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In this tutorial, author Wojciech Pijecki will demonstrate how to create an eye-catching, eco-friendly shoe advertisement using several stock images.

Download Create an Eco-Friendly Shoe Advertisement (Adobe Photoshop)

Leverage the power of asynchronous server-to-browser “push” communication with Node.js and Socket.IO. With Socket.IO, you can allow your server to communicate with your browser clients without having to worry about browser support (HTML5 WebSockets, Flash, polling, etc.). This has many applications in modern web development, including chat rooms, real-time analytics, HTML5 games, etc. In this screencast, we will walk you through installing Socket.IO, the basics of using Socket.IO in your Node.js application, and an example application that “pushes” tweets from Twitter to your browser in real time. Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.

Download Diving into WebSockets (JavaScript & AJAX)

In the following tutorial you will learn to create a worms text effect in Adobe Illustrator. You can apply these techniques to various themes after working through this tutorial. Learn to create these creepy crawlers, made up of multiple segmented shapes, and colored highlight and shadow points. Then make them into art brushes and apply them to lettering.

This tutorial is written by Andrei Marius.

Download Create a Curvy, Worms Text Effect in Illustrator (Typography)

Over the course of this 6 day series. Artist Shray Khanna will guide you through the entire process of creating a next-gen, low poly vehicle using Maya and Photoshop.

Throughout the series, Shray covers the complete next-gen pipeline in detail. Starting off with low poly modeling in parts 1 & 2, and then moving onto uv mapping, high poly modeling, baking, and finally texture creation. This series is a must read for any artist interested in video game development and asset creation.

Tutorial Series Details

• Author: Shray Khanna

• Software: Autodesk Maya

• Software: Adobe Photoshop

• Software: xNormal (Free)

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Other Parts In This Series

• “Armored Car”

Download Next-Gen Armored Car: Part 5 Baking Maps (Autodesk Maya)

This tutorial deals with creating the look of Enhanced Night Vision Goggles from common source footage. I explain the theory behind it, look at some references, and show a fast workflow for completing the shot by making use of After Effects CS5 ’s roto brush tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvYxkxxhBgw

As always this tutorial can be followed without the need for any third-party plug-ins. The difficulty is intermediate from my pacing but more or less on a beginner’s level when viewed step by step.

Again, I mention and highlight keyboard shortcuts I use to speed up the work and have a few visual jokes thrown in as always.

Download Enhanced Night Vision Goggles – Ae Premium (After Effects)

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Successful Facebook Marketing

Whether you’re trying to build your personal business, build your personal brand, sell your product or forge your community, Successful Facebook Marketing helps you get results!

You’ll learn how to make an impressive Facebook page and find out how Facebook can lead to a huge source of traffic, sales and clients that most people don’t even know about.

From the author…

Hi! I’m Skellie, the author of Successful Facebook Marketing. I’ve been involved in web publishing for more than 10 years, and for the last four years I’ve been teaching people about how to get results with blogging and social media.

I direct Envato’s Tuts+ Network and its Facebook Pages, including the Psdtuts+ Page with its 30,937 fans… and counting!

I strongly believe more freelancers, entrepreneurs and website owners should know how powerful Facebook Pages can be. But unfortunately, most of the select few people who are ‘in the know’ don’t want to share this information. They want to hold on to their competitive advantage for as long as they can!

I realized that if I wanted other people to learn how to have success with Facebook, I would have to teach it myself.

So, I gave in, put my head down, and started to write…

The cutting-edge of social media marketing

I’ve learned that by making Facebook Pages a cornerstone of your social media strategy, you’ll be catapulted way ahead of the game. In my new book Successful Facebook Marketing, you’ll be given a complete blueprint for creating and growing a thriving Facebook Page for your brand, website or business.

This is information that Fortune 500 companies are paying social media consulting firms tens of thousands of dollars to share. You’ll learn all the strategies I used to co-ordinate a team to build and direct a network of 11 Facebook Pages with over 100,000 fans.

