Design your Career I. – Getting into Design

Photoshop seminar – 1. Choose your Career from Martin Perhiniak on Vimeo.

Have you always been interested in Photoshop and all the cool things you can do with it? Have you always been dreaming of a creative job where you would be using Photoshop all the time and working on exciting and fun projects? From this seminar you will be able to learn everything you need to know about all the creative professions using Photoshop as their main tool. Martin Perhiniak will teach you lots of useful techniques on this seminar while explaining the differences between these professions. This is the first session of a 3-part series about the three steps to find jobs in the creative industry.

Design your Career II. – How to Build Your Portfolio

Photoshop seminar – 2. How to Find a Creative Job from Martin Perhiniak on Vimeo.

The most important asset you have as a designer is your portfolio. It is the real deal. Your portfolio tells more about you and your design skills than any qualifications or certificates. That is why it is so important to build it and present it well online and face to face on interviews. Martin Perhiniak will share all his special techniques he used for his portfolio and on interviews, which helped him to work on design projects for Disney, Pixar, Cartoon Network, Mattel, Sony Pictures, Electronic Arts, etc. at the age of 26. This is the second session of a 3-part series about the three steps to find jobs in the creative industry.

Design your Career III. – A Day in a Designer’s Life

Photoshop Seminar – 3. A Day in a Designer’s Life – Timesavers from Martin Perhiniak on Vimeo.

Once you start working as a designer you will have to cope with several difficulties every day. The biggest one is to be able to deliver creative ideas with tight deadlines. How can you be creative when there is a time pressure? How can you deliver great designs without having time to properly prepare for a project? What suits you better; being a full-time designer working in a team, or being a freelancer working on your own? What are the best practices in Photoshop that can save you a lot of time every day working with tight deadlines? These and many other similar questions will be answered on this seminar by Martin Perhiniak, who have been working as a full-time and freelance designer for many years and he will share some of his best kept Photoshop timesaver secrets for the first time. This is the last session of a 3-part series about the three steps to find jobs in the creative industry.

Krop

Design Jobs Board

We are Source

Brand Republic

Gumtree

Adzuna

Simply Hired

UX Jobs Board

Total Jobs

Print Week Jobs

Reed

Creative Pool

Creative Match

Mad Jobs

Design Week

The Drum

Creative Boom

Dezeen Jobs

Career Jet

Getting an Adobe Certification Interview

ACE Exam Guide Photoshop CS6

The exam has two parts:
• 50 multiple-choice questions, covering a range of topics listed below
• A short survey that we use to gather information about your product experience
Please note that the survey must be completed to qualify for earning the certification. The certification
exam has a time limit of 55 minutes, and includes a timer to mark the remaining time.

Exam scoring

The certification consists of achieving the minimum passing score, which is 60%, on a multiple choice
test. After completing the test, candidates will be immediately provided with the official score for the
exam. They will also recieve an email with the official exam result.

Bridge basics

How to use Bridge

10 reasons why should you use Bridge

Bridge seminar

Camea RAW seminar

Camera RAW basics

Introduction to the Photoshop Interface

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop

Knowing the Photoshop Interface

Making Selections

Comprehensive guide to Selections in Photoshop

Natural Selections

How to Make Fast but Precise Selections

Selecting Hair is Easy

Introduction to Layers

Photoshop Layers

Blending Modes

Smart Objects

Smart ways to use Smart Objects

Secrets of the Layers Panel part 1

Secrets of the Layers Panel part 2

Introduction to Masking

Understanding how Masking works

Advanced Masking

How to Work With Vector Masks in Photoshop

Introduction to Adjustments

Adjustment Layers

Adjustment basics

Use Vector Masks for Adjustments

Introduction to Retouching in Photoshop

Portrait Retouch seminar

Merging Layers seminar

HDR Photography

The Secrets of Retouching tools part 1

The Secrets of Retouching tools part 2

The Secrets of Retouching tools part 3

The Secrets of Retouching tools part 4

The Secrets of Retouching tools part 5

Be More Efficient With Layer Styles

Using the Pen tool

Hidden Features of the Pen tool

Using Paragraph and Character Styles in Photoshop

The Timeline panel in Photoshop

Digital Image Theory

Saving for the Web and JPEG files

I know how much you guys like to test your knowledge of Photoshop. In this 10-part series I will test your skills with some tough questions that you might find on the Adobe Certification Exam. Please take a moment to complete this 10-part quiz and see if you’ve got what it takes to pass our test! Good luck!

I’m happy to share all that I know about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 with you through hundreds of video tutorials on macProVideo.com. I was asked to make a comprehensive series about Lightroom 4 and I decided to teach all the features by going through first the basics and then talk about more advanced stuff in 3 popular topics: Portrait, Landscape and Wedding photography. Good news is that the first course is completely free to watch and all the others are very cheap to download. You should also consider to subscribe to macProVideo.com as they have plenty of amazing courses available. I hope you will find my Lightroom series useful and interesting. Enjoy

Lightroom 4 provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments to cutting-edge advanced controls. In this FREE course Adobe Design Master and Instructor Martin Perhiniak guide you through the new powerful features of Lightroom 4. Every photographer needs three things: quick and flexible editing tools to make every photo the best it can be, a great organization system to sort through their images and ways to get their best images out into the world. Lightroom 4 offers all this and much more, making it the top choice for veterans and enthusiastic amateurs alike!

