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 Have you completed the Flash Professional 8 Essential Training course, or are you already up to speed on the fundamentals of Flash? If so, you’re ready to move beyond the basics with this series of step-by-step video tutorials. In Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics, Shane Rebenschied will expand your Flash skill set by guiding you through the production of a complete website built with Flash and ActionScript. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 InDesign CS2 Beyond the Basics delves into the more advanced features of Adobe InDesign CS2, including tools for working with long documents. The tutorial covers the program’s features for dealing with books, indexes, and tables of contents, and teaches you how to use the automation tools like Scripts and Data Merge. Brian Wood, a certified Adobe Creative Suite 2 Master, also shares tips and tricks for working more efficiently in the program by using Snippets, Libraries, Object Styles, and more. This video tutorial is recommended for intermediate-level InDesign CS2 users, and those who have completed the InDesign CS2 Essential Training or its equivalent. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Photoshop CS2 Essential Training with Michael Ninness is a set of movie-based tutorials designed for beginning users who want to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop CS2. The training begins with an overview of the software, including simple functions such as managing documents and palettes, then quickly moves on to cover more specific topics such as image adjustment and manipulation, tonal and color correction, brush settings, cloning, healing and other advanced tools, layers, masks, type, blending modes, filters, layer effects and so much more. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Premiere Pro 2 Essential Training with Jeff Schell covers all the vital details of the latest version of Adobe’s feature-packed video editing application. You'll start out learning interface and workspace tips and will quickly move on to managing files, assembling sequences, adding graphics, titles, effects and transitions, working with video and audio effects, and authoring DVDs and export movies. Jeff even includes tips on multi-camera editing, tackling project management from start to finish, and working with DV and HDV footage. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace. If you are brand new to working with digital video, we recommend you watch Digital Video Principles first.
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 Are you ready to develop your website into something more than a collection of static pages? In Dreamweaver 8 Dynamic Development, instructor Dan Short teaches you how to use Dreamweaver to build a robust and dynamic site. This video tutorial delves into the possibilities offered by Dreamweaver 8, including the integration of a back-end database, SQL queries, customized blogs with filtered content, and search forms. Dan breaks down the skills that will help turn you from designer into developer: understanding data types, creating a database, and inserting and updating database records. He also walks you through the construction of both the front and back ends of an interactive blog. While this title uses ColdFusion to demonstrate dynamic development in Dreamweaver, the same procedures and concepts also apply to ASP, PHP, .NET, or any other server-side language. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Enhancing Digital Photography with Photoshop CS2 is a video-based tutorial designed for professional photographers and enthusiasts who want to get professional results. Chris Orwig, a professional photographer and instructor at the world-renowned Brooks Institute of Photography, shares the secrets and techniques that he uses to enhance his own photography in Photoshop. The training follows a photographer’s digital workflow, starting with essential color management decisions and organizing images with Adobe Bridge. Chris moves on to cover processing Camera Raw files, enhancing tone and color, and correcting imperfections. He then demonstrates how to prepare the images for output and client reviews. Chris shares examples of his work as exercise files that accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Illustrator artwork appears everywhere. Magazine ads, cereal boxes, maps, scientific diagrams, children's book illustrations, and even fine art are often created using Illustrator. And yet, for all its power and complexity, anyone can master Illustrator by learning a few key concepts. Illustrator CS2 Essential Training with Jeff Van West shows new and intermediate users how these simple concepts work together and relate to the complete suite of Illustrator tools. Training begins with basic drawing, coloring, and editing, then advances to transparency, type, advanced path tools, special effects, and much more. Tips and specific examples that teach users how to improve workflows and maximize productivity are also included. This training is flexible, so experienced Illustrator artists can go directly to the movies on features new to CS2, while beginning students can watch all of the movies in progression. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Whether one is producing music, podcasts, game sounds, or film sound effects, Digital Audio Principles provides the tips and techniques that will make the project a success. Author Dave Schroeder explains the basics of digital audio production techniques and covers the essential hardware and software. He also discusses sound theory, frequency response, the range of human hearing, and dynamic range.
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 As shown in David Gassner's previous titles, Flex 2 Essential Training and Flex 2 Beyond the Basics, the purpose of Flex is to manage four key challenges in web development: Multistep processing, client-side processing, data manipulation, and data visualization. With the addition of Flex Data Services, Flex 2 has become an even more powerful tool for building data-driven web and standalone applications.
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 One of the challenges of sharing 3D CAD documents results from the sheer size of the files and the potential incompatibility among file formats. With support for major CAD applications, Acrobat 3D can now save and export 3D files as PDFs. This allows for easier viewing, slideshow creation, document sharing, and supporting document editing. In Acrobat 3D Version 8 Essential Training, Brian Wood teaches users how to create, convert, manipulate, and share 3D files using the key features of Acrobat 3D. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In Acrobat 8 Professional Beyond the Basics, instructor Brian Wood demonstrates how to use Acrobat 8 Standard and Acrobat 8 Professional to fully optimize PDF documents. The tutorials teach users how to collaborate with others to streamline the design and creation processes, and how to import and export images, text, sound, and movies. The training also covers optimizing security, creating interactive forms and documents, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Acrobat 8 Professional Essential Training provides a thorough explanation of each of this application's essential features. The training covers how to put together slick cross-platform presentations, assemble large media-rich projects for distribution, and create forms for data collection. It also teaches users how to edit, secure, and distribute PDFs. Instructor Brian Wood demonstrates how to create and modify PDFs, export images and text, create secure documents, and customize the Acrobat interface for productivity. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 This training teaches users how to take advantage of Adobe Captivate 2 to create exciting presentations, software demonstrations and simulations, and soft-skills training applications--all without prior programming knowledge. Instructor Tim Plumer introduces the program's interface and preferences, then demonstrates how to plan and create presentations. He also covers how to add animation, interactive files, audio, and video
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 Adobe Flex 2 is a powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) within the enterprise and across the web. In Flex 2 Essential Training, veteran instructor and author David Gassner teaches how to use Flex 2 to quickly create personalized, multimedia-rich, data-driven applications that improve user experience and can reach virtually anyone on any platform by leveraging the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Application developers who want to create cross-platform, data-centric applications need the power of Flex 3. In Flex 3 Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor David Gassner starts with the basics of understanding Flex, its projects, and its related programming languages. He explores the intricacies of the development platform and the Flex Builder 3 integrated development environment, then gives in-depth, hands-on tutorials on creating, designing, customizing, and publishing dynamic web and desktop applications in Flex 3. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Good business depends on good communication, and Acrobat Connect Professional can help facilitate the process. Instructor Tim Plumer has spent more than a decade teaching people how to best utilize Acrobat in business. In these tutorials, he demonstrates in detail how to use Adobe's latest professional-level meeting, presentation, and instructional tool to its fullest potential. He shows how to use the application to bring people together via online meetings in real time, with the ability to collaborate at various levels with other participants and control content flow. He also covers how to deliver smart presentations with or without audience participation, and how to use Acrobat Connect Professional with work teams in various locations to share files and streamline communication. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 AutoCAD is a computer-aided drafting and design program that is the industry standard for a wide variety of 2D and 3D work. AutoCAD 2008 features several improvements over previous versions, but the core functionality and workflows have remained consistent for years. Users who have any of the more recent editions of the software will find AutoCAD 2008 Essential Training to be a valuable resource. Instructor Jeff Bartels has taught and used AutoCAD for a decade, and in this course he focuses on the difficult-to-master concepts that matter most to professional AutoCAD users. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Professional and amateur photographers alike can take advantage of the advanced photo management tools in Aperture--from organization to editing to output. In Aperture 1.5 Beyond the Basics, instructors Scott Bourne and Derrick Story teach users how to manipulate photos with the Color Adjustment tool, sharpen edges, and create preset adjustments and file settings for efficient editing and grouping. The training also details how to use the extensive metadata and organizational features in Aperture for smart photo sorting and presentation.
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 Contribute 3 Essential Training with Tom Negrino teaches you how to use Contribute, in conjunction with Dreamweaver, as a tool for coordinating the Web publishing workflows between designers, developers, and editors. Contribute 3 will be familiar to users of Microsoft Office applications and requires little to no technical expertise. You will learn how Contribute allows you, your less-technical teammates, and your clients to edit a website without the possibility of accidentally "breaking" the site, regardless of the level of Web design experience or familiarity with HTML. These video-based tutorials will teach you how to edit pages, create new pages, create pages based on Dreamweaver templates, add links, images, and tables, and much more.
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 Covering everything from CSS and templates to XML and RSS feeds, Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics will help take your Dreamweaver skills to a professional level. In this video tutorial, Daniel Short delves into the nitty-gritty of Dreamweaver 8, teaching you how to apply CSS hacks, explore the new Code toolbar, use Design Notes, design advanced navigation systems, build usable forms, set up site maps, and much more. We recommend that you complete Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training or its equivalent before viewing this tutorial. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training is a tutorial designed for beginning to intermediate Dreamweaver users who want to quickly get up to speed on the latest version of Macromedia's incredibly popular Web development application. This tutorial begins by covering basic Web authoring skills like working with text and images, adding links, modifying page properties, and managing your site. From there you'll move on to more advanced topics like using Dreamweaver 8's new unified CSS style panel, creating layouts with layers, and embedding audio and video files into your pages. This tutorial shows you everything you need to know to go from creating your first page to publishing an entire site on the Web.
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 Fireworks 8 Essential Training with Abigail Rudner is a video-based tutorial designed for beginning to intermediate Fireworks users who need to design and export static, animated, and interactive graphics for the Web. This tutorial begins with an overview of the Fireworks 8 interface, then advances to cover topics such as working with vector tools, manipulating bitmap images, image optimization and exporting methods, as well as integration with Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Creating brilliant Flash applications for mobile devices isn’t as simple as just making existing applications smaller. In Flash Mobile Essential Training, instructor Arthur Phillips tackles the challenges of developing specifically for mobile devices, including building static pages; creating navigational screens and buttons; programming gaming animation, memory and scoring; generating pages with XML; implementing video, text and graphics; and creating animations for the small screen. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Illustrator CS Essential Training with Jeff Van West is a movie-based tutorial developed for new Illustrator users, or intermediate users upgrading from previous versions of the software. The training begins by providing a thorough overview of Illustrator CS's primary tools and quickly advances to cover basic drawing, coloring, editing, transparency, blending, type, special effects including 3D and much more. Along the way, you'll learn tips and examples that streamline workflows and maximize productivity. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Working with Adobe's two most powerful vector applications doesn't need to be difficult, especially when using them together effectively. Instructor Mordy Golding shows how to set up Illustrator with Flash in mind, how to work with groups, layers and styles, and explains 3D effects and artwork mapping. Golding also demonstrates how to work with type, how to create and use symbols, and provides insider hints and guidelines. Emphasis is on creating Illustrator files that will work most efficiently and smoothly in Flash using Live Paint, Live Trace, and Live Effects. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 In Illustrator CS2 Creative Techniques, instructor and graphic designer Ted LoCascio shares his tricks and techniques for creating imaginative and inventive effects and projects. Ted walks you through creating special effects on text, adding depth and texture to your illustrations, and creating buttons and professional bar charts. This training title also features tutorials that reveal strategies behind challenging projects, such as drawing clear items (water drops and glass), 3D objects, smoke, chrome, and reflections.
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 As the former product manager for Adobe Illustrator 10 and CS, instructor Mordy Golding knows the challenges that users face when learning and exploring Illustrator CS2. Illustrator CS2 FAQs answers each common question about the program in detail. Mordy covers changing object and preference characteristics, adding security to PDF files, using filters and effects, importing and exporting files, understanding ambiguous terminology, and troubleshooting common issues. Illustrator CS2 FAQs is designed for viewing as a series of tutorials, or on a topic-by-topic basis for handy everyday reference. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 You’ve got the InDesign basics down. Now it’s time to speed up your workflow and glide through common tasks by mastering the application’s powerful and sometimes hidden shortcuts. Instructor Brian Wood, a certified Adobe Creative Suite 2 Master, uncovers all these helpful commands and techniques, including basic keyboard and interface shortcuts, as well as little-known navigational, dialog box, and tool shortcuts that will dramatically improve your productivity. This video tutorial discloses all you need to know to become adept at using InDesign’s extensive feature set, giving you more time to be creative.
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 It’s already a major accomplishment if you’ve mastered any one of the many applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. It’s quite another to know how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Professional, and Adobe Bridge together effectively and efficiently. In InDesign CS2 Print Project Workflow, veteran graphic designer Ted LoCascio guides you through designing and producing a promotional brochure from start to finish. He shares expert techniques for the creation of individual elements in Photoshop and Illustrator - photographs, illustrations, and information graphics - and then brings the project together by importing and laying out these elements in InDesign. Once finished, Ted reveals how to best prepare and manage a design review with a client using Adobe Acrobat Professional. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Recording actions and automating common tasks saves time and makes performing repetitive tasks more efficient. In Photoshop CS2 Actions and Automation, Certified Adobe instructor Deke McClelland teaches users how to build actions more efficiently and reliably, identifies places where automation functions can be improved, and provides an understanding of JavaScript commands to dramatically expand automation possibilities.
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 Photoshop CS2 & Flash 8 Integration is a series of video-based tutorials designed to show you the most efficient methods for importing content created with Adobe Photoshop CS2 into Macromedia Flash Professional 8, while maintaining as much of the original appearance as possible. You will learn how to take advantage of the new bitmap features in Flash Professional 8, such as filters and blend modes. The tutorials will also show you how to control the optimization settings in Flash for bitmap images when they are embedded inside exported SWF files, and how to load external bitmaps into Flash movies.
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 The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. Selections, layer boundaries, masks, the Quick Mask mode, layer masks, knockouts, and masking with the Channels palette all rely on alpha channels.
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 How many times a day when you are using Photoshop do you stop and ask yourself a question that begins something like "How do I..." or "Where is..." or "What the..."? Rather than pulling out your hair in frustration, watch Photoshop CS2 FAQs with Peter Bauer! This video-based tutorial is a terrific resource designed to help you find the answers to more than 100 of the questions most frequently asked by typical Photoshop users.