Facebook isn’t going anywhere. Knowing how to use the platform for your benefit is a skill that will be extremely useful to you, not only today, but in years to come.

So grab your copy and follow along as I walk you through the steps of Successful Facebook Marketing!

Download Successful Facebook Marketing (PDF, ePub, Mobi) (Business)

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DISCOUNTED for 4 days only!

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Successful Facebook Marketing

Whether you’re trying to build your personal business, build your personal brand, sell your product or forge your community, Successful Facebook Marketing helps you get results!

You’ll learn how to make an impressive Facebook page and find out how Facebook can lead to a huge source of traffic, sales and clients that most people don’t even know about.

From the author…

Hi! I’m Skellie, the author of Successful Facebook Marketing. I’ve been involved in web publishing for more than 10 years, and for the last four years I’ve been teaching people about how to get results with blogging and social media.

I direct Envato’s Tuts+ Network and its Facebook Pages, including the Psdtuts+ Page with its 30,937 fans… and counting!

I strongly believe more freelancers, entrepreneurs and website owners should know how powerful Facebook Pages can be. But unfortunately, most of the select few people who are ‘in the know’ don’t want to share this information. They want to hold on to their competitive advantage for as long as they can!

I realized that if I wanted other people to learn how to have success with Facebook, I would have to teach it myself.

So, I gave in, put my head down, and started to write…

The cutting-edge of social media marketing

I’ve learned that by making Facebook Pages a cornerstone of your social media strategy, you’ll be catapulted way ahead of the game. In my new book Successful Facebook Marketing, you’ll be given a complete blueprint for creating and growing a thriving Facebook Page for your brand, website or business.

This is information that Fortune 500 companies are paying social media consulting firms tens of thousands of dollars to share. You’ll learn all the strategies I used to co-ordinate a team to build and direct a network of 11 Facebook Pages with over 100,000 fans.

Facebook isn’t going anywhere. Knowing how to use the platform for your benefit is a skill that will be extremely useful to you, not only today, but in years to come.

So grab your copy and follow along as I walk you through the steps of Successful Facebook Marketing!

Download Successful Facebook Marketing (Business)

We’re going to design a clean interface, created with the Flash Tools, which we’ll use along with ActionScript and XML to develop a Quiz application capable of loading images, text and sounds.

Tutorial author: Carlos Yanez

Download Create a Customizable Flash Quiz Application (ActionScript)

A 40minute video tutorial, explaining how to make a powerful and strong illustration of a burning flower in Photoshop!

The video is 1200×900 resolution, so you can see everything that’s going on (preview is widescreen) clearly.

Through this 40 minute video tutorial, I’ll take you from a normal photograph, to a fantastic fiery result. We’ll be using different techniques to both create flames, but also manipulate flames from photographs, using filters to keep in the flower detail, and brushes to add embers!

You also get the same PSD file that I worked on in the tutorial, so you can see exactly what goes on, follow along, or make it yourself! (note: download file is slightly lower resolution)

The following topics are covered:

• Creating fire from a stroke effect.
• Adding fire from stock photography.
• Using the Puppet Warp tool.
• Using different filters to add detail in a fiery way.
• Custom brushes to add embers.
• And more!

Music in preview courtesy of Alexander Blu (http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/946)

Download Fire Flower – Video Tutorial (Photo Manipulation)

JavaScript is relatively easy to learn. However, gotchas abound in this tricky language. Are you sure that you’re not following any bad practices? Today, I’ll point out ten big mistakes you could be making.

This purchase includes a full written tutorial, as well as an in depth video overview of each mistake.

Download The 11 JavaScript Mistakes You’re Making (JavaScript & AJAX)

Björgvin Benediktsson teaches you how to give life to a DIed bass track. While the screenshots for this tutorial are taken in Logic Pro, the content is not Logic-centric and is equally useful and valuable in any software that deals with sequenced music.

