In this course, author Jan Kabili introduces the photo organizing, editing, and sharing features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, the less expensive version of Photoshop thatпїЅs ideal for casual photographers who want to achieve professional results. The course covers importing, organizing, and finding photos with the Organizer. It explains how and when to use each of the editing workspacesпїЅfrom the simple Quick Fix and Guided Edit workspaces to the Full Edit workspace for enhancing your photosпїЅincluding making photo corrections, retouching, compositing images, and adding text. The final chapter offers creative ways to share photos with Elements, including print projects like greeting cards, calendars, and books, emailing photos, and posting them on Facebook and Flickr.

Finale is the standard application used by musicians of all levels to compose, arrange, play, and print music. In this course, Rick Schmunk shows any aspiring or professional musician, composer, or arranger how to become proficient with Finale 2012. The course shows how to notate musical scores, ranging from simple lead sheets and guitar tablature parts to detailed scores, and bring them to life with instruments and share them with an audience. Exercise files are included with the course.

Pro Tools 10 Essential Training with musician and producer David Franz illuminates the process of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in Avid Pro Tools, the industry-standard software for music and postproduction. The course covers recording live audio and adding effects on the fly, creating music with virtual instruments and plug-ins, editing for time and pitch manipulation, creating a musical score, and mixing and mastering a track. Exercise files accompany the course.

In Acrobat X: Creating Forms, author Claudia McCue shows how to design a form from scratch in Word, Illustrator, or InDesignпїЅor from an existing electronic document. The course shows how to add interactive fields like check boxes, buttons, drop-down lists, and digital signature fields; how to add field calculations like sum or average; and how to use javascript for more advanced calculations. The course also covers how to enable forms for Acrobat Reader users, add security to a form, distribute it via email or the web, and collect data from recipients. Exercise files are included with the course.

With LearnKey's COM+ for Developers training course, developers and systems integrators can discover the power of COM+ to create and use software components in any language and using any tool. With practical, real-world examples, expert Martin Schaeferle shows you how to build COM components, design distributed applications and use Visual Basic to create data components. At the conclusion of this course, you will understand component design and be able to configure COM+ services for optimal performance.

This course introduces Edge, an Adobe design tool that uses web standards for incorporating smooth animations and interactivity. Author Mordy Golding explains how and when to use Edge and demonstrates creating motion content in the application's timeline-based interface. The course also covers importing and keyframing web graphics and adding interactivity to projects. Exercise files accompany the course.

Guest instructor and illustrator extraordinaire Neil Phyfer presents a real-time tutorial on how to transform a sketch into an amazingly detailed digital painting. This lesson starts with Neil sketching and finishes with all the amazing detail that only a professional illustrator can add. The tutorial is broken into separate videos where you'll learn advanced Photoshop techniques for...
- Sketching
- Inking
- Coloring
- Shadowing
- High Lighting
- Final FX and Texturing
As always, source PSD files and textures are included.

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.

ThereпїЅs no two ways about it: understanding object oriented programming is hard! We all know the feeling. But eventually, if you stick with it, things suddenly clickпїЅand boy, is that an amazing feeling.
So thatпїЅs my goal with this massive video series (separated into three cheap purchases for your convenience.) My job is to help someone, possibly you, finally dig into Object Oriented Programming, and, not only understand the concepts, but also understand WHEN and HOW you would actually use these techniques.