November 2020

Boris FX Optics – My Favorite New Photoshop Plugin for PHOTOS!

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In this video, I show you how to…
• Quickly warp your image and add camera light leaks to it.
• Transform your photos into dramatic landscapes with realistic lightning.
• Add a variety of realistic gun muzzle flashes to the end of a gun barrel.
• Create customizable vintage, video interference images with just one click.

Check out my video overview of Optics: https://youtu.be/2nK-kAZ_ST4

Boris FX Optics is the BEST 3rd party plug-in for Photoshop I’ve ever used. Optics is widely used by leading digital effects artists in some of Hollywood’s biggest films, including Marvel & DC. Optics contains 160 stunning visual effects including 75 legendary Sapphire plug-ins with thousands of customizable presets. It’s easy to use, fun and gives you complete control of every filter.
• Light filters – Flawlessly simulate natural and synthetic lights with the legendary Sapphire lighting effects.
• Render filters – Enhance your work with textures, lightning, advanced gradients, clouds and sky generators, and grunge effects with Sapphire Render.
• Blur and Defocus filters – Create fast and realistic in-camera blurs and digital beauty treatments with Sapphire blur and defocus effects.
• Stylize filters – Build color grades, damage looks, and other high-quality video treatments with the Sapphire stylize effects.
• 294 color and black and white still photographic film stocks, motion picture films stocks and historical photographic processes
• 89 color grading presets from Academy Award nominated movies including 2001 A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Frankenstein, Gone with the Wind, King Kong, Saving Private Ryan and Titanic
• 159 stylized color and black and white looks
• Sophisticated but easy to use masking tools
• Gestural stroke based masking
• Gradient, Spot, Path, Snap, EZ Mask, Selection and Paint mask types
• Combine multiple masks using blend modes
• Viewer resolution preview controls allow fast preview of effects on highest resolution projects.
• Variation and seed generators on effect parameters produce limitless variations.
• Non-destructive workflow for ultimate flexibility. Can be applied as a Photoshop Smart Filter to make unlimited changes.
• Batch processing in the Optics standalone application to apply effects and looks to large image libraries.

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Design in the Dark with Andrew Hochradel and Hoodzpah Design – 2 of 2

Join Andrew Hochradel and guests Amy and Jennifer Hood from Hoodzpah Design as they go head to head, creating a brand based on your suggestions in just one hour. You get to be the art director and see if they can complete the challenge!

Guest Amy and Jennifer Hood are twins as well as co-founders of Hoodzpah Design, a branding firm for design-driven companies based out of southern CA :

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Host Andrew Hochradel is a freelance brand identity designer based in Southern California: https://www.behance.net/hochdotco
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Join us LIVE on Behance: https://www.behance.net/adobelive

XD Daily Creative Challenge – Fall Foliage Finder

Challenge: Design a fall foliage finder that shows users where they can find colorful foliage throughout the year. Use a slider to visualize changes per season.
Get the starter file here: https://bit.ly/xddcc10-26-6

Join your host every afternoon at 2:00pm PT to learn how to approach each challenge using Adobe XD. Complete 9 challenges by Friday, November 6th and you’ll be on your way to sharpening your skills. Get your questions answered, see what the community is creating and get feedback on your work – see you there!

To sign up and get started, go to: https://www.behance.net/challenge/xd