Photoshop Artist in Action: Tim Grey’s “Prayer Sticks”

In this course you’ll see how Tim Grey created one of his favorite images, an interpretation of a photograph of Japanese prayer sticks. The contents of this

Photoshop Creative Effects and Filters

“If you can imagine something,” says Tim Grey, “you can probably create it in Photoshop.” In this one of-a-kind workshop Tim puts his money where his mouth is by sharing his favorite techniques for using Photoshop’s effects and filters to create imaginative, out-of-the-ordinary images. He starts with simple things like black-and-white interpretations, monochromatic tints, vignettes, and film grain, then moves on to more dramatic effects like Surface Blur, Tilt-Shift Blur, Oil Paint. From there you’ll head into “wild territory” as Tim explores some experimental ways to stylize and distort your images.

Learning Web Analytics

In this course you’ll learn how to develop a plan for analytics by asking the right questions, measuring the right numbers, and correctly interpreting the data.

Word 2010 Mail Merge Workshop

In this course you’ll learn how to make the most of the Word 2010’s mail merge feature. The contents of this course include:

Video2Brain – Introducing the JavaScript Language

JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, but before you can start using it to create dynamic websites, you need to understand how it works. In this workshop trainer and developer Joe Chellman explores the syntax behind the JavaScript language. You will learn to speak as JavaScript by gaining an understanding of variables, types, objects, arrays, operators, control structures, loops, and functions. You will also work through a series of hands-on examples that put these ideas into action. After completing this course, you will understand the core syntax of JavaScript and how this scripting language works to build powerful and complex functionality on the web.

Getting Started with Themes in WordPress

One of the best things about WordPress is how themes let you customize the way your site looks and works. Though there are lots themes available for free, you may want to create your own in order to communicate your unique online identity. In this workshop developer and trainer Joe Chellman shows you two approaches to creating a theme. You’ll learn how to create a child theme from an existing theme, using the current default theme, Twenty Twelve, as an example. You’ll also learn how take a single, static HTML file (with attendant CSS and image files) and build it into a WordPress theme with support for widgetized sidebars and custom menus.

jQuery Mobile: Building a Mobile Website

In this course, expert web developer and trainer Candyce Mairs gets you up and running as a mobile site developer using the jQuery Mobile framework. You’ll learn the difference between jQuery Mobile and HTML pages and become familiar with the idea of using libraries and themes to feature and style your mobile website. Then you’ll get started creating and updating pages in the mobile space, and even learn how to add features like a date picker for forms, a Twitter feed, and a photo gallery. Along the way you’ll see how to test your designs on a variety of devices to make sure they’re ready for prime time.

Getting Started with XHTML and CSS

The first step in learning the fundamentals of web design is getting past acronyms like XHTML and CSS. In this user-friendly workshop, author and trainer Chad Chelius demystifies XHTML code, showing you the building blocks of a web page’s content, and explains the role that cascading style sheets (CSS) play in building web pages. You’ll learn how to gain complete control over the appearance of your web pages and how to work with links, graphics, and alt text. Finally, you’ll see how to upload your files to a server, add meta tags, and test your website, and you’ll even get a glimpse of the future of the web: HTML5 and CSS3.

Photography 101

Today’s cameras put an amazing amount of power in the hands of amateur photographers, but it’s not always easy to make use of it. All those buttons, dials, and settings can be pretty intimidating. In this workshop, expert photographer Joseph Linaschke helps you understand what’s going on inside your camera, explaining fundamentals like what an aperture is and how shutter speed works. You’ll learn basics such as how to hold the camera, what various modes mean and when to use them, and even how and when to use the camera’s flash. There’s also creative instruction to guide you towards becoming a better photographer. As you become more comfortable with your gear, you’ll find that many new creative possibilities open up for you and the quality of your photography improves.

Photoshop CS6 RAW Workshop

Your camera as RAW capture capability gives you the potential to create truly stunning images, and in this workshop from digital imaging guru Tim Grey, you will learn how to use Adobe Camera Raw 7 to get optimal quality from your RAW captures with an efficient workflow. After giving you an overview of Camera Raw and how it works, Tim will teach you how to apply a wide variety of adjustments to your images, from basic adjustments like cropping and sharpening, to advanced adjustments like HSL and split toning, to focused adjustments like spot removal and graduated filters.

Fireworks CS6 Workshop

Fireworks CS6 is the latest iteration of Adobe’s powerful web graphics and rapid interactive prototyping tool, and in this course Adobe Community Professional Tom Green gives you an overview of the Fireworks interface, the formats it can output, and its various imaging tools. Along the way you’ll see how Fireworks integrates with Adobe Edge, Dreamweaver CS6, and other tools in the Adobe Master Collection. Using a project-based approach to the techniques presented, this course will help you understand where Fireworks fits into the workflow for digital media projects ranging from simple web page prototyping to interface design for rich Internet applications.

