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Join Eddie Tapp as he helps you create a new digital workflow! Follow the workflow from shooting portraits and headshots to finding your winning images, then using creative portrait enhancement techniques to get the most out of your pictures. Learn about processing images in Lightroom, and for your best images, when and why to use Smart Objects. Portrait artist Judy Host will also be joining us for a special session on how to incorporate graphics and textures into your work. And finally, learn to show off your work by creating an exciting slideshow!

This is a workshop we ALL need! Learn color management from Eddie Tapp! We'll talk about calibrating equipment, establishing a color managed workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop, and taking advantage of color management workflow for both input processing and printing and output. If you want to accurately capture, manipulate, and reproduce the color you shot, this is the workshop for you!

In this course, students will learn to develop advanced ASP.NET MVC applications using .NET Framework 4.5 tools and technologies. The focus will be on coding activities that enhance the performance and scalability of the Web site application. ASP.NET MVC will be introduced and compared with Web Forms so that students know when each should/could be used. This course will also prepare the student for exam 70-486.

Data, data everywhere…take control of your database and learn to manipulate it with the tried-and-true Structured Query Language (SQL) in Oracle Database 11g. Whether you're an IT pro who wants to add Oracle DBA and SQL querying to your tool belt, a DBA in another technology who wants to dive into Oracle, or a newcomer to relational databases who yearns to learn SQL, this series will give you what you need to reach your goal.

Ever want to get into a top producer’s head and see what makes him tick? In this course, Eyal Amir – with outstretched arms – welcomes you into his creative world as he imagines, sketches, develops and produces an amazing track right before your eyes.

Forget flashy studios and expensive props. Join award-winning photographer Brooke Shaden to learn inexpensive ways to create elaborate, gallery-style works of art from scratch.

Learn Underscore.js by focusing on each of the Underscore functions to learn to manipulate and control javascript collections, arrays, objects and functions. See how Underscore can significantly improve the performance of your code and how to the functional nature of the library can help make your code more expressive and easier to read.

In this extended tutorial, we cover everything from lighting, lens usage, cutting things out from their backgrounds, adding light & color, working with shadows and highlights, skin retouching, great depth into the pen tool, composing an image & More.

Join Adobe expert Deke McClelland as he explains how Photoshop has evolved into the rich toolset that is Photoshop CC. In this course, Deke explains the premise of "Photoshop forever" and introduces you to the latest and greatest features in this continually evolving program. Learn to apply dynamic, editable filters and effects, make perspective corrections in Camera Raw, integrate CSS code on special layers in your document, build multistep actions to automate your work, and work with 3D imaging.

In this Advanced InDesign CS5 training video tutorial, Adobe Certified Instruction Jeff Witchel builds on his InDesign CS5 fundamentals training course. You will get more in-depth with the features and functions of this powerful layout program, which is no longer used just for prepress documents anymore!

This Adobe InDesign CS5.5 training video by Jeff Witchel is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to learn this powerful, often intimidating page layout and design program. Including a complete chapter on the latest edition to InDesign - EPUB, this computer software training program is designed to teach the absolute beginner how to use the industry standard Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software.

Throughout thee lessons we will learn how to create hot and cold smoke effects with FumeFX, also we will learn about different types of smoke and how to make them look more realistic.

This is a very detailed tutorial covering RAW conversions, color treatment, advanced editing and color work. If you are looking to add subtle or great effects to your image, this is a great lesson for you. We also cover some great clone stamp techniques applicable on any image.

Direct2D is a native, immediate-mode, graphics rendering library that provides uncompromising performance. Its focus is on two-dimensional rendering, providing a rich array of primitives for rendering vector graphics, bitmaps and text.

This course is a deep dive into advanced debugging on Windows. Learn how to use the powerful Debugging Tools for Windows debuggers as well as the internals of key Windows components to reduce the amount of time to resolution for tough bugs.

The .NET Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators. Rx is a superset of LINQ’s standard query operators that exposes asynchronous and event-based computations as push-based, observable collections via the new IObservable interface in .NET 4. This course walks you through the details of working with Rx to develop asynchronous applications.

Cisco's CCNA exams have been revised! Get everything you need for the new ICND2 exam, 200-101, with this series.

If you have ever needed to cut someone out of their background and place them onto a new one, this tutorial is perfect for you. We cover very advanced techniques for cutting objects out, and creating amazing layer masks. We also go over some special techniques for matching color.

HALion 4 is the newest incarnation of Steinberg's powerful VST sampler. In this series, Steinberg guru Mark Struthers shows you how to get this powerful sampler up and running, as well as in-depth coverage of its features and functions.

Join Mia McCormick for a down to earth conversation with Zack Arias, an editorial and commercial photographer based in Atlanta. Over the course of an hour Zack and Mia touch on topics that range from getting started to developing a style, from the value of reinventing yourself to what can come from finding clarity, and so much more. The day comes for all photographers when photography becomes just a job, but you still need to show up and do the work. Zack’s insights into his own process can help you find new ways to reconnect to your passion for photography when you are in that rut, or to help you avoid falling into it entirely..