Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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Greetings from the Online Training Library® at lynda.com!
We are pleased to announce:

     
 
 
 

LinkedIn Essential Training

with: Richard Colback

 
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In LinkedIn Essential Training, author Richard Colback explains how to network and engage with contacts and businesses using LinkedIn, the world’s largest social network for professionals. The course covers building a profile, providing and receiving recommendations, and managing groups. Also included are tutorials on maximizing employment and recruitment searches and extending a business’s online presence.

duration: 02h 28m

 
 
    

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Up and Running with WebEx Training Center

with: Karen Hyder

 
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In Up and Running with WebEx Training Center, author Karen Hyder demonstrates how to use WebEx Training Center to hold effective online meetings with audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities. The course covers how to set up, host, and manage sessions using built-in collaboration tools; how to engage presenters with chat and polling; how to share presentation duties with other participants; and how to use the WebEx recording features to make content available to others at a later date.

Note: Those using Meeting Center will also be able to use this course.

duration: 02h 53m

 
 

Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects

with: Richard Harrington

 
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In this course, author Rich Harrington explores the world of documentary storytelling, using various techniques in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects to transform damaged photos into brand-new works of art. Basic image editing techniques in Photoshop such as toning, cropping, sharpening, and resizing are covered. The course also shows how to add movement to photos in After Effects, helping to create a dramatic story. Exercise files are included with the course.

duration: 02h 02m

 
 

Dreamweaver and WordPress: Building Sites

with: Joseph Lowery

 
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In this course, author Joseph Lowery shows how to create a robust WordPress-based site using Dreamweaver. The course lays out the essentials of planning a site, explains how to implement custom sidebars, and demonstrates building page templates. The course also explains how to integrate PHP functionality and extend the WordPress database. Exercise files accompany the course.

duration: 01h 42m

 
 

Up and Running with Java Applications

with: Todd Perkins

 
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This course is an introduction to developing Java applications for various runtime environments. Author Todd Perkins explains how to configure the development environment, connect a web application to a MySQL database, and build a user interface with the Swing framework. The course also covers publishing applets in a web browser, working with XML data, and creating apps for Android devices. Exercise files accompany the course.

duration: 01h 42m

 
 

Fixing Video Exposure Problems in Premiere Pro

with: Richard Harrington

 
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This course provides an explanation for the popular phrase “fix it in post” and explores various methods for fixing exposure problems in video footage. Author Rich Harrington demonstrates a wide range of editing tools in Adobe Premiere Pro, such as effects and blending modes—and for more complicated footage problems, reveals specialized tools in After Effects to remove noise and grain, extract and tone the background, and fix under- or overexposed footage. Exercise files are included with the course.

duration: 01h 14m

 
 

Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter

with: Anne-Marie Concepcion

 
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In Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter, Anne-Marie Concepcion shows dozens of ways to promote a company’s brand, increase sales, engage customers, and drive site traffic using Facebook and Twitter. The course covers not only the fundamentals of social media marketing, but also the basics of creating a top-level online presence. From building Facebook pages to authoring SEO-friendly Twitter bios, the course dives into the details of both services and discusses how to maximize the impact of social marketing with third-party add-ons.

duration: 04h 42m

 
 

InDesign FX

with: Michael Rankin

 
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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: 02h 30m

 
 

Capture NX 2 Essential Training

with: Ben Long

 
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In this course, photographer and teacher Ben Long shows how to use the Nikon Capture NX2 photo-editing software to perform nondestructive sharpening, white balancing, tonal and color corrections, and more. The course covers how to set preferences and define an efficient postproduction workflow, how to perform and automate a wide variety of image edits, how to work with RAW files, and how to get the best results when printing. Exercise files accompany the course.

duration: 05h 39m

 
 

Design in Motion

with: Rob Garrott

 
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Design in Motion is a series of creative techniques featuring short projects using After Effects and CINEMA 4D. Taught by motion graphics expert Rob Garrott, the course covers how color correction, expressions, rendering type, lighting, and animation are used in each program, and the topics are updated weekly. Using these tips and tricks, motion graphics designers will find designing to be a more efficient process. Exercise files are included with the course.

duration: 03h 03m

 
 

Virtual Instruments in Logic Pro

with: Brian Trifon

 
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Author Brian Trifon shows how to improve music and audio productions using virtual instruments in Logic Pro. The course tours the program’s virtual instruments, including the ES2 hybrid synthesizer, Sculpture physical modeling synthesizer, EFM1 FM synthesizer, the EVOC 20 vocoder, the Ultrabeat drum synthesizer, and the EXS24 sampler, and shows how to achieve various effects with each instrument’s parameters. The course also covers working with oscillators and filters, understanding signal flow, creating custom synthesizer patches, adding effects, synthesizing speech, creating a library of custom sound samples, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course.

Virtual Instruments with Logic Pro will be updating on a monthly basis, eventually covering all the virtual instruments in the application. Look for the latest movies here and on the lynda.com blog.

duration: 09h 00m

 
 

Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB

with: Anne-Marie Concepcion

 
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In this course, author Anne-Marie Concepcion shows how to create fixed-width EPUBs to sell in the iBookstore. The course explores the fixed-layout EPUB format and files, providing a quick-start EPUB template to download, examine, and use to build simple fixed-layout files right away. The course explains how to get content from PDFs and InDesign files into an EPUB, demonstrates editing for fixed-layout settings, and covers modifying CSS to position content and proofing an EPUB on the iPad. Exercise files accompany the course.

duration: 03h 15m

 
 

iPhone Photography, from Shooting to Storytelling

with: Richard Koci Hernandez

 
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In iPhone Photography, from Shooting to Storytelling, Richard Koci Hernandez celebrates the art of iPhoneography—how to shoot, enhance, and share photos with an Apple iPhone. The course covers an actual iPhone photo shoot and includes details on how to select and edit photos using a variety of iOS apps and how to interact with the vibrant iPhone photo community by sharing photos using the popular Instagram app. In a bonus chapter, Koci and a lineup of iPhone photography enthusiasts and journalists meet at the 1197 conference in San Francisco to discuss shooting techniques, photo-enhancement tips, and inspiration in the art of photographic storytelling.

duration: 01h 45m

 
 

Creative Slideshows with Aperture

with: Richard Harrington

 
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This course shows how to use Apple Aperture to quickly and efficiently create a slideshow to impress any audience, from family and friends to colleagues and potential clients. The course covers organizing and sorting slides; picking a visual theme and a music track; adding text, images, and video; inserting transitions between slides; and sharing a slideshow on the web, via Keynote or PowerPoint, and on mobile devices. Exercise files are included with the course.

duration: 01h 18m

 
 

View Source

with: Ray Villalobos

 
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The View Source weekly series offers 10-minute projects on intermediate and advanced web design topics, covering technologies such as HTML, PHP, jQuery, and CSS, as well as content management solutions like WordPress and integration with Twitter, YouTube, and more. Each movie in the course is self-contained and shows how to accomplish an interesting effect and/or technique. Example projects include creating datepickers and custom photo galleries, and mapping and geotagging with Google Maps. Exercise files are included with the course.

duration: 30m 47s

 

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