Get an introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 with this essential training that introduces you to the basics tools, skills and techniques required to create professionally styled text, layouts and graphics that deliver a powerful impact. In this series, you’ll be guided through the techniques needed to work with text and graphics in your layouts. You will also learn how to apply artistic effects to text and placed artwork, without prior knowledge of other applications like Illustrator or Photoshop.

Autodesk SketchBook Mobile is a professional-grade paint and drawing application designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. SketchBook Mobile offers a full set of sketching tools and delivers them through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.Use it to digitally capture your ideas as napkin sketches or produce artwork on-the-go. With the same paint engine as the renowned SketchBook Pro software, SketchBook Mobile delivers sophisticated brushes and fluid pencils.

Digital Artist David Cuerdon provides downloads and lessons in this course that are designed to help photographers improve the look and quality of their portrait images

Lesson 01 Introduction (2:09)
Lesson 02 Color Space (5:11)
Lesson 03 Downloads Folder (9:23)
Lesson 04 Eye Retouching, Part 1 (12:06)
Lesson 05 Eye Retouching, Part 2 (3:00)
Lesson 06 Eye Retouching, Part 3 (4:14)
Lesson 07 Eye Retouching, Part 4 (4:58)
Lesson 08 Eye Retouching, Part 5 (11:02)

Adobe InDesign CS4 blurs the boundaries between online and offline publications. With this program you can create amazing designs for print, interactive PDF documents and impressive videos for playback in Adobe Flash Player in the process of development. With Video (inside the archive), in Russian you will learn all the new package, as well as learn how to work with standard features. In a collection of Adobe InDesign CS4 Software Collection includes: Adobe InDesign CS4 v6.0 Multilingual, content Pack, Training Video Course , as well as guidance on the use

ProAnimator comes in two forms: as a standalone application and as an After Effects plug-in. Both products act exactly the same, but the plug-in is integrated into Adobe After Effects, so you can do all of your authoring with After Effects. The standalone application doesn't require a host product, so you may generate your animated movies independent of any particular target. You may even import a standalone ProAnimator scene into the ProAnimator plug-in (or vice versa) for added flexibility. ProAnimator includes all of the powerful 3D content creation tools as the 3D Invigorator PRO product. It also contains a next generation animation system that can be used to quickly generate complex animations that would take hours to create in other 3D applications.

ProAnimator includes an advanced animation system that you can use to generate complex animations. The work is done inside of the Animation window. The familiar track interface contains special animation segments called Poses and Transitions. You use Poses to position your objects and text. You use Transitions to tell the animation system how to move the objects from Pose to Pose. Cascading animations are a snap.

The area below the tracks contains the animation controls which are used to position objects in Poses and set animation timing in Transitions. Most of your animation can be done using just a few controls, but other controls exist so that you can create the animation you want.

ProAnimator comes in two forms: as a standalone application and as an After Effects plug-in. Both products act exactly the same, but the plug-in is integrated into Adobe After Effects, so you can do all of your authoring with After Effects. The standalone application doesn't require a host product, so you may generate your animated movies independent of any particular target. You may even import a standalone ProAnimator scene into the ProAnimator plug-in (or vice versa) for added flexibility. ProAnimator includes all of the powerful 3D content creation tools as the 3D Invigorator PRO product. It also contains a next generation animation system that can be used to quickly generate complex animations that would take hours to create in other 3D applications.

Genopal Pro allows you to create, save an share sophisticated color palettes using a patent pending technology. Therefore you now can get more Harmonious Color Palettes For Your Designs.

Here are some key features of 'Genopal Pro':
:: Easy To Use: Just pick, click and drag.
:: Drag And Drop Swatches: You can now just drag a swatch out of the palette, and place it on top of your designs.
:: Park Palettes On Screen: Place as many palettes as you like, inactive ones will auto-hide controls.
:: Many Ways To Select Color: Select colors by RGB, HSB, CMYK and HEX Values and 147 Widely Used Color Names.
:: Get Colors From Pictures: Pictures have great colors.
:: Customize Own Palettes: Create your own layouts.
:: Switch mode for more aggressive saturated colors for highlights (to be used sparingly).
:: Colors In Between: Create color schemes to match 2 existing colors.

Chapter 1: Illustrator Basics
Section 1: The Illustrator Interface
Section 2: Setting Up a New Document
Section 3: Working with Files
Section 4: Document Display Options

Chapter 2: Working with Objects in Illustrator
Section 5: Drawing in Illustrator
Section 6: Painting and Using Brushes
Section 7: Selecting Objects
Section 8: Editing Paths
Section 9: Organizing Objects
Section 10: Transforming Objects
Section 11: Color, Gradients, Patterns and Transparency

Chapter 3: Text in Illustrator
Section 12: Working with Type

Adobe Illustrator CS3 allows for the addition of vibrant colors to electronic artwork. Users can now employ numerous Live Color tools and techniques to enhance the color of their Illustrator images with immediate and interactive results. Various brushing styles and tools add elaborate and colorful strokes to existing images. This course introduces color and brush techniques in Illustrator CS3. In this course, you will learn how to add customized colors, as well as complex color gradients and patterns, to fills and strokes in your artwork. You will use Illustrator CS3's Swatch and Color panels, Live Color and Live Paint tools to recolor artwork quickly according to preset harmony rules or customized settings. This course will also introduce Calligraphic, Art, Scatter, and Pattern brushes, demonstrating how to create brushes and apply brush techniques.

