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In this digital age, just about everyone and their pets can create digital images. But if you're interested in creating truly professional-looking and high quality images, you need to understand the basic principles of digital as well as pre-digital photography. Our expert trainer, Matt Vanacoro shows you the way in this introductory course.

It all starts with a script. That's why this course begins with the all-important script breakdown. Siobhan teaches you how to approach a new script. She walks you through all the different initial stages of planning, sketching and developing story ideas. She shows you how to discover the important story points and develop shot sequences. In the process, you learn about staging & composition and choosing the proper camera angles to reinforce the intention of the script.

Advertising is everywhere and advertisers often employ powerful (and sometimes questionable) techniques to grab your attention and get their message across. These techniques can be so powerful, that throughout the course, Mark makes a point of stressing the importance of using them for good versus evil!

Good design is based upon a solid understanding of form and function. It's true that some great artists seem to have been born with an inherent sense of these concepts. However, most designers need to digest these "truths", practice them and absorb them in order to integrate them with their workflow and make them second nature!

In this introductory course, you get an overview of the origins, history and processes of design spanning from the prehistoric Chauvet cave paintings to the subliminal techniques deployed in current advertising. Follow along as design guru, Mark Gatter, explains the story of design and how it impacts our daily lives and culture.

The production is over. The actors are gone. The tech crew is off on another shoot. Now it's just up to you (with a pile of hard drives) to figure out how to put it all together. That's the job of the editor.

The director is the single most important role in the filmmaking process. From scripting to shooting, editing and post production, no one has more involvement with the success of a film project than the director. This course, designed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Wohl, reveals and explains the process of being a successful director.

Being a Cinematographer is a lot like being a great musician: You've got to practice lots of technical skills before you can apply them to your art. But once you own these skills, they become your filmmaking palette, enabling you to capture perfection when you're behind the lens! So, who better to learn them from than the renowned filmmaker/educator Michael Wohl?!

Designing characters for animation can be a tricky business with many levels of creative and technical development. In this course, artist, designer, storyboard artist and animator Siobhan Twomey, takes you step-by-step through the character design process.

It's no secret that e-learning is completely transforming the world of education. Today's technology allows teachers to create and share their lessons online, and connect and interact remotely with their students in ways never possible before. If you're an educator, it is now a necessity to learn and master the digital education tools you have at your disposal, and start delivering your content to the world more effectively.

We all know what happens when we let our software do ALL the work, right? You get that awful disease called "Preset-itis": a condition where your creative work is indistinguishable from everyone else's.

After a brief section introducing the concepts and tools, Siobhan dives right into the techniques you need to know to accurately draw complex shapes. This is where you learn to "see" shapes and the space around them. Watch as Siobhan draws a chair – by drawing only the space around the chair – all the while explaining the important concept of recognizing negative space!

DaVinci Resolve is designed to manage entire projects. Whether you're working on a short film, TV series or a full-length feature, this course by Andrew Balis gives you the insider tips and tricks you need to manage your project's color grading like a pro.

Knowing how to work with the timeline is crucial when using Adobe After Effects CC. This course, by Adobe expert Kevin McAuliffe, takes an in-depth look at After Effects’ timeline and all its elements.

In Siobhan's Character Design 101 course you learned about developing, sketching and rendering a basic character. In this course, she shows you how to take your character from sketch to animation-ready. So where to you begin?

DSLR camera manufacturers are racing to see just how much technology they can jam into their latest breed of cameras, particularly in the growing area of video. As the feature sets explode, so does the level of complexity and the learning curve! That's why we decided to create this introductory course to demystify DSLR video... and who better to teach it than Matt Vanacoro?!

Pages may look like a very simple app, but it’s more powerful than you might think. Whether you’re using a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad, or even a Windows PC through a web browser, Apple’s Pages lets you create professional looking documents, newsletters, posters, flyers, and even complete books! In this course, by Apple expert Matt Vanacoro, you learn everything you need to use this amazing app and boost your productivity.

Spreadsheets don’t have to be boring and bland looking. With Apple’s Numbers, you can present your data in attractive and colorful spreadsheets that are both easy to understand and nice to look at. This course, by Apple expert Matt Vanacoro, is designed to show you how to master this powerful member of Apple’s iWork suite.

Forget about your average boring slideshows… Apple’s Keynote makes it possible to present information in engaging and exciting ways. It is, by far, the best software to use when you want to make a great impression on your audience. After all, this app was custom designed for one of the best presenters of all time: Steve Jobs! In this course, Apple expert Matt Vanacoro shows you how to create dynamic presentations that will keep your audience engaged from start to finish.

Unlock the immense power of artificial intelligence through Photoshop's Generative Fill feature. It’s like having a trusted virtual magician by your side, meticulously analyzing every aspect of an image - lighting, shadows, contrast, color, texture, and perspective - ensuring that the changes you make match those qualities and therefore look like they are integral to the original scene.