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 Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the web Essential Training with Tanya Staples teaches beginning to intermediate-level users how to design Web graphics in Adobe Photoshop CS2. The training covers designing effective navigation, optimizing images for the Web, creating background images, working with transparent images, slicing images, creating rollovers, creating image maps, designing animations, exporting images to Macromedia Flash, and much more. Integration with other applications, such as Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Macromedia Flash, is also covered. Sample files are included so you can work along with Tanya as she instructs.
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 In the world of digital photography, the raw image is the digital equivalent of a large-format negative. Working with these "digital negatives" allows photographers to have greater artistic control and flexibility during the image-editing process, while still maintaining the integrity of the original raw file.
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 Modeled after the professional-grade, industry-standard Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 provides key tools for enhancing, organizing, and sharing photographs. In Photoshop Elements 5 Essential Training, instructor and award-winning author Deke McClelland shows how to use the powerful, easy-to-use Photoshop Elements 5 to create professional-looking images.
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 One of the keys to mastering Photoshop is understanding the multitude of filters that comes with the program. In Photoshop Filters, instructor Peter Bauer starts by discussing what filters are and how they work, then moves on to explain the specifics of each of Photoshop's built-in filters. Peter explores each filter group step by step, and also shows how to combine filters for one-of-a-kind effects.
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 In Photoshop Lightroom 2 Essential Training, Chris Orwig explores Adobe’s professional toolbox for image organization, processing, and output. He demonstrates effective use of catalogs, collections, keywords, and filters in the Library module; image correction and enhancement with the Develop module; and publishing the results via the Slideshow, Print, and Web modules. Chris also shares a wealth of creative tips and workflow techniques for capturing and processing stunning photographs. Example files accompany the course.
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 Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful new photographic workflow application designed to help photographers expand their creative potential. Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training is all about using this revolutionary new tool to its full potential. One of the main challenges of photography is dealing with the sheer volume of images that result from each shoot.
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 After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2 Integration is a series of video-based tutorials designed to teach you the most efficient methods for using content from Photoshop in your After Effects animation. You'll learn how to best prepare Photoshop layers for translation into After Effects, how to create 3-D layers from Photoshop layers, how to apply lighting and special effects, how to work with displacement maps and mattes, and how to animate still images. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 For those ready to combine professional motion graphics from Adobe After Effects 7 with interactive applications created in Adobe Flash 8, this tutorial is the first stop. From discussing the differences between Flash and After Effects to showing how to seamlessly import and export vector animations from each application, Lee Brimelow explains everything involved in using the two applications in unison. The tutorial covers working with third party plug-ins, exporting QuickTime from Flash, using the Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects, and creating special effects in After Effects for use in Flash. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 In After Effects 7 Animation Techniques, Jeff Foster shares methods and best practices for creating fantastic animation. From setting up a camera and getting the right angles, to imitating the movement of the human skeleton and animating text layers, Foster explains everything you need to know to create and edit animations for the most realistic effects. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 After Effects 7 Essential Training with Jeff Foster is a comprehensive overview of Adobe’s powerful motion graphics software. The video-based training covers the interface, creating a project from scratch, working with keyframes, motion paths, animation presets, layer essentials, moving and trimming time, text layers and animation, filters and special effects, painting and cloning, alpha channels and masks, track mattes and color keying. Other topics include working with expressions, tracking motion, adding and adjusting audio, and rendering final movies. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 In After Effects 7 Title Design Techniques, instructor and industry expert Daniel Sorenson demonstrates how to create enticing titles for video projects such as opening or ending credits, showing real-world projects and examples. The training teaches how to create effects such as oozing blood to pixel dust, lightning bolts to billowing curtains. Special focus is placed on how to choose title techniques that communicate effectively and create an emotional impact. Exercise files accompany the tutorial videos.
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 Motion 2 Essential Training is designed for digital video editors who need to create commercials, titling, lower thirds, music videos, and other features that require moving graphics. Expert instructor Larry Jordan explains how to best use Motion 2 to fit the objectives of any project. He describes in detail the secrets and shortcuts used by pros to do everything from dissecting and customizing the Motion 2.0 interface to creating keyframes and shapes. The training also covers the process of combining still images, movies, and visual effects from scratch or using one of Motion 2's many templates. Exercise files accompany this tutorial, allowing viewers to follow along and learn at their own pace.
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 Audition 3 Essential Training emphasizes audio theory and mixing, while explaining new features in Audition 3, MIDI, and ReWire functionality. Instructor Bruce Williams covers effects and forensic audio techniques, such as restoring sound gathered from vinyl and correcting poor audio, to mixing in surround sound. Home-recording enthusiasts, musicians, podcasters, radio production personnel, audio engineers, and anyone who wants to score his or her own home videos will find applicable in-depth tutorials in this package. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 Encore DVD 2.0 Essential Training demonstrates each step involved in authoring a DVD with Encore DVD 2.0. From planning a project, gathering content, and creating navigation to bit budgeting, authoring (creating and burning), and testing, instructor Chad Perkins teaches users how to complete a professional DVD project. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 In ColdFusion 8 Essential Training, developer and Adobe Certified Instructor David Gassner teaches the essentials of Internet application development. From defining a ColdFusion-enabled page in Dreamweaver to publishing the finished project, the training teaches all the steps for creating powerful web-based applications . The training also covers how ColdFusion processes pages, how to query a database, how to validate data entry forms, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 By combining the rich features of Flash and FileMaker, users can create applications with significantly increased capabilities and more robust design. Strong Flash vector-based client-server applications become stronger when featuring a dynamic FileMaker back end, while embedded vector graphics add usability and depth of content to FileMaker databases. Both Flash experts and FileMaker developers will benefit from instructor Cris Ippolite's step-by-step approach to the challenges of integrating these two programs. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Flash User Experience Best Practices offers solutions to common user experience issues that Flash designers and developers face every day. Topics shown include: making the browser Back button work with the Flash Player, handling state management, implementing effective Flash detection with useful alternate content, improving "scanability" and workflow in your applications, and helping users maintain context while working with your applications.
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 ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics demonstrates how to utilize ColdFusion 8 to its full potential, from setting up a project to using ColdFusion Components and sessions in a shopping cart application. Instructor David Gassner leaves no stone unturned as he teaches advanced techniques, including how to use ColdFusion 8 with Flash forms and PDFs, create presentations with imported audio and video, and work with XML files. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 PDF forms can be much more than something to print, fill out by hand, and fax back. Interactive fields allow for a web-like user experience, and submission via email or server can enable a truly paperless exchange of information. Acrobat 9 Pro makes interactive form creation and distribution more powerful and flexible than ever, but such a wealth of features and options can be daunting. Brian Wood focuses exclusively on the nuances of this process in Acrobat 9 Pro: Creating Forms. He discusses the fundamentals of Acrobat forms, fields, and distribution, and explores the built-in form creation tools available in Acrobat 9. Brian also demonstrates the XML-driven forms that can be created by the Windows-only LiveCycle Designer application, included with Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended. Example files accompany the course.
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 With Acrobat 9, Adobe continues to evolve the venerable PDF from a simple paperless document into a collaborative hub for many forms of digital communication. In Acrobat 9 Pro Essential Training, Brian Wood explores the many new and enhanced features in version 9 of Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended. He demonstrates different ways to create and modify PDFs, including the enhanced OCR tool, and shows how to combine them with other files into a PDF Portfolio. Brian covers collaboration in detail, including the new Collaborate Live and Shared Review options. He also investigates redaction and other security features. Example files accompany the course.
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 Do you want to learn how to combine the appeal of video with the rich interactivity of Flash? If so, Flash Professional 8 Video Integration with Lee Brimelow is the tutorial for you. The training will teach you how to use video in Flash Professional 8 to create everything from online sales brochures to full-length features. In this comprehensive tutorial, Lee takes you from the idea stage to a finished, professional production. Lee demonstrates how to best prepare video for use in Flash, encode footage, choose between embedding or streaming video, and design and create a Flash video player. He also explains advanced techniques with filters, web cam video, and much more. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 In Flex 3 Beyond the Basics, David Gassner delves into advanced Flex development skills, including custom popup windows and programmatic animation; parsing XML with E4X; and integrating Flex applications with ColdFusion, ASP.NET, and PHP. He explores effective ways to use Flash and Flex together, including the exchange of graphical skins, symbols, and components. David also demonstrates how to localize a Flex application. This course is a follow-up to Flex 3 Essential Training, and some experience with ActionScript 3, Flex Builder, and the Flex 3 Framework is recommended. Example files accompany the course.
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 In Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Essential Training, Ted LoCascio teaches casual photographers how to organize, edit, and share their digital image libraries using this powerful software package from Adobe. He tours the included Adobe Bridge application, used for importing and organizing photographs, and explores every feature of Elements itself. He demonstrates how to navigate the Elements workspace, which is used to correct and improve images, combine them into projects, and produce slideshows, photo books, web galleries, and more. Ted also explains how to get the most out of each editing mode, and shares tips for correcting, retouching, and sharpening photographs. Example files accompany the course.
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 Photoshop Elements 7 is packed with features to help amateur photographers with every stage of digital photo processing, from getting organized to sharing projects with family and friends. In Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows Essential Training, Jan Kabili shares workflow techniques for organizing, editing, creating projects, and sharing. She also demonstrates how to enhance photos with this budget-friendly software. Jan explains the latest updates to the Organizer and Editor workspaces, and also covers new features like the Smart Brush tool and Photoshop.com integration. Elements is very well known for its project features, and Jan shows how to create books, collages, panoramas, and more. Example files accompany the course.
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 Fireworks CS3 Essential Training is all about using each tool in this tremendously powerful application to its full potential to make amazing web graphics. From understanding the interface to importing Photoshop and Illustrator files, from formatting text to editing and optimizing images, instructor Tom Green covers all the skills needed to best create and edit all kinds of web-based graphics. Exercise files accompany the training.
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 InDesign CS4: Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign CS4. Using practical, real-world examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and describes the conventions for how and when to use it. Nigel dissects the anatomy of a typeface and defines the terminology needed for the successful application of typography. He moves from the micro to the macro level, addressing such issues as choosing page size; determining the size of margins; adjusting number columns; and achieving a clean, structured look with baseline grids. This course is essential for anyone looking to expand their work from just laying out a page to understanding the hows and whys of typography. Exercise files accompany this course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-560-X | $149.95 | | |
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 Photoshop is one of the world’s most powerful image editors, and it can be daunting to try to use it skillfully. Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-551-0 | $112.95 | | |
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 Photoshop CS4 offers an abundance of helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that allow designers and photographers to get more done in less time. In Photoshop CS4 Power Shortcuts, Michael Ninness reveals hundreds of tips to boost productivity, including the top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user must know. He covers strategies for better document and panel management, and offers techniques for becoming quicker and more nimble when using layers, adjustment layers, and layer masks. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-566-9 | $49.95 | | |
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 InDesign CS4: Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign CS4. Using practical, real-world examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and describes the conventions for how and when to use it. Nigel dissects the anatomy of a typeface and defines the terminology needed for the successful application of typography. He moves from the micro to the macro level, addressing such issues as choosing page size; determining the size of margins; adjusting number columns; and achieving a clean, structured look with baseline grids. This course is essential for anyone looking to expand their work from just laying out a page to understanding the hows and whys of typography. Exercise files accompany this course.
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 Learning DVD Studio Pro 3 is a movie-based tutorial workshop intended for the beginning or intermediate DVD Studio Pro user who wants to not only gain a clearer understanding of how to create custom DVD content and delivery but also take advantage of some of the software’s more advanced features. In addition to complete exercise files, the workshop also includes hours of tips and techniques designed to help users master video compression using Compressor, improve audio using A.Pack, create a simple DVD using existing DVD SP templates, and create a more complex DVD with overlay and motion menus, stories, subtitles, and scripts.
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 Whether you want to make your own music to publish, or create dialogue tracks and scores for video, Soundtrack Pro is a great choice. Soundtrack Pro Essential Training starts with the basics of the interface, then explores the many professional effects plug-ins, sound effects, and sample music files that are included with the program. Larry Jordan shares his techniques for creating music, mixing media and effects, understanding when and how to use filters, adding or removing ambient noise in sound files, and editing audio from Final Cut Pro projects. Covering everything from composition to post-production workflow, Larry will have you adding, arranging, mixing and editing tracks in no time. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Apple Aperture is designed for digital photographers, with the goal of making professional photo processing and manipulation fast and effortless. This tutorial concentrates on Aperture’s range of capabilities, including downloading selected images, browsing thumbnails, accessing and understanding raw photo details, enhancing and editing photo contrast, adjusting exposure and color levels, viewing and arranging photos, extracting and understanding image metadata, and more. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-267-8 | $105.95 | | |
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 Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Beyond the Basics will take you beyond what is covered in Tiger Essential Training into more advanced territory. In Beyond the Basics you will learn how to use Automator to create useful scripts, and you will be introduced to the many features of Disk Utility, including burning data to a CD-R more than once. You will even be gently guided into the shallow end of the pool known as “Terminal.” By the time you have completed the essential training and this course, you will have been exposed to virtually every new feature of Tiger, as well as many advanced features that are not new, but that you probably didn’t know about.
