Based in Sydney Australia, John Dickinson is a cutting-edge motion graphics artist who is in demand. As Senior Broadcast Designer at Foxtel, ambassador and presenter for Adobe Australia and demo artist for Zaxwerks and Red Giant Software, John delivers highly creative yet commercially relevant motion graphics solutions. With Motionworks, John combines 12 years of industry experience with a proven teaching ability to provide high quality learning resources that encourage and challenge participants to break through to new levels of excellence and impact in their work.

We'll make some cool vfx experiments to give particular a fire look In After Effects ! No fire image or video footage used, only custom shapes created from scratch on After Effects, used as custom particles.

There's nothing people love more than lists, and Photoshop Top 40 offers a great one, highlighting the best features in Photoshop. Deke McClelland counts down to number 1 with a new video each week, detailing one great feature after another in this popular digital imaging application. The videos cover tools, commands, and concepts, emphasizing what's really important in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended: Essentials is learning the way it needs to be; informative and engaging, with fast results. This series is ideal for the beginning user to learn the essentials of Photoshop, and to get up to speed on all of the major features of this powerful image editing software. It is also perfect for the intermediate user who needs to upgrade to this new version of Photoshop, or has skipped a version, and needs to learn the new features and interface enhancements of this latest iteration.

After Effects Fast Forward is presented in 11 individual lessons with a running time of just over 3 hours. The tutorial also includes project files for following along in After Effects CS4 and CS5. Each lesson focuses on building fundamental After Effects skills such as setting up a comp, animating with keyframes, using cameras and lights, creating mattes, pre-composing, working with layered illustrator files and much more!