 | | | | | Check out our new design Notice anything different? We’ve redesigned our monthly newsletter to make it easier to read on mobile devices, tablets, and screens of all kinds. We hope you enjoy the new look and features, including this month’s Author spotlight. Let us know what you think by clicking the blue site feedback button on any page of lynda.com. | | | | | | | | | Write compelling stories A well-crafted tale evokes readers’ curiosity right from the start. In Writing Fundamentals: The Craft of Story, Lisa Cron offers practical advice for creating empathy, exploring characters, and building momentum. Discover how to get a screenplay idea from your head to the page—and navigate potential legal issues—with filmmaker Mark Tapio Kines’s Screenwriting Fundamentals.
| | | | Create an infographic Infographics let you present complex data in a way that viewers can quickly and easily understand, but designing your first one can be time consuming and challenging. In Creating Infographics with Illustrator, author Mordy Golding shares his plan for gathering data, determining which graph type is right for your project, and understanding the difference between a presentation and an infographic.
| | | | Brush up on wedding photography  Photographing a wedding is both a privilege and a challenge. We’ve created three courses to make the job easier. In Wedding Photography for Everyone: Fundamentals, Chris Orwig explains how to capture moments as they unfold, and to stay out of the way. In Wedding Photography for Everyone: Bridal Portraits, Chris offers tips on shooting brides, from scouting to lighting. Learn strategies for enhancing skin, hair, and clothing in photos with Photoshop Retouching Techniques: Beauty Portraits with Timothy Sexton, senior retoucher at New York’s Gloss Studio.
| | | | Set up a video blog with WordPress Learn to make a clean and responsive video blog using three different themes with Morten Rand-Hendriksen’s Start with a Theme: Video Blogs in WordPress. Get up and running quickly with the Twenty Twelve, Origami, and Sundance themes, then discover how to add video from YouTube and Vimeo as well as add custom UI elements, and enhance the visibility of your posts.
| | | | Make music with Ableton Live 9 Ableton Live 9 blurs the lines between a digital audio workstation and an instrument, offering creative workflows for producers and musicians alike. Get started making and recording music in just two hours with Up and Running with Ableton Live 9. Author Yeuda Ben-Atar shows how to set up a project for recording, make beats, use built-in virtual instruments, and quickly mix down your tracks. In Ableton Live 9 for Live Performance, Yeuda takes Live from studio to stage and shares live performance tricks, including looping, scratching, and syncing with other musicians.
| | | | Create easy-to-read CSS code Take a tour of a workflow that optimizes CSS code for easier navigation, organization, and readability. In CSS: Visual Optimization, author Justin Seeley covers best practices for writing CSS in an easy-to-read format, developing a table of contents, and adopting other methods that produce “cleaner” code. The course also contains tips for speeding up development with some online tools and simplification techniques. | | | | We’re adding new courses every week.
Get unlimited access and learn all you like.  | | | | Manage projects successfully Three new courses aim to help you complete your projects on time, on budget, and on target. Project Management Fundamentals covers establishing goals, building a project plan, and meeting deadlines. In Managing Small Projects, learn to identify risks, estimate costs, and track assignments. Watch Delegating Tasks to Your Team to make sure you’ve assigned the right jobs to the right people.
| | | | Write a Windows Store app Write your first Windows Store app with HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS by building a game engine that runs on Microsoft devices and desktops. In Building a Windows Store Game Using HTML and JavaScript, author David Isbitski explains the Microsoft web stack and the foundational capabilities of HTML5. From there, David covers designing the game interface with CSS, adding support for multiple screen sizes and touch interaction, incorporating music and sound effects, and accessing data from the camera and accelerometer. | | | | | | | | Morten Rand-Hendriksen How did Legos help Morten become an expert programmer? “Growing up in Norway, you got a Brio train and a Lego kit for birthdays and Christmases,” he says. “So I grew up building. In some ways, that shaped everything. When you build things, you’re starting from step one and you have to follow along logically.” | | | | | | | | | Training coming soon | | | | | | 3D + Animation - AutoCAD 2014 New Features
- Texturing for Games in Maya, Mudbox, and Photoshop
- Working with Human IK Rigs in Maya
Audio - Up and Running with FL Studio
- Ableton Live 9 Essential Training
Business - Coaching and Developing Employees
- Excel 2013: Pivot Tables in Depth
- InfoPath 2013 Essential Training
- Managing Project Schedules
- New Manager Fundamentals
- Outlook Web App (OWA) 2010 Essential Training
- Project 2013 Essential Training
- SharePoint Server 2013 Essential Training
- Up and Running with FileMaker Go
Design - Coaching Illustrator for Fashion Design: Drawing Flats
- Photoshop for Designers: Filters
- Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreement
| | Developer - Developing for the Apple iCloud API with iOS
- Distributing Windows Phone Apps through the Windows Store
- Distributing Windows Store Apps
- Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
- Up and Running with R
- Up and Running with Windows Phone 8 Development
Documentary - The Creative Spark: Beeple
Photography - Black and White with Lightroom and Photoshop
- Enhancing a Landscape Photo with Lightroom
- Lens-Reversal Macro Photography
Video - VFX Techniques: Building Replacement with After Effects
- Video Journalism Storytelling Techniques
Web - Validating and Processing Forms with JavaScript and PHP
- WordPress Ecommerce: Core Concepts
- WordPress Ecommerce: WooCommerce
- Up and Running with Backbone.js
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