Skillshare Courses

Making A Hero: Protagonist Development for Film & Fiction

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Stories are about people, not happenings: build a protagonist through five questions about desire, change, stakes, obstacles, and why readers care.

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• 27 minutes
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Video Editing: Make ANY VIDEO look LIKE A MOVIE in Premiere Pro

Make any video look cinematic in Premiere Pro: fake anamorphic lenses, set a film aspect ratio, grade with LUTs, and add chromatic aberration and optics distortion.

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• 20 minutes
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Aperture: Create Dramatic Blur in your Portraits

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Choose the right aperture for creamy out-of-focus portrait backgrounds: understand f/stops, control depth of field and bokeh, and use equivalent exposure for correct exposure.

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• 24 minutes
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Digital Illustration: Learn to Use Procreate 5

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Create an animated illustration while learning Procreate 5’s Animation Assist, custom brushes, color tools, and workflow shortcuts.

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• 2 hours 29 minutes
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Painting Faces with the Power of Photoshop

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Learn to digitally paint realistic human faces in Photoshop through proportions, lighting, skin tones, facial features, and multiple portrait projects.

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• 3 hours 30 minutes
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Creating Organic Abstract Patterns in Adobe Photoshop

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Generate organic abstract patterns with Photoshop smart filters and Smart Objects, edit seams into seamless repeats, define pattern presets, and save artwork for print and web.

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• 1 hour 32 minutes
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Procreate Practice: Creating and Illustrating With Texture Overlays

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Create texture overlays in Procreate and by hand with paints and markers, import them, then layer and apply them to elements, backgrounds, and whole illustrations.

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• 1 hour 10 minutes
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Society6 for iPad Artists and Designers: Sizes, Orientations, and Shareable Mockups

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Set up and fill a Society6 print-on-demand shop entirely from an iPad: product sizes and orientations, high-resolution exports, repeat patterns, and Procreate mockups.

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• 2 hours 35 minutes
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Color Grading: Introduction with a Pro Colorist

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Learn to see images like a colorist: grading vocabulary, color correction versus grading, waveform monitors, primaries and secondaries, and DaVinci Resolve basics.

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• 1 hour 34 minutes
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Map Making: Learn to Communicate Places Beautifully

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Map the world creatively: draw maps by hand, invent an imaginary city, study printed map inspiration, and explore digital mapping tools and a peek at Illustrator.

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• 1 hour 25 minutes
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Copywriting for Beginners Part 1 of 3: Seven Vital Questions

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Learn what copywriting is and use seven vital questions to research products, understand prospects, and plan effective promotional copy.

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• 1 hour 12 minutes
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Create an Ocean Loop in Cinema 4D and After Effects

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Build a seamlessly looping cinematic ocean animation: simulate water with the free Hot4D plugin, animate the camera, add fog and reflection-only lighting, then finish in After Effects.

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• 1 hour 20 minutes
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German Language for Beginners - Unit 1 - Meeting, greeting, introducing & more

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Start speaking German: greet people, introduce yourself and others, say where you are from, use W-words, numbers 0–12, and the present tense.

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• 1 hour 17 minutes
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Cafe Photography for Instagram: Telling Visual Stories with Emotional Cafe Photos

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Shoot moody café and coffee shop lifestyle photos for Instagram: scout Instagrammable cafés, prepare shoots, choose gear, and use lighting, composition, and editing to set mood.

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• 50 minutes
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Digital Painting: How to Color a Character like a Pro

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Step-by-step digital painting workflow for coloring a character with layered shadows, multiple light sources, and finishing touches.

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• 39 minutes
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