“Dealing with low end can be tricky sometimes. Especially if you’ve recorded it in a way that might limit your options. Many famous producers opt to only record their bass direct, skipping the whole miking-the-cabinet step altogether. However, sometimes that DI sound isn’t the best you might have hoped for. It might have sounded pretty good during recording but when it comes time to mix it’s kind of lacking compared to the other instruments.

But don’t worry, there are certainly a few ways you can mix your bass in order to salvage a sub-par bass sound. We’ll be looking at ways to fake that amplifier sound using plug-ins, using multi-band compression to target specific bass heavy areas, as well as giving it some subtle space.”

Table of Contents

• Making the Most of a Recording
• Getting Rid of that DI sound
• Compression for a Steady Sound
• Making the Bass Bassy but not Boomy
• Adding Space
• Conclusion

Download How to Make Your DIed Bass Guitar Sound Better (Production)

A 40minute video tutorial, explaining how to go from a normal photograph with normal hair, to a blazing world of fire.

The video is 1200×900 resolution, so you can see everything that’s going on (preview is widescreen) clearly.

Through this 40 minute video tutorial, I’ll take you from a normal photograph, to a fantastic blazing result. Not only are we adding fire, but also keeping part of the original detail in the hair, for a truly unique look!
Video is explained in enough detail, that even fairly new people to Photoshop (as long as they know the very basics) should be able to follow it, if they just concentrate a bit.

You also get the same PSD file that I worked on in the tutorial, so you can see exactly what goes on, follow along, or make it yourself! (note: download file is watermarked on the body, and slightly lower resolution)

The following topics are covered:

• Masking our the hair.
• Quick Selection Tool and Mask Edge Tool.
• Colour Correction.
• Adding fire.
• Channel Selection.
• Warp Tool.
• Liquify Tool.
• Puppet Warp Tool.
• And more!

Music in preview courtesy of Alexander Blu (http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/946)

Download Fire Hair – Video tutorial (Photo Manipulation)

In this very detailed Audio Premium tutorial, Mike Elliott shows you step-by-step how to get the best performance out of your Windows-powered workstation. The tutorial includes general maintenance tips suitable for all users, and some great tweaks for those who want complete mastery over their computer.

Ever wonder why your computer gets audio dropouts? Worse yet getting audio dropouts while recording!? Well, in a world dominated by Macs there are those who still stand by their PCs but may need a little bit of help getting their computers up to snuff. If this sounds like you then read on as we tackle drivers, IRQs, DPC latency, system maintenance, and a host of other things audio computers face in the modern world. Tweaking in excitement? Then lets tweak!

This tutorial assumes you will be using Windows Vista or Windows 7 as your primary OS. Some of the tweaks presented in this tutorial are very simple and harmless where as others could be detrimental to your computer if you do not know exactly what you are doing. In addition, the exact execution of some of the more advanced tweaks will vary depending on your computer. To help those who would deal one and not the other, this tutorial will separated into two large chapters, General Maintenance and Under the Hood. Remember every system is a little different so not every scenario can be written out; discretion is advised. Tweak at your own risk.

Table of Contents

• General Computer Maintenance
• Startup Programs and Background Processes
• File Maintenance and System Priority
• Helpful Software
• Under the Hood
• Device Manager
• Device Drivers
• IRQs
• DPC Latency Checker
• Conclusion

Download PC Maintenance and Audio Tweaks (Software)

Smart Objects are very powerful layers in Photshop. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a wine bottle and wine glass using Smart Objects as well as demonstrate their benefits.

Download Create a Wine Bottle and Glass with Smart Objects (Adobe Photoshop)

This is a talk which Jesse Freeman gave at RIA Unleashed in Boston. It’s about advanced blitting for desktop, web and mobile. In it, he looks closely at inspiration which he doesn’t often get to talk about during day-to-day work.

Download Pushing Pixels Presentation (Workflow)