Lighting and Materials inside 3ds Max Video Tutorial

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Created by artist Giorgio Luciano in 3ds max. These tutorials will throw light from basic settings of Lighting and Materials to final render. This approx. 1 hour series will help you in refining your skills.

3ds Max 2009 Student Superpack Windows (13-month term) is available at an academic discount price of […]

Essential Hip Hop Rhythms with Adobe Audition

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Classic, timeless Hip Hop music is built on a solid foundation of soulful, yet addictive rhythm. So far, at Hit Talk, we’ve addressed many melodic production concepts, taking rhythm and basic beat-making skills as given. Still, many readers have asked for specifics in creating compelling rhythms and beat-making. In this tip […]

A Photoshop Valentine

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Does the love of your life complain that you may as well be married to your computer? Well, here are five ways to turn the admonishment “You spend too much time on Photoshop!” into the happy, loving “Oh honey, you spent so much time on Photoshop!”

Photoshop CS4 Extended is […]

Setting up a New Version of Photoshop

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I recently wrote a review for Adobe Photoshop CS4. When installing a new version I had to reset a number of defaults. Photoshop is used in many contexts such as graphic arts and the printing industry in which different settings would be used, so the defaults are not always […]

Editing Eyes: 3 Photoshop Steps to Eyes that POP

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Here’s how to make eyes POP in three steps using Photoshop.

Photoshop CS4 Extended is available at an academic discount price of $299.

Photoshop CS4 Extended Student Edition is available at an academic discount price of $199.

Customizing the Way You Work in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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No description of Adobe Photoshop would be complete without that well-known, but little utilized area called Preferences. Photoshop preferences serve several purposes. They help customize the program to your particular designing style, and they help you utilize available computer resources to increase the overall performance of the program.

By modifying File Handling […]

4 Quick Ways to Boost Lightroom 2 Performance

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Given some comments I’ve read with in my Lightroom 2 review “Adobe Lightroom 2.0 – First Impressions That Impress” and across the web I thought it would be a good idea to share some Lightroom 2 optimization tips I’ve recently found. Hopefully this information and the respective web sites this information […]

QuarkXPress 8 Integration Guide with Adobe Creative Suite 4

QuarkXPress 8 Integration with Adobe Creative Suite (1.6 MB PDF)

Download the guide that will help you learn how Quark XPress 8 works with the new CS4 products from Adobe including Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, Flash Professional CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Acrobat 9 Professional, and InDesign CS4.

Quark XPress 8 is available at an academic […]

Brushing up your Creative Suite skills

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With the recent announcement of Adobe Creative Suite 4, users may find themselves looking to brush-up on their application skills before diving in to all the new features of CS4 apps—especially now that the updated apps are available for download, with boxed copies shipping soon.

I’ve put together a list of some […]

How to use Sorenson Squeeze 5 to create high quality video for YouTube

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Sorenson Media products can be purchased at an academic discount price from Creation Engine.