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 Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Essential Training, with Sean Colins, a Certified Apple Consultant, provides a guided tour of Tiger that teaches tools you need to start using your new operating system right away. Whether you just want to know how to communicate with family and friends on the internet, or you want a comprehensive tour of the new features of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, this is the course for you. The movie tutorials are separated into logical sections to help you find what you want to learn quickly and easily. While there are many, many hours of content included, you don't need to watch everything all at once, but only the segments of interest to you. The course is designed to help you to learn exactly what you want to learn, as quickly as possible.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-088-8 | $35.95 | | |
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 With the release of the Leopard operating system for Macs, Apple has added or updated more than 300 features. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Essential Training, Macworld senior editor Christopher Breen explores each of Leopard’s vital features. He walks viewers through the installation, then goes over how to use the interface and navigational elements; work with the Dock's stacking feature; and take advantage of the iLife applications, Safari, and Mail. These tutorials are designed for people who are new to the Mac or who are upgrading to the Leopard operating system.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-405-0 | $35.95 | | |
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 In Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard Essential Training, instructor Sean Colins explains the three types of Leopard servers (Advanced, Workgroup, and Standard), and shows how to set up a server environment and configure each of the major services. The tutorial breaks down this complicated subject and focuses on the elements that are essential to getting up and running. This title is ideal for experienced administrators who want a primer of the changes in Mac OS X Server, or new server administrators looking for a complete and detailed walkthrough on how to set up a Mac OS X Server.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-410-7 | $105.95 | | |
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 Apple has successfully wrapped over 100 open source projects into its server software, and has built powerful and easy-to-use tools to manage them. In Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger Essential Training, Certified Apple Consultant Sean Colins delves into the details of the software's services and configuration options. Sean will teach you how to tap into Mac OS X Server's power and stability at the basic to intermediate level of server administration. You'll learn everything required to set up Mac OS X Server to do just what you need, from getting the recommended hardware to testing your server. Sean also teaches you about server management services and server administration, network sharing, and working with both human and hardware clients.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-243-0 | $105.95 | | |
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 Instructor David Rivers demonstrates every aspect of designing a powerful spreadsheet in Numbers ’08 Essential Training. Numbers ’08, a new addition to Apple’s iWork suite, is an outstanding application capable of building visually interesting spreadsheets with dynamic charts, text, multimedia, formulas, and more. Learn how to work with table styles, formulas and functions, and 3-D charts, as well as masking objects, hyperlinking, and creating custom templates. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-414-X | $35.95 | | |
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 Apple's latest version of its video and audio compression application, Compressor 2.1, packs a lot of new features and produces smaller video files for publishing to the Web or DVD. In this tutorial, Apple-certified instructor Larry Jordan shares workflows and techniques to help DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut Pro users master media compression. The training covers how to work with markers, create custom destinations, improve video and audio quality, customize both interface and settings preferences, and more.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-258-9 | $35.95 | | |
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 Creating and producing a great audio or video file is just half of the equation; the other half is compressing finished files for smooth, fast distribution over a variety of media, from websites to iPhones. In Compressor 3 Essential Training, instructor Larry Jordan shows how to use Apple Compressor 3.0 to export and compress Final Cut Pro, LiveType, Motion, and Soundtrack Pro files for use on DVDs, Apple devices, and the web. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | MacOSx/Win 00/XP ISBN # 1-59671-427-1 | $35.95 | | |
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 Instructor Richard Harrington covers each detail of using Final Cut Express HD 3.5 to effectively edit, organize, and publish digital video and audio files for DVDs, web-based projects, and iPod productions. From understanding the finer points of the workspace to using the tools to their full potential, Final Cut Express HD 3.5 Essential Training teaches the complete process, using hands-on examples. Exercise files accompany this tutorial.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-340-2 | $70.95 | | |
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 In Final Cut Pro 5 Beyond the Basics, author and professional video editor Larry Jordan expands beyond the material covered in Final Cut Pro 5 Essential Editing and Final Cut Pro 5 Essential Effects by teaching advanced techniques for working with audio, motion effects, filter effects, color and more. Larry begins with tips for working more efficiently with the interface and tools and then moves on to advanced editing, nesting sequences and clip management strategies. Using Color Keying features to remove backgrounds, editing multi-track audio and audio effects, color correction and troubleshooting problems are also covered. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-136-1 | $70.95 | | |
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 Color correction is one of Final Cut Pro's most valuable features--if you know how to use the right filters the right way. In Final Cut Pro 5 Color Correction, Apple-certified instructor Larry Jordan explains how to do just that. He defines key terminology, then demonstrates everything from high-speed automatic color correction methods to careful manual color adjustment. The training also covers how to customize scopes and how to apply and manipulate filters. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-296-1 | $70.95 | | |
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 With hundreds of keyboard shortcuts, dozens of tools, and a rich feature set, Final Cut is an immensely powerful video editing program. In Final Cut Pro 5 Essential Editing, Larry Jordan teaches the essential editing techniques you need to get up and running with this complex program. In addition to introducing you to the software, Larry demonstrates the planning and organizing strategies he's developed as a professional video editor that can greatly increase editing efficiency. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Picking up where he left off in Final Cut Pro 5 Essential Editing, author and professional video editor Larry Jordan teaches you how to add the finishing touches that make a video compelling. In Final Cut Pro 5 Essential Effects, Larry demonstrates how to create essential effects by changing the speed of a clip or the color of a background, adding motion graphics and animated text titles, creating transitions, and more. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-130-2 | $70.95 | | |
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 Starting with his system for getting organized and ending with final output, Apple Certified Trainer Larry Jordan covers all the details of creating and editing with Final Cut Pro 6 Essential Editing. He provides an in-depth overview of the application and its interface, and demonstrates how to plan, create, edit, and export professional digital video projects. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-374-7 | $70.95 | | |
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 In Final Cut Pro 6 Essential Effects, Apple Certified Trainer Larry Jordan examines the "other half" of Final Cut Pro: effects. Building on the foundation created in Final Cut Pro 6 Essential Editing, this training looks at how to use Final Cut to create a wide variety of professional-grade effects. Larry teaches all the fundamentals, including how to change clip speed, experiment with composite modes, use motion effects in a sophisticated way, and work with keyframes and filter effects. Larry demonstrates each effect and explains how and when to use it for best results. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-390-9 | $70.95 | | |
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 In Final Cut Pro Optimization and Troubleshooting, instructor Larry Jordan shares professional shortcuts, techniques, and problem-solving tips for tackling Final Cut Pro's most common challenges and trouble spots. Larry shows how to set up a folder system that works, name files, use Safe Boot and Repair Permissions, trash Preference files, and configure your system. The training also covers audio/video and user preference settings, customizing keyboard shortcuts and buttons, changing sequence settings, and more.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-255-4 | $35.95 | | |
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 In Apple Color Essential Training, Color expert Robbie Carman delves into the program's powerful features. Beginning with the fundamentals of digital color correction and preparing a Final Cut sequence for gradation in Color, Robbie goes on to teach advanced features such as evaluating contrast and color with scopes, making primary corrections with the color balance controls and curves, making secondary corrections, building Color FX, changing corrections over time, and using multiple grades. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-425-5 | $70.95 | | |
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 iDVD ’08 makes it easy to turn movies and photos from other iLife ’08 applications into slick, professional-looking DVDs, complete with music and animated menus, that can be played in any set-top DVD player. In iDVD ’08 Essential Training, Mac expert Garrick Chow presents all the information needed to use iDVD to its full potential. Topics include building menus and submenus, adding and enhancing photo slideshows, automatically creating scene selection menus, adding DVD-ROM content, and archiving the final project on a disk or as a disk image. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-415-8 | $35.95 | | |
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 In iMovie '08 Essential Training, Mac expert Garrick Chow teaches new and experienced users how to create great movies for iTunes, YouTube, personal websites, and more. Garrick runs the gamut of iMovie’s capabilities, including importing video clips from tape-based and digital cameras; organizing events; adding clips to a project; incorporating photos and graphics; and adding music, voiceovers, titles, and transitions. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-407-7 | $35.95 | | |
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 iMovie HD 6 + iDVD 6 Essential Training provides a comprehensive overview of Apple's powerful video editing software. Instructor Max Smith teaches everything from essential editing to duplication and distribution of finished projects. No matter what the final goal--editing home videos or producing cinematic music videos for podcasting-- iMovie HD 6 + iDVD 6 Essential Training covers how to reach that goal.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-275-9 | $35.95 | | |
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 iPhoto is the backbone of digital photo management for amateur photographers using Macs. In iPhoto ’08 Essential Training, instructor Derrick Story teaches each aspect of iPhoto ’08, including how to burn CDs and DVDs; set up an advanced editing environment; and retouch, rotate, crop, duplicate, and manipulate photographs. Derrick also shares many tips and tricks and demonstrates how to best organize large photo libraries with metadata, flags, keywords, ratings, and photo info. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-400-X | $35.95 | | |
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 Want to know the best way to organize and edit your 250,000 photos? Apple's new version of iPhoto is faster, can handle more images, and has more features and effects than ever before. iPhoto 6 Essential Training with Garrick Chow shows you how to use each of the application’s features to its full effect. You will learn everything from how to take advantage of this version’s new organization and navigational features, to the nitty-gritty of photo touch-ups and effects. You'll also learn how to use iPhoto's new photocasting and Web page integration features in conjunction with iWeb. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-253-8 | $35.95 | | |
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 GarageBand '08 allows users to create and edit music on the Mac, whether for podcasts or professional movie soundtracks. Musician and expert instructor Garrick Chow demonstrates how to create a song entirely from scratch using loops, software instruments, and real instruments. Even non-musicians can get in on the game with the new Magic GarageBand feature. In addition, Garrick explains how to perform multi-track recording, automate effects, export sound files to iTunes, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-401-8 | $35.95 | | |
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 Combine your iPod with the iTunes software and online music store, and you have access to a revolutionary new way to enjoy, store, and catalog music. From basic playback and download techniques, to utilizing parental controls, fine-tuning track shuffling, and downloading and creating Podcasts, instructor Garrick Chow will get you in sync with iTunes and your iPod.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-142-6 | $35.95 | | |
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 From simple audio production to multi-take recording, professional composer and musician Joe Godfrey shows how to record, mix, and remix professional audio in Logic Pro 8 Essential Training. Starting with basic customization and recording techniques, Joe goes on to explain Logic's library of sound loops, methods for recording analog and digital instruments and MIDI synths, how to add a soundtrack to a movie, and the process of mixing tracks for fuller sound. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-327-5 | $70.95 | | |
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 Adobe Soundbooth CS3 Essential Training is an in-depth, hands-on training course for anyone interested in recording and editing professional audio. Instructor Bruce Williams takes viewers through every essential aspect of the application, from the basics of sound—such as frequency, wavelength, and amplitude—to the intricacies of special sound effects. He also covers how to best integrate Soundbooth with the rest of the Adobe CS3 suite of applications. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-349-6 | $35.95 | | |
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 The soundtrack can make or break a video project, and it’s easier than ever to get professional-quality results using the latest software. In Soundtrack Pro 2 Essential Training, Apple Certified Trainer Larry Jordan shows how Soundtrack Pro 2 can be used to set up, record, edit, mix, and output professional soundtracks for media projects. He teaches the best post-production techniques for Final Cut Pro 6 projects and audio files, and covers everything from setting up preferences and repairing poor audio, to working with filters and mixing. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-433-6 | $70.95 | | |
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 Soundtrack Pro, Apple's audio editing and sound design application, is ideal for creating dialogue tracks and music scores. The program's filters allow users to customize and further enhance any type of sound clip. In Soundtrack Pro Audio Filters, Apple-certified instructor Larry Jordan explains when and how to use filters in audio editing and sound design.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-276-7 | $35.95 | | |
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 Motion 2 Essential Training is designed for digital video editors who need to create commercials, titling, lower thirds, music videos, and other features that require moving graphics. Expert instructor Larry Jordan explains how to best use Motion 2 to fit the objectives of any project. He describes in detail the secrets and shortcuts used by pros to do everything from dissecting and customizing the Motion 2.0 interface to creating keyframes and shapes. The training also covers the process of combining still images, movies, and visual effects from scratch or using one of Motion 2's many templates. Exercise files accompany this tutorial, allowing viewers to follow along and learn at their own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-265-1 | $70.95 | | |
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 iWeb ’08 boasts major improvements and new features for building slick, professional-looking websites and publishing them online. Instructor and iLife wiz Garrick Chow begins by teaching the basics of planning a site and working with text, images, and multimedia files. He then builds on those basic skills, demonstrating how to create more advanced pages for displaying photo galleries, blogs, and podcasts. Garrick wraps things up with detailed information on publishing iWeb sites to a .Mac account or a third-party web host. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-398-4 | $35.95 | | |
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 Allowing you to design websites, create instantaneous blogs, and produce Web-based photo albums, Apple iWeb will make you feel like you've been a designer for years—if you know how to use it to its full potential. In iWeb Essential Training, instructor Garrick Chow teaches website basics, including working with text, placing photos and graphics, creating easily navigable Web-based photo albums, and establishing an updatable blog. He even demonstrates how to add podcasts and videocasts to your site with the help of Apple GarageBand. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-245-7 | $35.95 | | |
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 It's easy to jump online and be productive with Mac OS X, but it's also easy to stop there. Many users haven't explored the depth and richness of this powerful operating system and the applications that come with it. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Beyond the Basics, Chris Breen helps those who are already comfortable with Mac OS X discover new features in everyday applications like Mail, iCal, and Safari. He also explores the often overlooked "power user" tools, including Terminal, Disk Utility, and Automator, and provides troubleshooting and maintenance tips.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-473-5 | $35.95 | | |
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 Chroma key, also called bluescreen or greenscreen, is the magical process that inserts an image seamlessly onto an entirely different background. Getting the edges of the subject perfect means the difference between a convincing key and obvious chicanery. In Final Cut Studio 2: Chroma Keying, Larry Jordan focuses exclusively on this effect, so a general knowledge of Final Cut Pro and Motion is recommended. He demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of five different keying tools: Final Cut Pro's native keyer, Motion's Primatte RT, Oak Street Software's vKey2, dvGarage's dvMatte Blast and dvMatte Pro, and Red Giant Software's Primatte Keyer Pro 4.0. Each excels in different areas, so Larry explains typical issues and workarounds, and when to consider using a different application. Example files accompany the course.
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 Moving on stills, sometimes called the "Ken Burns Effect," is the technique of zooming, rotating, and panning across still photographs. It is an important real-world post-production skill, especially for history and science documentaries. In Final Cut Studio 2: Moving on Stills, Larry Jordan demonstrates how to create movement using Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3. He also explores image preparation in Photoshop, and shows how to create these techniques using other applications, like MovingPicture. Those with previous experience in Final Cut Pro and Motion will benefit most from this instruction. Example files accompany the course.
