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Lynda.com – After Effects Apprentice 08: Nesting and Precomposition | 1.74 GB
Duration: 2h 05m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×600 30fps 400Kbps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 128Kbps 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

In this course, Chris and Trish Meyer share two of the core secrets required to become an efficient After Effects user: understanding the render order (the internal order of operations After Effects uses when calculating masks, effects, transformation, track mattes, and layer styles) and the use of multiple compositions where a composition may be nested into one or more other comps. This makes it easier to group layers, efficiently re-use a common element to quickly accommodate client changes, pan around large composites of multiple layers, and solve render order issues. Exercise files are included with the course.
The After Effects Apprentice video lessons were created by Trish and Chris Meyer and are designed to be used on their own or as a companion to their acclaimed book, After Effects Apprentice.

Topics include:
* Grouping layers by nesting and pre-composing
* Identifying and solving render order issues
* Navigating composition hierarchies
* Editing a precomp while viewing the result in another composition
* Preserving the frame rate of a nested composition

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Lynda.com – Excel 2010: Financial Functions in Depth | 145 MB
Duration: 2h 20m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×540 15fps 100Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

In Excel 2010: Financial Functions in Depth author Curt Frye shows how to perform a wide range of financial calculations quickly and easily using the many financial functions found in Excel 2010. The course details dozens of functions for evaluating cash flows; calculating depreciation; determining rates of return, bond coupon dates, and security durations; and more. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:
* Analyzing loans, payments, and interest
* Discovering the interest rate of an annuity
* Determining depreciation using the straight line, declining balance, double-declining balance, and other methods
* Calculating the future value of an investment with variable returns
* Finding the discount rate of a security
* Converting between fractional prices and decimal prices
* Determining the yield of securities that pay interest periodically

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100 Ways Lightroom Kicks Bridge for Photographers
English | 640×360 | 2 hours 15 mins | MP4 | 1.62 GB
Gender: elearning

100 Ways Lightroom Kicks Bridge for Photographers. With Scott Kelby & Matt Kloskowski talk about the benefits of Lightroom over Bridge and Camera Raw in terms of photographers
I can’t tell you how many times during our various live seminars, photographers would come up and tell either Matt or me,
“Why should I switch to Lightroom? I already have the Bridge & Camera Raw?”
or
“I thought Lightroom was just the same as the Bridge and Camera Raw.”
Uggh!
It’s particularly frustrating because Lightroom has so many advantages over the Bridge & Camera Raw, that you can’t just explain it in few sentences.
In fact, Matt and I were talking about this very problem one day, and just joking around we said,
“We ought to make a list called “100 Ways Lightroom Kicks Bridge !”
so we could point them to it, and really illustrate the reasons why, as a photographer, they should be using Lightroom.
The next thing you know, we decided not only to make a list, but to create 100 videos that would really showcase the advantages.
Why 100 videos?
Now, we intentionally did 100 very short (30 to 60 seconds each) videos rather than one long 60-minute plus video, so people could go directly to the topics that interested them most
(since I doubt anyone would watch all 100, or would be willing to sit through 100 when they only needed a few to change their mind).
So, the site is live, and if you’re one of those photographers still using the Bridge & Camera Raw, take a few minutes and swing over to the site and check a few of the reasons out
(and at the very least, watch the short intro that Matt and I put together to get you started).

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KelbyTraining.com – Using Flickr For Your Images
English | avi 1358kbps | 854×480 29.9fps | MP3 128kbps | 498MB
Genre: Video Training

Flickr is widely considered the de facto standard site for sharing your images online. Using Flickr will allow you to take your images to the places where people are seeing them, increasing the amount of exposure you can have for your work. In this course RC will show you how to quickly setup an account, add images, keywords, and share your images through WordPress and Dreamweaver sites.
Contents
Signing Up for Flickr (04:02)
Adding Pictures (03:00)
Deleting Your Images (02:57)
Editing Your Flickr Profile (04:56)
Adding Keywords and Title Information (04:13)
Add Keywords and Titles from Lightroom and Bridge (04:02)
Image Sizes and Hiding Exif Data (04:54)
metadata Presets in Lightroom (02:42)
Using Sets in Flickr (06:01)
Flickr from Lightroom (04:51)
Deleting Images with the Lightroom Flickr Plugin (01:39)
Adding Images with the Bridge CS5 Flickr Plugin (02:47)
embedding Slideshow Code in WordPress and Dreamweaver (03:15)
Finding Flickr Groups (03:09)

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