Best Courses on Skillshare in 2021

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#Animation

The Beginner’s Guide to After Effects

By Jake Bartlett

This is the class for you if you’re curious about the world of motion design and want to dive right into After Effects. The Beginner’s Guide to After Effects is a detailed course that covers everything you need to know about using Adobe After Effects to create animations. You’ll learn everything there is to know about navigating and using the app as it goes over topics such as

• Workspaces & Panels
• Importing Artwork Panels
• Layer Manipulation
• Correct Resolution
• Information about Frames Rates
• Date and time stamp
• Putting Together a Composition
• Precomps in the Workplace
• Transform Properties for Layers
• Animation of Keyframes
• Spacing vs. Timing
• Textual Analysis
• Effects Combination
• Using a mask
• Making an Animation Loop
• How to Export a Video

And there’s a lot more!

#Creative Writing

Creative Writing: Crafting Personal Essays with Impact

by Roxane Gay, Writer & Editor

This one-hour masterclass will teach you how to transform your personal story into a powerful personal essay. Learn how to write in a way that connects with the people you want to reach by developing your personal voice in a larger sense.

Roxane encourages you to take yourself seriously as a writer by sharing her meditative, reflective approach to the art of writing, inspiring you to express your passion. Create a difference in the world by taking a stand.

Eight video lessons will take you from the first idea to the final, publication-ready job, and are jam-packed with practical advice, actionable strategies, and example essays.

What you will learn in this course :

• Determine why you’re sharing your story.
• Connect your work to broader discussions and current events.
• Conduct critical analysis to back up the claims.
• To write your facts, go through your personal memories.
• Finalize the work by writing and revising it.
• Send in your job for consideration.

All who wants to write should take this lesson. Your voice matters, whether you want to finish your memoir, improve your writing skills, or try something new. This class will help you find your voice and tell your story. Now is the time for you to get started!

#Film & Video

Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro for Beginners

By Jordy Vandeput, Filmmaker and Youtuber

In this course, you’ll gain a solid understanding of Premiere Pro that will allow you to:

• Getting a Premiere Pro project started and organized
• Organize clips and function in various layers when performing simple edits.
• Use the toolbox, masks, and mixing tools to make advanced edits.
• Video/audio effects are applied and adjusted.
• Make your own graphics and texts
• Customizing templates and using third-party templates
• Create your own animations and learn how they work.
• Audio from voice, music, and sound effects are mixed together.
• Using the correct settings to export a video

#Fine Art

Basic Skills / Getting Started with Drawing

By Brent Eviston, Master Artist & Instructor

The Art & Science of Drawing series, designed for aspiring painters, graphic designers, illustrators, and artists of all sorts, will teach you the cornerstone of all art and design,drawing.

The first course in the series, BASIC SKILLS, will teach you the fundamentals of drawing one day at a time.

You’ll watch one video lesson per day that will teach you an important drawing skill. You’ll be given a project at the end of each lesson to help you improve your drawing skills quickly. You’re set for the next day’s lesson and project after completing the project! In this case,

This beginner drawing course will teach you how to:

• How to draw with a pencil like a pro
• The best way to draw any form
• How to simplify every topic into simple shapes and evaluate and draw it

BASIC SKILLS is jam-packed with useful insights into the drawing process, as well as some of the most straightforward and approachable drawing instruction available. Many of the techniques and tools you’ll learn here are only taught in private art academies.

#Graphic Design

Adobe Photoshop CC – Essentials Training Course

By Daniel Scott, Adobe Certified Trainer

This is a beginner’s course. You don’t need any prior Photoshop, lighting, or design experience. We’ll begin at the beginning and work our way through the steps one by one.

You’ll learn how to use Photoshop’s “secret sauce” to magically improve our backgrounds and, when appropriate, fully delete people from photographs.

You’ll have super skills by the end of this course!

