPEG 2000 and RAW camera formats.

Multi-threading support - Pro Edition
Executes PDF processing via multiple, simultaneous and concurrent threads, decreasing processing time by using CPU resources most efficiently.

Command line interface support - Pro Edition
Automate PDF processing with commands without needing repetitive actions control via the GUI (graphic user interface).

Unlimited batch processing fully available in Pro Edition
Executes PDF processing via multiple, simultaneous and concurrent threads, decreasing processing time by using CPU resources most efficiently.

Language & Interface
Default user interface language in ORPALIS PDF Reducer is English. Based on your Windows language settings, ORPALIS PDF Reducer automatically displays the localised version of the interface, if it exists among ORPALIS PDF Reducer translated interface versions. Currently, available languages for ORPALIS PDF Reducer interface are: English, French and Romanian.

What's New in Version 3.0.0 :
- Dramatically increased performance speed. PDF Reducer 3 is 2x faster than PDF Reducer 2.0!
- Added support for nearly 100 input files formats!
- Increased quality of produced documents.
- Improved the color detection feature (accuracy and speed).
- Produced PDF now retain original file Date.
- Minor bug fixes.
# Minimum System and Compatibility:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
⦁ 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32-bit & 64-bit)
⦁ Processor 500 Mhz
⦁ 512 MB of available RAM
⦁ compatible video card 1024x768
⦁ 50 MB free hard disk space for program files
1. Install the program by running the file "pdfreducerpro.exe".
2. Copy the contents of the "Crack" folder in C: \ Program Files (x86) \ ORPALIS \ PDF Reducer Professional Edition 3
... Enjoy ...

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ORPALIS PDF Reducer Professional 3.0.0

March 25, 2016, 3:39 am

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ORPALIS PDF Reducer Professional 3.0.0 Multilingual

The Professional Edition of ORPALIS PDF Reducer allows users to benefit from all the advantages of innovative and highly sophisticated size-reducing tool for PDF files without any restriction. Besides the graphical user interface, you can call every functionnality of PDF Reducer from CLI (Command Line Interface) to take advantage of these features inside your batch scripts or even integrate it in your own applications.

Need smaller PDFs for ﬁle storage, ﬁle sharing or fast web view purposes?
Use ORPALIS PDF Reducer to select either individual files or entire folders to minimize the size of your PDFs and images. Make web publishing of PDFs a snap allowing fast web view or just save time when sending them via internet. And get everything done really fast!

A powerful PDF solution for your team.
- Managing documents is time consuming and is one of the biggest productivity killers in the workplace.
- Don’t waste valuable time converting files, PDF Reducer Pro compresses and saves as PDF all your images too.

The best software for everyday document management tasks.
- Powerful. Easy to use.
- Reduce the size of those heavy PDF files, then store or send them easily.

Unrivaled lossless data re-compression
- Innovative and highly sophisticated techniques which restructure existing content and apply the most effective compression scheme based on data type. - Documents are printable and zoomable without loss of quality.
- PDF Reducer is able to serialize several compression algorithms on images in order to (surpass) the limitations of some compression schemes.

Remove unwanted or unused objects
You might have received PDFs containing additional, unwanted objects: let PDF Reducer remove them for you.

Automatic color detection and layout analysis
Usually, scanning batches of papers under scanner's color-mode implies mixing together colored and B&W documents. PDF Reducer automatically identifies the B&W ones and encodes them as plain B&W thus dramatically reducing the file size.

Raster images re-sampling and re-composing
Decrease un-necessary high resolution to dramatically reduce the file size whitout affecting the viewing experience.

Content segmentation and optimal compression
Segments embedded images, separates text, finds similar bitmap sections and makes optimized recompression.

Fast web view support (linearization)
Add to your large PDFs the ability of being viewable for web-users even before the PDF file download is complete.

