Learn how to automate common processes in Adobe Photoshop from creating actions and batch processing, to creating Droplets. This class will teach you how to use your time more efficiently and leverage some of the new features of Photoshop CS6.

Being able to create artistic images with Photoshop has never been easier with the new brushes and performance delivered in CS6. With the addition of Airbrush and Erodible tips, along with the mixer brush features, you can replicate real world art media and techniques inside of Photoshop. Whether you prefer pastels and oils, or watercolor and cartooning, Pete Collins, co-host of PhotoshopUserTV, will show you how to use the tools and techniques to begin to bring your vision to life.

In this in-depth Blender training video, you'll go through every step of the compositing process, from working with 3d and rendering, to tracked data from an external tracker like Syntheyes, to color correction and grading, it covers the gamut! When you walk away from this class, you'll have been introduced each of the core concepts needed to be a successful compositor, seamlessly integrating fully 3 dimensional CG into real footage

Brendon Burchard's High Performance Academy teaches you advanced achievement principles and strategies so that you can master your mind, energize your body and brain, become wildly more productive, and influence more people quickly and easily. This is a special edition of High Performance Academy, structured exclusively to incorporate the latest science and findings from Brendon Burchard's work and his new book, "The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive."

These screencasts come from Marakana's 4-dayPython Fundamentals Training Course which Simeon Franklin taught at Marakana headquarters in San Francisco in August 2011. This course covers the language itself, explains object-oriented as well as functional programming techniques, error handling, packaging, system and network programming, many of the Python extensions (libraries), as well as best practices.

With After Effects Version 7's support for a 32-bit workflow, the application continues to make inroads into the compositing workflow. Our After Effects professor is Mark Christiansen, author of "After Effects Studio Techniques". Christiansen will provide intermediate users with insights on how to get the most of of the tools in a production environment -- breaking down many of the tools and showing the best way to use them in a production environment. We've been huge fans of Christiansen since his book first came out, as it shows techniques and approaches which are applicable across all platforms -- and helps users of other software packages feel right at home in After Effects.

In this course,FXPHD covers the Avid Media Composer software, available on both Mac and Windows platforms, with a focus on Independent filmmaking and new media projects. In the first few courses, we take you from Final Cut – the standard tool for most Independent Filmmakers – into Avid – the standard in Hollywood. We will focus on the similarities and differences, with many, many examples.

One of the strengths of After Effects is its plug in architecture and offerings such as Trapcode Particular, Form, and Lux are workhorses of mograph artists.

For this project, we'll be creating a new animated show open in the style of programs such as "Top Chef", "Project Runway", and "Make Me a Supermodel".

One of our most popular professors, Tim Clapham from HYPA.tv, will be returning to explore the use of Adobe After Effects for the production of Motion Graphics. His projects will be enhanced with the use of the Red Giant Trapcode Suite and Magic Bullet Looks plugins which will be available free of charge for non-commercial purposes during the term. Members of the course will receive a time-limited license for these plugins -- without any kind of limitation watermark.