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 High-definition video is today's fastest-growing platform for video content, and it's used by professionals and hobbyists alike. The demand to acquire, edit, and deliver HD content is always increasing. In HD Workflows with Final Cut Studio 2, Apple Certified Trainer Larry Jordan delves into the HD workflow. He provides a comprehensive explanation of what HD is, how to work with the many forms it comes in, and how to use the most common formats and codecs. This course is for anyone wishing to learn about HD--from distribution formats and transcoding to hardware requirements and editing in Final Cut Studio. The second half of the training teaches a variety of specific techniques and workflows for successfully handling high-definition video in Final Cut Pro. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 The real-time engine in Motion 3, a component of Apple's Final Cut Studio 2, gives motion graphics designers the freedom to continually experiment and adjust while they work. Ian Robinson explores how to get the most from this unique application, while also sharing his own essential motion graphics techniques. Along with teaching the fundamentals of video and audio work, he looks at Motion 3's new 3D tools in depth. Ian demonstrates the use of behaviors to create organic movement in particle systems and camera moves without keyframes. He also discusses effective integration with the other Final Cut Studio applications, and much more. Example files accompany the course.
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 Learning Microsoft Access 2003 with Mark Swift is a movie-based tutorial that will enable new and existing database designers to develop an understanding of the latest version of Microsoft Access. This training begins with an introduction to database concepts and a design methodology that will help new designers to organize the data being stored, and quickly advances to cover many of the features and tools needed to design exceptional database applications. Topics include building queries, reports, table relationships, graphics, effects, and adding custom user menus. This training also looks at features that are new or improved in Microsoft Access 2003. Exercise files are included, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Learning Microsoft Excel 2003 with Mark Swift is a movie-based workshop for users who are new to working with spreadsheets, or those wanting to improve their skills. This workshop begins with a basic overview of the application and quickly advances to cover useful formulas, functions, techniques for enhancing spreadsheets including charts, and much more. Exercise files accompany the CD-ROM, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Learning Microsoft FrontPage 2003 with Garo Green is a movie-based workshop intended for beginning or existing FrontPage users who want to get up to speed with FrontPage 2003. You’ll find hours of tips and techniques designed to help you understand how to use the feature-rich tools of FrontPage 2003. The tutorial covers topics such as FrontPage Web sites, linking, HTML typography, Cascading Style Sheets, tables, frames, themes, components, forms, how to get your site online, and much more.
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 Learning Microsoft Outlook 2003 with David Rivers is a movie-based tutorial designed to help new and existing Outlook users get a basic to intermediate understanding of this latest version of Microsoft Outlook. The training begins with a basic overview of the newly designed Outlook interface and quickly advances to cover such topics as sending e-mail, using contacts, tasks, the calendar, notes, mailbox options and much more. Exercise files accompany this training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Learning Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 with David Rivers is a movie-based tutorial designed to help new and existing PowerPoint users get a basic to intermediate understanding of this latest version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The training begins with a basic overview of the newly designed PowerPoint interface and quickly advances to cover such topics as formatting slides, adding charts and tables, graphics, special effects, printing, templates and much, much more. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Learning Microsoft Visio 2003 with David Rivers is a movie-based tutorial designed to help new and existing Visio users obtain a basic to intermediate understanding of this latest version of Microsoft Visio. This tutorial will show you how to create a wide variety of powerful diagrams – from simple calendars and timelines to intricate organization charts, maps and network diagrams. The training begins with a basic overview of the newly designed Visio interface and quickly advances to cover such topics as stencils, shapes, connectors, snap and glue, layers and a whole host of drawing tools and drawing types. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 In this CD-ROM course you will learn the basics of Microsoft Windows XP from expert Garo Green. The course is intended for people who are new to Windows XP, or upgrading from a previous version of Windows, and want to get up to speed quickly with this powerful and popular operating system. It covers skills that can be applied in both the Professional and Home editions of Microsoft Windows XP, and contains more than 4 hours of QuickTime movies that will walk you through the nuances of using Windows XP.
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 Learning Microsoft Word 2003 with David Rivers is a movie-based workshop for users who are either new to working with MS Office Word 2003, or those upgrading from a previous version of Microsoft Word. This workshop begins with a basic overview of the application and quickly advances to cover text formatting, styles, automatic text features, find/replace, proofing, shared workspaces, printing (including envelopes and labels) importing graphics, working with templates, customizing the toolbar and much more. Exercise files accompany the CD-ROM, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Like the other applications in Microsoft Office 2007, Excel 2007 boasts upgraded features and a brand-new look. In Excel 2007 Essential Training, instructor Lorna A. Daly introduces the new version in detail. The training begins with the essentials of using the program, including how and why to use a spreadsheet, how to set up and modify worksheets, and how to import and export data. Lorna then moves on to teach more advanced features, such as working with functions and macros. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 From customizing the interface to producing professional reports, Excel 2008 for Mac Essential Training fully explores the intricacies of working with this information management software. Using real-world examples, instructor David Rivers explains how to manipulate workbooks; use formulas and functions; perform goal-seeking analyses; lay out and present text and charts; use basic templates; and create custom templates, themes, and layouts. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-444-1 | $70.95 | | |
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 Outlook 2007 is the latest full-featured emailing and contact management software from the Microsoft Office suite. Instructor Sean Conrad explains each of Outlook 2007's components and new features in detail, from the basics of the main interface to the more advanced elements of the application. Sean covers the Office button and the Quick Access toolbar as well as the ins and outs of reading and writing email. He delves into using the advanced filtering features to prioritize incoming mail and avoid unwanted spam or files. Sean also explains how to integrate Outlook's Calendar and Notes features for increased productivity.
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 PowerPoint 2007 joins its Office counterparts by featuring a brand-new interface, as well as a selection of new powerful presentation features. Instructor David Rivers explains each of its new features in detail, including an essential overview of the new interface, navigating a presentation, creating and editing presentations, working with tables and charts, importing and exporting data, and sharing presentations via various media. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 From the most basic to the very advanced, instructor David Rivers explores the application’s possibilities in PowerPoint 2008 for Mac Essential Training. David teaches users how to create, edit, and share professional slideshows and presentations. He demonstrates how to efficiently navigate presentations, apply custom themes, place and edit text, images, and multimedia files; and bring the whole package together for a self-running or manual slideshow. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-436-0 | $70.95 | | |
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 Publisher 2003 Essential Training with David Rivers is a movie-based tutorial for people who are either new to working with Microsoft Publisher 2003, or who are upgrading from a previous version. This workshop begins with a basic overview of the application and advances to cover working with publications, text, objects, tables, designs, commercial printing, and much more. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 In Windows Vista Essential Training , instructor Jeff Van West offers comprehensive guidance through the often-daunting task of upgrading Windows system software. After discussing Vista's many new features and demonstrating the initial installation, Jeff explains how to run older software, customize settings and the desktop, and troubleshoot along the way. The tutorials also cover the ins and outs of taking Vista on the road for portable computing, from setting up security to working with all types of media and optimizing performance. Exercise files accompany the training.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-360-7 | $35.95 | | |
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 David Rivers explores the many ways Visio 2007 can be used to create effective business and planning documents, from flow charts to floor layout diagrams. In Visio 2007 Essential Training , users new to Visio or updating to this version will learn how to incorporate diagrams with integrated data, create and utilize text fields, edit templates and projects with AutoConnect, and create and use themes for consistency. Exercise files accompany the training.
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 From a new interface to timesaving content galleries, the latest version of Word brings a lot to the table. Instructor David Rivers explains each of its new features and attributes, from understanding and navigating its new interface, to using new formatting controls and extensive page layout techniques. Whether new to Word or wanting to learn about the new version, Rivers gives insight for increased productivity and professional documents with Word 2007. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-424-7 | $70.95 | | |
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 WordPerfect Office X3 Essential Training with David Rivers is a video-based tutorial designed to help WordPerfect users gain a basic to intermediate understanding of this latest version of the program. David shows you how to use the powerful features in WordPerfect X3 to create a wide variety of documents - from simple letters to complex documents for publishing.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-155-8 | $70.95 | | |
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 In WordPerfect Office X4 Essential Training, instructor David Rivers demonstrates the new and important features in each of the suite’s applications. WordPerfect itself is explored in depth, with a focus on the flexibility and compatibility improvements in this version. David pays particular attention to working with long documents, understanding legal features, and sharing files with users of other office software. He explores the suite’s other applications in equal depth: Quattro Pro, for creating spreadsheets; Presentations, for making slideshows; Visual Intelligence, for analyzing and presenting data; Lightning, for taking web-connected notes; MAIL; online services; and more. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-454-9 | $70.95 | | |
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 Covering everything from the basics of project management to the ins and outs of integrating Project 2007 with other Office applications, Project 2007 Essential Training is a comprehensive and valuable course. Instructor Lorna A. Daly teaches users how to work with Project 2007 to best analyze and manage business ventures of any scope. She explains how to organize resources and assign work, how to streamline processes and resolve project conflicts, and how to customize and optimize Project 2007 for future tasks. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-377-1 | $70.95 | | |
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 Covering everything from the basics of layout and design to integrating with external data sources for mail merges, Publisher 2007 Essential Training is an indispensable course for anyone who wants to publish materials in-house. Instructor David Rivers shows how to best plan, format, edit, and print a project with this powerful yet easy-to-use software application. He explains how to start a project from scratch, insert and edit pages, work with fonts and graphics, and print or distribute the finished project. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-378-X | $70.95 | | |
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 From using predefined Access 2007 database applications to building them from scratch, Access 2007 Essential Training covers each step of understanding, creating, and modifying databases for custom business purposes. Instructor David Rivers shows even the most database-challenged how to utilize this powerful software for creating reports and charts, as well as for business record keeping and analysis. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, you can confidently tackle a wide variety of projects, from logos and Web graphics to multi-page marketing brochures. In CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Essential Training, Mark Abdelnour teaches you the essential tools and techniques you'll need to start using this powerful software collection effectively. Mark begins with an overview of the interface and moves on to cover basic drawing, coloring, and editing. He then advances to transparency, type, the new Interactive Design Tools, special effects, and much more.
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CorelDRAW X4 Essential Training provides detailed coverage of the flagship vector-based graphics application, as well as several of the other tools included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. These include PHOTO-PAINT, a bitmap editing application; PowerTRACE, used to convert bitmaps to vectors; and ConceptShare, for web-based collaboration. David Rivers addresses experienced CorelDRAW users as he offers insight into new features and enhancements, and he also helps newcomers get up to speed with the basics of vector drawing. David demonstrates how to use objects, layers, and pages to organize documents effectively, and discusses working with color, specific tools, and special effects. He also covers the collaboration and delivery processes. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Whether you're an intranet developer responsible for tens of thousands of pages, or a freelance Web designer operating on the cutting edge of technology, CSS2 is an important tool for your toolbox. Designed specifically for those who have a clear understanding of HTML, this hands-on training CD-ROM will teach you how Cascading Style Sheets can be used to achieve a new level of fine-grain control over Web design. Learn how it's possible to easily apply the same consistent look and feel to any number of pages using external style sheets. Learn how to control the layout of your pages down to the pixel, and then specify exactly how the fonts should be rendered. Learning CSS2 will even teach you how to create simple rollover effects that don't require any programming.
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 Whether you use a web authoring system or write HTML by hand, you need to know how HTML works. Learning HTML is designed to help you understand HTML, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to identify and fix problems in a web page. More than just an HTML tutorial, Learning HTML covers the how and the why of HTML documents, including document structure, block- and inline-level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase- and font-markup, and much more! From setting up a simple web page to adding CSS style sheets and JavaScript rollovers, Learning HTML gives you the skills you need to take control of your HTML.
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 In the fast-paced world of Web development XHTML is becoming as important as HTML. Whether you are already familiar with HTML or just learning, whether you use an authoring system or write by hand, you need to know XHTML and how it works. Learning XHTML is designed to help you understand XHTML, why it is replacing HTML for many new applications, and how to make it work for you. More than just a tutorial, Learning XHTML covers the how and the why of XHTML documents, including document structure, block and inline level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and much more! From setting up a simpleWeb page to adding Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript rollovers, Learning XHTML gives you the skills you need to take control of your Web pages.
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 Instructor Joey Lott is known for his expertise in Flash, ActionScript, ColdFusion, Java, MySQL, XML, and more. In ActionScript 3.0 in Flex Builder Essential Training, he puts some of that knowledge to work, first explaining what's new with ActionScript 3.0, then demonstrating the program's important capabilities. From working with variables, to understanding and applying functions, to creating practical applications (as well as a few fun ones), you'll be exposed to all the powerful and practical features of ActionScript 3.0. Exercise files accompany the tutorial, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-262-7 | $70.95 | | |
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 Adobe Certified Instructor Todd Perkins makes ActionScript fun in ActionScript 3.0 Projects: Game Development . He explains the principles of game design and development, then shows how to overcome game-making challenges to create all kinds of games. Todd teaches developers how to deal with case sensitivity, create dynamically moving enemies, add event listeners, determine a win or loss in a game, and add additional features and artificial intelligence. Each set of tutorials covers how to build a game from scratch. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-402-6 | $70.95 | | |
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 The use of RSS feeds is a growing trend, and they can be found within many new websites. In ActionScript 3.0: Working with XML, instructor Todd Perkins places strong emphasis on using RSS data for blogs, podcasts, and images. He also demonstrates how to perform common tasks with XML, such as using E4X syntax, loading external data from local and remote locations, saving data, and integrating with popular services like Flickr. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-440-9 | $35.95 | | |
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 From understanding the basics to creating advanced effects like explosions and smoke, ActionScript 3.0: Building Particle Systems covers each step involved in creating particles and building particle systems. Instructor Todd Perkins explains how to make a versatile particle class that controls particle movement, gravity, friction, spin, rotation, fading, scaling, and other movement effects. He also demonstrates how each unique particle system can be added to a real world application. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-455-7 | $35.95 | | |
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 Taking the principles and skills taught in ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor Todd Perkins demonstrates how to put them to practical use in this course. Todd fully explores ActionScript's most powerful features, including creating advanced navigational interfaces and special effects using XML data and adding accessibility to files via closed captioning. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-388-7 | $70.95 | | |
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 To fully take advantage of Flash CS3, it's necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of ActionScript 3.0. From manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables to writing functions and conditional operators, ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training covers the vital skills necessary to master ActionScript 3.0. Instructor Todd Perkins uses numerous hands-on examples--including two game-building exercises--to explore ActionScript's powerful features. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-346-1 | $105.95 | | |
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 ColdFusion 9 Essential Training is a detailed overview of ColdFusion, demonstrating each of the components and tools necessary to create dynamic web sites and web applications. Author and web developer David Gassner starts this course at the very beginning: how to set up a ColdFusion application server in both the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Using the new ColdFusion Builder, David explains the data types and code necessary to build and deploy dynamic web pages. Throughout the course, he shows how to build web pages and forms and populate these containers with dynamic data using ColdFusion ORM (Object Relational Mapping), a new feature of ColdFusion 9. Exercise files accompany this course.
| | Win/Mac CD ISBN # 1-59671-587-1 | $149.95 | | |
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 Learning Blogger with Molly E. Holzschlag is a movie-based workshop for audiences new to blogging and to the newly revamped Blogger weblog service, a free service from Google. Begin by learning what blogs are and the various ways they can be used. You'll quickly get into setting up your weblog, adding specialty features such as comment systems and news-feeds, working with and customizing templates, and even creating team blogs and audio blogs. The included exercise files, articles, and resources enhance the title, allowing you to follow along with the movies and learn at your own pace.
