2h 15m | 2.08 GB | Project files 1.64 GB | Required Software: SpeedGrade CS6

Dive into Adobe’s Powerful New Color Grading Tool
SpeedGrade is a color grading and finishing tool that lets video editors control color and light for any type of content, and it is now part of the Adobe Creative Suite. In this workshop filmmaker and author Chad Perkins teaches you the basics of this powerful software. You’ll learn how to perform a basic color grade, create looks, mask footage, apply grades to multiple clips, and much more. You’ll also see how SpeedGrade fits into your overall post-production workflow.

ImagineFX Collection January-Jully 2012

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Intermediate | 18h 48m | 6.22 GB | Project Files 2.86 GB | Required Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Deke’s Techniques is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
New techniques will be added to the collection each week. Exercise files accompany the course.

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2h 36m | 1.09 GB | Project files 137 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Learn What’s New and How It Affects You
In this course, Photoshop experts Tim Grey and Olaf Giermann look at the new features available in Photoshop CS6 and show you how to incorporate them into your workflow. They’ll take you on a tour of the interface, which has a new look and different controls in some of the panels, and introduce you to all the new features in areas like adjustments, image cleanup, creative effects, text and graphics, video, and 3D. With this kind of help, you should find the transition to Photoshop CS6 easy as pie.

Beginner | 3h 50m | 1.09 GB | Project Files 388 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Learn the World’s Number One Image Editing Software
Photoshop is more than just an image editing application — it is a foundational staple in all the visual arts, from print design, to photography, to web design, to motion graphics and 3D graphics. In this course, award-winning video trainer and Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins will show you the basics of Photoshop. You’ll learn about the components of visual images, making selections, color correcting, fixing images, outputting images, and much more. This course uses Photoshop CS6, but the information presented is applicable to all versions of the application.

2h 04m | 663 MB | Project files 154 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Print, Sharpen, and Share Like a Pro
In this advanced workshop Tim Grey delves into some of the finer points of creating top-quality output of your digital images. You’ll get an introduction to color management, which is absolutely crucial to maintaining consistent colors throughout your workflow. Tim takes an in-depth look at the topic of sharpening — when and how to do it, as well as when not to — and covers some advanced sharpening techniques. He also offers tips for printing your photos, exploring both the relevant settings in Photoshop and those you’re likely to find in your printer driver. Finally, he discusses troubleshooting suboptimal output — i.e., when something goes wrong, figuring out what happened and how to fix it. If you spend a lot of time optimizing your images, this workshop will help you make sure all that effort is reflected in the quality of your output.

1h 50m | 1.54 GB | Project files 1023 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4, Photomatix

Create Unique and Dramatic High Dynamic Range Images
In many cases the difference between the brightest and darkest areas of a scene is simply too great to capture in a single image, due to the inherent limitations of cameras. However, you can overcome those limitations through the use of high dynamic range (HDR) imaging. In this workshop from digital imaging guru Tim Grey, you’ll learn both how to capture HDR images and how to organize, assemble, and optimize them after the fact, whether you prefer to use HDR Pro, Nik HDR Efex Pro, or Photomatix.

3h 53m | 869 MB | Project Files 45 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Make Precise but Powerful Adjustments
Once you’ve learned the basics of Photoshop, you’ll probably start looking for ways to exercise really precise control over the adjustments you make to your images. In this unique workshop, Tim Grey takes an in-depth look at working with selections and layer masks to create targeted adjustments. After covering the key concepts behind selections and exploring Photoshop’s selection tools, Tim delves into a variety of advanced techniques that will help you make accurate selections, create seamless composite images, and apply adjustments that do exactly what you want them to do. This workshop places a special emphasis on mixing and matching different tools and techniques to unleash the full power of what Photoshop can do for you.

2h 00m | 1.30 GB | Project files 1.10 GB | Required Software: Prelude CS6

Ingest, Manage, and Organize Your Media
Today’s video technology makes it easier than ever to acquire enormous amounts of media, all of which needs to be ingested, managed, and organized in a way that is useful at every stage of post-production and distribution. Fortunately, Adobe Prelude CS6 provides users with a fast, easy interface for ingesting, transcoding, duplicating, tagging, commenting, and communicating about media. In this course, video expert Maxim Jago introduces the core concepts of metadata management and tagging using Adobe XMP metadata. You’ll learn how to organize, ingest, transcode, tag, comment, subclip, and build a rough cut before sending media on to Premiere Pro for editing — the complete workflow with the new Adobe Prelude CS6.

