Quick links
- Blackboard
- Foundations of Digital Art and Design companion website
- Digital Media Zone (DMZ) @ SJU
- 40 free resources every designer should know
- PDF templates for designers (storyboards, wireframes, graph paper etc.)
Illustrator
- Explanation of tools in Illustrator
- Quick tutorials for beginners
- How to design a logo
- Creating Cool Banners, Shields, and Shapes in Illustrator
- How to Create Banner, Label and Badge Templates in Illustrator
- How to create a web icon (the final product looks a lot like a badge)
InDesign & resume how-to
- SJU Career Center Guide to Writing a Resume
- Sample resumes for different majors at SJU (get ideas for content but not formatting!)
- More sample resumes from SJU Career Development Center
- InDesign tutorials
- 5 tips every InDesign user should know
Photoshop and photography
- How to use Adjustment Layers in Photoshop CS6 (I know this is not for Creative Cloud, but CS6 adjustment layers are so similar that it won’t matter.)
- The Photoshop workspace
- Cropping and rotating a photo (Photoshop)
- Cut out something from an image (Photoshop)
- Select part of an image (Photoshop)
- Easy way to get photos off your phone — for MAC users
- Easy way to get photos off your phone — for WINDOWS users
Audio
- Audacity 2.0.6 manual
- Freesound (free audio clips licensed for remixing)
- Search SoundCloud creative commons
- CC Mixter (free instrumental music)
- Free Music Archive – library of high quality copyright cleared music curated by WFMUhttp://freemusicarchive.org/
- Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/audio
- Jamendo – more than 10,000 albums of free, cc licensed music http://www.jamendo.com/
- Macauley Library – Cornell University’s archive of natural sounds (video too) http://macaulaylibrary.org/
- Musopen – copyright free music (and sheet music) http://www.musopen.org/
- pdsounds environmental sound archive http://www.pdsounds.org/
- Public Domain Music http://www.pdinfo.com/
- SoundTransit – creative commons licensed field recordings http://soundtransit.nl/search/
Video
- How You Can Use Silence to Tell Better Stories
- The Basics of Video Editing
- Take Better Video on iPhone
- Adobe Premier tutorials
- iMovie tutorials (click “iMovie Help”)
- Windows Movie Maker tutorials
- Film Analysis Guide