Per Washington State Governor Jay Inlee's announcement on November 15, we cannot hold in-person classes until December 14. The details of the announcement can be read in this PDF.
We'll miss you until then! Stay safe and healthy. In the meantime, we still offer...
Enjoy two weeks unlimited access to well-indexed video versions of some of our courses.
Like you, we're being flexible in these trying times
When possible during COVID,
4 students max in-person
Muscle memory matters, too
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What was it about? Well, Photoshop users learn early that erasure is an act that leads to regret. But the program has as many ways to hide stuff as a Cold War-era spy. Rocky Nook, the publisher of Steve’s Photoshop: Course & Compendium book (shown below), hosted this masking webinar with Steve. Spend an hour learning masking methods you might need but don't know. Look for the guy in the Panama fedora...
How much daylight does Seattle get this time of year? Or any day of the year? Steve made an interactive infographic so you can know for any date of your choosing! Visit Seattle Daylight Calculator, scroll to the bottom and input any date of the year.
Jason will be teaching basic Data Viz with Adobe Illustrator on December 10.
Written by our instructors Steve Laskevitch, Jason Hoppe, and Ben Goldsmith and published by Rocky Nook, the books in this new series contain a full course and a comprehensive reference. The step-by-step lessons, based on Luminous Works' curriculum, cover the software's features in practical contexts and demonstrate best practices and workflows. After completing either a book's course or one here at Luminous Works, the Compendium will serve for years as a trusted reference.
your local bookseller may have or can get them for you!
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Your guide to building publications in InDesign. Just like his InDesign classes, Steve's book teaches you the procedures needed to professionally create engineering proposals, marketing collateral, newsletters, books, and more.
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Our dear Jason Hoppe's book, like our Illustrator classes, takes you from the basics through strategizing the creation of sophisticated infographics.
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Steve’s guide to editing images and creating designs in Photoshop. Like our Photoshop classes, you'll start with basic color correction and retouching and advance through advanced composite images.
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Ben Goldsmith’s upcoming book allows you to tell your story. Like Ben's Premiere Pro classes at Luminous Works, his book is a full curriculum from the basics of video editing through advanced and practical techniques and has a comprehensive reference as well.
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