xTrain - Illustrator CS3: Quick & Easy

xTrain - Illustrator CS3: Quick & Easy - 590 Mb

Learn the latest and greatest features in the new Illustrator CS3! Chris Botello shares the secrets with you of how to get started & polish up your skills in Illustator. For the last class, Chris makes a project showing you what you can do in Illustrator you couldn't do in Photoshop.
Class 1 - Live Color in Illustrator CS3

1. The Live Color Guide
2. Editing Mode
3. Color Assignment
4. Reducing & Repurposing Colors

Class 2 - Creating 3-D Graphics in Illustrator CS3

1. Intro to 3D
2. 3D Revolve
3. Practical Object in 3D
4. 3D LIghting
5. Mapping Art to a 3D Object

Class 3 - Live Trace and Live Paint in Illustrator CS3

1. Introduction to Live Paint
2. Live Paint example: Squares
3. Virtual Regions Explained
4. Using Live Paint on Strokes
5. Working with a Live Paint Group
6. Using Live Paint while Drawing

Class 4 - Advanced Illustrator Techniques What You Can't Do In Photoshop

1. Making Concentric Circles
2. Offsetting Paths for Complex Artwork
3. Exporting Layers to Photoshop
4. Complex Photoshop Effects with Illustrator Art

Class 5 - Live Color & Color Harmony

1. The Live Color Guide


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Adobe Illustrator Polar Bear

Illustrator Gradient Mesh Polar Bear
1 AI Fle | 7.60 MB | FF & RS

Made up completely of vectors, its amazing. Worth downloading it just to see for yourself :)

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Illustrator Gradient Mesh VW Beetle Car

Illustrator Gradient Mesh VW Beetle Car
1 AI Fle | 7.60 MB

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Illustrator Gradient Mesh Banana

Illustrator Gradient Mesh Banana
1 AI File | 5.04 MB | FF & RS

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - How to draw the red pepper

How to draw the red bell pepper?

From JPEG to Adobe Illustrator With Advanced Gradient Mesh Tool
JPEG and AI files with PDF tutorial 1.3 MB

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Illustrator Gradient Mesh Face

Illustrator Gradient Mesh Face
1 AI File | 4.37 MB | FF & RS

Amazing considering that the picture above is vectors and NOT bitmap :)

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Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Mantis

Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Mantis
1 x AI File | 6.92 MB

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Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Eagle

Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh Eagle

1 x AI File | 5.15 MB

Imge above is VECTOR and not bitmap ! Wow! Most people who use illustrator dont even know about gradient meshes so hopefully these posts will prove useful :)

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Lynda.com: Photoshop CS3 Channels & Masks: Advanced Techniques

Lynda.com: Photoshop CS3 Channels & Masks: Advanced Techniques with Deke McClelland
DVD9 | Running Time: 20.5 hours | 6 Gb (230 files; NOT multi-part archive; RS and E-S links)

The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. As he builds transitional blended layers, fashions a depth map, makes edge adjustments, and takes on extreme channel mixing, Omni Award-winning expert Deke McClelland teaches Photoshop users that where there's a will, there's a way.
Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: Advanced Techniques covers mapping texture on an image, turning flesh into stone, using vector masks, working with all different channels, creating a rustic edge effect, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

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Alien Skin Image Doctor v2.0 for Adobe Photoshop

Alien Skin Image Doctor v2.0 for Adobe Photoshop

Everyone loves the perfect photo. That’s also why everyone loves Image Doctor 2, the powerful Photoshop® plug-in from Alien Skin Software. Image Doctor’s unique software algorithms can save what would be the perfect photo from the trash bin while saving you hour upon hour of Photoshop work trying to fix it.
Restore old photos. With Image Doctor, restoring that precious old shot is a breeze. Select a rip or scratch and Image Doctor heals it.
Retouch new photos. Whether it’s a mole, tattoo, scar or other blemish, Image Doctor makes photo retouching quick and easy. You can also soften skin with the click of your mouse.
Remove unwanted objects. Image Doctor’s powerful Smart Fill feature removes large, unwanted objects from photos, such as trash items from foregrounds and undesirable guests from party photos. Smart Fill can automatically replace these areas with an intelligent sampling of the nearby background pattern or the user can specify the location of the background samples.

Repair low-quality JPEG images. Use Image Doctor’s JPEG Repair to fix blocky areas and ragged edges in over-compressed JPEG images. Select an area for repair or use it on your entire photo.