2h 14m | 569 MB | Project Files 45 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Eliminate Distractions from Your Photos
No matter how careful you are when capturing your photographic images, there are going to be issues that you find later — whether it’s little spots or blemishes, or bigger problems like color casts or chromatic aberration. In this workshop, Tim Grey shares his techniques for cleaning up your images with Photoshop. After getting an overview of image-cleanup concepts and tools, you’ll learn how to remove spots, correct color problems, eliminate noise, fix red eye, and much more. Tim also shares advanced techniques like making gradient adjustments, extending the frame, and using multiple exposures to remove people from an image. After completing this workshop, you’ll know how to remove distractions in an image that keep your genius from shining through.

2h 22m | 647 MB | Project files 112 MB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Learn to Make Basic, Advanced, and Creative Adjustments
The core strength of Photoshop is the way it enables you to improve the quality of your images, whether you’re fixing a major problem or making a subtle adjustment. In this workshop Tim Grey explores a wide variety of techniques to help you get the best results when optimizing your images. He begins with basics like cropping, changing brightness and contrast, and correcting color balance, then moves on to more advanced adjustments like Shadows/Highlights, Curves, and dodging and burning. You’ll learn how to make targeted adjustments that affect only selected parts of the image and apply creative adjustments that don’t so much fix a problem as add a unique touch. And best of all, Tim teaches all these techniques as part of an overall workflow designed to help you work quickly, efficiently, and nondestructively.

14h 59m | 2.99 GB | Project files 1.60 GB | Required Software: Premiere Pro CS6

Master the Fundamentals
Adobe Premiere Pro has fast become the number-one editing system for a wide range of professional and semi-professional editors around the world, and in the CS6 version, Adobe has added some new features that challenge expectations of nonlinear editing. These include a new special effects paradigm, advanced features previously seen only in Adobe After Effects, and a newly enhanced user interface. In this course expert editor and trainer Maxim Jago provides a comprehensive guide to working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, covering everything from the fundamentals of nonlinear editing all the way up to the most advanced new features. You’ll learn how to bring multiple media types into Premiere Pro, combine them to produce professional edits, apply effects, add titles, work with audio, and output to multiple formats, including DVD, Blu-ray and files. After completing this Learn by Video course, published in partnership with Peachpit Press, you’ll have the core skills you need to produce professional results.

13h 00m | 2.47 GB | Project files 472 MB | Required Software: Adobe Illustrator CS6

Master the Fundamentals
Whether you’re new to Illustrator or an old hand who needs a refresher and a guide to the new features in CS6, this course from expert trainers Chad Chelius and Angie Taylor will teach you what you need to know. You’ll learn the fundamentals of Adobe’s vector-based drawing and illustration program and be introduced to the features that are new in the CS6 version. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn advanced techniques for working with shapes, transformations, perspective, color, typography, and more.

14h 53m | 3.87 GB | Project files 2.18 GB | Required Software: Photoshop CS6

Master the Fundamentals
What can you do with Adobe Photoshop CS6? Not just everything Photoshop is famous for, like editing and optimizing images, but lots of new things like video editing and creating 3D text and objects. In this Learn by Video course (created in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press), Adobe Certified Expert Kelly McCathran covers every aspect of working in Photoshop CS6, from basic concepts to advanced techniques. You also get lots of hands-on exercises and projects to help you learn to get the most from Photoshop’s myriad tools and effects.

 

Visual Identity Design CD 02
512 cdr + 68 eps + 1344 ai | 354 Mb RAR 

Every successful business or organisation knows the importance of being easily identified to its target audience, and the consistent application of adistinctive and easily recognised visual identity or brand image is the way in which this is achieved.This can be as simple as the presentation of an eye-catching logo on stationery and promotional material, or as comprehensive as a corporate design
manual to ensure the consistent use of all design elements across a larger organisation.Sustainable design offers a wealth of experience in the widest range of graphic and other visual media, including typography, illustration, corporateidentity and design for the world-wide web

 

