Wedding collateral is typically designed with a one-size-fits-all approach, but everything from the save-the-date to the program to the menu should reflect your story. This class will show you how to create a customized and cohesive design for your wedding, so your story is truly reflected in all the details of your wedding items. 

This course will show you basic design principles, key aspects to consider when creating wedding collateral, and how to approach this project in a systematic way, so the final results are both heartwarming and stunning. 

Khara Plicinic has a unique teaching style and playful sense of humor that continues to endear her exponentially growing audience. As an expert wedding photographer and designer, she has been part of enough weddings to know what works and doesn’t work. 

This course will teach you how to create paper and digital goods that truly reflect your journey with your partner. No previous Adobe Photoshop experience is required.  

Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2017

If you’re ready to take your production to the next level, join CreativeLive and JK Swopes (and guests Doug Lazy aka Knocksquared and Ken "Flux" Pierce) for an in-depth exploration of Maschine, the revolutionary way to sequence, sample, and add effects to any musical project.

Throughout this two-day course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to take advantage of this unique, powerful beat-making production system -- including its sequencer, sampler, and internal fx. JK will also cover the basics of working with Maschine’s extensive built-in library of sounds. JK will also cover the tricks and hacks that let you use Maschine to author your own library of sounds to use in your tracks. From fatter kicks to deeper snares, you’ll learn about simple tweaks you can add to any track to make it more complex and compelling.

No matter what genre of music you’re passionate about, this course will give you the tools you need to work effortlessly and innovatively.

You don’t have to be a famous celebrity to have a story worth sharing. And you don’t need to have a long life full of significant events and intriguing encounters. To write a compelling memoir, you just need to highlight your most unique, interesting or transformative experiences—the moments in your life that really matter.

Master memoirist and bestselling author Joyce Maynard is the ideal person to show you how to take your life story and transform it into a fascinating book that gets published and finds an audience.

You’ll begin by identifying the major themes of your life and which one you want to explore. Then you’ll figure out who your characters are and their motivations, what the conflict of the story is, and how it will ultimately be resolved. Maynard will use both her own books and the work of students in the live audience to illustrate the writing process, giving you both the tools and the inspiration you need to translate your life into a fascinating memoir.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

- Figure out where and how to begin and not feel overwhelmed.

- Identify the difference between “What happened?” and “What did it mean?”

- Eliminate the parts of your story that don’t belong and focus on the big emotional moments that changed you.

- Write about the small events that support the overarching story.

- Maintain your point of view and not lose sight of your real story.

- Stop worrying about hurting or alienating someone in your life or yourself.

- End your memoir—when your own life isn’t over yet.

Navigating the UX design of a digital project can take weeks and even months - in Fast and Effective UX Design: Learn the Process, design veteran Jose Caballer boils it down into just one action-packed session with a real client.

The designer’s role on a team is changing in the start-up age, and navigating competing interests and priorities on a team can be challenging; Jose demonstrates how to facilitate the UX design process with confidence, efficiency, and finesse. In this rare opportunity, watch him lead a live session with a client, moving from goal setting to user profiles to wireframe design with ease. Jose breaks the classroom’s “fourth wall”, pausing to note facilitation techniques in real time, sharing tips and ready-to-use templates.

The UX design process is about facilitating, listening, and translating. In Fast and Effective UX Design: Learn the Process, Jose Caballer shows you how the pros do it, and equips you with what you need to do it yourself.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

This class is designed for creative professionals new and veterans to the UX design process: start-up entrepreneurs, UX designers, designers transitioning to UX, project managers, and more.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Jose is the co-founder of The Skool, an education company that teaches designers, agencies and corporations the design of business in the 21st Century. He studied graphic design at Art Center College of Design and was trained in digital “on the streets” of the .COM boom in the 90's. In 2001 he founded The Groop, the digital agency he led for 11 years, working with diverse clients such as Al Gore, Jamie Oliver, Thomas Keller, Alice Waters and corporate clients like Disney, Nike and Myspace.

Today he combines his 19 years of digital experience and his passion for teaching at The Skool. He has trained thousands of professionals through workshops and webinars worldwide.

To be successful at podcasting, you’ve got to have a solid understanding of the mixing process and sound design. But even experienced producers can feel overwhelmed by the intricacies of mixing and the cornucopia of tools available to them.