Who uses Image Doctor. Image Doctor users include both professional and novice photographers, photo editors, service bureau professionals, graphic designers, and web designers. Anyone who needs to remove or replace unwanted photographic details will find Image Doctor indispensable.

Image Doctor renders seamless removals of unsightly blemishes and objects. It enables photo editors to de-clutter bad photographic compositions with just a few clicks of a mouse. Web designers, service bureaus, and hobbyists can restore and repurpose badly compressed JPEGs, including cell phone photos. Portrait photographers can use Image Doctor as digital makeup, removing pimples, moles, scars, and tattoos in one click. Photographers can then soften skin areas where these blemishes were or fix oily patches of skin. Hobbyists and professionals can use Image Doctor to restore old photos by removing dust and scratches

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book LESSON FILES
Adobe Creative Team | May 2007 | 295 MB

This is the Lesson Files for Adobe Photoshop CS3 ebook.

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Digital Film Tools Pack for Adobe Photoshop

Digital Film Tools Pack for Adobe Photoshop | 120Mb

Digital Film Tools brings together the unbeatable combination of superior software designers, motion picture visual effects veterans, video editors and photographers. Add three Emmy Awards and experience in creating visual effects for hundreds of feature films, commercials and television shows and you have a recipe for success. The understanding of photography, film and video editing, and in particular visual effects, allows us to design productive and highly specialized software. Software that is useful as well as easy to use. Our products stand up to the rigors of production and are the culmination of many years of experience.
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ScatterLight Lenses v1.2 (photoshop plug-ins)

ScatterLight Lenses v1.2 (photoshop plug-ins) - 8.5 Mb
Professional digital lenses for scattering light!

The ScatterLight Lenses produce a broad scope of realistic patterned and diffusion lens effects.
These lens effects range from subtle soft focus effects most often seen in professional portraiture and landscapes, to more dramatic effects that scatter and focus light over the brightest areas of an image.

ScatterLight Lenses has 4 distinct effects categories:

Dream Optics - Gently pulls and scatters light from highlighted areas to create dreamy highlights throughout the image.

SoftFocus - For softening and refining portraits. Various optical lens patterns provide professional soft focus effects that can range from subtle to dramatic.

SoftDiffuser - Softener for images to add diffusion or fog. The plug-in offers optical lens patterns to vary density.

StarLight - Focuses light over the brightest areas of your image to create a starlight effect. The plug-in offers many different optical lens patterns.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer

David Huss, David Plotkin "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer "
Focal Press | ISBN:024052067X | 2007-10-22 | 208 Pages | PDF | 14.8MB

Delve into the ultimate guide for professional photographers
Harness the power and flexibility of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, version 1.1, with this expert guide. Professional photographers David Huss and David Plotkin show you how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively with their personal tips, tricks, and techniques that you can incorporate into your own workflow.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is a powerful tool that you can integrate into your existing workflow to increase your productivity and improve the overall quality of your work. With this ultimate resource by your side, youll learn how to:

- Organize, adjust, process, output, and share digital pictures like the top professionals
- Personalize Lightroom with a custom Identity plate
- Seamlessly transition between Lightroom and your favorite photo editor
- Quickly view and compare multiple shots, pairing selections down to your best work
- Correct images, adjust white balance, and fine-tune tone, balance, and exposure, crop and undoall without altering your originals!
- Automate your workflow by applying image adjustments to multiple photos
- Output proof and contact sheets
- Develop, print and display your digital pictures for friends and clients, all the while saving valuable time
- Create slide shows and web postings
- And much more..

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Eye Candy 5: Nature v5.5.0

Eye Candy 5: Nature v5.5.0 | 155 MB

Eye Candy 5: Nature, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice and more. Nature offers beautifully rendered effects that any novice or professional designer will appreciate.
Nature includes four new filters and reincarnates six Eye Candy classics. The classic filters boast brand-new looks, greater realism, and improved ease-of-use. For example, select filters can create a new layer and render effects to it; this allows you to view, edit, or turn off these effects without modifying the original layer.
Nature includes over 500 presets for frequently used effects; you can find the perfect effect quickly. The improved settings management system makes it easy to browse, share and collect new settings.
Nature also works with 16-bit images. Color transitions are smoother, with less banding. Print documents reproduce colors more accurately.

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