• Learn how to hide every flaw, even the dreaded hair.
• You’ll be able to clearcut photos with your awesome new masking skills.
• You’ll discover how to make form communicate with you.
• We’ll take a look at some of today’s most common visual styles and learn the tools and techniques needed to recreate them.
• You will learn how to distort, shape, and manipulate images in a fun section.
• We’ll make our own graphics from scratch using basic techniques.
• I’ll show you how to retouch images like a pro.
• Finally, any professional Photoshop user should be able to build an island in a bottle. Educate yourself

#Illustration

Intro to Procreate: Illustrating on the iPad

by Brooke Glaser, Illustrator and Children’s Designer

In this course you’ll learn how to use Procreate on the iPad Pro with ease in this class. By the end of the class, making digital drawings will feel as easy and intuitive as drawing with a pencil and paper. This class will teach you how to use all of the secret tools and movements that will make making visual illustrations simple and enjoyable. You’ll also discover how to create and share a fun time lapse video of your work!

#MUSIC

SINGING MADE EASY (Level 1) : Complete Vocal Training System

by GB Voice Academy, Voice Coach

This course will provide you with a wealth of knowledge and the resources you need to take your singing voice to the next stage, based on Gabriel’s 20 years of performing and teaching experience and his studies with the best in the industry, including 2-time Academy Award winning composer A.R. Rahman and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.

What you will learn in this course :

• How to Effortlessly broaden your vocal range by singing from the bottom to the tip!
• How to Warm Up Your Voice Properly
• How to stop vocal pressure and injury
• How to Make the Most of Your Breath
• How to break poor singing and acting habits
• How to sing with a lot more feeling and passionHow to sing with a lot more dynamism
• How to sing with authority and power

#Photography

Fundamentals of DSLR Photography

by Photo Essentials x Justin Bridges

Are you new to digital SLR cameras? Learn the basics to take the best pictures you’ve ever taken!
This simple introduction to photography class is a smart and inspiring way to get started. Photographer Justin Bridges will show you how to manually balance shutter speed, aperture, and ISO to achieve perfect exposure every time — and then you’ll get to see it all in motion on the streets of New York.

What you will learn in this course :

• For perfect exposure, match shutter speed, aperture, and ISO (and conquer fear of “manual” mode)
• Shutter speed can be used to freeze and blur motion.
• Aperture is used to monitor background blur.
• In 5 minutes or less, you can edit your pictures.

You’ll also learn Justin’s go-to camera settings, must-have gear, and budget-friendly recommendations. By the end, you’ll have mastered your settings, shot in manual mode for total power, and taken the professional-level images you’ve always wanted.

To know more about other best photography courses check the below article.

5 Best photography courses for beginners

#UI/UX Design Classes

User Experience Design Essentials – Adobe XD UI UX Design

by Daniel Scott, Adobe Certified Trainer

This course is for people who want to learn about UI/UX architecture. The course starts from the basics and works your way through the process step by step. If you already have some UI/UX design experience but want to brush up on Adobe XD, this course is for you as well!

It starts by discussing the differences between UX and UI architecture. It discusses the scope of this real-world project, then moves on to low-fidelity wireframes and how to use existing UI design kits.

It goes through form, colors, icons, Lorem ipsum, artboards, prototyping, templates and popups, symbols, and repeat grids, as well as other important resources for making excellent wireframes. 

#Web Development

Coding for Beginners 1: You Can Code!

by Applause Interactive, Digital Skills for Life 

This course is ideal for full beginners. No prior experience is needed. Learn how to code a real app from the ground up!

Have you ever thought of learning to code? You may, after all. Enroll now, and before you search Facebook again, you should have written the first lines of Python code!

Coding for Full Beginners is Skillshare’s most beginner-friendly eLearning course! It doesn’t matter if you’ve never seen a line of computer code before; if you’re curious or want to see if you can learn to code, this is the course for you!

This course is ideal for students who want to learn a particular programming language but don’t want to be thrown in at the deep end. Coding for Beginners was created as a generic, foundation level course to introduce you to many of the popular coding principles that you’ll go on to use in whatever programming language you want to learn next, giving you a real head start before you start learning a dedicated language and its syntax.