Taught by Jim Briggs, lead sound designer and engineer for “Reveal,” this course covers all of the basic elements of a mix from top to bottom. Students will become conversant in the language of mixing, understand the workflow and various stages of the mixing process, and be ready to explore different mix tools so they can practice on their own.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

- Approach equalization sculpting and compression packaging.

- Mix artfully and think musically about your finished product.

- Deal with all of the tools and avoid option anxiety.

- Know what your anchor is and how to build a mix.

- Work with studio voices to achieve consistency, continuity, and quality.

- Work with field voices, ambient sounds, and other tapes.

- Perform fades and crossfades.

- Utilize music so it adds depth to your podcast.

This is a class designed for the electronic musician who wants to bring new energy and compositional strength to their tracks. In this class, we'll focus on learning how to organize pitches and rhythms to make dynamic, interesting melodies and harmonies. Experience with music theory, the ability to play an instrument, or read music is not necessary! We will focus on how to use your DAW as your instrument of creation.

Topics include:
 

- Using the Piano Roll Editor

- Octaves

- Finding C and Middle C

- The Perfect 5th

- What it means to be "in key"

- Moveable Patterns

- Major and Minor Intervals

- Building Triads

- Chord Progressions

- 7th Chords

... And much more!

Printed books are a great way to tell your story. Whether you want to create a book of your travel photos, a portfolio of your work, or a printed marketing piece, Blurb® is the best tool out there. In this class, Dan Milnor will show you how to use Blurb's Adobe InDesign plugin to easily create a magazine-style publication, including:

- Workflow and file management best practices 

- Creating master pages 

- Content placement and layout of content 

- Preflighting your files 

- Uploading your final magazine for sales and distribution

Blurb is a self-publishing and marketing platform that unleashes the creative genius inside everyone. Blurb’s platform makes it easy to design, publish, promote, and sell professional-quality printed books and ebooks. Get started today! 

Software Used: Blurb InDesign 2016 

LEARN TO PROTOTYPE WEBSITES AND APPS WITH EASE!

Dive into creating your first web or app prototype—with this fast-paced, step-by-step walkthrough of Adobe® XD CC®. You'll learn what Adobe XD is, how it fits into the tools you may already use, and see how easy it is to design, prototype, and share an app or website in no time at all. Join author, speaker, and web developer Brian Wood as he takes you through a guided tour of what Adobe XD is capable of.

In this Fast Start class Brian will show you:

1. How to create a new project in XD and work with artboards
2. How to add design content like navigation, text, assets, UI kit content, and more.
3. Working smarter with Assets and Creative Cloud Libraries
4. Best practices for creating a working prototype
5. Testing your prototype locally and on device
6. The different methods for sharing your project and assets.

This is the only Adobe XD class you will ever need, as Brian will take you from a Basic Beginner to an Advanced Power User.

Learn the fundamentals of equalization: when to use it, why, and exactly how it works.

In this master class, you’ll learn concepts and techniques behind good EQ practices. Graham Cochrane will use stock plugins and share EQ lessons you can apply no matter which DAW you use. You’ll learn about using high-pass and low-pass filters to carve out space for each element in the mix and advanced techniques for making surgical boosts and cuts.

If you want quality mixes, you have to understand how to expertly use EQ. Tune in for EQ Master Class and Graham will show you how.

We’re hardwired to come to every story tacitly asking one question: what am I going to learn that will help me make it through the night? We’re looking for inside intel on how to best navigate the unpredictable, scary, beautiful world we live in. As a result, there’s a set of specific unconscious expectations readers have for every story — expectations that have nothing to do with the surface plot or how beautifully the story is written. By decoding your reader’s hardwired expectations – and how to meet them -- you’ll be able to create a story that will rivet readers from the very first sentence.

In this session you’ll learn:

- The truth about the writing myths that are holding you back, and why story trumps beautiful writing every time.

- What it is that actually hooks and holds readers, and how to create the underlying foundation from which a riveting story organically springs.

- One by one, the specific expectations that readers bring to every story, together create a set of guidelines that will help you keep your story on track.

- Why, as a storyteller, you are one of the most powerful people on the planet.