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Hello, lynda.com newsletter subscriber!	In this edition • Letter from Lynda • Latest releases • Training coming soon • Testimonials of the month • Tip of the month
Letter from Lynda Welcome to our July 2012 newsletter. This month, we’ve published a workshop on car photography led by Adobe, from composition to digital editing. We also have new courses to get you started on creating both videos and animation. Photo by Fran Collin     Like us: Free courses on Facebook For a limited time, lynda.com is making one course available for free to those who like our Facebook page. Visit our Like to Learn page to find out which course is unlocked right now. The courses will span all of our subject areas.   The art of car photography Take one gorgeous car. Light it perfectly. Add a photography and software expert and you’ve got a lesson in shooting, sorting, and polishing automotive images. In Photo Workshop: Car Photography Tips, follow along as car enthusiast and Adobe senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes photographs a gleaming Mercedes SLS, demonstrates his workflow in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and then shows how to put the finishing touches on his images with the handy new features in Photoshop CS6.            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.            Maya Essentials: Bite-size basics Autodesk Maya 3D animation software is used to make films, design architecture, create video games, and more. We’ve broken our core training on this complex creative software into five beginner-level courses that can each be completed within two hours. In Maya Essentials 1: Interface and Organization, professional animation producer George Maestri walks you through setting up Maya, navigating its interface, manipulating objects, and staying organized. Maya Essentials 2: Polygonal Modeling Techniques covers the basics of the polygonal modeling toolkit, delves into the theory behind popular polygonal modeling techniques, and then walks through the basic process of creating objects, modifying them with Soft Select, and working with subdivision surfaces. Watch for the rest of the upcoming Maya Essentials courses on modeling techniques, textures, and tools.   New video fundamentals course You need more than ideas and tools to make a great video. You need know-how. With our new Fundamentals of Video: Cameras and Shooting, filmmaker Anthony Q. Artis lays the foundation for creating moving images, covering subjects from the anatomy of a camera and lighting techniques to visual storytelling and audio essentials. Whether you’re making a personal video, a first documentary, or a promotional video for your organization, this all-level course aims to help you shoot with consistent results.   lynda.com bike team rides AIDS/LifeCycle Five lynda.com employees saddled up and rode 545 miles in the AIDS/LifeCycle 12 to raise money for HIV/AIDS services and prevention. The team joined about 2,250 other cyclists to bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just one week. What did they learn? Every journey—whether it be riding a bike across Central California or mastering Illustrator—starts with a single step. It may seem like a huge, daunting task when you’re at the starting line, and along the way some people will be faster than you, but if you keep putting one foot in front of the other, you will reach the goal. It’s your journey—enjoy the ride, go at your own pace, and don’t forget to have fun.     Until next time, happy learning! —Lynda
Latest releases 3D + animation AutoCAD Essentials 4: Annotating a Drawing author: Jeff Bartels duration: 1h 35m AutoCAD Essentials 5: Working with References author: Jeff Bartels duration: 1h 12m Game Prop Creation in 3ds Max author: Adam Crespi duration: 6h 5m Maya Essentials 1: Interface and Organization author: George Maestri duration: 1h 35m Maya Essentials 2: Polygonal Modeling Techniques author: George Maestri duration: 2h 17m Maya Essentials 3: NURBS Modeling Techniques author: George Maestri duration: 2h 18m Maya Essentials 4: Creating Textures and Materials author: George Maestri duration: 1h 51m Maya Essentials 5: Animation Tools author: George Maestri duration: 1h 20m The Power of PreViz at BMW Group DesignworksUSA author: Dane Howard duration: 37m 54s audio Audio Post Workflow with Final Cut Pro X and Pro Tools author: Scott Hirsch duration: 57m 55s Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching author: Josh Harris duration: 2h 51m business Crystal Reports 2011 Essential Training author: Curt Frye duration: 3h 25m FileMaker Pro 12 Essential Training author: Chris Ippolite duration: 10h 28m iBooks Author Essential Training author: Chris Mattia duration: 5h 45m Managing Your Career author: Valerie Sutton duration: 41m 14s Up and Running with Lotus Notes author: Jess Stratton duration: 2h 29m Up and Running with Online Surveys author: David Rivers duration: 55m 34s design Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals author: Deke McClelland duration: 9h 19m design (continued) InDesign CS6: Interactive Documents author: Mike Rankin duration: 5h 11m Print Production Fundamentals author: Claudia McCue duration: 4h 26m developer Building Facebook Applications with HTML and JavaScript author: Ray Villalobos duration: 3h 0m C/C++ Essential Training author: Bill Weinman duration: 10h 55m PHP 5.4 New Features author: Drew Falkman duration: 1h 1m Windows Phone SDK Essential Training author: Michael Lehman duration: 3h 59m photography Photoshop Lightroom 4 Power Shortcuts author: Chris Orwig duration: 3h 49m Photo Workshop: Car Photography Tips author: Bryan O’Neil Hughes duration: 1h 20m Shooting on the Road, from Gear to Workflow author: Ben Long duration: 3h 8m video Artistic Video with Photoshop author: Ian Robinson duration: 3h 10m Fundamentals of Video: Cameras and Shooting author: Anthony Q. Artis duration: 2h 58m Video Journalism Shooting Techniques author: Jeff Sengstack duration: 2h 4m web + interactive Add a Video to an iBook for iPad author: Chris Converse duration: 11m 22s Add Your jQuery Project to a Digital Magazine author: Chris Converse duration: 16m 43s Choosing and Using Web Fonts author: Laura Franz duration: 6h 52m Create an iPad Web App author: Chris Converse duration: 1h 27m Edge First Look Preview 6 author: Ray Villalobos duration: 1h 56m HTML5 for Flash Developers author: Lee Brimelow duration: 3h 16m
Keep an eye on the site for these and many other helpful new courses coming soon: AutoCAD Essentials 6: Sharing Drawings with Others Building Flash Games with Starling Building Your Brand Cocoa Essential Training CSS: Transitions and Transforms Deke’s Techniques: The Challenge Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Photographing Kids and Families DSLR Video Tips with Rich Harrington Effective Negotiation Effective One-to-Ones InDesign Typography iOS SDK: Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location jQuery Mobile Web Applications Maya Essentials 6: Lights and Rendering Mudbox 2013 Essential Training Objective-C Essential Training Photoshop CS6 Brushes First Look Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Effects Photoshop for Web Design Photoshop for Photographers: Compositing Responsive Design with Dreamweaver CS6 Revit Architecture 2013 Essential Training Unity 3D 3.5 Essential Training Windows 8 Metro App Development First Look Testimonials of the month Back to work after kids lynda.com has made it possible and affordable to retool and get back to work after raising my kids. I can’t imagine working without this resource now. Thanks! —Maureen C. Feels like Neo in The Matrix I knew lynda.com would be a good investment because I’ve known about your good reputation for years. But now that I’m on the inside, I’m completely blown away by the quality and quantity of training you offer. I feel like Neo in The Matrix when they would insert a training program and within a few minutes he could say, “I know jiujitsu!” —Zolla M. Read more great feedback.	Tip of the month Autofocus can be a good option for chaotic shooting situations. Knowing when to use autofocus from Fundamentals of Video: Cameras and Shooting If you’re only used to shooting video with a consumer camera or camera phone, you may rely heavily on autofocus. It’s a habit you should break if you want to shoot professional-looking video, because autofocus is simply not reliable under many shooting circumstances. It’s all but useless in low-light situations, and sometimes it focuses on the wrong objects or people in your shot. That doesn’t mean that you should never use autofocus. It may be the only realistic way to get great shots in certain scenarios: 1. When there’s a tricky camera move you need to pull off, like a dramatic flyby, it’s difficult to maintain your composition, move fast with your camera, and not trip at the same time. Here, autofocus will probably be your best option. 2. Certain pan or tilt moves may be easier with autofocus. In good lighting conditions, your camera may adjust faster and smoother than you can manually. 3. If you’re acting as cameraperson, director, and audio engineer all at the same time, shooting a chaotic situation (a run-and-gun shoot), it’s a great time to hit the autofocus button. If you’re interested in more video tips, check out Anthony Q. Artis’s full course, Fundamentals of Video: Cameras and Shooting.
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