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Photoshop Lightroom – Tutorials for the Photographic Educator

Adobe presents a series of Photoshop Lightroom tutorials for the Photographic Educator.

The Software That Will Take Digital F/X to the Next Level of Awesome

Stam likes hideous complications. He works for Autodesk, the software company that produces Maya, the worlds leading 3-D modeling software. Maya has shaped nearly every CG visual effect youve seen since 1998 — from the first Matrix to the newest Spider-Man.

With his current project, a new module for Maya called Nucleus, Stam is getting closer than ever to his goal. Stams formulas allow two or three elements to interact as they would in the real word — smoke with wind, or fabric with solid objects. What hasn’t been accomplished yet is a system that can encompass and express dynamically all of the earthly elements and physical laws at once. Stam wants software that can play God with pixels. Right now, hes only in the early stages, but Nucleus is taking the special effects world a step closer to Stams dream of a unified physics-driven system that can produce eye-popping visual effects all by itself.

CG Top 20 Retrospective 2007

ZBrush 3.1, Maya 2008, Creative Suite 3, and 3ds MAX 2008 profiled in the CG Top 20 Retrospective 2007.

What’s New in Stop Motion Pro v6

After a year in the making, we are proud to announce Stop Motion Pro version 6 has been released.

Developed with input from Aardman Animations (the makers of Wallace and Gromit), Stop Motion Pro version 6 offers students, animators and animation producers the most comprehensive and easy to use toolset yet.

Avid Media Composer now also available to faculty and students

Avid has changed their policy regarding sale of single copies of Media Composer. Previously this product was limited to purchase order only sales from schools. Now this product may be sold to all students and faculty.

Avid Media Composer is available at the academic price of $295 from Creation Engine.

Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton

This DVD is a thorough introduction to Corel Painter X, providing an overview of the interface, highlighting major new features, and including a sampling of easy to follow techniques for creating paintings and collages from your photographs. Tutorial images are included in the DVD. I recommend this for anyone new to Painter and also as a preliminary DVD before working through my more in-depth The Art of Collage Portraiture and Painter IX Simplified for Photographers DVD sets.

Purchase Painter X and receive Jeremy Sutton Training DVD ($65 value) free! Offer good through 12/31/2007.

Digital Collage and Scrapbooks in Photoshop Elements 6

Digital Collage and Digital Scrapbooks are great outlets for using all those pictures we take. I love to create collages and this article will show the method to my madness and hopefully to inspire you along the way.

If you are like me, just looking at what someone else has done sparks my creativity. Below is an image of a finished digital collage. I will break it down in layers then show the printed layers and a physically assembled card at the end. I used various features of Photoshop Elements 6 including Filters, Adjustment Layers and Layer Blending Modes.

Printing tips for Photoshop, Lightroom

Adobe’s famous Russell Brown has created three new video tutorials meant to help get the best results when printing from Photoshop CS3 (with the 10.0.1 update) to various popular printers:

Printing to the Epson Stylus Pro 3800

Printing to the HP Photosmart Pro 9180

Printing to the Canon Pro9500

Meanwhile Lightroom PM Tom Hogarty has posted info about printing on Mac OS X Leopard with Lightroom 1.3.1. Tom talks about geeky bits like the Mac’s transition from “Tioga” printer drivers (introduced in 10.0, now unsupported) to CUPS-based drivers (now required). The upshot, says Tom, is that for proper results you should “seek out a fully Leopard compatible printer driver from the printer manufacturer.”

Multimedia Fusion Tutorials

Multimedia Fusion is a name you probably know, if you do game development or prototyping. This software authoring tool uses a “point and click” programming language, an image editor, a wide assortment of extensions, and supports DirectX and ActiveX controls. The tutorials in this section help you get the most out of MM Fusion.

MacWorld 2008 – Get A Free Pass!

Visit Creation Engine at Booth S-2733 at the MacWorld Conference & Expo.

Please stop by our booth and enter our drawing for a copy of Adobe CS3 Design Premium!

January 15-18, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Photoshop Lightroom – Tutorials for the Photographic Educator

The Software That Will Take Digital F/X to the Next Level of Awesome

CG Top 20 Retrospective 2007

What’s New in Stop Motion Pro v6

Avid Media Composer now also available to faculty and students

Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton

Digital Collage and Scrapbooks in Photoshop Elements 6

Printing tips for Photoshop, Lightroom

Multimedia Fusion Tutorials

MacWorld 2008 – Get A Free Pass!

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