Best Free Tutorials: 2010

Friday, December 31, 2010

Lynda.com - Poser 7 Essential Training

Lynda.com - Poser 7 Essential TrainingVideo Training | QuickTime mov | 2 CD: 608MB & 440MB | Running Time 5.45 hours
Genre: eLearning
In Poser 7 Essential Training, instructor Larry Mitchell explains how to design, pose, and animate 3-D characters using the program's intuitive interface, tools, and workflow. The training covers everything from essential animation principles to working on the intricate details of individual body parts and complicated facial expressions. Larry also teaches the minute steps required to create characters that can lip-synch to recorded sound files. Advanced topics, such as incorporating HDRI lighting, animating to reference videos, and integrating Poser 7 and Vue 6, add to the full learning experience.

Lynda com After Effects CS5 Essential Training-QUASAREnglish | Duration: 08:45 | Level: Beginner | 2.27 Gb | RS | HF
In After Effects CS5 Essential Training, author Chad Perkins discusses the basic tools, effects, and need-to-know techniques in Adobe After Effects CS5, the professional standard for motion graphics, compositing, and visual effects for video. The course provides an overview of the entire workflow, from import to export, as well as detailed coverage of each stage, including animating text and artwork, adding effects to compositions, working in 3D, and rendering and compressing footage. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:
* Understanding the After Effects workflow
* Precomposing footage
* Explaining the basics and beyond of animating
* Creating glows, patterns, textures, and more with effects
* Color correcting footage
* Working with text
* Manipulating video playback speed
* Masking objects and shape layers
* Removing backgrounds with keying
* Compositing multiple pieces of footage
* Integrating After Effects with the rest of the Creative Suite

Lynda.com Fireworks CS5 Essential Training Full - QUASAREnglish | Duration: 08:51 | Level: Beginner | 1.12 Gb | RS | HF
In Fireworks CS5 Essential Training, author Jim Babbage gives a detailed overview of Fireworks CS5, Adobe's software for creating and optimizing web graphics and interactive prototypes. This course includes a detailed tour of the interface, the enhanced PNG format, and the image editing toolset in Fireworks. Critical concepts, such as prototyping for HTML and AIR applications and working with symbols, the heart of an efficient workflow in Fireworks, are covered in detail. Exercise files are included with this course.

Topics include:
* Customizing the workspace
* Working with pages, layers, and states
* Importing content
* Comparing bitmaps and vectors
* Creating and editing vector shapes
* Converting artwork into graphic, button, and animation symbols
* Animating in Fireworks
* Maintaining crisp text in web images
* Sharing content between pages
* Optimizing images for export
* Integrating with Device Central, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Flash Catalyst

Lynda.com - Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 : Beyond the BasicsHF | 1.8GB
http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=58832

In Premiere Pro CS4 Beyond the Basics, Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins explains how to take video editing from simple nuts and bolts to an art form. He shares tips for shooting video in the field to get the most from a subject and get the best footage for a project. He demonstrates how to build a project through the careful use of cutaways, pacing, and suggestive edits. He covers special effects, color correction, and keying and compositing, integrating all these concepts as he builds a music video project from scratch. Exercise files are included with this course.

Topics include:

* Working with P2 media
* Keying compositions using garbage mattes and green screen
* Using transition effects, lens flares, and 3D reflections
* Compositing with blend modes
* Understanding spatial versus temporal compression
* Recording, mixing, normalizing, and fixing audio

Video Training → Adam Dewhirst - Head modelling in Maya (2010/ENG)

Adam Dewhirst - Head modelling in Maya (2010/ENG)
ENG | Author: Adam Dewhirst | Producer: Adam Dewhirst | Length: 3:33:08 | Year: 2010
Genre: eLearning

Head modelling in Maya-Hello, this is the first of a series of simulation training manuals for the use of stylized symbols of the Maya autodesk. This was done while at the workshop of animation in Viborg, Denmark.
Description: Hi, this is the first of a series of modelling tutorials for stylised characters using autodesk Maya. This was done whilst at the Animation workshop in Viborg, Denmark.