Visual Identity Design CD 01
512 cdr + 68 eps + 1344 ai | 566 Mb RAR 

Every successful business or organisation knows the importance of being easily identified to its target audience, and the consistent application of adistinctive and easily recognised visual identity or brand image is the way in which this is achieved.This can be as simple as the presentation of an eye-catching logo on stationery and promotional material, or as comprehensive as a corporate design
manual to ensure the consistent use of all design elements across a larger organisation.Sustainable design offers a wealth of experience in the widest range of graphic and other visual media, including typography, illustration, corporateidentity and design for the world-wide web

Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book
Publisher: Adobe Press 2010 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0321701798 | PDF | 17 MB

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn InDesign CS5 choose Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working with InDesign CS5. Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging page layouts using InDesign CS5.
This completely revised CS5 edition covers the new tools for interactive documents, simplified object selection, multiple page sizes, track text changes, new layers panel, production enhancements, and print to digital capability. This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS5 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program. Readers who already have some experience with InDesign can improve their skills and learn InDesign's newest features.

A Dictionary of Symbols
Dover Publications | September 16, 2002 | English | ISBN: 0486425231 | 512 pages | PDF |

At every stage of civilization, people have relied on symbolic expression, and advances in science and technology have only increased our dependence on symbols. An essential part of the ancient arts of the Orient and Western medieval traditions, symbolism underwent a twentieth-century revival with the study of the unconscious. Indeed, symbolic language is considered a science, and this informative volume offers an indispensable tool in the study of symbology.
Its alphabetical entries--drawn from a diverse range of sources, including all of the major world religions, astrology, alchemy, numerology, heraldry, and prehistoric art--clarify the essential and unvarying meanings of each symbol. Whether used as a reference or browsed for pleasure, this informative volume offers a valuable key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. 32 b/w illustrations.

 

Architects Sketches: Dialogue and Design By Kendra Schank Smith
Publisher: Architectural Press 2008 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 0750682264 | PDF

31 Days to Build a Better Blog, 2nd Edition (with Extra Week)

Pro Blogger |  Darren Rowse | ENGLISH | 2012 | ISBN: N/A
140 + 32 pages | PDF | 7.67  + 2.57 MB

31 Days to Build a Better blog is a 31 day challenge where you’re given a daily piece of teaching and an achievable activity to go away and implement – all of which is designed to rejuvenate your blog.

Best of Smashing Magazine 5 Year Anniversary

Smashing Media |  Thomas Burkert | English | August 31, 2011
ISBN 9783943075144 | PDF |  409 pages | 15.52 MB

The eBook contains the best articles that have been published on Smashing Magazine in the last five years — and by “best,” we mean the most useful, most interesting or most inspiring. The articles have been carefully edited, proofread and updated for your convenience and reading pleasure on your eBook reader.

Photographing Childhood: The Image and the Memory
Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (October 5, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240818180
Format: PDF
Pages: 192 
Size: 73,4 MB

Improve the aesthetic and communication qualities of your motion graphics. Reach beyond technical craft skills with this multimedia examination of the essential elements of the art, which includes:
Foundation: Realize the artistic expression of pioneering artists from film, television, interactive media, and immersive environments as they combine the principles of painting, traditional graphic design, and the dynamic visual language of cinema.

Ultimate Guide to Graphic (2nd Edition)
by Nik Rawlinson
Dennis Publishing | April 2010 | PDF | 196 pages | ISBN: 1907232478 | 77.1Mb
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Graphic-Design-Rawlinson/dp/1907232478

Mastering Photoshop for Web Designers Vol 2

As the technology becomes more advanced,

all of us seek for time-saving tips and guidelines to make our work much more effective and productive. The brand new eBook "Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2" contains 11 articles that cover useful and partly unknown Photoshop techniques and tricks from experts in the field. The articles discuss retouching, cloning, compositing, obscure Photoshop timesavers and designing for iPhone. The articles have been published on Smashing Magazine in 2010 and 2011 and have been carefully edited and revised.

This Post contains 6 chess books  which I have downloaded from various sources.
Most of the books are latest editions from 2011-2012:

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LogoLounge 2- 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers
Bill Gardner and Catharine M. Fishel 

| English | ISBN: 1592532977 | 2006 | 192 pages | PDF | 9,8 MB

Microsoft Excel 2010 for Medical Professionals By Elizabeth Reding
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0538748451 | 264 pages | PDF | 19,3 MB
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Pet Photography 101 - Tips for taking better photos of your dog or cat 

PDF | ENG | 209 Pages | ISBN: 9780240812151 |

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