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Lynda.com – Photoshop CS5: Fashion Retouching Projects

Posted by Users on 2010/09/25
Posted in: Downloads, Tutorials.

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Join professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig in Photoshop CS5: Fashion Retouching Projects, as he demonstrates how to enhance and correct photographs for the fashion industry. This course covers retouching techniques such as color, contrast, and tone improvements, wrinkle reduction, skin smoothing, enhancing the eyes, lips, and hair, shape modification using Liquify, and background cleanup. Projects include a commercial fashion campaign and a natural beauty shoot, focusing on corrections that bring out the existing strengths of the photograph without marring the original intent. Exercise files are included with the course.
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Lynda.com – Avid Media Composer 5 Essential Training

Posted by Users on 2010/09/25
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In Avid Media Composer 5 Essential Training, author Ashley Kennedy demonstrates basic and intermediate editing techniques in Media Composer, one of the most widely used nonlinear, video editing systems. This course covers how to build sequences, mix audio, color correct footage, apply effects, and troubleshoot common post-production issues in Media Composer. Exercise files accompany the course.
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Jeff Lew : Animating Power and Weight: First Pass (part 1 & 2)

Posted by Users on 2010/09/25
Posted in: 3D, Downloads, Videos.

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Jeff Lew : Animating Power and Weight: First Pass (part 1 & 2)
English | H264 1280×800 | MP3 96 Kbps | 2.38 GB

Animating Power and Weight PART 1 is a real-time demonstration of animating the first pass of a large scale creature swinging around a heavy weapon. We go through every step of the animation process, from breaking down the reference footage to methods of keyframing.

Preview :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuZ0Z2GeSo

TOPICS:
– fundamentals of animating power and weight
– scene file setup
– using the character rig with heavy props
– breaking down reference footage
– finding poses
– methods of animating
– working with constraints
– common keyframing mistakes and how to fix them
– working within limitations of the character rig
– using the dopesheet and graph editor
– maintaining arcs in animation
– practical advice when animating
– understanding and fixing euler flipping
– working with keyframes in the timeline

Animating Power and Weight PART 2 is a real-time demonstration of animating the first pass of a large scale creature swinging around a heavy weapon. Part 2 picks up right after where Part 1 left off and completes the first pass of this animation.

TOPICS:
– posing the character to show weight and balance
– moving hold
– hiding mistakes with camera staging
– fixing motion in the graph editor
– keying contact points
– retiming keyframes with the dopesheet
– contrast in timing
– pushing ideas, experimenting

There were no project files provided so you’ll have to make do with your own rigs

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More Info :
http://www.jefflew.com/apw1.html
http://www.jefflew.com/apw2.html

Download Links : (Fileserve)
http://www.fileserve.com/file/abHKE8D/JL.AMOaWFP.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/yFvv6Nc/JL.AMOaWFP.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/z5R23ek/JL.AMOaWFP.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/pqfBwgX/JL.AMOaWFP.part4.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/x4Jpm8J/JL.AMOaWFP.part5.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/NfYgxUF/JL.AMOaWFP.part6.rar