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Greetings from the Online Training Library® at lynda.com! We are pleased to announce:             Adobe Connect Essential Training with: Tim Plumer, Jr.   In Adobe Connect Essential Training, author Tim Plumer, Jr. explains how to deliver and host interactive web meetings, webinars, and e-learning tutorials using Adobe Connect. The course covers the software's many tools for streamlining communication and engaging participants, such as the screen sharing, full-screen, and whiteboard features. Also included are tutorials on recording presentations, video conferencing, and using Connect with an iPhone or Android-based smartphone. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 04h 38m          Join lynda.com today Stay up to date with access to the Online Training Library®! We are constantly adding new software training courses and inspirational documentaries to help reach your creative and career goals.            Google Calendar Essential Training with: Susan Cline   In Google Calendar Essential Training, Google Apps trainer Susan Cline demonstrates how to use this web-based application to manage both personal and professional schedules. The course shows how to invite attendees and assign resources for any event with the Scheduling tool, and how to monitor attendee responses from within the application. Tutorials on setting up tasks and troubleshooting errors are also included. Duration: 01h 38m     Richard Koci Hernandez, Multimedia Journalist with: Richard Koci Hernandez   This installment in the lynda.com Creative Inspirations documentary series features Richard "Koci" Hernandez, a national Emmy® award-winning video and multimedia producer who is at the forefront of the next generation of journalism. Retracing his steps, Koci shares how he began his obsession with photography and his love of visual storytelling with a trip to the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite. Thirty years and three newspapers later, he finds himself teaching multimedia storytelling at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Koci is known for inventing techniques on the fly, often teaching himself new software just moments before a completing a project and incorporating fresh ideas with stunning results. Koci readily learns as much from his students and blog readers as he teaches them, and openly shares with us his constant journey of discovery. In Bonus Features, Koci is interviewed by Graduate School of Journalism colleague Jeremy Rue at the Pacific Film Archive Theatre, University of California, Berkeley. Duration: 01h 08m     Creating Animated Characters in After Effects with: George Maestri   In this course George Maestri introduces the tools needed to create and animate highly controllable characters using After Effects. The course covers how to design the characters in Photoshop or Illustrator, as well as draw them straight from After Effects; how to assemble characters with hierarchies; make realistic deformations with the Puppet tool; automate rigs with expressions; create realistic head turns; and show advanced techniques such as using null objects as bones. Finally, the course shows how to perform a basic animation with the character and ensure the rig works correctly. Exercise files are included with the course. Duration: 03h 53m     Scanning Techniques for Business and Home with: Taz Tally   In this course, photographer and graphics professional Taz Tally shows home and business users how to get the best results from their scanners. The course begins with a look at scanning essentials, including how to clean and care for a scanner, choose scanning software, and understanding concepts such as resolution and file format. Next, Taz uses the basic mode that most scanning software provides to show how to perform an array of common scanning jobs, from scanning photos and artwork to capturing text using optical character recognition. Three real-world projects are also included, which show the process of scanning something and then editing and sharing the results. Duration: 03h 08m     InDesign Secrets with: David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion   In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects. New techniques will be added to the collection every other week, so check back early and often. Find more tips and tricks at indesignsecrets.com. Duration: 22m 19s     Creating Urban Game Environments in 3ds Max with: Adam Crespi   Creating Urban Game Environments in 3ds Max is a practical guide to building 3D cityscapes for games. In this course, author Adam Crespi constructs a city block in 3ds Max utilizing low-polygon modeling and advanced texturing techniques. The course shows how to model common city elements such as buildings, intersections, curbs, and roofs and explains how to expand a city quickly and easily by reusing existing geometry in a modular way. The course also sheds light on simulating real-world detail with baking, lighting, and ambient occlusion techniques and offers a series of best practices for exporting to the Unity gaming engine. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 05h 54m     Photoshop for Designers: Textures with: Nigel French   In this course, author Nigel French shows how to use textures to create visual interest, heighten realism, and add dimension to Photoshop artwork. The course demonstrates how to apply multiple filters and paint in effects with layer masks, combine textures with images using layer blending modes, use brushes to paint in and accentuate texture, and create brush presets by sampling textures from photographs. The course also shows how to automate the application of textures with actions. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 04h 38m     Effective Meetings with: Dave Crenshaw   In this course, business coach Dave Crenshaw teaches a fundamental professional skill: how to conduct group and one-on-one meetings that are successful for participants and ultimately for your business. The course demonstrates a simple, usable framework to get the most from meetings, and provides insight into how to effectively schedule, conduct, and follow up on meetings. Exercise files are included with the course. Duration: 01h 22m     Mexopolis, Animation Studio with: Jorge Gutierrez, Sandra Equihua   Mexopolis is the husband and wife team whose animated television series El Tigre has defied all the rules and won eight Emmys. Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua personify the successful integration of personal creative vision and commercial success. Born and raised in Mexico, this dynamic couple has managed to blend their passion for over-the-top Mexican popular culture with digital animation techniques to create characters and stories that dazzle the eye and strike universal truths in the heart. This installment of Creative Inspirations takes viewers into the personal worlds and methods of this inspiring young couple. In Bonus Features, we follow Jorge to an emotional reunion with his childhood idol, legendary Mad Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones. Duration: 01h 51m     InDesign FX with: Michael Rankin   InDesign FX is a collection of self-contained effects projects designed to be completed in ten minutes or less. Taught by expert Mike Rankin, the series explores every aspect of InDesign's graphic effects capabilities through real-world examples, all without relying on Photoshop or Illustrator. The intent is to reveal the quick, practical, and sometimes surprising application of InDesign effects to creative projects. New InDesign FX installments will be released every other week. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 37m 08s     After Effects Apprentice 10: Time Games with: Chris Meyer, Trish Meyer   In this course, Chris Meyer demonstrates several ways to manipulate time in After Effects and shows how to integrate these techniques with nested compositions, expressions, and the Graph Editor. Along the way, he reveals several important yet somewhat hidden functions, such as the advanced composition setting that ensures predictable stop motion, the Frame Mix and Pixel Motion modes of the Frame Blending switch, and the Time Remap parameter. Exercise files accompany the course. The After Effects Apprentice video lessons on lynda.com were created by Trish and Chris Meyer and are designed to be used on their own or as a companion to their acclaimed book After Effects Apprentice. We are honored to host these tutorials in the lynda.com Online Training Library®. Duration: 58m 49s     Create an Interactive Map with jQuery and Dreamweaver with: Chris Converse   In Create an Interactive Map with jQuery and Dreamweaver, Chris Converse shows how to design and create a rich interactive map for a web site using the open-source scripting library jQuery and the tools in Dreamweaver. The course covers creating web-optimized images using the slicing tools in Photoshop, implementing the HTML and CSS to assemble an infographic page layout, and adding interactivity with JavaScript and jQuery's fast and concise code library. Exercise files are included with the course. Take a look at the finished web site here. Duration: 01h 12m     Natalie Fobes: The Elements of Effective Photographs with: Natalie Fobes   In this course, Pulitzer-nominated photographer Natalie Fobes takes viewers into the studio and on location to explore the many elements that combine to make an effective photo. The course explores compositional elements that guide a viewer's eye, including the rule of thirds; leading lines, patterns, and curves; and depth of field. Natalie then details the roles of color and light in a photo. She shows how to work with the natural light in a room or outdoor location, and how to enhance it using reflectors, newspapers, a T-shirt, or whatever might be handy. She also shows some simple indoor lighting setups that can replicate the look of natural light. The course continues with a look at movement and how a photographer can convey a sense of motion by blurring part of the image or freezing a fast-moving subject. Next, Natalie explores the concepts of peak action and the decisive moment-those split seconds that capture the essence or emotion of a subject or scene. The course wraps up with a discussion of the roles of planning and research in creating effective photos. Duration: 01h 36m     Modeling a Character in 3ds Max with: Ryan Kittleson   Modeling a Character in 3ds Max with Ryan Kittleson covers the process of designing and building a 3D human character that can be used for feature film, broadcast, and games. The course begins with an overview of the 3ds Max tools and techniques used in character modeling, and how human anatomy is represented using 3D geometry. Once this foundation is in place, the rest of the course goes step by step through the actual process used to model a simple human character from the ground up, including facial features, musculature, and details such as hair and clothing. Exercise files are included with the course. Duration: 04h 31m     Small Office Networking to Connect, Share, and Print with: Garrick Chow   In Small Office Networking to Connect, Share, and Print , author Garrick Chow provides an invaluable collection of information and tips on how to create and maintain a network between two or more computers, whether they're Macs or PCs. He begins by explaining exactly what a network is and how to determine what type of network is right for the home or office. From there, the course shows how to share a single internet connection between all computers, how to move files over the network, and how to take advantage of shared network devices like printers and hard drives. The course also covers expanding your network to connect additional computers, as well as how to troubleshoot common network problems. Duration: 03h 23m     Photoshop for Designers: Shape Layers with: Nigel French   In this course, author Nigel French covers the ins and outs of creating professional designs and artwork using crisp, scalable vector graphics in Photoshop. The course demonstrates the fundamentals of drawing and manipulating shapes; achieving various artistic effects using blend modes, layer effects, and Smart Filters; and combining shape layers with pixel-based imagery and photographs. The course also showcases practical applications for shape layers, including posters, logos, and web buttons, and includes tutorials on building custom shapes and making modifications with vector masks. