With the release of Photoshop CS6, Adobe introduced the ability to edit video footage. Author Rich Harrington guides you through this brand-new workflow, from building a sequence to working with audio and exporting your video in a variety of high-quality formats. The course also covers how Photoshop's strongest feature, its image enhancement toolset, translates to video, from fixing under- or overexposed footage, performing color balancing, and adding vibrance and contrast to special effects, such as converting to black and white and using Smart Filters to soften skin.

Join Chris Converse as he teaches how to add a wraparound effect to your homepage marquee with Dreamweaver and a concise bit of jQuery code. The course covers positioning the photos, adjusting the navigation, activating the marquee, and making sure the marquee auto-plays. In a few short movies, designers can learn how to add this dynamic feature to their web sites.

Join Chris Converse as he teaches how to add a wraparound effect to your homepage marquee with a concise bit of jQuery code. The course covers positioning the photos, adjusting the navigation, activating the marquee, and making sure the marquee auto-plays. In a few short movies, designers can learn how to add this dynamic feature to their web sites.

Deke's Techniques is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
New techniques will be added to the collection each week. Exercise files accompany the course.

Most modern programming languages, such as Java, C#, Ruby, and Python, are object-oriented languages, which help group individual bits of code into a complex and coherent application. However, object-orientation itself is not a language; itпїЅs simply a set of ideas and concepts.
Let Simon Allardice introduce you to the termsпїЅwords like abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, subclassпїЅand guide you through defining your requirements and identifying use cases for your program. The course also covers creating conceptual models of your program with design patterns, class and sequence diagrams, and unified modeling language (UML) tools, and then shows how to convert the diagrams into code.

Join Ray Villalobos as he explores the new features and enhancements to Fireworks, the Adobe web graphic and prototyping application. The course covers color workflow improvements, such as quicker access to colors and new stroke and fill opacity controls, and user experience improvements, such as an expanded UI, an updated file naming convention, and sprite generation. The course also explores the addition of CSS and jQuery, which enhance the interactivity of documents created in Fireworks, and the addition of CSS properties and jQuery Mobile templates, which help integrate Fireworks into web design and development workflows

With the release of Photoshop CS6, Adobe introduced the ability to edit video footage. Author Rich Harrington guides you through this brand-new workflow, from building a sequence to working with audio and exporting your video in a variety of high-quality formats. The course also covers how Photoshop's strongest feature, its image enhancement toolset, translates to video, from fixing under- or overexposed footage, performing color balancing, and adding vibrance and contrast to special effects, such as converting to black and white and using Smart Filters to soften skin.

AutoCAD Essentials is a multi-part series that takes a more modular approach to this massive program, used for everything from 2D and 3D CAD design, drafting, and modeling to architectural drawing and engineering projects. In this installment, author Jeff Bartels concentrates on the particulars of creating basic geometry in AutoCAD, including assigning imperial or metric units of measurement, using object snaps to control accuracy, and drawing and transforming basic lines and shapes. The last chapter in the course tests your newfound skills in a short project.

WordPress Essential Training shows how to get the most out of the self-hosted version of WordPress and create feature-rich blogs and web sites.

jQuery Projects Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee
Author: Chris Converse
In jQuery Projects: Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee, author Chris Converse builds a visually rich, interactive marquee in order to aggregate and display content on a web site homepage. This course covers preparing artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator, creating HTML and CSS layouts, and dynamically generating marquee elements with the open-source javascript framework jQuery. Tutorials on animating between content panels are also included. Exercise files accompany the course.

HTML5 Video and Audio in Depth
Author: Steve Heffernan
In HTML5: Video and Audio in Depth, author Steve Heffernan contextualizes the state of HTML5 audio and video and shows how to embed media into a web page using HTML5. The course sheds light on configuring the new HTML5 audio and video tags, ensuring backwards compatibility by setting alternative playback methods, encoding the needed file formats, and building custom controls with javascript. Also included are tutorials on troubleshooting known issues and reviewing real-world examples of HTML5 audio and video. Exercise files accompany the course.

All Adobe CS6 Essential Trainings:After Effects CS6, Audition CS6, Dreamweaver CS6, Fireworks CS6, Flash Professional CS6, Illustrator CS6, InDesign CS6, Photoshop CS6, Premiere Pro CS6

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are a popular aspect of any web site. This course shows how to create questions that have expandable and collapsible answers, allowing visitors to easily find the information they need. Author and jQuery expert Chris Converse shows how to build an FAQ section for your site quickly, using an adaptable combination of HTML, CSS, javascript, and jQuery. In addition, the course demonstrates how to automatically link to a specific question, and automatically open the answer, giving you the ability to provide users with a direct answer to their question.

