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Hello, lynda.com newsletter subscriber! Welcome to the January 2012 newsletter.	In this edition • Letter from Lynda • New releases • Training coming soon • Testimonials of the month • Tip of the month
Letter from Lynda Co-founders Lynda and Bruce share a hug at the lynda.com 2011 holiday party. Happy New Year from all of us at lynda.com! We’re starting out the year with a wide selection of new audio courses, a set of Deke McClelland’s masking and compositing courses, and a new Creative Inspirations documentary on award-winning children’s book illustrator, Ed Emberley. Whether continuing your education or starting out with a new resolution to learn more in 2012, we look forward to being a part of your year.   Get in the mix with audio courses This month, we’ve released three more courses in the rapidly expanding Audio segment, including some hands-on training for working in Logic Pro and the introduction of our new series, Foundations of Audio: Compression and Dynamic Processing with Brian Lee White . The special “Get in the Mix” exercise files that accompany the latter actually allow you to open the course and follow along from within your own digital audio workstation. It’s exciting to watch this segment grow: covering a wide range of topics, exploring new approaches to teaching, and (as always) bringing in the best authors and industry luminaries to make sure our members get top-notch training.            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 you reach your creative and career goals.          Photoshop masking and compositing series expands If there is one way to improve the look of your Photoshop compositions, it’s learning how to make impeccable selections and finely tuned masks so that you can create just the look you want. With this month’s addition of Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Hair , Deke McClelland tackles one of the toughest yet most common masking problems, human hair. And of course, Deke doesn’t limit himself to blonde hair on a solid background, but goes after the really tough stuff so that you’re prepared for anything (and any hair color and background). With the combination of the two earlier offerings in this collection—Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Fundamentals and  Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Advanced Blending—you’ll soon find there are very few Photoshop selection challenges that are beyond your grasp.   New Creative Inspirations: Ed Emberley, Children’s Book Illustrator “The big thing is feeling good about yourself,” says artist Ed Emberley, subject of our latest Creative Inspirations documentary. “That's more important than the art project.” Ed Emberley has encouraged generations of children to draw, by giving simple tools and showing them that they can have fun doing it. In our latest Creative Inspirations documentary , we hear how Ed began his career as an award-winning children’s book illustrator, how he came to be the voice for helping children (and older artists) overcome their own fear of drawing, and how he continues to seek new artistic adventures in the digital age. Aside from having a wonderful whimsical style and passion to share the creative process, Ed firmly believes in life-long learning, and is a true inspiration in more ways than one.   Join us at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival lynda.com is again sponsoring the Santa Barbara International Film Festival which starts on January 26, 2012. We are incredibly honored that two of our own documentary films have been selected for screening at the festival, and we hope you’ll be able to attend one of the showings. Ticket packages are still available on the Santa Barbara International Film Festival site. The films we will be screening were produced by lynda.com as part of our Creative Inspirations series of documentaries. The first is Marian Bantjes, Graphic Artist . Intricate and imaginative, the work of graphic artist Marian Bantjes has made indelible impacts on the design industry. This biographical documentary provides a close look at an artist—and impassioned TED speaker—who transformed her work and life midcareer by leaving her client-focused design company and moving to an island off the coast of Vancouver to create art from her heart. Design-world luminaries speak to Bantjes’s capacity to surprise the viewer, and her tendency to create beauty “the hard way.” A tour of her home studio reveals the sense of wonder and joy in her illustrations and allows us to peer into her artistic process as she creates her signature work. Next is our film Stefan G. Bucher, Designer, Illustrator, and Writer. Thousands of fans have watched Stefan Bucher create monsters out of ink blots on his Daily Monster web site. This documentary takes us inside the unusual mind and work habits of the popular and prolific artist. From being a published illustrator at age 12 to designing for the prestigious Wieden+Kennedy ad agency and Madonna’s Maverick Records, Bucher leads us through galleries and print shops, and to the drawing table where he creates his monsters. Frank, funny, and laser-focused, Bucher reveals his “monastic” work habits, which often find him walking the streets of Pasadena in the middle of the night, and explains how his work aims to “reverse the chaos of the world.” And for the third year in a row, our crews will be covering the four major discussion panels taking place at the festival. These panels have historically included all the major players who will be in contention during awards season. See the last two years’ panels on lynda.com.   Going to NAMM? lynda.com will be at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show in Anaheim, California, January 19-22, at booth 4711.   Until next time, Happy New Year, and happy learning! —Lynda
