In this 90 minute tutorial, Alexis Van Hurkman walks you through a wide variety of techniques he uses as a professional colorist to create stylized visual treatments. Designed for students with a basic understanding of DaVinci Resolve, this tutorial eschews a paint-by-numbers approach, instead providing an informal exploration of how to customize the types of looks frequently asked for by clients to create grades that are unique to the project at hand. The emphasis here is on the colorist's creative process, rather then detailed technical instruction.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an all-in-one photo management, photo editing, and photo sharing tool. In this course, Mikkel Aaland, professional photographer and one of earliest Lightroom beta testers, will show you how to manage your workflow to get in, get out, and get back to shooting as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We’ve all seen banners on the Internet; they’re more common than pictures of cats with bread on their heads. If you’re a designer and you’ve been tasked with creating a banner, there’s a lot more too it than just throwing a few elements into place. Your banner has to be effective, accomplish the task at hand and look good. Gary Simon has all the details on how to make the perfect banner, and he’ll walk you through it in this course. Soon you’ll be making powerful banners in no time flat!

Adobe InDesign CS6: Advanced picks up where the Beginner course left off. Long-time VTC author Brian White introduces you to InDesign's advanced features which will take your knowledge of the software to the next level. The course begins with a thorough look at text, graphic, and special-effect features before progressing through the creation of tables and long documents. Brian then shifts into InDesign's powerful interactive features. Starting with the new PDR interactive forms, the course then covers interactive PDF & SWF. The chapter on the Digital Publishing Suite shows you how to get a publication created for the iPad. The course then concludes with an introduction to e-pub documents. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

In this tutorial we will cover multiple techniques that artists can use to create environment thumbnails.

For concept artists, it is important to be able to quickly come up with numerous ideas. In addition, you also need those ideas to be strong and creative as well. In these lessons we will cover different techniques to jump-start creativity and increase work speed.

In this series of tutorials we will follow a step by step process for creating futuristic menus in Illustrator.

It’s time to take full control over your DVD or Blu-ray. Learn how to work with Adobe Encore CS6 and master the technical possibilities of authoring. From start to finish, Jordy will walk you through producing a professional DVD project.

In this video for 3ds max we’ll work to understand how to obtain a hires simulation and how to optimize it using post processing.

In this video for 3ds max we’ll take a look at using VRay to render a realistic tire/wheel with additional layers as dust over.

Designing a CD Cover with author Nigel French shows how to design a CD package using a combination of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, and Acrobat. This course looks at the range of CD package formats available, surveys some of the most successful CD and record covers of all time, and provides hands-on practical information for how to set up the project, and ultimately, how to get it printed. Exercise files are included with the course.