Sessions.edu Visual Design Guides and Video Tutorials

Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design publishes visual design tutorials and guides to help professional graphic and web designers improve their portfolios. The Sessions POP! Visual Design Guides and The Art & Design Video Tutorial Collection feature the guidance of Sessions’ faculty of professional designers. You may download and view several of these insightful tutorials and guides below.

Sessions POP! Series of Visual Design Guides

Authored by the talented instructors of Sessions School of Design, these free downloadable full-color guides will motivate you and give your work an edge as you compete for design jobs. Two of the six guides are available for immediate download here at Creative Boulevard. Visit the POP! Library of Visual Design Guides to receive all of the guides free.

The Art & Design Video Tutorials Collection

The talented designers and artists of Sessions School of Design share their secrets to producing first class design work with the release of the these art and design video tutorials. Each video delivers a view of the designer at work as they walk you through a technique that is sure to improve your skills and enhance your portfolio. Visit The Art & Design Video Tutorials Collection to view all of the tutorials free.

Photoshop / Creating Realistic Perspective

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Placing an image on a new background means lots of work to get the perfect angles. The vanishing point trick and Photoshop’s Distort transformation with help achieve believable angles in your next composite photo. This video is one of sixteen free video tutorials available in the Video Tutorial Library.

Illustrator / Using Live Paint

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Color your Illustrator objects in a whole new way with Live Paint. View this video and learn to convert your art into a Live Paint group and apply colors to various parts of the object, even if there are gaps or complex areas in the paths. This video is one of sixteen free video tutorials available in the Video Tutorial Library.

Dreamweaver / Using Internal and External Styles:

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Internal and external CSS techniques allow you to format your Web pages more efficiently. View this video to create styles, manage styles, and even change them globally in just a handful of clicks. This video is one of sixteen free video tutorials available in the Video Tutorial Library.

Drawing / Gesture Drawing

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Quick, fluid strokes are the basis of gesture drawing. View this video and learn to boldly communicate the basic forms of your subjects and explore ways to create fast, expressive gesture drawings that can later be scanned to enhance your graphic and web design projects. This video is one of sixteen free video tutorials available in the Video Tutorial Library.