Description : MasterPhotoshop CS4 with this visual, hands on guide to using layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard Lynch. Layers, Photoshop`s most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image editing workflow. Step by step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to.

In 2008, Adobe Photoshop pro and best-selling author Matt Kloskowski broke new ground teaching Photoshop by focusing on the one thing that makes Photoshop the amazing (and sometimes difficult to understand) program it is: layers. Now, Matt returns with a major update to the book that explains “the key to understanding Photoshop” in the same concise, easy to understand way that’s made him so well known in the field of Photoshop training.

In this course, author Nigel French covers the ins and outs of creating professional designs and artwork using crisp, scalable vector graphics in Photoshop.

Photographer David Hobby of Strobist.com follows up his Lighting Seminar DVD Set (May 2008) with Lighting in Layers, a series of Real-World, behind-the-scenes assignments lit entirely with Small flashes. The seven-DVD, 9-hour boxed set includes Six extended, Detailed Location shoots, Paired with related lighting diagrams, Which include Walk-throughs and immersive Discussions.
In addition, There is a running set of Discussions on Other Topics. Those include Finding your compass as a photographer Point, gaining access to the People and Things you Want to Photograph, Adding value to your Community and Building a Sustainable Business Model in the Age of the Web. As a 20-year staff newspaper photojournalist - More recently and, a Widely-Read blogger at Strobist - Hobby Also Explains in Detail How He combines Those skills to create a unique Ecosystem in Which He CAN thrive as a self-directed photographer The first Six DVDs Are Standard discs Which Are Meant to play in any standard DVD player. The seventh disc is a DVD-ROM which contains compressed files of all of the content from the first six discs.
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Photographer David Hobby from the website Strobist.com continues his Seminar lighting (May 2008). A new video, The lighting in layers - the story of what happened behind the scenes in a series of real photo sessions, which used only portable flash.
During 9 o clock are six extended, detailed shooting outside the studio. Shows the corresponding diagrams of lighting, walkthroughs and in-depth discussion.
There is also a lively discussion of other issues: the search for your photographic style, access to objects and to approach the people you would like to take pictures, add appeal to your online community, creating sustainable business in the Internet age.
as a newspaper journalist with 20 years of experience (and now a popular blogger in Strobist.com), Hobby detail reveals the secret of combining these skills to create a unique system where he can succeed as a freelance photographer.
First 6-disc set contains a standard DVD-Video that can be played in any DVD player.

3D Total Textures vol.2 Release 2.0: Bases & Layers consists of 157 materials, comprising of 481 individual maps including colour, bump, specular and some normal maps. Each individual material now has a unique matching bump, specular and, in a few cases, a normal map.