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Letter from Lynda 
Lynda Weinman, the queen of our content, Halloween 2012.
Photo by Bruce Heavin | As we zoom through this busy season, I’d like to thank members for your support in 2012. I hope it’s been a year of learning and discovery for you, as it has for us. This month we offer courses to help you shoot better family portraits, create personalized gifts, and make your own online photo gallery to share with friends and family the world over. Plus check out our list of can’t-miss courses from 2012. | Take better photos—and turn them into gifts |  We’ve put together a list of courses, and even videos within courses, that can help you take better holiday portraits, and share them as custom gifts. Some courses offer tips on overcoming seasonal challenges like fireside lighting and traveling with camera gear. Others demonstrate how to restore, print, and frame a vintage family photo; print, mat, and frame a photo; or design a one-of-a-kind 2013 photo calendar. | Build a photo site with Muse |  Online photo galleries are a convenient way to share a year’s worth of photographs with friends and family. If building a gallery website seems a daunting task, then doing it in Adobe Muse may be your solution. In Designing a Portfolio Website with Muse, award-winning graphic designer and Adobe advisor Steve Harris demonstrates how you can use Muse to create and publish a gallery website—without writing HTML and CSS code. | | | | | Stay up to date with our training library. We are constantly adding new software training courses and inspirational documentaries to help you reach your creative and career goals. 
| | | | Give memberships |  What’s useful, affordable, and requires no wrapping or shipping? A lynda.com gift membership can help friends, colleagues, and family members achieve their personal and professional goals for 2013—and even learn to use the cameras, tablets, and smartphones they receive as holiday gifts. Choose from a range of memberships, select your delivery date, and share the gift of learning with the click of a button. | Make your marketing authentic |  Several courses in our business segment focus on authentic marketing, a practice that’s gaining popularity among companies hoping to build brand loyalty with their customers. By striving to deliver on a brand promise in a credible, consistent way, businesses can create meaningful customer experiences and connections. Likewise, by connecting on a personal level, sales professionals and business owners can establish meaningful client relationships. To learn more about marketing with authenticity and integrity, watch the “Building a Brand” chapter from Brand Building Basics, the Making a personal connection and Story selling videos from Insights from an Online Marketer, and the Building integrity video from Sales Skills Fundamentals. | Revisit our 2012 highlights  | | Our content team reviewed the list of more than 370 courses we published this year to create a retrospective of some of our most popular, timely, and innovative courses of 2012. If you missed these courses the first time, be sure to check them out now! | 3D + animation audio business design developer photography video web | Until next year, happy learning!
—Lynda | |
Latest releases |
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 Keep an eye on the site for these and many other new courses coming soon: - Animating Characters in ToonBoom Animate
- Android SDK: Local Data Storage
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Essential Training
- Debugging PHP Advanced Techniques
- Developing Brand Identity Collateral
- Drawing Vector Graphics
- Foundations of Audio: Reverb
- Foundations of Photography: Specialty Lenses
- Foundations of Typography
- Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Advanced
- iPad Music Production: AmpliTube
- iPhone and iPod Touch iOS 6 Essential Training
- Joomla! 3 Essential Training
- Leading Productive One-on-One Meetings
- Managing Small Projects
- Mixing a Hiphop and R&B Song in Pro Tools
- Mixing a Short Film with Audition
- Mixing a Short Film with Pro Tools
- Monday Morning Pointers
- Multilingual Publishing Strategies with InDesign
- Narrative Scene Editing with Premiere Pro
- On Camera: Video Lighting for the Web
- On Camera: Video Makeup Techniques
- Photorealistic Lighting for Live Action in Maya
- Photoshop Elements 11 Essentials: Importing and Organizing Photos
- Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form
- Responsive Design with Drupal
- Responsive Design with Joomla!
- SQL Server Reporting Services in Depth
- Title Case: Typographic Artisans
- Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop CS6
- Up and Running with Eclipse
- User Experience Fundamentals for Web Design
| Testimonial of the month Aced the test
I applied for a position with a large company and the phone interview went great. The HR person said, “By the way, you need to take an online Excel test.” I had studied Excel in college but had not used it in depth. Needless to say, I did not pass the test. I asked the HR person what I could study to bring my Excel skills to the level needed. He said his company used lynda.com and that I should sign up. I signed up and retook the test after one week and passed 100 percent.
—Ron S. Read more great feedback. | Tip of the month |  | | Problem solving from Foundations of Photography: Night and Low Light with Ben Long
One of the trickiest things about low light is just paying attention and knowing how to recognize when you get into a difficult situation.
When shooting a dinner party, you often find that one side of the table has a lot of nice light on faces, while the other side is backlit. There’s not much you can do about that, so as a photographer, you need to make some decisions about what you can do to shoot both sides of the table.
You can choose to overexpose by using your exposure compensation to just dial in a little more exposure. You’ll lose details in the background, but that’s OK because you’ll pick up faces.
You can also ask the party guests to turn. If it’s a family gathering or a situation where you know them, there’s nothing wrong with asking subjects to help you by turning a bit so that their faces fall more into the light.
The main thing to do is just to notice when you have bad light. It’s really easy to be so caught up in the moment of people’s expressions and trying to get the shot that you forget to keep paying attention to the light.
Your eyes can see much more than your camera in low-light situations, so you really need to be watching it, paying attention to it, and asking yourself:
- Am I getting good detail on people?
- Am I getting nice lighting?
- Am I getting good definition?
Want more low-light photography tips? Watch Ben Long’s full course, Foundations of Photography: Night and Low Light. | |
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