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Here are 77 great free After Effects Tutorials

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Scancafe is a web-based service that realizes auto correction techniques just can’t make the individual, subjective, image-specific decisions necessary to make images look their best. Face recognition is a step in the right direction, but until AI can determine exactly what is in a photograph, and make image specific decisions based on that understanding, human analysis will always win. Hence Dan Margulis’ Applied Color Theory in Photoshop classes continue to be worth the money.

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We got started as a Photoshop training company, and Adobe Photoshop is still the industry-standard for designing comps for the web. This page has a selection of 40 free tutorials on creating web layouts in Photoshop.

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This set of 100 free 64×64 pixel web icons is perfect for giving your website the Web 2.0 look. It’s by iconspedia.

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Adobe has added a new suite of tools for those involved in creating eLearning. It includes Adobe Captivate 4, Flash CS4 with the Free Learning Interactions, Dreamweaver CS4 with a compatible version of the CourseBuilder Extension, Photoshop CS4 Extended, Acrobat 9 Pro, Presenter 7, Soundbooth CS4, Bridge CS4, Device Central CS4 and a SCORM Packager.

We’ll be offering training on the new versions of Captivate shortly and will have special lessons on the Flash Learning Interactions and CourseBuilder Extension, as well as the SCORM packager available by special request.

List price on the Suite is $1799. Since Captivate and Presenter are Windows only products, this is a Windows only release.

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These free tutorials on digital photography include articles on:

• Understanding camera lenses (focal length and aperture)
• Understanding white balance
• Understanding dynamic range

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When you need arrows for a design, you need arrows. These are 64 free really sharp and nice arrow designs in Illustrator format, ready to go for your designs. If you like these, be sure to check out GoSquared’s complete set of free icons.

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This collection of shapes for Photoshop has people silhouettes, costumes and characters, skateboarders, girls, businessman and women, jumping people (a ka the iphone commercials), basketball players, presenter people silhouettes, sexy ladies, animals of all sorts, planes and boats, guns and weapons, Halloween shapes, trees, random shapes, arrows and more.

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These 25 free Photoshop tutorials for web designers include templates and all necessary .PSD files for everything from creating full web page templates, to navigation menus, headers and content boxes.

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If you still have Christmas Shopping to do, here are some pretty cool gift guides:

• Endgadget’s Holiday Gift Guide for Dad - A place to find gifts for geeky dads in all price ranges
• Make Holiday Gift Guide - Make Magazine’s primary gift guide contains inspiring gifts for kids of all ages
• Make Chemistry Gift Guide - Make Magazine’s gift guide celebrating chemistry and inspiring the next generation of chemists
• Make $20 Electronics Gift Guide - Make Magazine’s gift guide for electronic gifts costing $20 or less
• Scott Kelby’s Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide (2008) - A photography centric gear guide from Scott Kelby, prolific Mac and Photoshop author
• Uncle Mark Gift Guide & Almanac - A PDF file with a few interesting and exotic picks along with the standard iPhone, etc.

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