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 Carrara 5 Essential Training with Jack Whitney is a video-based tutorial designed for beginning to intermediate Carrara users who want to quickly learn how to use this powerful and fun 3D software. The tutorial begins with an overview of the Carrara 5 interface and how to navigate in 3D space, then advances to cover topics such as creating scenes and animations, controlling cameras, manipulating lighting, and creating 3D objects with the Spline Modeler. Shading, texturing, terrains, and other environmental elements are also covered, along with much more. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 An estimated 30 million presentations are given every day in offices around the world. Judging from articles like “PowerPoint is Evil” (Wired) and “PowerPoint Makes You Dumb” (New York Times), which have been appearing in recent years, most of these presentations are probably not having the hoped-for effect. Jeff Van West wants to change all that. In Effective Presentations, Jeff will help transform your style and technique so that you will be making an impact with your dynamic presentations in no time. Jeff will teach you a structured yet flexible system to take you from concept, through design and development, and into delivery. In this video-based tutorial, Jeff tackles the complete process—from defining your mission and weaving a story, to the on-screen options for presenting data, selecting images, and integrating sound. Jeff also covers proven skills and techniques that will help prepare you to present. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Keynote 2 Essential Training with Sean Colins will help you understand how Apple's renowned presentation software really works. Sean walks you through all the tools of the program, goes deeply into custom theme creation, and demonstrates how to integrate with other Apple and third-party tools. You are given Web resources for further research, and practice files are included so you can follow along to create a beautiful custom Keynote theme that can be used over and over again. If you thought it was easy to build presentations using what Apple provides out of the box, you'll be thrilled to see how easy it is to build a unique look, using Keynote.
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 In Pro Tools LE 7 Essential Training, instructor Joe Godfrey shows how to use this powerful program to create, edit, and mix digital sound professionally. The training covers everything from recording and editing dialog to designing sound using plug-ins, from working with MIDI to creating sound for pictures, and from multi-track editing to mixing. Joe teaches all the tools needed to create professional audio results for all kinds of projects using Pro Tools 7 LE. Exercise files accompany this training.
| | Win/Mac CD ISBN# 1-59671-325-9 | $70.95 | | |
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 Covering the fundamentals of rendering, animation, and modeling, instructor Chad Perkins demonstrates how to push the limits of 3ds Max 9 for stunning effects. Chad starts with the application's basics, then goes on to discuss many of the key features of 3ds Max 9, as well as important principles of animation. He teaches users about creating and editing mesh, modifiers, architectural modeling, texture mapping, keyframe animation, rigging, basic kinematics, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac ISBN # 1-59671-309-7 | $105.95 | | |
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 The Internet is an unmatched resource for home, education, and business. And no matter where and how you are using the Internet, it is critical that you protect your privacy and security while you are online. Computer Privacy & Security Essential Training is a movie-based tutorial designed for both novice and experienced Windows or Macintosh users who want to avoid the varied security issues plaguing most Internet-connected computers. Instructor Patrick Crispen shows you how to effectively resolve most of your computer's vulnerabilities, covering physical security, malware, the hidden tracking features in Microsoft Office, and the five things you must do each week to minimize the chances that your computer will be compromised.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-242-2 | $70.95 | | |
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 Do you have more than one computer in your home or small office? If you do, you need a network! Using the network, you can share a single internet connection between all your computers, transfer files with a few mouse-clicks rather than a pile of floppy disks, and work wirelessly with your laptop from anywhere in the room. You can also use your network for sharing printers, playing music, and vanquishing the enemy in multi-player online games. In Home and Small Office Networking, you'll learn everything you need to assemble your network, as well as what you can do once it's up and running. Jeff Van West and Garrick Chow begin the tutorial by explaining what a network is and why you might want to create one. Then they take you through the step-by-step process of installing hardware, plugging in cables, and configuring software. This tutorial covers both Windows and Macintosh networking issues, as well as how to get the two platforms to communicate with each other.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-048-9 | $49.95 | | |
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 Scott Bourne, a professional photographer with over 30 years experience, identifies his tried and true methods for starting and maintaining a successful career as a photographer. In Secrets to Selling and Publishing Photography, Scott explains how to make a profitable living in this demanding field by developing a professional identity, setting realistic goals, getting publicity, finding customers, getting published, and working with agents.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-271-6 | $35.95 | | |
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 Effective Email with Jeff Van West is a series of video-based tutorials that will teach you the most effective ways to use email for communication and productivity. We all know how annoying junk email can be, and Jeff will help ensure that your messages are never considered spam. Not only will you learn how to write effective emails, you'll also learn management techniques for some popular email applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail. Jeff also shares techniques for creating HTML-based email newsletters, sending and receiving to and from multiple accounts, designing for PDA-based email, and organizing your inbox. Improve your email work habits, increase your email software knowledge, and keep your customers and colleagues happy.
| | MacOSx/Win 00/XP ISBN # 1-59671-244-9 | $70.95 | | |
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 If you're out of sight on the Web, says Search Engine Optimization specialist Richard John Jenkins, you're out of mind. Braving the wilds of search engine myths and facts, Richard offers essential tips on how to appear at the top of search results in Yahoo!, Google, and other popular search engines. From purchasing placement to optimizing keyword variations, from avoiding "black hat" SEO practices to setting up a search-friendly site, Richard covers it all. He also shares how to best submit your Web pages for indexing, how to monitor page rank, and how to build a solid base of links to your site. A must-watch video tutorial for experienced website publishers and for those just getting into the Web game.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-268-6 | $70.95 | | |
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 Color Management Essential Training is an in-depth exploration of applying color theory and color management workflows in various graphics applications. Part 1(chapters 1-9) explores color and color management theories, while part 2 (chapters 10-20) teaches actual color management techniques that can be incorporated into workflows. Beginning with definitions for such terms as hue, saturation, and metamerism, instructor Chris Murphy teaches the processes for getting consistent color in every stage—from input and edit through final output—and delves into color management principles for the web, prepress, and print. He also details specific color management workflows in Adobe Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3, InDesign CS3, Acrobat, and QuarkXPress 7. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-384-4 | $105.95 | | |
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 Do you want to create a podcast, but aren’t sure where to begin? Are you already dabbling, but want to delve into the finer points? Podcast and Videocast Essential Training with Garrick Chow takes you through hardware and software requirements, planning a broadcast, recording, editing, and posting your files for download. He also explores videocasting software and hardware and basic broadcasting techniques, as well as valuable recording, editing, and publishing tips. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-227-9 | $35.95 | | |
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 The hottest new way to listen to audio—podcasting—meets GarageBand 3, the ingenious Apple software most noted for its music-making capabilities. In Podcasting with GarageBand 3, Scott Bourne takes you step by step through optimizing GarageBand 3 for podcasting, working with track settings for professional-sounding audio, and choosing the best hardware for recording music or vocals. He also covers techniques for recording voice versus music, how to add background loops to the recording's timeline, the best ways to publish your podcast, and more. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 Training specialist David Rivers teaches viewers how to use Keynote ’08 to its full potential, from customizing the interface to editing and sharing professional presentations. He covers how to format text with columns and lists, add links, and insert graphics, photos, and animated effects. David concludes with how to export Keynote files to various formats, including Flash, HTML, MP3, PDF, and hardcopy. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-403-4 | $35.95 | | |
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 In Keynote 3 Essential Training, Garrick Chow shows viewers how to use Apple's robust presentation software to build dynamic and compelling slideshows. Keynote 3 Essential Training teaches presentation tools that will keep audiences engaged, whether in the boardroom, the classroom, or the family room.
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 Studio 8 Web Workflow is a video-based tutorial designed for intermediate users. The author, Abigail Rudner, draws from her real-life experience as both a Web designer and teacher to take viewers beyond the basics. Abigail shows you how the individual products in Macromedia Studio 8 can be effectively used together, and demonstrates how you can work faster by employing real-life projects and scenarios with an emphasis on creative possibilities. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
| | Win/Mac CD-ROM ISBN # 1-59671-126-4 | $105.95 | | |
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 Geared toward video editors who are new to Sony Vegas or to this latest version, Vegas 6 Essential Training teaches the fundamentals of how to work with Sony's award-winning video editing application. Instructor Thomas Sherer identifies the main elements of the interface and explains how to work with different media files, then moves on to more advanced topics, including essential editing techniques, applying effects and correcting color, and working with high definition video and surround sound audio. Exercise files accompany this tutorial.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-292-10 | $105.95 | | |
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 Tom Negrino shares his strategies for gaining control of finances, balancing accounts, setting financial goals, and planning for the future in Quicken 2009 for Windows Essential Training. This course covers the features found in the Deluxe, Premier, and Home & Business versions of Quicken. Tom shows not only how to manage personal accounts, but also how to generate invoices and track expenses for small business owners and the self-employed. He demonstrates ways to streamline data entry, write and print checks, pay bills online, create reports and graphs, and set up loans and investments. Tax planning is also discussed in detail. Example files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-503-0 | $35.95 | | |
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 Pixologic's ZBrush 3 stands at the forefront of digital 3D sculpting and 2.5D painting, a new medium that is taking the art and entertainment worlds by storm. Visual effects artist Eric Keller shares his expertise and talents in ZBrush 3 for Windows Essential Training. He presents the concepts behind digital sculpting, shows how to produce fantastic images using the unique ZBrush toolset and interface, and demonstrates the power of the Digital Clay and Sculpting brushes. To offer a richer understanding of the application, Eric gives a guided tour of the interface and addresses the most common problems experienced by new users. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-507-3 | $70.95 | | |
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 Maya 2009 Essential Training is designed to provide a strong foundation in this 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool. George Maestri covers everything from the basics of the interface to bringing models to life with complex animation. He explores object manipulation, NURBS, UV editing, paint effects, and mental ray rendering. George demonstrates Maya's full functionality by building a robot from scratch. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-516-2 | $105.95 | | |
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 As web applications become more robust, they evolve beyond simple compatibility with desktop software and begin to take full advantage of their online nature. In Google Docs Essential Training, David Rivers thoroughly explores Google's web application suite for creating, managing, and sharing the most common office document types: word processing files, presentations, and spreadsheets. He highlights how the collaboration workflow is improved when many people can revise a document simultaneously on a secure server, from any connected device, without installing or updating anything but a web browser. David covers the features common to the suite and unique to each application, including the use of lists, styles, tables, and objects in word processing documents; sheets, functions, and formulas in spreadsheets; and themes, video, and speaker notes in presentations. Example files accompany the course.
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 Architecture, design, and media professionals all over the world are using Google SketchUp to create detailed 3D models efficiently and quickly. In Google SketchUp Essential Training, design expert George Maestri teaches the foundations of SketchUp's drawing, design, and rendering tools. He covers the fundamentals of the application, the interface, and the Sandbox extension, which is used to create realistic organic shapes and terrain. George also discusses how to model and texture objects from existing photographs and export models to Google Earth to visualize how buildings fit in a real landscape. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Reduce learning time by 80%. Learn from a professional trainer from your own desk. Visual training method, offering users increased retention and accelerated learning. Breaks even the most complex applications down into simplistic steps, ideal for users who learn faster when shown.
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 In this title, George Maestri explores the latest features of Maya 8, from the improved interface to the new productivity features for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. The training also includes detailed tutorials on topics as varied as creating and connecting surfaces, texturing and shading, adding light and depth of field, and ghosting and motion trails. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In Maya 2008 Essential Training, animation director and producer George Maestri covers all areas of Maya. From general workflow to manipulating objects, modeling, rendering, paint effects, and animating, these tutorials are ideal for those who quickly need to get up to speed on Maya, whether at the professional or novice 3-D animation level. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 Maya 8.5 Character Rigging provides an overview of rigging, character geometry, and topology, and then delves into the details of how to create professional, realistic 3D characters. Instructor and animation veteran George Maestri shares his expertise on everything from kinematics to character skinning. Using hands-on examples, he teaches users how to best plan, create, edit, and move an animated character with Maya 8.5. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Whether the goal is to create action-packed video games, corporate logos, mechanical assemblies, or elaborate architectural visualizations, 3ds Max 9 Modeling teaches the appropriate methods. Instructor Steve Nelle explains how to model all kinds of objects with the software’s vast array of modeling tools. Using hands-on examples, Steve discusses and demonstrates the building process from start to finish. Real-world projects are incorporated throughout the course to highlight key concepts and techniques. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 AutoCAD 2009 sports cutting-edge features and a brand new interface, making it the perfect opportunity for those with no prior drafting experience to learn AutoCAD from the ground up. In AutoCAD 2009 Essential Training, Jeff Bartels gives a thorough explanation of the interface and explains the commands in the same order they would be encountered in a typical workflow. He discusses each concept using simple line work, and then applies it to a real-world example. The course is "industry neutral," meaning the skills and techniques can be applied to any drafting discipline: architectural, mechanical, civil, or design. Example files accompany the course.