Input file formats
With PDF Reducer version 3 you can downsize a large variety of images and documents. Nearly 100 input files formats are now available besides PDF, including raster images formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, JPEG 2000 and RAW camera formats.

Multi-threading support - Pro Edition
Executes PDF processing via multiple, simultaneous and concurrent threads, decreasing processing time by using CPU resources most efficiently.

Command line interface support - Pro Edition
Automate PDF processing with commands without needing repetitive actions control via the GUI (graphic user interface).

Unlimited batch processing fully available in Pro Edition
Executes PDF processing via multiple, simultaneous and concurrent threads, decreasing processing time by using CPU resources most efficiently.

Language & Interface
Default user interface language in ORPALIS PDF Reducer is English. Based on your Windows language settings, ORPALIS PDF Reducer automatically displays the localised version of the interface, if it exists among ORPALIS PDF Reducer translated interface versions. Currently, available languages for ORPALIS PDF Reducer interface are: English, French and Romanian.

What's New in Version 3.0.0 :
- Dramatically increased performance speed. PDF Reducer 3 is 2x faster than PDF Reducer 2.0!
- Added support for nearly 100 input files formats!
- Increased quality of produced documents.
- Improved the color detection feature (accuracy and speed).
- Produced PDF now retain original file Date.
- Minor bug fixes.# Minimum System and Compatibility:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
⦁ 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32-bit & 64-bit)
⦁ Processor 500 Mhz
⦁ 512 MB of available RAM
⦁ compatible video card 1024x768
⦁ 50 MB free hard disk space for program files

1. Install the program by running the file "pdfreducerpro.exe".
2. Copy the contents of the "Crack" folder in C: \ Program Files (x86) \ ORPALIS \ PDF Reducer Professional Edition 3
... Enjoy ...

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Gumroad - GreeblerPackPro 1.2 by Glenn Patterson

March 25, 2016, 7:04 am

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Gumroad - GreeblerPackPro 1.2 [Updated March 22nd 2016]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsuuw6r4w-4

New Update to the Greeble Pack. Greeble Generator has been Optimized, file size of the Generator has been Reduced to half the size of the Previous Version. Still does everything it did before but room has been made for Future Add-Ons to the Generator. New Zscripts are also available. The New All Maps Zscript replaces the Texture Passes Zscript, this Zscript is much Faster then the Previous one. Along with All Maps, there are 7 additional Zscripts to just output the individual Maps you want. Thanks for your Purchase of the Pack. Side Note, I'm Looking for some your work using the Greeble Pack, Please send me a link to the Material, I'd like to use it in a Future Video and of course credit you for the Work. Have Fun Greebling!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/gmp2012/videos
http://gumroad.com/glenn1993#

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CGCookie Markets - Snap Utilities [Blender Addon]

March 25, 2016, 9:11 am

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Snap Utilities

The Addon Snap Utilities provides quick and easy ways to model with architectural precision. It’s a great tool for modeling houses, furnitures, equipment, etc. This add-on implements four tools for editing objects. They are: LINE, MOVE, ROTATE and PUSH/PULL FACE. Each tool has the snap system for vertex, edge and face.
1. LINE:

The tool “LINE” allows the creation of edges with length and direction precisely specified . Just click with the LMB at the start point and to proceed specifying each new vertex of the line with the LMB or the Enter button. This tool resembles the Blender knife tool, but now can be snapped to the edge’s perpendicular or be drawn with accurate length and direction.
2. MOVE:

The difference between the tool “MOVE” and Blender’s “Translate” is that you can now specify the starting movement point and the end movement point. Just click in a point of the object and move toward a point on another object.
3. ROTATE:

With the “ROTATE” tool, you can specify the axis of rotation before rotating the object.
4. PUSH/PULL FACE:

Push\Pull is a tool that makes an extrusion that automatically intersecting faces. This gives freedom to push and pull volumes, once the topology of them is automatically set.

https://cgcookiemarkets.com/all-products/snap-utilities/

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