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Photo by Bruce Heavin at the annual lynda.com family picnic at Lotusland in Santa Barbara. | | Welcome to our August 2012 newsletter. This month, we invite you to learn about taking photos on the road, making music with your Apple iPad, and creating video games. Plus take a tour of digital publishing trends and find out how top designers plan out their prototypes. | Photography on the road |  For photographers, travel means both the opportunity to capture new photos and the challenge of lugging gear and storing images away from home. In Shooting on the Road, from Gear to Workflow, Ben Long offers advice on the hardware and software issues that come up on the road: powering and charging your tools, editing and sending photos remotely, and choosing the right equipment, from camera straps to media cards.
| Making music on your iPad |  Music making is going mobile, and the iPad is a powerful tool for recording audio. We’re kicking off a new series on iPad music production with a course that shows how to get sound into and out of your iPad. Inputs, Mics, and MIDI covers the best tools for recording tracks on your iPad—and we’ll be updating the course as new devices enter the market. Watch for more courses in this series, which will highlight the latest apps for turning your iPad into a music creation station.
| | | | | 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. 
| | | | Game creation tool training: Unity 3D, Flash, and 3ds Max |  Several new courses have been released that are designed to help you build your own games. Dive into 3D video game creation with the foundational Unity 3D 3.5 Essential Training. Follow along as award-winning interactive designer Lee Brimelow explains how to create a game in the Starling framework with the three-hour, project-style Building Flash Games with Starling. Or check out the Adam Crespi course Game Prop Creation in 3ds Max, and learn how to build game props and assets from small tools to furniture.
| From printing press to iBook page |  From traditional printing to cutting-edge publishing, three new courses address the full spectrum of today’s design output needs. In Print Production Fundamentals, Claudia McCue takes you onto the floor of a commercial print house to show how to create a document that prints as well as it looks onscreen. With InDesign CS6: Interactive Documents, Mike Rankin leads a tour of digital publishing trends and shows how to use Adobe InDesign to create digital documents from interactive PDFs to iPad apps. In iBooks Author Essential Training, Chris Mattia demonstrates how to use the Apple iBooks Author application to publish your own iBook with or without extensive design experience.
| BMW designers on previsualization |  In industries as diverse as special effects, photography, and business modeling, leaders use previsualization as a tool to envision products and create project workflows before prototyping begins. In our new inspirational course, The Power of PreViz at BMW Group DesignworksUSA, veteran designers at a global design agency discuss the value, techniques, and future of previsualization. Owned by the BMW Group, the DesignworksUSA agency designs everything from cars to cell phones to coffeemakers. Find out how they plan, build, and execute successful design concepts.
| | Until next time, happy learning!
—Lynda | |
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- Game Prop Creation in Maya
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- iOS SDK: Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location
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—Richard R. Read more great feedback. | Tip of the month |  Apply Image allows you to apply effects to specific color channels. | | Using Apply Image to enhance color from Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Effects The Apply Image effect lets you edit your image in a way that’s not immediately obvious. The color and tone adjustment can be very subtle, and by creating effects that are a bit out of the ordinary, you can add more impact to your photographs.
Many photographers use the Apply Image technique in Photoshop for a quick and easy way to enhance the colors in their photographs. To get started, duplicate the background layer of your photo (CMD+J on a Mac, CTRL+J on Windows). You can name the layer “apply image” to keep your layers straight. Next select Image > Apply Image... from the pull-down menu to open the Apply Image dialog box. Apply Image allows you to use blend modes on a channel-by-channel basis. For example, if you make a selection under Blending, like Multiply or Soft Light , you’ll see the effect applied to the entire image. What’s unique about Apply Image is that you can select specific channels—Red, Green, or Blue—and apply that effect to just that channel. By affecting only one channel, you can change the entire look of your photograph.
As you’re experimenting with the effects, you can also change the opacity of the effect either by manually entering a value or by clicking and dragging over Opacity to use the sliders. Once you’re satisfied with the changes to your image, click OK to apply the effect. You can toggle the eye icon on and off to compare the before and after results.
If you’re interested in more creative ways to edit your photographs, check out Chris Orwig’s entire course, Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Effects. | |
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