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 Picking up where 3ds Max 2009 Essential Training left off, 3ds Max 2009 Beyond the Basics thoroughly explores materials, lights and cameras, animation techniques, rendering, special FX, and more. Those new to 3D animation will gain the most by simply working through the chapters in sequence, while experienced users can jump directly to a particular subject of interest. Lessons are reinforced with projects that apply each new technique to a real-world scenario. Instructor Steve Nelle also shares valuable tips and insights gained during his years of working as a professional animator. As he says, "There's a lot more to becoming an animator than simply knowing which button to push!" Example files accompany the course.
Special Note: Fundamental 3D modeling concepts and techniques, along with features such as transformations and modifiers, are covered in 3ds Max 2009 Essential Training.
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 With a host of new capabilities, AutoCAD 2009 remains the industry standard for 2D drafting. Jeff Bartels draws on his experience as a professional drafter and takes an in–depth look at the AutoCAD features used to communicate design. AutoCAD 2009: 2D Drafting Techniques is intended to be an “industry neutral” course, so the lessons can be applied to any discipline. Starting with synchronizing the AutoCAD workspace and settings, Jeff explores the creation and modification tools, focusing on several sub–options for each command. He discusses utilities such as Draw Order, Groups, and the Geometric Calculator, and demonstrates tools for making powerful selections and managing layers. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 In AutoCAD 2009, annotative objects are more than simple text labels, they include dimensions, leaders, blocks, and hatch, each of which can automatically size itself to match the scale of the plot. Jeff Bartels draws on his experience as an instructor and professional drafter in AutoCAD 2009: Annotation, to move beyond standard labeling functions. He demonstrates how to create dynamic annotations that react to viewport scales and (in some cases) update themselves when the drawing changes. Jeff also includes a thorough discussion of creating table objects, and shares some tips and tricks for using dimensions and multi–line text in a production environment. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 References in AutoCAD allow designs to be seen as more than just single drawings. In addition to standard line work, AutoCAD drawings can support images and store project data. Designers can also create projects that link drawings together, each one representing a component of the overall design. In AutoCAD 2009: Mastering References, Jeff Bartels goes deeper into the application, using his experience with civil engineering construction drawings to explore the concept of referencing. Using practical examples, Jeff teaches how to maintain project data, automate parts lists, make global changes using external references, incorporate imagery into drawings, and more. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 AutoCAD 2010 Essential Training covers the most important features of this industry-standard 2D drafting and design application. Professional designer Jeff Bartels begins with a tour of AutoCAD’s interface and the tools used to create basic shapes. He then focuses on the methods used to modify and refine geometry while emphasizing accuracy and good habits to build a solid design foundation. Jeff shows how to use layers, line types, and colors to organize a drawing file and explains how to efficiently annotate a design and prepare it for final output. Throughout the course, Jeff shares techniques used in the industry and reinforces the lessons with practical examples. Exercise files accompany this course.
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 Learning QuarkXPress 6 is a movie-based workshop developed for beginning QuarkXPress users. It is intended to help those interested in page design learn the basic tools and features of this powerful program. Using simple step-by-step exercises, you will learn the fundamentals of using the tools, setting up pages, working with text, working with graphics, outputting to PDF and much more. Get up to speed quickly with this time-tested professional page design program.
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 “Photorealism with Bert Monroy: using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator” will take you inside the creative mind of renowned artist Bert Monroy and show you how to produce ultra-realistic images using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. These movies showcase Bert Monroy’s personal methods for getting realistic details into an image. He demonstrates his techniques for creating lighting, fire, smoke, grass, reflections and even mold. In these movies you will get up close and personal with Bert’s paintings as well as learn to make your own photorealistic imagery. Though these movies were created using Adobe’s latest releases of Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS, the principles and techniques apply to older versions of both programs in addition to other paint or vector-based drawing tools.
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 Photorealism with Bert Monroy - Volume 2 once again takes you inside the creative mind of renowned artist Bert Monroy, and shows you how to create ultra-realistic images using Adobe Photoshop. This follow-up to his previous and extremely popular “Photorealism” title showcases Bert Monroy's personal methods for creating realistic details to enhance a digital image. Learn to make rusty text, a glazed donut, fireworks, an antique photo, a speeding bullet, and much more. You'll learn to master the pen tool, layers, alpha channels, and masking by watching and following along with one of the great digital artists of today. Though these movies were created using Adobe's latest release of Photoshop CS, the principles and techniques apply to older versions of both programs, as well as to other paint or vector-based drawing tools. Once again, lynda.com is very pleased to bring you Bert's work, and we hope you will find this training as exciting as we do!
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 Scanning Principles with Taz Tally, Ph.D. is a movie-based tutorial designed to help graphics professionals and enthusiasts consistently achieve top-quality results with a variety of scanned images. The training begins with digital image and scanner fundamentals, then quickly advances to cover simple and complex line art scans, calibrating your scanner for optimal results, capturing grayscale and color photos, descreening, pattern removal, batch scanning and much more. Techniques for faster scanning and workflow integration are also covered. The step-by-step instructions allow you to follow along with your own images, learning at your own pace.
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 Introduction to Digital Photography with Taz Tally, Ph.D. is a movie-based tutorial designed to help graphics professionals and photo enthusiasts learn the basics of digital photography from the ground up. The training begins with digital image fundamentals such as pixels, resolution, capture bit depth and image channels, then quickly advances to cover calibration, compression, file formats, sharpening, setting white points, controlling zoom, capture speed and depth of field, and basic lighting options. Image editing and correction techniques are also covered, as well as tips for selecting a digital camera and setting up your own digital photo lab. Digital camera images are provided, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
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 All filmmakers and television producers (budding and experienced alike) will probably use an Avid product at some point in their careers. Avid Xpress Pro 5.5 Essential Editing covers the latest version of this high-end editing application, from the basics of using its interface to the ins and outs of rendering, creating titles and credits, and importing and exporting footage. Chris also demonstrates a range of hands-on editing techniques. Exercise files accompany this training.
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 Bento is a personal database for Mac OS X Leopard that provides an organizational hub for anything a person might want to collect, track, or connect. Bento is designed for those with no previous database experience, and having database expert Cris Ippolite as a guide makes it easier to get the most from this unique program. In Bento Essential Training, Cris introduces key database concepts as they relate to Bento, including collections, records, forms, and fields. He demonstrates how a little planning and setup results in a more useful collection of information. Cris also explains how to link Bento to other Mac applications, like Address Book and iCal; how to design custom templates; and how to follow best practices for backing up and restoring data. Example files accompany the course.
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 In FileMaker 8.5 Web Publishing, instructor Cris Ippolite delves into one of the best new features of FileMaker 8.5: the ability to publish databases to the web. The training covers how to incorporate all kinds of databases--for commerce sites, shopping carts, guest books, and interactive businesses--on the web using components from FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Server Advanced. Cris also teaches about Instant Web Publishing and custom web publishing, as well as using FileMaker with XML and XSLT. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 After teaching the fundamentals of this powerful application in FileMaker Pro 8.5 Essential Training, author Cris Ippolite continues his comprehensive training with FileMaker 8.5 Beyond the Basics. Taking it beyond the program's essentials, this set of tutorials covers topics as varied as data modeling, defining fields using aggregate functions, summarizing with multiple variables, and networking with FileMaker Server. We recommend that users new to FileMaker complete FileMaker Pro 8.5 Essential Training before watching this title. Exercise files are included with the tutorial.
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 FileMaker Pro has been around almost as long as personal computers. Now in its mid-20s, the application offers new and powerful additions to its impressive and mature feature set. FileMaker Pro 8.5 Essential Training with Cris Ippolite gives comprehensive coverage of the program's primary principles and functions. From understanding the concept of a database and building and browsing records to designing smart user interfaces, from defining and validating fields to calculating and scripting essentials, Ippolite demonstrates and clarifies both the big picture and the finer points of database management with FileMaker Pro 8.5. The training also teaches users about a feature that is new to FileMaker 8.5--the Web Viewer--which allows the addition of a live web page within a record. Exercise files accompany the training.
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 In FileMaker Pro 9 Beyond the Basics, Certified Developer and Authorized Trainer Cris Ippolite offers comprehensive training in how to use FileMaker Pro 9 to its full potential. He also teaches numerous hands-on techniques for publishing FileMaker Pro 9 databases to networks and the web. The tutorials cover relationship types, external data sources, the new FileMaker Server 9, functions, objects, simple and complex reports, and even the new PHP Site Assistant. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 FileMaker Pro 9 represents a significant upgrade over previous versions, with many new and enhanced features. These include support for external SQL (ODBC) data sources with supplemental fields, an enhanced Web Viewer, toolbar improvements, multiple script editing windows, and new calculation functions. In FileMaker Pro 9 Essential Training, instructor Cris Ippolite covers each of FileMaker 9's features in detail. He demonstrates how to build a database from scratch for a thorough understanding of FileMaker from start to finish. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 From organization comes efficiency, and with efficiency, creativity can flourish. To help users create more efficient workflows, Cris Ippolite introduces the new features and basic functions of FileMaker Pro 10. In FileMaker Pro 10 Essential Training, Cris explains why this desktop database application is used by everyone from Fortune 500 companies to individuals. He demonstrates how databases work, how to manage information and understand its relationships, and how to work with calculated fields. Cris also shows how to import and export information, share results, and build interesting and attractive reports. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 JavaScript Essential Training takes viewers through the process of using JavaScript to fully realize a site's potential, from understanding the basics to creating real-world samples. Instructor Dori Smith explains how to work with objects, create buttons and forms that interact with site visitors, make rollovers, menus, slideshows, and countdowns, and take advantage of other practical applications. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Many types of websites can be built and maintained more easily using a content management system (CMS). A CMS provides a web-based interface for creating and organizing content. The content is stored in a database, then consistently presented according to a set of templates and preferences, which eliminates the need to handcraft each page in HTML. Joomla! is a popular, easy-to-use, open-source CMS built in PHP. It has near-limitless functionality, thanks to its community of extension developers. In Joomla! 1.5 Essential Training, Joseph LeBlanc uses Joomla! to build a small-business website from scratch with no programming at all, from installation to launch. He demonstrates how to create and organize content; add menus, sidebars, and other features; change the look with templates; install plug-ins and extensions; and much more. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 From understanding the concept of smart web design, to creating, editing, and maintaining a web site, instructor Joe Marini, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, gives his insider tips for real-world web site design using Expression Web. From creating forms and tables, creating and modifying templates, making sites accessible, using CSS and XML data, to creating dynamic pages and publishing the site, Joe shows how to use Expression Web through each stage of a web site's design and development. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 QuarkXPress 7 is the most significant update ever to Quark’s page layout application. In QuarkXPress 7 New Features, Jay Nelson, editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly, expertly shows you how to take advantage of the program’s new features to vastly improve your page layouts. Keeping designers in mind, Jay explains every interface change and uses real-world examples to demonstrate how to use each new feature.
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 Vue 6 xStream Essential Training shows how to plan and create spectacular visual effects, from a bird's-eye view of clouds to city and landscape backgrounds. Instructor Larry Mitchell gives users a working knowledge of what can be done with Vue 6 xStream, including adding and editing ecosystems, working with cameras, animating objects, manipulating lighting, and more. He demonstrates how to achieve a variety of results on numerous different kinds of projects. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 QuickBooks Pro, the popular accounting software that can be used for everything from handling personal expenditures to creating professional business account records. Suzanne covers organizing inventory and non-inventory items and using the automated EasyStep interview. She also demonstrates how to create and edit accounts, collect and pay sales tax, and handle invoices, vendor payments, and client refunds. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 Reason is a loop-based music creation application with a focus on MIDI sequencing, sampling, and synthesis. What sets it apart from other audio software is its unique user interface, which emulates a virtual rack of audio hardware. It is highly technical and can present a daunting learning curve even for those with experience in other audio software, which makes recording engineer Bruce Williams the ideal guide. In Reason 4 Essential Training, Bruce explores every device in the rack, including the Transport panel, and the new devices like the ReGroove mixer, the Thor polyphonic synthesizer, and the RPG-8 arpeggiator. He also demonstrates production enhancements made possible by the revamped sequencer and automation interfaces. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Photoshop has become an indispensible tool for photographers, designers, and all other creative professionals, as well as students. Photoshop CS4 Essential Training teaches a broad spectrum of core skills that are common to many creative fields: working with layers and selections; adjusting, manipulating, and retouching photos; painting; adding text; automating; preparing files for output; and more. Instructor Jan Kabili demonstrates established techniques as well as those made possible by some of the new features unique to Photoshop CS4. This course is indispensable to those who are new to the application, just learning this version, or expanding their skills. Example files accompany the course.
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 Soundbooth CS4 is a one-stop shop for audio editing and sweetening, and an invaluable element in the Creative Suite family. In Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training, producer and recording artist Sven-Erik Seaholm shows how to perform many basic audio editing tasks and apply professional-quality effects, which can subtly or dramatically transform audio tracks to meet the needs of a project. He also demonstrates beat detection, looping, multi-track functions such as panning and layering, the effective use of metadata, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Photoshop CS4 for Photographers is an essential course for any digital photographer who wants to master the software's vast array of image enhancement techniques. Professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his own compelling images to demonstrate how the power of Photoshop can make photographers more passionate about their work. He covers many aspects of the application, such as working with RAW images, using curves and levels, making images snap, and enhancing bland photographs by converting them to black and white. Exercise files accompany this course.
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 Web sites frequently require updates, but the people who create content don't necessarily have the experience or permission required to edit the HTML files on the server. Contribute offers a user-friendly interface for making changes without involving a web developer or an elaborate content management system. In Contribute CS4 Essential Training, Garrick Chow shows how a site administrator can create and assign roles, determining what users can edit and whether they can publish the changes. He explains how Contribute can be used for collaborative workflows, in which multiple contributors edit and review changes before publishing them, and simple version management, with the ability to roll back changes to a previous state if something goes wrong. The course covers everything developers, administrators, and contributors need to know to get the most from this unique tool.
