A sketch is a great starting place, but lighting, color, and detail are what take your illustrations to the next level. In this course, Von Glitschka shows you how to use lighting effects, colors, and a great variety of detailing methods to your designs with Adobe Illustrator. Along the way, Von reveals his insights on the creative process and shares creative works that demonstrate the techniques he’s teaching.

Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 is a feature-packed design and documentation solution for civil engineering, design, and surveying. By mastering the best-in-class tools within Civil 3D, you can boost your efficiency and effectiveness as a civil engineer, surveyor, or designer. In this course, Eric Chappell helps you get up and running with this powerful software, showing how to use most of the tools in Civil 3D as you work through a project: a new

By themselves, architectural visualization projects can seem stale. Adding people to the renderings adds personality and a sense of realism to the images. In this course, George Maestri shows viewers how to work with 2D and 3D assets to add humans to an architectural scene. George steps you through the process of creating and rigging a character in 3ds Max and points you to some online sources where you can choose models for your project.

Discover how to be the best Adobe Photoshop user you know. This comprehensive, project-based course is the second in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke doesn't just talk about the advanced features in Photoshop—he ties each concept to a clearly defined task, ensuring that you close out each chapter with a practical understanding of how things really work. Deke dives into the selection commands, including Color Range,

Learn the essential tools and techniques to create expressive art and designs with CorelDRAW, the powerful graphics application. Roger Wambolt, senior product trainer at Corel, eases in with an exploration of the interface and touches on the major players in the toolbox: the Pick, Shape, Crop, Curve, and Interactive tools, as well as the intelligent drawing tools. Then, once you know how to draw simple lines and shapes, he shows how to work with

Learning the basics of model building in Revit is mostly quick and easy. The essentials of core elements such as walls, floor, and roofs are accessible and fairly intuitive. For more unique and specialized design challenges, discovering appropriate tools and techniques can be more challenging. Many advanced modeling techniques are available, and some are more obvious and intuitive than others. In this course, Paul F. Aubin dives deep into the

AutoCAD 2022 is a powerful designing and drafting software used to create precise 2D and 3D designs. In this course, Shaun Bryant shows how to go beyond the basics covered in Learning AutoCAD and AutoCAD 2022 Essential Training. Shaun covers how to use workspaces, including model space and paper space, as well as setting up layouts and using annotations in paper space. After completing this course, you'll be prepared to use AutoCAD competently

Our world is filled with cool products, designed by talented and skilled creatives. Unity is a real-time rendering tool that is ideal for showcasing great product designs and ideas. In this course, designer Alan Thorn demonstrates step by step how to use Unity to comprehensively previsualize a retro-style coffee maker in an interactive way. Alan shows how to build the coffee maker from start to finish in Unity, and test out different features

Discover OpenBuildings Designer, the BIM software for architects and professional building modelers. This introductory course focuses on 3D modeling in OpenBuildings Designer, teaching concepts through a fun example building: a transportation station. Though the building design is relatively simple, it has some unique design elements, including a custom platform roof canopy.

If you’ve completed a few Camtasia projects and have a firm grasp on the fundamentals, take your skill set up a notch with this advanced techniques course. Instructor and elearning expert Corbin Anderson dives into Camtasia to help you expand your elearning and editing skills. Corbin explores concepts like optimizing your workflow, advanced editing techniques, fixing cursor jumps, customizing masks, and sharing your project