Android App Development and Design: Learn by Video

If you want to get in on the rapidly expanding market for Android apps, you’ll need to understand the important concepts behind Android development, which may not be intuitive for those familiar with other platforms. In this course from expert programmer and developer Constantin Ehrenstein, you’ll begin by stepping through the process of setting up your Android development environment, defining device emulators, and connecting to actual Android devices. Next, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of Android layouts and UIs and how to program your app’s interaction with activities and services. With your basic Android app fleshed out, you’ll learn how to broaden your app’s target audience by making it run on as many devices, screen sizes, and form factors as possible. And finally, you’ll learn how to package your app and publish it to the Android Market. This Learn by Video workshop is published in partnership with Peachpit Press.

Getting Started with ColdFusion 10

In this course, expert web developer and trainer Candyce Mairs teaches you how to build a dynamic, database-driven website using ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion Builder. You will learn how to set up a testing environment as including installing ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder, and a database and be introduced to the basics of dynamic websites. Then you will work along with Candyce as she creates a complete database-driven ColdFusion website. Along the way you will learn how to work with forms, scoped variables, queries, ColdFusion functions, and more, and get up to speed on ColdFusion 10 features such as function enhancements for queries, new forms of looping, and new attributes.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: Learn by Video

Adobe Premiere Pro has fast become the number-one editing system for many editors around the world, and in the CS6 version, Adobe has added some new features that challenge expectations. These include a new special effects paradigm, advanced features previously seen only in Adobe After Effects, and a newly enhanced user interface. In this Learn by Video course (produced in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press), expert editor and trainer Maxim Jago covers everything from the fundamentals of nonlinear editing all the way up to the most advanced new features. You will learn how to bring multiple media types into Premiere Pro, combine them to produce professional edits, apply effects, add titles, work with audio, and output to multiple formats, including DVD, Blu-ray and files.

Optimal Output with Photoshop CS6

In this advanced workshop Tim Grey delves into some of the finer points of creating top-quality output of your digital images. You will get an introduction to color management, which is absolutely crucial to maintaining consistent colors throughout your workflow. Tim takes an in-depth look at the topic of sharpening  when and how to do it, as well as when covers some advanced sharpening techniques. He also offers tips for printing your photos, exploring both the relevant settings in Photoshop and those you are likely to find in your printer driver. Finally, he discusses troubleshooting suboptimal output  i.e., when something goes wrong, figuring out what happened and how to fix it. If you spend a lot of time optimizing your images, this workshop will help you make sure all that effort is reflected in the quality of your output.

Getting Started with PHP

PHP is a language that has one of the widest spectrums of users today: on the one end beginners who want to put a couple lines of dynamic content into their web sites, and on the other hand teams of enterprise developers who run high-traffic internet e-commerce systems. PHP is also the language behind some of the web as most useful and game-changing software, such as WordPress. In this workshop, professional developer Edward Tanguay will show programmers how to get started with PHP. You will learn how to install PHP on your computer with XAMPP and how to install and use the free and popular Eclipse editor. Then you will learn the basics of the PHP language and how to use your PHP skills to create web site forms, which will put you well on your way to building functional and interactive web sites with PHP. (Note: This title was originally published as part of Edward PHP 5.3: Advanced Web Programming course.)

Professional PHP, Volume 2

PHP 5.3 introduced a number of new features that every professional PHP programmer should incorporate into their skill set: namespaces, lambdas, closures, and late static binding, all of which are concepts that you might know from other languages and which are now available in PHP. In this workshop, professional developer Edward Tanguay shows you how to use these features and introduces you to a number of new, useful functions such as array_replace, date_add, new functions to work within  files, and more. In addition to these new features of PHP, you will also learn the basics of using cookies and regular expressions.

Professional PHP, Volume 1

To understand today’s PHP frameworks, and to build code that is scalable, you need to understand the concepts of object-oriented programming. In this workshop, professional developer Edward Tanguay shows you the basics of object-oriented programming, introducing you to important concepts like classes, properties, methods, and inheritance. You will also learn many other skills that are important in professional PHP programming, such as reading and writing to databases, using text files and XML files, and building web services.

Time-Lapse Photography Workshop

A time-lapse video essentially compresses time into a smaller space, creating some entertaining and evocative results. In this workshop author and expert Tim Grey explores the tools, techniques, and concepts involved in creating great time-lapse videos from still captures. You’ll learn how to choose the right equipment, get the right settings for your camera, and compose shots in a way that will be easy to work with later. Then you’ll follow Tim through a series of time-lapse projects where he photographs both fast-moving and slow-moving subjects, as well as one where the camera itself is moving.

Prelude CS6 Workshop

Today this video technology makes it easier than ever to acquire enormous amounts of media, all of which needs to be ingested, managed, and organized in a way that is useful at every stage of post-production and distribution. Fortunately, Adobe Prelude CS6 provides users with a fast, easy interface for ingesting, transcoding, duplicating, tagging, commenting, and communicating about media. In this course, video expert Maxim Jago introduces the core concepts of metadata management and tagging using Adobe XMP metadata. You will learn how to organize, ingest, transcode, tag, comment, subclip, and build a rough cut before sending media on to Premiere Pro for editing as the complete workflow with the new Adobe Prelude CS6.