Learn how to take advantage of the key applications with Adobe Creative Suite CS4: Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Rather than providing in-depth training in how to use each application, this DVD will show you a few fundamentals and focus of combining the best of each to create a finished product. In this DVD you'll learn
* How to use Adobe Bridge to organize, plan and prepare files
* How to generate a set of custom colors than can be used by each application
* Key differences between and advantages of each application
* Creating several versions of a logo in Illustrator and use those versions in Photoshop and InDesign
* Using Photoshop Smart Objects and Layer Comps in Illustrator and InDesign
* How to combine everything in InDesign and options for creating output
This DVD is ideal for graphic designers, artists, students and people who know the basics of the applications in the Creative Suite and want to take their work to the next level.

AKVIS Sketch
AKVIS Sketch is software for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch. Our efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.
In contrast to the similar standard filters (like the built-in filters in Photoshop or PSP) that offer an approximate sketch, AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result; it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters.
AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes.
Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt.

3D-Brush
Key features of 3D-Brush:
1) At input you provide an OBJ file of 1-100 thousand polygons, preferrably with UV-mapping in place, at output you get either an object of 1-10 million polygons or textures of normals, displacement, color, transparency and specular. Maximal texture size is 4096 per 4096. Fully seamless texturing provided!
2) Possibility to draw relief detailing, color, specular and transparency on model's surface.
3) All you previously did in 2D now can be done in 3D ?? editing with layers, cloning surface areas, image transforming on surface, Copy/Paste, filling sealed areas, gradient filling, filling area inside contour, darkening, lightening, smoothening, sharping and so on.