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration:02h 53m     Up and Running with Office 365 with: David Rivers   Up and Running with Office 365 is an introduction to Microsoft's hosted collaboration and productivity suite. Author David Rivers tours the subscription service, showing how to administer user accounts; share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files with SharePoint; and manage mail, contacts, and calendars with the Outlook web app. The course also explains how to set up Office desktop apps to work with Office 365 and connect with colleagues using the Lync communication server. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 02h 06m     Stefan G. Bucher, Designer, Illustrator, and Writer with: Stefan G. Bucher   Meet a truly monster graphic designer, Stefan G. Bucher. Stefan's projects range from his Daily Monsters, to the Daily Letter on the PBS television show, The Electric Company, to CD designs for Sting and Whitney Houston, products for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart (featuring canned mammoth chunks), to writing and illustrating his latest book, You Deserve A Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love. Stefan is a prolific artist who is seemingly obsessed with finding impressive new ways to put ink on paper. Follow his journey from his first illustrations for The Donaldist (a magazine dedicated to the exploration of Donald Duck comics), through Art Center College, Portland agency Wieden+Kennedy, Madonna's Maverick Records, and finally his own company, 344 Design. Bonus Feature: Join us at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where Stefan is interviewed by writer and creative strategist Terry Lee Stone after a screening of his film. Duration: 01h 18m     Blackboard 9.x Essential Training for Students with: Patrick Crispen   In Blackboard 9 Essential Training for Students, Dr. Patrick Crispen shows how to get up and running on day one of class and start finding and logging into courses, submitting assignments and importing files, and taking tests. The course also shows how classmates and work groups can communicate in Blackboard with group assignments and email. Duration: 01h 16m     Moodle 2 Essential Training for Students with: Chris Mattia   In Moodle 2 Essential Training for Students, author Chris Mattia explores Moodle's rich learning environment and helps students successfully navigate a typical Moodle course. Serving as a reference guide, the course provides instruction on key Moodle functions, such as posting materials to student's blog, participating in live chats with other students, completing assignments online, accessing grades and instructor feedback, and more. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 01h 07m     Organizing and Archiving Digital Photos with: Derrick Story   In this course, photographer Derrick Story teaches the concepts and techniques behind efficient photo management and backup, which becomes increasingly important as a photo collection grows. The course begins by showing how to transfer and organize photos "by hand"-that is, by copying them from a memory card to a hard drive without using software. In the second portion of the course, discover how to take advantage of the photo-management features provided by programs such as Lightroom and Aperture, by assigning descriptive keywords, by giving photos ratings and color-coded labels, and how smart album features can automatically collect photos that meet certain criteria. The course concludes with a look at aspects of a good backup and archival strategy, ranging from the best file format for long-term backup to the best hardware options for offline storage. Exercise files are included with the course. Duration: 02h 28m     Google Docs Essential Training with: Susan Cline   In Google Docs Essential Training, Susan Cline shows how to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms that are stored online and editable from any computer with this web-based application. The course demonstrates how Google Docs makes managing multiple copies of a document worry-free, because every version is stored securely online in the Doc List. It also covers techniques for granting viewer and editor rights and publishing and sharing documents. Exercise files accompany the course. Duration: 03h 10m     Shooting with Wireless Flash: Studio Portraits with: Jim Sugar   In the Shooting with Wireless Flash series, award-winning photographer Jim Sugar demonstrates his approach to using off-camera flash in a variety of lighting scenarios, sharing practical tips along the way. In this installment, Jim shows how to light and shoot a portrait with a dramatic look. He demonstrates a variety of inexpensive lighting tools-clamps, gels, and other light modifiers-to light the subject and the background. He also shows how to offer direction, pose the subject, and make him or her feel more comfortable. The course wraps up with tips on distinct ways to effectively light and separate the subject from the background, using gels, adjusting lights, and modifying the ratios between multiple strobes and the ambient light in the room. Duration: 30m 53s     Moodle 2 Essential Training for Teachers with: Chris Mattia   In Moodle 2 Essential Training for Teachers, author Chris Mattia helps educators create online courses that complement classroom-based instruction and foster student interaction using the free learning management system Moodle. The course details the basics of setting up a test environment, disseminating course information, creating forums, and assessing student progress. Tutorials on building course materials with Moodle's built-in HTML editor, preparing and posting various types of media, uploading assignments, and evaluating tests automatically are also included. Exercise files accompany the course. 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