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 Encore CS4 Essential Training covers not only the basic workflow for creating DVDs, but also the important technical concepts and advanced features that can lead to real mastery of this powerful application. Chad Perkins demonstrates how to import and organize assets; assemble them into a timeline; and provide navigation via menus, buttons, and links. He discusses output alternatives such as Flash and Blu-ray, and integration with other CS4 applications like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. A series of projects is used to reinforce the techniques and concepts. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Device Central is a mobile device simulator and testing application that serves as the hub of mobile design and development in Creative Suite 4. It simulates the display, interface, and performance of hundreds of phones and other devices, and is kept up to date via an online database. Device Central is an indispensable tool for Flash Lite developers. It can also be used to preview designs, video, and HTML layouts from other CS4 applications, like Photoshop, After Effects, and Dreamweaver. In Device Central CS4 Essential Training, Dale Rankine takes an in-depth look at all of Device Central's features, from basic testing to scripted automation. He also offers insights into the mobile content industry as a whole. Dale explains what can be learned from the various testing and feedback panels, shows how to test content on actual devices, and more. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 In Premiere Pro CS4 Essential Training, Antony Bolante provides a step-by-step, hands-on demonstration of a typical video editing workflow, from import to export. After creating a project and discussing how to configure settings based on editing goals, he shows how to gather and organize assets, including video files, layered Photoshop and Illustrator files, and footage captured from tape. He applies basic editing techniques to assemble a rough sequence, then tightens and refines the edit while doing basic audio mixing. Titles, transitions, and effects are used to add a professional touch. Antony also discusses techniques for exporting the finished edit to disc, tape, and a variety of digital formats. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Illustrator can be used to accomplish many different design tasks. For this reason, Illustrator CS4 Essential Training teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow for print, the web, or assets that will find their way into other applications. Mordy Golding explains the elements that make up vector graphics—paths, strokes, and fills—and shows how to use each of Illustrator's drawing tools. He demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths, and organize them into groups and layers. Mordy also covers text editing, working with color, expressive brush drawing, effects, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. InDesign CS4 Essential Training presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use, providing a foundation upon which advanced skills and workflows can be built. David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, and much more. Example files accompany the course.
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 In After Effects CS4 Essential Training, Chad Perkins teaches fundamental motion graphics design techniques from the ground up. He shows how to gather video, audio, and graphical source materials into layered compositions, make edits and adjustments, then bring it all to life with a powerful array of visual effects and animation techniques. These skills are demonstrated in a series of increasingly intricate projects, from creating a galaxy to building a fantasy battle scene. Chad also demonstrates workflows for keying and compositing, shows how to integrate with other applications, shares useful tips and secrets, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course
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 Photoshop CS4 for Photographers is a recommended prerequisite for this course.
In Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Camera Raw, Chris Orwig enthusiastically explores a Photoshop plug-in that is a must-have for any serious photographer. By working on the digital negatives in Camera Raw, photographers have more creative control over their photos, and the original files remain intact. Chris demonstrates techniques for processing images by adjusting tone, contrast, highlights, and clarity. He also illustrates methods for sharpening images, controlling color saturation, and creating dynamic black-and-white images. With a detailed tour of the interface and control panels, Chris shows how Camera Raw is a one-of-a-kind creative resource. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Dreamweaver CS4 Dynamic Development takes users to the next level in their understanding of the application. David Gassner demonstrates the installation of Apache, MySQL, and PHP for Mac OS X and Windows. He also shows how to define sites, integrate ColdFusion and PHP, implement AJAX-style pages with the Spry framework, add visual effects, and present XML-formatted data. David explores Dreamweaver's new features, Live View and Live Code, showing how they can be used to build and test web pages before they go live. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 InCopy and InDesign CS4 Workflow Essential Training introduces designers and copy editors to a dynamic creative process. Anne-Marie Concepción demonstrates how InCopy integrates with InDesign to make publishing faster, more efficient, and more collaborative. She shows the steps editors and designers can take to work concurrently, reducing the number of revision rounds and offering editors more control over the final publication. For those familiar with this workflow, Anne-Marie highlights several new CS4 features, including automatic cross-references, conditional text, built-in screen sharing, and the ability to edit table text in Story view or Galley view. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 There's no program like Photoshop for editing photographs and creating photorealistic artwork. And there's no Photoshop teacher like industry expert and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Deke McClelland. In Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals, Deke examines the essential capabilities of the application, from correcting color to retouching portraits. He also covers navigation, resolution, cropping, selecting, printing, and making web graphics. This course goes beyond basic tips and tricks, and provides the in-depth information and real-world context needed by serious students who want to master the software. Exercise files accompany the course. Parts 2 and 3 to follow in 2009.
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 To get the most out of Dreamweaver CS4, it's important not only to master the application, but also to understand fundamental concepts of modern web design. James Williamson teaches just that in Dreamweaver CS4 Essential Training, covering everything from site structure to the value of standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. He shows how to create clean and accessible code in Dreamweaver, as well as how to publish compelling content. James demonstrates how to use a variety of techniques for adding interactivity, creating and styling forms and tables, and saving time with templates. He explains the benefits of using programs like Word and Photoshop to speed up workflow, and shows how to publish and manage finished sites. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Fireworks CS4 is a hybrid imaging and rapid-prototyping application with an enhanced toolset and a greater variety of options. In Fireworks CS4 Essential Training, Jim Babbage demonstrates how to navigate and customize the workspace in this design and production hub. He then provides a primer on the array of graphics that can be created and combined in Fireworks, including bitmap and vector art, layered Photoshop and Illustrator files, and files in the native Fireworks format, enhanced PNG. He demonstrates creative uses of text, animation, and effects. Jim discusses how to generate optimized web graphics as well as entire interactive prototypes based on CSS, HTML, PDF, and AIR. This training is intended for those who are new to Fireworks or who are seeking insights into the techniques made possible by the latest version. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Flash is a powerful multimedia creation tool that can be used to build simple animations, full-featured applications, and everything in between. In Flash CS4 Professional Essential Training, Todd Perkins offers new Flash users a thorough explanation of the interface, tools, and techniques at the heart of any project. He shows how to use the latest iteration of the Flash drawing tools and timeline, work with text and symbols, and create tweens and other simple animations. Todd also explores multimedia elements like bitmap graphics, sound, and video. He shows how to use ActionScript 3.0 to add interactivity to Flash projects, discusses integration with other Adobe applications, and more. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Working with color can be an amazing journey, and in Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Color, Brooks Institute of Photography professor Chris Orwig teaches a different way to create great color in photographs. Chris goes beyond the basics by showing how color can have a profound effect on a photograph's impact. He demonstrates adjusting color and tone to make images more vivid, changing colors, working with color saturation, cross processing, and more. The course culminates with real-world projects that utilize the techniques Chris has shown for creating intriguing and beautiful color photographs. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 This course is perfect for anyone who's looking to add more "flash" to Flash projects. In Flash CS4 Professional: Object-Oriented Programming, Todd Perkins shares tools and techniques to help create a more streamlined workflow through reusable code components. He explains how encapsulation and inheritance can produce creative work with maximum efficiency, and shows how to use proper manipulation of classes to build a complete and complex slide show. Todd's examples demonstrate the power of this coding technique. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Mordy Golding demonstrates how to be more productive, efficient, and creative by taking advantage of Adobe Illustrator to create pixel-perfect web graphics and interactive Flash content. Illustrator CS4 for the Web investigates the pros and cons of pixel- and vector-based web graphics, demonstrates efficient workflows, and explores the creative options available in Illustrator. Mordy also covers design techniques, such as creating typography that works well on screen, adding reflections, and making Flash animations. He discusses new Illustrator CS4 features, including using multiple artboards, bringing art into Dreamweaver, and utilizing Flash Catalyst. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 The 3D capabilities in CS4 move Photoshop into a new dimension of image creation. Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins reviews the new 3D panel in Photoshop CS4, and demonstrates how to use 3D files in other applications, such as Bridge and After Effects. Chad reviews the basic 3D workflow, and then explores techniques for using cameras and perspective, creating 3D scenes from photos, working with layers, manipulating 3D objects, and even creating 3D animation. For users who want to go a little deeper, Chad introduces advanced methods for working with materials, rendering, and layers. Photoshop CS4 Extended for 3D adds powerful tools to any designer's creative arsenal. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 In Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Effects, Chris Orwig flexes the muscles of this powerful program to create unique and eye-catching photographic effects. A passionate photographer, Chris demonstrates how to enhance images through adding light for emphasis, adding drop and directional shadows, and using motion blur and film grain creatively. He also covers how to add a distressed look to create a vintage-style photograph, use infrared and solarization, apply creative layer blending, and much more. The course culminates with a step-by-step look at some real-world projects that utilize the techniques. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 As Ansel Adams once said, "The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." Now, with Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Desktop Printing Techniques, creating breathtaking prints is within reach. In this course, photographer and instructor Chris Orwig teaches techniques and workflows for crafting powerful and enduring images that bring the photographer's vision to life. From producing a business card to visiting a working press, Chris covers everything photographers need to know to achieve unique, compelling results from the printing process. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Photoshop CS4 offers designers a rich assortment of editing tools with which to create compelling imagery for the web. Photoshop CS4 for the Web covers a wide range of uses for Photoshop in the web graphics workflow. Instructor Jan Kabili explains how to optimize graphics and photographs so they download quickly in a web browser. She covers the why and how of image slicing, and demonstrates practical techniques for designing layouts, backgrounds, navigation bars, and buttons in Photoshop.
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 A portrait can be a cherished possession for a lifetime, and now making perfect portraits is just one Photoshop course away. Professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his vast knowledge of Photoshop to focus on the specific tools every photographer needs to adjust images and keep them looking genuine. Photoshop CS4 Portrait Retouching Essential Training explores this program's deep resources and inspires photographers to do their creative best with everything from blemishes to backdrops. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 A Flash-heavy web site can really get viewers' attention, but if the right people can't find the site, it won't make any difference. In Flash CS4 Professional: Building Search Engine Friendly Sites, Todd Perkins dispels the belief that Flash content hampers SEO. He shows how to use HTML, JavaScript, and PHP to optimize applications and incorporate text that is easy for search engines to find and accurately represents a site's Flash content. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Photoshop CS3 One-on-One is an opportunity to delve headlong into Photoshop CS3 with award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Deke McClelland. Complete with projects and work-along samples, this is the ultimate insider’s guide to Photoshop CS3. From the newest enhancements to the reliable classics, from the absolute essentials to the most advanced techniques, this training course teaches the essential skills needed to become comfortable and competent with Photoshop CS3. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 Contribute CS3 is the tool of choice for non-web designers who need to make changes and updates to an existing website without fear of accidentally damaging the site. In Contribute CS3 Essential Training , instructor Garrick Chow explains the process of setting up the Contribute CS3 workflow. He also covers how to collaborate with others to create and maintain a site and how to write and update blog entries.
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 In Dreamweaver CS3 Dynamic Development , instructor David Gassner demonstrates how to use Dreamweaver CS3 to create professional, data-driven websites that are interactive and seamlessly integrated. From choosing servers and databases to installing MySQL to designing and building web-based data entry systems and displays, this training provides in-depth, hands-on guidance through the process of building strong dynamic sites. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training , instructor Garrick Chow delves into the many powerful features of the latest version of this powerful web design application. He covers everything from the simplest basics of using Dreamweaver CS3 to applying it to develop a fully interactive, accessible site. Garrick explains the new interface features, and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design, and publish a professional website with Dreamweaver CS3 and complementary applications. Exercise files accompany the training.