Building an effective photo library is an important asset to every professional photographer. Join Adobe Master Instructor Martin Perhiniak as he shows you how to construct and develop your library using Lightroom 4.
What are the benefits of having an organized photo library? Where does Lightroom 4 fit in with the Adobe software product family? Why use Lightroom versus Adobe Bridge?…Photoshop? Why use Camera RAW files? What are DNG files? This 50-plus video course, by Adobe Certified Instructor Martin Perhiniak, reveals all the answers.

Do you want to push every photo you take to maximum perfection? Let Adobe Design Master and Instructor Martin Perhiniak show you how in this 40-tutorial course on Adobe Lightroom 4.
Taking a great photo is one thing, but turning it into a masterpiece is something quite different. If you enjoy perfecting your photos, you’ll be thrilled by the digital editing techniques that Martin Perhiniak demonstrates in Lightroom 4. Building on the foundations that he has laid in his previous courses, Martin reinforces your basic knowledge of the Develop Module while enhancing it with sharp, professional tips and tricks.

Learn professional techniques from photographer and Adobe trainer, Martin Perhiniak, as he enhances Objects, Portraits and People in this advanced 36-tutorial course exploring the state-of-the-art features of Lightroom 4…
First things first… You’ve got to get your shots into Lightroom, right? That’s why Martin begins this course with a short, refresher section on photo file formats and organization strategies used in the current versions of both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw.

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Learning all one needs to know about applications using MacProVideo has always been my favorite method. No need to go to classes at specific hours and sit in with people that are not at the same level and often take up all the teachers time. Watching MPV is fun, educative and best of all you can have the teacher repeat a thousand times the same thing without being thrown out of the class. I found Martin Perhiniak particularly interesting to listen to with a friendly and caring tone of voice. I look forward to buying his next module.
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Have you always been interested in Photoshop and all the cool things you can do with it? Have you always been dreaming of a creative job where you would be using Photoshop all the time and working on exciting and fun projects? Join me on the 28th September 2012 for the Designer Fiesta brought to you by the UK’s leading Adobe Authorised Training Centre – Academy Class in London Waterloo.

Have you always been interested in Photoshop and all the cool things you can do with it? Have you always been dreaming of a creative job where you would be using Photoshop all the time and working on exciting and fun projects? From this seminar you will be able to learn everything you need to know about all the creative professions using Photoshop as their main tool. Martin Perhiniak will teach you lots of useful techniques on this seminar while explaining the differences between these professions. This is the first session of a 3-part series about the three steps to find jobs in the creative industry.

The most important asset you have as a designer is your portfolio. It is the real deal. Your portfolio tells more about you and your design skills than any qualifications or certificates. That is why it is so important to build it and present it well online and face to face on interviews. Martin Perhiniak will share all his special techniques he used for his portfolio and on interviews, which helped him to work on design projects for Disney, Pixar, Cartoon Network, Mattel, Sony Pictures, Electronic Arts, etc. at the age of 26. This is the second session of a 3-part series about the three steps to find jobs in the creative industry.

Once you start working as a designer you will have to cope with several difficulties every day. The biggest one is to be able to deliver creative ideas with tight deadlines. How can you be creative when there is a time pressure? How can you deliver great designs without having time to properly prepare for a project? What suits you better; being a full-time designer working in a team, or being a freelancer working on your own? What are the best practices in Photoshop that can save you a lot of time every day working with tight deadlines? These and many other similar questions will be answered on this seminar by Martin Perhiniak, who have been working as a full-time and freelance designer for many years and he will share some of his best kept Photoshop timesaver secrets for the first time. This is the last session of a 3-part series about the three steps to find jobs in the creative industry.

Do you like step-by-step written tutorials? I started to work for MPV Hub and they will publish my tutorials from now on once a month. It is a great website with lots of useful and inspirational tutorials for all kinds of creative areas. Check my first article out, in which we will learn how to achieve a cool movie poster design using mainly Vector Shape and Adjustment Layers. Let’s get started!

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Watch this seminar and learn everything you need to know about making selections in Adobe Photoshop CS5. You will learn how to use most of the selection techniques, from the easiest to the most complex ones in less than 2 hours. This a non-edited recording of the seminar.

Watch this seminar and learn everything you need to know about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. You can learn all the amazing features this user friendly application and discover all the advantages of Camera RAW files to JPEGs. This seminar is a must for professional and amateur photographers alike. This a non-edited recording of the seminar.

On this seminar we will briefly talk about the latest logo trends and DOs and DON’Ts when designing or redesigning logos for clients. After getting familiar with the workflow we start designing cutting-edge, creative, unique logos using professional techniques and the new features of Illustrator CS5. The presentation is 45 minutes long and it is the unedited recorded version of the live seminar.