Create a fresh beautiful website or blog using WordPress. In this 3-day course you'll learn how to get your photos online quickly and easily using the popular WordPress platform. Learn the basics of building a site using free or custom themes to create an amazing showcase of art & inspiration. You don't have to be a web designer to use WordPress - it's that easy!

What happens when celebrated photographer Jasmine Star teams up with creativeLIVE for a online wedding photography course? Stay tuned for all the details, but plan for one epic event!

Multi-Platinum recording artist Pete Sears provides step by step instructions showing chords, scales, modes Progressions and music theory, providing users with a solid foundation for their journey into playing the piano. In Pete Sears 41 years as a professional musician, Pete has played Keyboards, Bass Guitar, or both with a large variety of artists including playing piano on the classic Rod Stewart albums, "Gasoline alley", "Every Picture Tells a Story", "Never a Dull Moment" and "Smiler", as well as the singles "Reason To Believe" and "Maggie May". Pete also played both Bass and Keyboards as a member of Jefferson Starship from 1974 to 1987.

In this collection of lessons we will learn about the different methods of moving artwork back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop. We will get started by learning how to place files into both Illustrator and Photoshop. Next we will compare this workflow with both the copy and paste method as well as the drag and drop technique for moving artwork back and fourth. Along the way we will learn about smart objects, paths as well as shape layers and how we can work with each in Photoshop. We will also learn how Illustrator can open, import and receive pixel based artwork. To wrap things up, we will examine a workflow that will allow us to bring a layered Illustrator file into Photoshop without rasterizing our vector objects. After completing this course, you should have a good grasp over how these two powerful programs can pass artwork back and fourth to achieve top notch results on a project.

This new production-based course taught by Mike James will be focus on two projects. The first half of the course will cover the techniques used to produce over ten matte paintings of G-Deck for the Red Dwarf Back to Earth mini-series. For the second half, we'll create a completely new 2.5D matte painting with a camera move from concept to finishing.

With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, you can realize intelligent web-based collaboration solutions for workgroups and enterprises. This practical book is for system administrators, system architects, developers and decision makers. The book analyzes the problems of current IT environments and describes the optimization options with the current version of Microsoft SharePoint.

This course first ran in our April09 Term, but still contains a ton of great tips and techniques. We know many of you weren't part of fxphd back then, so we're running this repeat from the archives.

The video game industry continues to thrive and grow at an alarming rate, and is swiftly becoming the most obvious option for employment for anyone in the CG industry. This set of tutorials provides an opportunity for anyone trying to get into the business by talking them through the creation of a basic game level, and shows you how to create a portfolio piece that would impress any potential employer. Using the Unreal Development Kit UK based artist Andrew Finch talks us through the entire process of creating a level, from downloading the free software and choosing its settings, to importing and texturing accessories. This really is a must have for anyone interested in the games industry.

This material is based on the Video Tutorials Thinking Particles 3.0-4.0, found in the vast site Cebas, YouTube, encompassing both standard techniques, and advanced levels of everyday work tasks. Also includes new features and Thinking Particles 4.0. There are sample files and scripts.

Flash CS4 Professional Getting Started explores the many creative projects made possible by this powerful and flexible tool. Todd Perkins demonstrates the updated interface and explains Flash fundamentals, including drawing tools, objects, and symbols. He shows how to work with vectors, bitmaps, audio, and video. Both new and established animation features are explored, including bones, shape and motion tweens, and the Flash Timeline. Todd also introduces Actionscript 3.0 and some of the ways it can be used to add interactivity to a project. Example files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Understanding the FLA, SWF, and FLV file types
Creating and saving custom workspaces
Merging objects and other drawing methods
Using motion presets and the motion editor