With Permanent Press, a powerful and easy-to-use Photoshop plug-in, you can create professional quality vintage offset printing and ink effects with any design, photograph, type treatment or image. Realizing that printing technology has left printed work without the texture, soul, or the spirit of vintage printing, Mister Retro created the Permanent Press Photoshop Plugin set.

Take any design, photograph, type treatment, or image and transport them to another time and aesthetic with this powerful and easy-to-use plug-in GUI interface (see interface details below). Here are some of the features of Permanent Press:

Type Treatments
Whether you're looking for that vintage offset look or an authentic letterpress effect, now you can make your type shine with these authentic printing effects.

Designs
Take your designs to the next level with these amazing filters. Give your designs an authentic pop of realism and a genuine tactile feel.

Photographs
Transport any photograph back in time to reproduce them in glorious vintage colors and effects. Make any photo look like an authentic CMYK reproduced prined image or turn it into a stylized illustration.

Serif’s Digital Scrapbook Artist offers a unique combination of ease-of-use, traditional scrapbooking techniques, and truly realistic-looking results. Now you can quickly and easily transform your photos and memories into wonderfully personal artwork that you will cherish forever. Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist is just what you've been waiting for – a way to combine your creativity and passion for celebrating and treasuring life’s special moments. At last, novices and accomplished scrapbookers can easily create outstanding photorealistic results that look every bit as lifelike as traditional handcrafted scrapbooks. You will not believe how easy it is to create your own embellishments from scratch. There are tools and materials to use exactly like those you would find in a craft store.

Scrapbook Artist comes with DaisyTrail DigiKits which offer themed Content Packs, the starting point for any themed scrapbook. Each pack is full of layouts, backgrounds, embellishments, materials, photo frames, and decorative letters. Use the layouts as near ready-to-go page templates, then drag and drop items onto your page. Each Content Pack also provides supporting effects, brushes, and colour swatches that uniquely complement the theme.

In addition to using pre-supplied scrapbook content, Scrapbook Artist also lets you design your own scrapbook items. Create decorative lines, shapes, and apply natural or spray brush strokes using easy-to-use comprehensive drawing and painting tools. Photos can be added and image corrected—you can even cut out photo foregrounds or backgrounds! Once you've created your scrapbook masterpiece, you'll want to share it. A diverse and lively web-based scrapbooking community is available for you to share your scrapbook freely or in groups. At www.daisytrail.com, you're more than likely to make some new scrapbooking friends along the way too!

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After years of fielding questions at seminars from Photoshop users, Dave Cross realized there was a lot of common ground: there were many questions that were indeed “frequently asked.” In addition, most questions seemed start with “How come I can’t….” “How do I….” or “Why won’t the (fill in the blank) tool work?” This book addresses the most common problems and questions in Photoshop by both providing answers to the most frequently asked questions, and outlining strategies that can help you avoid problems in the first place.

You’ll see:
• Where to start when things don’t work: from tool settings to re-installing Photoshop
• The most common warning dialogs: why they appears, how to fix them, and how to avoid them
• The Photoshop CS2 Checklist: what to check when things go wrong, or before you start working, to help avoid problems
• Solutions to typical problems when using the Adobe Creative Suite
• How to avoid problems by creating flexible documents (adjustment layers, layer masks, groups, smart object, layer comps, and more)
• Frequently asked questions—and their answers—in all key areas of Photoshop CS2:
• general operations (palettes, workspaces, menus, etc.)
• color (CMYK, color management, spot color, choosing color, etc.)

YS Instant Color Picker (ICP) is a must have tool for everyone who needs to work with color. With ICP, you can pick colors from any part of your screen, save up to 20 colors, and copy color values.

Pick Colors
Love that color? With Eye Dropper, you can pick colors from any part of the screen. You can zoom up to 8x or get 3x3 – 5x5 pixel average.

Save Colors
ICP 2.1 features a flexible color palette which resizes itself according to how many colors you have in it. It can store up to 20 colors in its color palette.

Save Time
Using auto copy feature, you can copy a color value only in one step: Just press the global hotkey and color values of the color under the mouse pointer will be copied to the clipboard. To use this color under another program, like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Flash, you just need to paste it!

Copy Color Values
You can copy color values in different formats including RGB, HSL, HTML Hex, ActionScript, Delphi , VC++ and VB.