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 Those who are new to CSS, or who want to create more efficient and powerful style sheets, will benefit from Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS Essential Training. Instructor James Williamson teaches the entire process of CSS management in Dreamweaver, following a step-by-step workflow. He covers XHTML/CSS fundamentals, and working with typography, navigation, background properties, layout, and multiple media types. This in-depth training explores the entire process of creating site-wide style sheets, from concept to deployment. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 In Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training, instructor Rich Shupe delves into the key aspects of working with Flash CS3 to create professional animations, design interactive websites, and incorporate audio and video into self-contained presentations. The training covers using the drawing and color tools, mastering the essentials of animation, and working with type, graphics, sound, and video. Rich also introduces the essentials of working with ActionScript 3.0. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Flash has become one of the most popular ways to publish video on the web. It enables rich media experiences, custom playback controls, and top-notch quality. In Flash CS3 Interactive Video Techniques, instructor Chris Florio highlights the tools non-programmers need to add video to projects. He also covers techniques for creating interactive video with ActionScript, including how to use cue points, dynamic masks, and custom controls. Flash CS3 Interactive Video Techniques makes integrating video a snap for everyone from novice Flash users wanting to know supported file formats to advanced Flash developers looking to create masking videos. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-453-0 | $70.95 | | |
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 Through several hands-on tutorials, instructor Todd Perkins shows how to best build dynamic, streamlined sites using Flash CS3 Professional. Learn how to create custom keyboard shortcuts, apply advanced text techniques such as animating scrolling text with custom easing controls, and using advanced animation techniques. Flash CS3 Professional Beyond the Basics covers many challenging features, including adding complex interactivity to a Flash CS3 project and getting Flash content on a phone. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Flash CS3 Professional Fundamentals focuses on the animation and storytelling aspects of Flash, from animating objects to manipulating animation. Covering the core skills needed for starting an animation project, such as drawing, tweening, and using the timeline, as well as the common pitfalls that new users often experience, instructor Todd Perkins simplifies and streamlines even the most complex concepts. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 From understanding the similarities and differences between the interfaces and workflows to working with colors, symbols, and text to using mobile applications, there is a lot to learn about integrating Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3. In Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3 Professional Integration , Adobe Certified Expert Mordy Golding fully explains every aspect of incorporating these two applications, turning users into experts. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-335-6 | $35.95 | | |
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 Now entering its third decade, Adobe Illustrator CS3 remains the most popular and viable vector-drawing program for one reason: It’s the best. Illustrator offers powerful transformation and reshaping functions, excellent control over text and gradients, and the best color management and print controls in the business. Add dynamic effect filters, program-wide transparency control, and tight integration with Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash, and it’s a professional artist’s dream come true.The learning curve is steep, and Illustrator demands the user’s full attention. Enter Illustrator CS3 One-on-One, a crash course on everything there is to know about the program. Best-selling author and leading industry expert Deke McClelland teaches the essential tricks and advanced techniques. He also delves into the Illustrator “mindset,” explaining how to feel at home with the program. At the end of this course, Illustrator will make sense.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-353-4 | $105.95 | | |
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 Instructor David Blatner teaches the intricacies of creating, editing, and publishing professional layouts with InDesign CS3, from setting preferences to employing advanced typography and transparency effects. InDesign CS3 Beyond the Basics covers each step in the publishing process, and explores such topics as structuring InDesign content to use XML; setting up preferences for composition, type, and units of measure; avoiding problems with transparency, managing and producing long documents; and exporting files for print. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Designed for new and experienced InDesign users, as well as those who are migrating from other layout applications, InDesign CS3 Essential Training covers all the bases. From exploring each of its tools in depth to teaching layout principles and techniques, instructor David Blatner covers everything needed to use InDesign productively. He demystifies InDesign's powerful features, including converting QuarkXPress files, formatting characters and paragraphs, setting up style sheets for better productivity, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
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 Like other page layout applications, InDesign allows users to control the appearance of every element on a page. It helps format elements with style sheets, which collect formatting attributes for easy replication. But that’s where the similarities end. InDesign CS3 One-on-One: Style Sheets demonstrates why InDesign’s style sheets are far more powerful than anything found in any other page layout program. Pioneering electronic publisher and author Deke McClelland goes to the heart of InDesign’s style sheets, and discusses how they define and guide just about every other program feature. He covers how to format words, paragraphs, whole frames, objects, tables, and even entire stories with a single click. Once users come to terms with style sheets, they can make InDesign work to its fullest. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 In InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials, instructor Taz Tally covers each step of the prepress process, from proper document planning and construction to making the right choices for output settings. He teaches all the details in between, including choosing the right typefaces and fonts, working with graphics and colors, and much more. Using practical examples, Taz takes viewers from concept to printer-ready InDesign and PDF files. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-379-8 | $70.95 | | |
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 The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. Selections, layer boundaries, the Quick Mask mode, layer masks, knockouts, and the Channels palette all rely on alpha channels. In Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks, award-winning author and Photoshop expert Deke McClelland taps the vast capabilities of popular tools like layer masks, luminance blending, and paths. He also takes on many little known but very useful features, including Calculations, blue-screen masking, high dynamic range, and displacement masks. Plus, Deke teaches how to select and composite highlights, shadows, clouds, fabric, feathers, glass, flames, lights, eyes, and all kinds of hair. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In Photoshop CS3 Creative Photographic Techniques, professional photographer Chris Orwig goes beyond the basics, exploring the use of Photoshop to create beautiful and inspiring images. From first viewing a scene to preparing photos for expert output, Chris takes photographers through the whole process of creating great pictures. He also covers understanding color, making color corrections, working with special effects and filters, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-348-8 | $70.95 | | |
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 Photoshop CS3 Extended adds revolutionary support for 3D and video files. In Photoshop CS3 Extended for 3D and Video , Chad Perkins teaches users how to take advantage of Photoshop CS3 Extended's 3D capabilities. Chad demonstrates how to manipulate 3D objects, work with video layers, set keyframes, animate Photoshop layers, rotoscope video, and export video and animation directly from Photoshop. Exercise files accompany this training.
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 Veteran pharmaceutical research scientist and member of Adobe’s Biomedical Image Advisory Group, Eric J. Wexler shares his experience creating detailed biomedical imaging in Photoshop CS3 Extended for Biomedical Research. Eric shows how to use Photoshop CS3’s selection, analysis, and editing tools to evaluate an image’s color composition, modify images for research, optimize exposure with levels and curves, transform images with layers, and compensate for acquisition problems and limitations. Eric also explains how to add reference information to images, annotate and optimize DICOM animations, and share finished images with colleagues. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In Photoshop CS3 Extended Projects: Research Methods and Workflows, veteran research scientist and Adobe Biomedical Image Advisory Group member Eric J. Wexler shows how to use Photoshop CS3 for detailed research and presentations with hands-on examples. Eric evaluates gel images, penetration model samples, autoradiographs, and measurement recording and workflows, he also demonstrates how to create and apply a standard curve. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 Covering everything from setting up the interface to optimizing photos to using tools like the Web Photo Gallery, Photoshop CS3 for the Web Essential Training is a beginner course for anyone using Photoshop CS3 to create or edit images for the web. Instructor Jan Kabili explains the difference between web and print graphics, demonstrates how to create color swatches, discusses layers and slices, teaches how to create integral web page elements, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-375-5 | $70.95 | | |
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 Based on the device-independent CIE specification from 1976, Lab color is frequently misrepresented as a techy, labor-intensive color space. In fact, Lab color performs certain types of color modifications more quickly and with better results than RGB. In Photoshop CS3 Mastering Lab Color, Deke McClelland explores how to use Lab color “to make bad photographs great and great photographs even better.” He demonstrates image manipulations that are best suited to Lab, and walks through a typical, non-destructive Lab correction. Deke also shows how to correct lighting, apply selective color modifications, and reverse the effects of color cast. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-461-1 | $70.95 | | |
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 In Photoshop CS3 Prepress Essentials, instructor Taz Tally, Ph.D., teaches Photoshop CS3 users how to best prepare color and black-and-white images for print use. From explaining tools and workflows to discussing image channels, resolution, bit depth and modes, Taz explores all of Photoshop CS3's important prepress features. He guides viewers through concrete, practical exercises in image editing, correction, and adjustment, demonstrating how to get real-world, professional results. He also covers how to automate processes once settings are determined for specific needs. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Real focus happens inside the camera's lens element. The sharpening features in Photoshop CS3 exaggerate the contrast along edges in a photograph to transform a well-focused image into an outstanding image. In Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images, Deke McClelland teaches a host of sharpening and noise reduction techniques, including using filters such as Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, High Pass, and Reduce Noise. The training teaches the essentials of sharpening, including what it does, why it's important, and how the filters function. Plus, the training covers Deke's recommended best practices, including the four distinct varieties of sharpening, which can be used independently or in combination with each other. Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images is about how to transform images from looking good to looking their absolute best. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-428-X | $70.95 | | |
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 Photoshop CS3 Color Correction is all about color: from customizing Photoshop color settings to accessing color correction tools with keyboard shortcuts to understanding the intricacies of histograms. Color correction expert Taz Tally explains each step of the process, including how to evaluate an image, determine what steps are required, adjust image dimensions, linear resolution, and mode, identify and correct shadows, remove screens and noise, retouch flaws, use curves and the color sampler, and much more.
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 In Photoshop CS3 for Designers, instructor Ted LoCascio teaches graphic designers how to effectively use Photoshop for image manipulation and processing. He covers how to incorporate raw images into design workflows, use tools for special effects and retouching, integrate Photoshop with other Adobe applications, and save images for print. Photoshop CS3 for Designers guides graphics professionals through every step of the production workflow. Exercise files accompany the course
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 Photoshop CS3 for Photographers covers all the essential techniques a digital photographer needs to master in order to take advantage of Photoshop’s possibilities. Instructor Chris Orwig teaches everything from the key elements to the advanced tools of the application, demonstrating how to apply them for the best photographic results in print or online. He also gets into the nitty-gritty of using Photoshop, from working with Camera Raw to finessing a retouch. Exercise files accompany this training.
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 Some of the most compelling photographs are of people--portraits, family snapshots, wedding photos--and Photoshop helps make people look their best in pictures. In Photoshop CS3 Portrait Retouching Essentials, professional photographer and Photoshop expert Chris Orwig gives a hands-on tour of the retouching secrets used by pros. He demonstrates tricks for covering up skin flaws, correcting discrepancies in color and tone, removing backgrounds and other visual distractions, fixing teeth and hair, enhancing facial features, and sculpting body parts. This inspiring step-by-step training course is full of secrets that will help professionals and hobbyists alike create stunning photographs of people. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 Premiere Pro CS3 Beyond the Basics delves deeper into many advanced video-editing concepts such as track mattes. It also covers using Premiere as an audio recording studio, automating audio track mixing , and adding audio effects. Many confusing audio concepts, such as sample rate, bit depth, and VST effects, are clearly explained, for basic concepts and in-depth comprehension. There is an entire chapter devoted to the process of editing a video podcast with Premiere Pro from start to finish. Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins also shares a great deal of knowledge about working with color and color correction. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-411-5 | $105.95 | | |
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 In Premiere Pro CS3 Essential Training , Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins teaches each aspect of Premiere Pro CS3, as well as standard film and video editing techniques. He covers how to create web video, record directly to disc with OnLocation, key with Ultra, browse files with Bridge, export to mobile devices with Device Central, and author professional DVDs with Encore. (All of this software is included with Premiere Pro CS3.) Chad also devotes a large portion of the training to essential filmmaking and editing principles. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-351-8 | $105.95 | | |
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 In After Effects CS3 Effects, Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins explores the basic purposes and practical uses of each of the application’s effects. He teaches in detail how to apply every native effect, covering 3D Channel effects, Blur & Sharpen effects, using channels for blending and reflections, color correction, distortion, particle systems, and keying. This training is essential for those who want to push After Effects CS3 to its limits. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-441-7 | $70.95 | | |
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 Filmmakers of all kinds are exploring new digital tools for creating animated content. After Effects CS3: Animating Characters follows the creation of a short animated film, from storyboard through final output, using After Effects CS3. George Maestri uses a one-minute monster movie to showcase the new Puppet tool, along with many other techniques for animating characters in After Effects. He covers lip syncing, creating segmented characters with movable joints, and employing special effects. George demonstrates in detail how to create individual scenes and shots, and offers insight into how to pull the pieces together to form a cohesive production. Familiarity with After Effects is recommended. Exercise files accompany the course.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-462-X | $35.95 | | |
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 After Effects CS3 Professional Beyond the Basics shows how to take After Effects to the next level. Instructor Chad Perkins teaches techniques for bringing photos to life with displacement, crafting fire and water effects with Fractal Noise, mastering masks, using the "other" puppet tools, creating a lightsaber fight, running the gamut of expressions, and taking advantage of advanced 3D options. Chad shares his best tips and tricks for mastering After Effects CS3 Professional, and takes viewers through each of the program's advanced features. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-396-8 | $105.95 | | |
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 From creating simple animation to integrating Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash files, After Effects CS3 Professional Essential Training explores the possibilities available using the motion graphics and animation features in After Effects. Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins teaches the fundamentals of managing the timeline, working with 3D layers, creating projects for iPods and mobile devices, and more. Using numerous hands-on visual effects and motion graphics exercises, he teaches the skills necessary for mastering After Effects tools and workflow processes. Chad even devotes an entire chapter to using After Effects and Photoshop together effectively. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-352-6 | $105.95 | | |
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 Covering diverse topics such as improving workflow and managing CSS styles, Dreamweaver CS3 Beyond the Basics is a hands-on course that teaches users how to move beyond standard, static websites. Instructor James Williamson explores how to increase productivity, interactivity, and accessibility with Dreamweaver. He also discusses how to extend the application's capabilities with XML and XSL. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-381-X | $105.95 | | |
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 InDesign’s functionality allows for handling multi-page documents, but even advanced users may not have mastered all the time-saving features available to streamline their processes. InDesign CS3 Long Documents focuses on workflow automation and how to complement these workflows with other applications. Instructor Nigel French also demonstrates several scripts and plug-ins that can enhance InDesign’s capabilities. Familiarity with InDesign CS3 is recommended. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 InDesign’s functionality allows for handling multi-page documents, but even advanced users may not have mastered all the time-saving features available to streamline their processes. InDesign CS3 Long Documents focuses on workflow automation and how to complement these workflows with other applications. Instructor Nigel French also demonstrates several scripts and plug-ins that can enhance InDesign’s capabilities. Familiarity with InDesign CS3 is recommended. Exercise files accompany the course.
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 While InCopy CS3 and InDesign CS3 are both strong applications on their own, their true power shines when they are used together to create smooth and comprehensive systems for print content management, editing, and layout. In InCopy CS3 + InDesign CS3 Integration , instructor Anne-Marie Concepción teaches users how to take advantage of both applications to collaborate effectively with others on a publication team. She also covers the essentials of creating and editing content, streamlining workflow, and optimizing each application's features. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-337-2 | $70.95 | | |
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 To help CS3 users manage photos and other digital files that can become overwhelming, Adobe has introduced Bridge CS3. In Bridge and Version Cue CS3 Essential Training, instructor Ted LoCascio teaches viewers how to use Bridge to take full advantage of each application and better manage files for individual and group projects. Complementing Bridge in the file management process is Version Cue CS3, a server-based workgroup collaboration system that also works with all the CS3 applications. Exercise files accompany this training.
| | Win/Mac DVD ISBN # 1-59671-347-X | $70.95 | | |
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 Encore CS3 Essential Training will assist anyone interested in authoring DVDs and Blu-ray Discs with everything from setting up a new project to designing and creating links and navigation to adding language tracks and subtitles. Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins also demonstrates how to create and edit slideshows, work with video in a timeline, create Flash movies of DVD presentations (without leaving Encore or knowing Flash), and integrate Encore with other CS3 applications. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 In ACT! 2010 Essential Training, author and ACT! Certified Consultant Karen Fredricks explains how ACT! can help small to mid-sized businesses become more organized, efficient, and profitable. ACT! is the most popular contact management software on the market, and this course is designed to get users up and running fast. Karen demonstrates how to build a database of contacts and customers, work with notes and histories, and run reports. Scheduling and task management are covered in depth, as well as integration with Word, Excel, and Outlook. Karen devotes time to new features in ACT! 2010, including e-marketing and integration with social media.
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 Cinema 4D R11.5 Essential Training covers all the important steps to get up and running with this easy-to-use 3D application. Designer and author Ian Robinson covers the essentials of 3D design, including modeling, animation, and integration with other design tools. Ian explores how to build objects with Cinema 4D's basic primitives, and how to use light, shadow, and texture to give depth to a scene. He shows the proper use of the powerful animation tools, including MoGraph, to push 3D designs to the limit. Finally, Ian covers how to combine Cinema 4D with other applications like After Effects and Motion. Exercise files accompany this course.
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