The Essential Rock Guitar Volume 1 contains 101 Lessons with over 5 hours of video guitar lessons with Rock Guitar master Harris Van Berkel. Each of the 101 Riffs is a full 3-4 minute video lesson, with the riff transcribed in notation and TAB. Watch the notation and TAB on-screen or printout for further study. The notation and tab scrolls along in sync with the video, so you can analyze them together. Includes Band-in-a-Box files so that you can practice the riff chorus with a rhythm section.

In this DVD Hristo Velev starts from the very beginning by explaining what Thinking Particles actually is and then begins to build upon a solid foundation of theory and technical knowledge of the program. From there Hristo goes through an extensive set of basic concepts to guide you through the massive amount of features in TP4. During that time he creates several practical effects that are very useful in production. After the basic concepts are covered he then goes through creating an entire project from start to finish to help you understand the entire process. With over 9 hours of training this DVD will help you understand Thinking Particles and start creating amazing effects.

Scott Kelby is the editor and publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Layers magazine (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe and President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). And is President of the software training, education, and publishing firm Kelby Media Group. In Part 1, learn professional techniques for making your subjects look their very best using Adobe Photoshop. In Part 2 of this course, Scott goes over some more retouching techniques, including how to soften skin, add skin contrast, touch up clothing and backgrounds, remove blemishes, and alter the nose of your subject.

Learn professional techniques for making your subjects look their very best using Adobe Photoshop.

In Part 1 of this series well take a complete look at modeling and unwrapping a hard-surface prop. Well start by creating a high poly version of this bomb case game asset. Then well easily make the low poly model using quick modifier stack shortcuts taken while modeling the high res version. Next, we will discuss the UV unwrapping process and explain the important relationship between Normal maps, UV unwrapping and Smoothing groups.

Part 2 will begin right where Part 1 left off as the baking and texturing process gets underway for our asset. Combined, Part 1 and 2 offer nearly 7 hours of high quality asset creation instruction. Don’t miss out, start watching now.