In this clip, Lynda.com host Chris Orwig offers up several more tips on creating a color managed workflow. He offers tips on how to create the appropriate lighting balance in your workspace, starting with 6500 kelvin daylight balance lightbulbs that are color neutral.
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In this clip, Lynda.com host Chris Orwig shows how to use the ruler tool in Photoshop CS4 to help straighten that image that wasn't scanned straight. To achieve this, he uses the ruler tool on the edge of the image, which measures how far off the image is, and then uses Rotate Canvas and selects abitrary Image Rotation and the image is then straight....Read More »
If you're familiar with CINEMA 4D's ability to export to Adobe After Effects, you know that all of the camera and light data can be saved in a single file - for use within a 3D composition in AE. However, sometimes unnecessary light animation and 3D data makes that AEC file heavy. Here's how to clean up your export file....Read More »
The brush adjustments are one of the key ways to exploit the expressive potential within each Painter Brush. In this clip, lynda.com host John Derry discusses Brush adjustments and goes through some of the Brush adjustments to play around with and adjust the various qualities of a Brush. ...Read More »
In this clip, lynda.com host John Derry spends some time looking at the Paper palette and how to get some expressive quality out of the paper textures. He shows how to make changes to the paper settings via the slider settings. He shows what the directional grain enabler does and how to enable it. ...Read More »
In this clip, lynda.com host John Derry talks about Painter's paper textures, a virtual paper grain that some of Painter's tools interact with. He covers Painter's paper selector as well as some of the brushes that respond to paper texture and grain. He also covers the paper palette, how to change the character of the paper texture by scaling it up and down via the size slider, and how to use the brightness and contrast sliders. ...Read More »
In this clip, Lynda.com host George Maestri covers how to measure and create guides within Google SketchUp. Two tools, the tape measure and the protractor enable you to measure and create the guides. He details how to use both the tape measure and the protractor, how to measure out angles and guides, which he also defines....Read More »
HTML5 supports a new 2D and 3D illustration control called the CANVAS tag. The iPhone already supports illustration using the new CANVAS tag. In this article you will learn how you can create illustrations that will run in Mobile Safari....Read More »