This course covers the enhancements that will most affect web designers using the latest version of Adobe Dreamweaver. Author and veteran Dreamweaver user James Williamson showcases the improved FTP capabilities; the Fluid Grids feature, which gives designers a visual way to control page layout for multiple screen sizes while automatically integrating cross-browser consistency through the use of HTML5; and the CSS Transitions panel, which makes it easy to add impressive CSS-driven transitions to any element on the page through a single dialog. James also demonstrates the increased support for jQuery Mobile, CSS, and web fonts in Dreamweaver. This course is ideal for web designers who want to evaluate the software for purchase or simply brush up on all the new features.

One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles, adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to ncorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation. Exercise files are included with the course.

Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 New Features
with: Chris Orwig
Running Time: 2.00 hours
In Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 New Features, instructor and professional photographer Chris Orwig covers the latest additions to both version 1.1 and version 1.2. He explains how to work with each of the application's new features, including the updated interface, database catalogs, and modules. Chris also shares some useful tips and tricks along the way. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

This course provides in-depth training on Camera Raw 7, the Photoshop CS6 component that enables photographers to open and manipulate raw format images. Raw images are minimally processed in the camera; theyпїЅre effectively the exact data recorded by the cameraпїЅs sensor. Author Chris Orwig shows you how to control a raw image's appearanceпїЅexposure, shadow and highlight detail, color balance, and sharpnessпїЅwith far more precision than is possible with JPEG images. The course also introduces the new workflow procedures and technical concepts and issues associated with raw content, so that photographers can best leverage this powerful format.

In Premiere Elements 9 Essential Training, author Jeff Sengstack breaks down the editing workflow into bite sized pieces, covering topics from setting up a project to exporting the final video to any format. The course also covers the basics of editing and advanced features like picture-in-picture overlays and audio and visual effects. Exercise files accompany the course.

In this course, author Ian Robinson introduces Adobe After Effects CS6 and the world of animation, effects, and compositing. Chapter 1 introduces the six foundations of After Effects, which include concepts like layers, keyframes, rendering, and moving in 3D space. The rest of
the course expands on these ideas, and shows how to build compositions with layers, perform rotoscoping, animate your composition with keyframes, add effects and transitions, and render and export the finished piece. Two real-world example projects demonstrate keying green screen footage and creating an advanced 3D composition with the expanded 3D toolset, an important addition to CS6.

Adobe Illustrator can be used to accomplish many different design tasks, from illustration to app development. This course demonstrates core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflowпїЅfor print, the web, or building assets that will find their way into other applications. Author Justin Seeley explains the elements that make up vector graphics (paths, strokes, and fills) while showing how to use each of the drawing tools, and demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths and organize them into groups and layers. The course also covers text editing, working with color, effects, and much more.

In this course, author James Fritz shows designers how to use Muse to create HTML-based web sites using a toolset familiar to anyone who's used Photoshop InDesign, or Illustrator before. The course covers the design process from
start to finish, from setting up web pages and populating them with graphics and text, to creating dynamic menus and adding special features such as widgets slideshows, embedded video, social media integration, and more. The final chapter shows how to publish and update your site and view analytics on web traffic

Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals is a concise and focused introduction to the key features in Photoshop, presented by long-time lynda.com author and Adobe veteran Deke McClelland. This course covers the image editing process from the very beginning and progresses through the concepts and techniques that every photographer or graphic designer should know. Deke explains digital imaging fundamentals, such as resolution vs. size and the effects of downsampling. He explains how to use layers to edit an image nondestructively and organize those edits in an easy-to-read way, and introduces techniques such as cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting and changing color, and retouching and healing images. These lessons distill the vast assortment of tools and options to a refined set of skills that will get you working inside Photoshop with confidence

In Rhino 4.0 Essential Training, author Dave Schultze shows how the 3D NURBS-based modeling tools in Rhino 4.0 are used to engineer products from toy robots to full-sized aircraft. This course concentrates on using Rhino 4.0 for industrial design and rapid prototyping, with a review of common 3D terminology using specific examples. Along with a comprehensive exploration of the Rhino interface, the course includes an introduction to building 3D objects with Rhino's three primary entities: the curve, the surface, and the solid. Exercise files are included with the course.