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10 More awesome Photoshop tutorials.

10 More awesome Photoshop tutorials.

Excel for Data Analysis and Visualization This is an Archived Course EdX keeps courses open for enrollment after they end to allow learners to explore content and continue learning. All features and materials may not be all available. Check back often to see when new course start dates are announced. Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used solutions for analyzing and visualizing data. Do you want to take your advanced Excel skills to the next level? Check out this practical new course, taught in short, lecture-based videos, complete with demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs, and skill up on many of the built-in business intelligence (BI) tools and features in Excel. ​ In this course, get an introduction to the latest versions of these new tools in Excel 2016.

How to Paint a Woman Portrait from Scratch How to write calligraphy -- core skills To learn how to write calligraphy, you need to be familiar with the three most basic calligraphy skills described (and illustrated) below. If you're already happy using a broad-edged nib, you might like my Gothic online tutorial (several pages including majuscules)Guidelines for italic calligraphy (two pages)Roman Rustic Capitals Calligraphy requires very few special items to start with. Luckily, too, they’re mostly simple and inexpensive: • A calligraphic writing tool such as a pen or brush • Ink, or similar • Paper (or another writing medium) • A smooth, hard, flat supporting surface • A seat at a comfortable height • Optional: a ruler and pencil (for lines to write along) It’s also an advantage to write your calligraphy on a sloping surface. Practising vital calligraphy skills Learning how to write calligraphy in the Western world means learning how to manipulate a ‘thick-and-thin’ effect which pleases the eye with a flowing, regular pattern. How to write calligraphy: the first skill

Favorite and Forget: 16 YouTube Channels to Unlock Your Creativity 1. Mark Crilley – How-to-draw videos on almost every topic you can imagine, from manga and anime styles to highly detailed photorealism. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. How to Create Vector Polygonal Background Quickly Using Adobe Illustrator and Web Based Tool – Triangulator Final Image Preview Polygonal Art Style became very popular over last year. It is often used in printing, designing T-shit, cell-phone backgrounds and websites. In our today's tutorial we will learn how to create quickly vector polygonal background with the help of web based tool and Adobe Illustrator. You can download the source vector file for this tutorial Program: Triangulator, Adobe Illustrator CS - CS6;Difficulty: beginner; Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes; I've recently written Illustrator tutorial devoted to the creation of polygonal style. Step 1 Before we begin, download Triangulator on the following link. Open this file in your browser. Step 2 Drag your selected photo into the "Drop your bitmap here" field. And now simply click on different places of your image with your cursor to create polygons. You also have an opportunity to move the created mesh nodes. You also can divide created polygons in parts by simply clicking on them. Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7

Build, Share, Download Fonts Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet How to Create a Polygonal Vector Mosaic That Will Wow Any Crowd In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a polygonal vector mosaic from raster images with the help of a free Triangulator web-based tool and Adobe Illustrator. To strengthen the visual affect, we’ll also create a reflection with the help of the Opacity Mask and a dropping shadow by using the radiant gradient and the Transparency panel. Let’s begin! Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5 – CC, TriangulatorDifficulty: IntermediateTopics Covered: Polygonal mosaicEstimated Completion Time: 45 minutes Final Image Step 1 For this tutorial, we need a web-based tool, which is called Triangulator that lets us convert bitmap images to vector art. Unzip the file, find the index.html file and open it in your browser. I recommend you to use Google Chrome for these purposes. Step 2 Now we need a raster image that we’ll convert into vector. Step 3 Drag your image to the drop zone as indicated in the picture below. Step 4 To create polygons, click on different places of our image. Step 5 Step 6

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