Courses
In this course, industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6. Discover how to seamlessly move and patch areas of a photo with the Content-Aware toolset; stretch the brightness of a scene with automatic and custom Levels adjustments; create intricate designs with text and shapes; and morph an image with layer effects and transformations. Deke also shares his techniques for sharpening details, whether addressing noise and highlight/shadow clipping or camera shake, and converting a full-color image to black-and-white. The final chapters show you how to best print and save images for the web, making sure all your hard work pays off in the final output.
Join industry expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland in the fourth and final installment of his popular Photoshop CS6 One-on-One series. In this course, Deke puts his own spin on the most powerful features in Adobe Photoshop, including the Art filters, which enable you to transform an image into a digital painting, and Photomerge, which can stitch together multiple photos into a single panorama. Plus, dive into the extended features like 3D lighting effects, the Puppet Warp and animation toolset, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, video editing, automated adjustments with actions, and much more.
Are you new to Photoshop Elements 10? Do you want to improve your images to look spectacular? In our Learn Photoshop Elements 10 video training course, you’ll learn how to turn your photos into masterpieces. Follow along as your instructor guides you through the Photoshop Elements 10 interface and introduces you to its enhanced features. Learn basic techniques, in addition to the advanced features. Get ready to make your photos look amazing and impress your friends and family members.
This training course teaches you how to manipulate graphics and video to use on a web site. Since the release of its first version many years ago, Photoshop has added numerous tools tailored for use with graphics destined for the web. In this video tutorial you will learn how to master these tools. Once you have completed this computer based training course on Photoshop for Web Design, you will have a strong grasp of the fundamental tools and capabilities that Photoshop has to offer, and how to apply those tools specifically to your web design related projects. Working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons.
Join Justin Seeley as he reveals how designers can create vibrant web graphics, wireframes, and complete web site mockups in Adobe Photoshop. The course covers creating a custom web workspace for maximum efficiency; drawing, coloring, and optimizing web graphics; creating vector shapes and text that scale seamlessly; mastering transparency; building navigation bars and buttons; and speeding up these tasks with the Photoshop automation tools.
In this course, author Drew Falkman shows how to install the latest version of PHP, the popular web application server, and reviews the performance enhancements and language improvements in the 5.4 release, including short array syntax, function arrays, and support for the $this reference to current objects in closures. The course also introduces traits, the mechanism for code reuse in single inheritance languages such as PHP.
So you're getting comfortable with HTML, CSS and Javascript? You're up for the next challenge? The PHP programming language coupled with the mySQL database is the final step toward making a complete application. Many commercial e-commerce sites, membership sites and even online communities use PHP. Once you learn PHP online you can use this free technology to build just about any type of web presence you can imagine. If you're a mobile developer, you need to learn PHP and MySQL too. Most mobile devices consume web-based services. There is no easier way to create web services designed to be consumed by mobile devices than PHP-- guaranteed!
In PHP with MySQL Beyond the Basics, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund introduces powerful PHP programming techniques using object-oriented programming (OOP). Both novice and experienced PHP developers will benefit from the efficient, well-organized, reusable, and easy-to-understand code that OOP offers. Kevin shows how OOP techniques can streamline database queries, help manage sessions, and simplify user logins. While building a real-world web application, Kevin also includes practical advice on topics ranging from structuring code to logging user actions. Exercise files accompany the course.