New releases 3D + animation Digital Creature Creation in ZBrush, Photoshop, and Maya Author: Ryan Kittleson Duration: 5h 11m Blender 2.6 Essential Training Author: George Maestri Duration: 7h 26m audio Foundations of Audio: Compression and Dynamic Processing Author: Brian Lee White Duration: 2h 26m Finale 2012 Essential Training Author: Rick Schmunk Duration: 06h 13m business tools Project Management Fundamentals Author: Bonnie Biafore Duration: 2h 07m iPhone and iPod Touch iOS 5 Essential Training Author: Garrick Chow Duration: 6h 49m online marketing Online Marketing Fundamentals Author: Lorrie Thomas Ross Duration: 01h 47m design Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Hair Author: Deke McClelland Duration: 3h 06m Ed Emberley, Children’s Book Illustrator Author: Ed Emberley Duration: 53m 58s Photoshop for Designers: Color Author: Nigel French Duration: 5h 11m developer HTML5: File API in Depth Author: Joe Marini Duration: 59m 09s iOS 5 SDK New Features Author: Simon Allardice Duration: 02h 16m jQuery Mobile Essential Training Author: Joe Marini Duration: 03h 11m Java Essential Training Author: David Gassner Duration: 7h 10m developer (continued) Building Mobile Apps for Multiple Devices with Flash Professional Author: Paul Trani Duration: 2h 31m HTML5: Background Processes with Web Workers Author: Bill Weinman Duration: 52m 11s photography Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter Author: Chris Orwig Duration: 2h 52m Foundations of Photography: Composition Author: Ben Long Duration: 5h 36m video Premiere Pro and After Effects: Creating Title Graphics Author: Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer Duration: 26m 23s Avid Media Composer 6 Essential Training Author: Ashley Kennedy Duration: 06h 56m Color Correction in Final Cut Pro X Author: Robbie Carman Duration: 2h 40m After Effects Apprentice 13: Paint and Puppet Author: Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer Duration: 2h 23m web + interactive Start with a Theme: Photography Portfolios in WordPress Author: Morten Rand-Hendriksen Duration: 53m 02s Improving SEO Using Accessibility Techniques Author: Morten Rand-Hendriksen Duration: 02h 29m Creating an HTML Email Newsletter Author: Tim Slavin Duration: 55m 25s Creating and Managing a Blog Network with WordPress Author: Justin Seeley Duration: 3h 25m Create an Animated Bar Chart with jQuery and Dreamweaver Author: Chris Converse Duration: 46m 35s Create an Animated Bar Chart with jQuery Author: Chris Converse Duration: 39m 36s Joomla! 1.7: Access Control Lists in Depth Author: Jen Kramer Duration: 3h 12m
Keep an eye on the site for these and many other helpful new courses coming to the Online Training Library® soon: Drupal 7: Creating and Editing Custom Themes Outlook 2007: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks Foundations of Audio: EQ and Filters Invaluable: Unlocking Your Abilities Creating Long Documents with InDesign InDesign Tables in Depth Design Projects: Restaurant Menu HTML5: Document Editing in Depth Infographics: Planning and Wireframing Foundations of Audio: Delay and Modulation Pro Tools 10 Essential Training Effective PowerPoint: Business Presentations CSS: Styling Forms View Source HTML5: Messaging and Communications in Depth Infographics: Visualizing Relationships Titanium Mobile App Development Essential Training Cinema 4D R13 New Features Switching from Windows to Mac [Updated for 2012] Infographics: Area Bubbles Illustrator Insider Training: Type and Text Testimonials of the month Best $25 I spend Just two months ago, I became unemployed and knew I needed to spend money to get myself to the “next” level. This $25 was the best I could have ever spent! I have spent hours relearning things I had forgotten and solidifying my confidence in what I do know. You simply might have saved my life—and I mean that most sincerely. —Claudia W. Thanks for transcripts Your site has given me an amazing renewal of long-lost inspiration not only for learning but also for being creative. I feel I have my creativity back for the first time in many, many years. This is no small thing! I can't thank you all enough. —Louise L. Read more great feedback.	Tip of the month There are five major processes of project management. The five processes of project management from Project Management Fundamentals Organizing a project into separate, defined steps can make a seemingly daunting task run smoothly and efficiently. The Project Management Institute categorizes project management into five major processes: Initiating Initiating is all about the getting the commitment to start a project. Basically, we answer the questions what problem are we solving? and how are we going to solve this problem? Planning The planning stage is where you figure out how you’re going to perform the project. We answer the questions what is our plan? and how will we know when you’re done? Executing Now it’s time to put your plan into action. The executing process starts with launching a project. You bring your people onboard, introduce them to one another, get them settled in, and explain the rules you’ll use to run the project. Monitoring & controlling Monitoring and controlling a project is your ongoing responsibility to see if a project is going according to plan, and if it isn’t, you work out ways to get it back on track. Closing The closing process is short, but important. In this step, you get the client to accept that the project is complete. You document the project performance, gather lessons learned, close contracts, and help resources move on to their next assignments. By organizing your project into separate, definable processes, you’ll be better equipped to evaluate where you are in a project, what other resources you need, and how close you are to completing your project. If you’re interested in learning more about effective project management, check out Project Management Fundamentals.
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