In this installment of the Illustrator Insider Training series, Seeing Through Transparency, Mordy Golding shows experienced Illustrator users how to create transparency effects and ensure reliable printing results. This course reviews the history of vector transparency and covers features such as knockout groups, opacity masks, and transparency flattening. Mordy also shows how to establish a safe workflow when placing Illustrator graphics containing transparency in PostScript, PDF, and InDesign files. Exercise files and a free worksheet are included with the course.
Topics include:
- Understanding how transparency works across the Adobe applications
- Deconstructing the Transparency panel
- Adding transparency to gradients
- Understanding how overprints and knockouts work
- Using a gradient or complex appearance as an opacity mask
- The rules of transparency flattening
- Working with complex regions
- Understanding the relationship between flattening and stacking order
- Creating and sharing flattener presets
- Saving PDF files and using the PDF/X standards
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In Facebook Essential Training, Garrick Chow shows how to navigate the world of social networking and put the best face forward online. The course covers the basics, starting with creating a profile; making Facebook friends; communicating via status updates, wall posts, and chat; and sharing photos, videos, and links. Garrick also touches on the delicate subject of removing friends and respecting other people’s privacy online. The advanced features of Facebook, including permissions, add-in applications, and dedicated groups, are also covered.
Topics include:
- What is social networking?
- Finding and adding friends
- Organizing friends into lists
- Liking pages
- Reading the News Feed
- Writing on a friend’s wall
- Updating your status
- Posting videos and links
- Sending and receiving private messages
- Creating a page for a business
- Protecting privacy and staying secure
- Deactivating an account
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In Sibelius 6 Essential Training, author Jenny Amaya covers the ins and outs of creating, arranging, and publishing professional-looking scores using Avid’s popular music notation software. Beginning with the basics of score creation and note entry, the course explains how to interface with a MIDI keyboard; edit note durations and pitches; and incorporate lyrics, tempo markings, and other text elements. Also included are tutorials on formatting your score and dynamic parts. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Navigating the Sibelius interface
- Setting essential preferences
- Controlling basic score playback
- Performing contiguous and non-contiguous selections
- Ensuring score readability and organization
- Creating a new score
- Adding time signatures and key signatures
- Entering notes, rests, accidentals, and chords
- Inputting notation with a MIDI keyboard
- Creating and extending slurs and phrase marks
- Saving time with quick key shortcuts
- Printing and exporting a completed project
- Sharing scores via the Scorch plug-in
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In Rhino 4.0 Essential Training, author Dave Schultze shows how the 3D NURBS-based modeling tools in Rhino 4.0 are used to engineer products from toy robots to full-sized aircraft. This course concentrates on using Rhino 4.0 for industrial design and rapid prototyping, with a review of common 3D terminology using specific examples. Along with a comprehensive exploration of the Rhino interface, the course includes an introduction to building 3D objects with Rhino’s three primary entities: the curve, the surface, and the solid. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
- Understanding 3D terminology
- Viewing a 3D model in Rhino 4.0
- Manipulating objects with commands
- Creating curves, surfaces, and solids
- Applying transformations to 3D objects
- Creating unique shapes with Boolean operators
- Snapping to objects and planes
- Defining curve and surface degree
- Prototyping a 3D model
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Lynda.com CorelDRAW X4 Essential Training DVD-CFE | 1.64 GB
CorelDRAW X4 Essential Training provides detailed coverage of the flagship vector-based graphics application, as well as several of the other tools included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. These include PHOTO-PAINT, a bitmap editing application; PowerTRACE, used to convert bitmaps to vectors; and ConceptShare, for web-based collaboration.
David Rivers addresses experienced CorelDRAW users as he offers insight into new features and enhancements, and he also helps newcomers get up to speed with the basics of vector drawing. David demonstrates how to use objects, layers, and pages to organize documents effectively, and discusses working with color, specific tools, and special effects. He also covers the collaboration and delivery processes.
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In Flash Catalyst CS5.5 Essential Training, author Mordy Golding transforms static artwork produced in Illustrator and Photoshop into interactive Flash-based microsites and applications, all without writing code. This course covers building a functioning wireframe, importing and editing artwork, triggering state changes using interactions, and publishing a final project. It also includes tutorials on integrating rich media into a site and designing data lists for repeating elements. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Exploring new features in Flash Catalyst CS5.5
- Planning a project
- Roundtrip editing with Photoshop and Illustrator
- Understanding and skinning components
- Replacing one component with another
- Aligning and distributing artwork
- Creating conditional interactions
- Constructing resizable applications
- Incorporating audio and video
- Creating complex data lists
- Collaborating with developers using Flash Builder
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In Premiere Pro CS5.5 New Features, author David Basulto details the latest productivity enhancements to the Premiere Pro video editing workflow. Covering preproduction through delivery, the course shows how to edit RED footage nondestructively, place and modify keyframes directly on the timeline, and export to multiple file formats with the redesigned Media Encoder. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Choosing the appropriate keyboard layout
- Building custom sequences
- Syncing audio and video into a merged clip
- Roundtripping with Audition to sweeten audio
- Collaborating on the fly with CS Review
- Adding closed captions
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After Effects CS5.5 New Creative Techniques highlights some of the most exciting features in the latest release. These include enhanced 3D lights, cameras, and effects; the Warp Stabilizer; new stereoscopic tools; and the simplified audio workflow between Audition and After Effects. The course also includes bonus tips, "Tweaks for Geeks," on working more efficiently in After Effects, including searching, sorting, saving, and more.
After Effects CS5.5 New Creative Techniques was created and produced by Trish and Chris Meyer. We are honored to host their material in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.
Topics include:
- Adjusting the parameters in Warp Stabilizer
- Creating orbiting camera rigs
- Using the Camera Lens Blur effect
- Understanding focus and convergence
- Processing audio dynamically
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Lynda.com Photo Assignment Group Shots QUASAR | 290 MB
In this installment of the popular Photo Assignment series, professional photographer Derrick Story demonstrates the art of shooting timeless group shots. Derrick provides suggestions for appropriate lighting gear and shares advice for capturing subjects at their best, both indoors and out. After viewing the tutorials, join Derrick and the lynda.com community in the course\s companion Flickr group a venue for lynda.com members to submit their group shot samples for discussion and review.
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Lynda.com Maya 8 Essential Training DVD-ViH | 1.2 GB
In this title, George Maestri explores the latest features of Maya 8, from the improved interface to the new productivity features for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. The training also includes detailed tutorials on topics as varied as creating and connecting surfaces, texturing and shading, adding light and depth of field, and ghosting and motion trails.
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