onOne Software educational discount downloads now available!

Students, teachers, staff, and schools now have the option of purchasing onOne Software at an educational discount via electronic download.

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Creating web-ready images with SketchUp Pro and LayOut

Link via The Official Google SketchUp Blog

As you probably know, working with LayOut (included with SketchUp Pro) is an excellent way to prepare printed documents and screen presentations with 3D models. What you might not know, is that it’s also a great way to prepare images of SketchUp models for publishing on the web.

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Push your pixels to the next level

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Article discussing new software and hardware tools to add some creativity to ho-hum photos. Photoshop Elements 8 and Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 are discussed along with plugins from Alien Skin and Nik Software:

Concentrate instead on plugins — separate software packages that work within photo-editing software and perform astonishing feats.

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Adobe and Avatar

Video of Jon Landau, Producer of “Avatar”, describing how Adobe software, including Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro and After Effects, was used throughout the production of the film.

Adobe software is available at an education discount price from Creation Engine.

ZBrush 3.5 for Windows Now Shipping!

ZBrush 3.5 aims to bring you creative freedom and an end to technical constraints. With new features like ZSpheres II, ZSketch, Quick Sketch, Surface Noise, Planar brushes and many other new enhancements, your art will reach a whole new level.

With this new version, Pixologic refined and added to ZBrush’s already exceptional toolset, improving the […]

Mastering Your Tasks and To Dos with PersonalBrain Webinar

Clear Your Mind. Get It Out of Your Head and into Your PersonalBrain.

Get complete task management and mental clarity by creating Thoughts for all key tasks and projects in your life. Your action oriented PersonalBrain will put you in the driver’s seat and enhance your productivity.

Topics Covered Include: • Using “Getting Things Done” […]

64-bit OS required for future releases of Adobe Premiere and After Effects

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Future releases of Adobe Premiere® Pro and Adobe After Effects® software will no longer support 32-bit operating systems. Most PCs purchased since 2005 are already running 64-bit operating systems or can be upgraded. Mac OS X and Snow Leopard are already 64-bit capable.

In other words, if you’re running Snow Leopard, you’ll […]

7 awesome things you can do with SketchUp

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Sketchup is a free 3D modelling tool developed based on the philosophy that by giving people a small set of powerful, intuitive tools, you can lower the barrier of entry to 3D modelling, so that almost anyone can make quality 3D models with just a couple of sessions of practice.

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Making Animated Cartoons With Toon Boom Animate Pro

Link via The Epoch Times

I haven’t wanted to make cartoons since I was a kid, but after spending a couple weeks with Animate Pro from Toon Boom, I’m inspired to try it again.

As the name suggests, Toon Boom specializes in software for making cartoons and animations. The company has a fairly large range […]

An easy way to bring 3D content into your Adobe Flash projects

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For more than a decade, the idea of creating 3D animations with Adobe Flash software has intrigued designers and developers. In early 2000, Swift 3D and Vecta 3D started a frenzy with prerendered 3D vector graphics for Flash. Not so long ago, we started getting our first glimpses of real-time 3D […]