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Now available: Steve’s Photoshop Masking Webinar Recording
If you missed it live, no worries, check out the video on YouTube.
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...
Seattle Daylight Calculator
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 October 29.
Presenting The Course & Compendium Series
Written by our instructors Steve Laskevitch and Jason Hoppe 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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Adobe InDesign CC: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to build publications in InDesign. Just as in Steve's 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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Kindle Apple Books
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Our dear Jason Hoppe's Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features, like our Illustrator classes, takes you from the basics through strategizing the creation of sophisticated infographics.
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Kindle Apple Books
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Steve’s Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features guides you through 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.
Ben Goldsmith’s Adobe Premiere Pro: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features allows you to tell your story. Like Ben's Premiere Pro classes at Luminous Works, the book is a full curriculum from the basics of video editing through advanced but practical techniques.
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Once again, we're thinking of offering evening classes. Please, let us know what you'd like to see.