Lynda.com Ableton Live 8 Essential Training
TEAM QUASAR | 12-12-2010 | 1.31GB
Genre: eLearning

Ableton Live 8 Essential Training with Rick Schmunk offers a comprehensive overview of Ableton's live audio and MIDI sequencing software and the techniques required to compose, record, and edit music, in real time, on stage, or in the studio. The course includes tutorials on compiling live sets from audio and MIDI clips, loops, or samples, applying MIDI effects, warping audio, and recording and producing songs in any number of contemporary styles. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:
* Putting together a DAW system
* Setting up Ableton preferences
* Importing and exporting content
* Recording MIDI
* Editing and quantizing MIDI data
* Recording audio
* Recording in Arrangement view
* Using sends and returns in the Live Mixer
* Grouping tracks
* Signal processing
* Creating and editing automation envelopes
* Using fades to mask audio pops and clicks
* Looping and warping audio clips
* Mapping device controls to a MIDI keyboard
* Working with virtual instruments
* Integrating Live with Pro Tools and Logic

Total Training Adobe InDesign CS4 Essentials DVD | ISO | 1.1 GB

Get an introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 with this essential training that introduces you to the basics tools, skills and techniques required to create professionally styled text, layouts and graphics that deliver a powerful impact. In this series, you’ll be guided through the techniques needed to work with text and graphics in your layouts. You will also learn how to apply artistic effects to text and placed artwork, without prior knowledge of other applications like Illustrator or Photoshop.

InDesign is the leading professional page layout program created by Adobe Systems Inc. Using it, graphic designers can integrate photographs and graphics with text to create both long and short publications such as brochures, catalogs, magazines and more. InDesign CS5: Advanced follows on from VTC's InDesign CS5: Beginner course and covers: Customization, Layers, Advanced, Graphics & Text features including Tables and Styles, Working with Long Documents, implementing Interactive Features and Preparing for Press. Work Files are included.

Total Training for MS Visual Studio 2008: Essentials - Featuring Windows Forms | 1GB
English | MOV 960 x 540 10.000 fps | AAC 48.0 Kbps 44.1 Khz

These self-guided lessons from Total Training help you increase your knowledge and understanding of Visual Studio. Whether you are looking to stay competitive or just keep up to date on the latest Microsoft technology, Microsoft expert Asli Bilgin shows you just how it's done. With lessons on the basics of Visual Studio, to more advanced techniques on setting up Windows Forms, this series is just what you need to learn all about Visual Studio fast!

Highlights
* Get an insider's guide to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
* Learn all about the IDE tools
* Discover how to create an Abstract Base Form
* Find out all about the file management controls

Video Training → Total Training – Website Design Extreme Website Makeover (Full 2 DVDs) + Project Files

John Ulliman | Windows & MAC | 11.25 Hrs | Level: Beginner to Advanced

| 2 DVD - 4.4 GB | RS & MU

Title: Website Design Extreme Website Makeover
Category: Web Design & Publishing
Presenter: John Ulliman
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: DVD-ROM & Online
Running Time: 11.25 Hrs, 2 DVDs
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Project Files: Included
Solutions: Multi-User - Education - Government - International - More.

Description: These video tutorials equip you with the skills necessary to turn an ordinary website into one that's content-rich using popular web design and development tools: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Contribute, Photoshop, and Illustrator. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to combine these programs interchangeably. John shares his expertise to help you understand how to ensure compatibility across multiple browsers and platforms.

Highlights
* Learn tips on logo enhancements, stock photo materials, as well as template designs and layouts.
* Discover how to utilize your website to build out marketing materials, like brochures, business cards, and company letterhead.
* Become truly skilled at how to publish your web projects also to cell phones and kiosks.

Total Training For Microsoft Windows 7 | 634.15 MB

Using a computer these days is a requirement. In order to use a PC without it becoming cumbersome and frustrating, you need to know it's operating system and how to navigate, find, open, use and manage the system including its hardware, software and files. This course will review some of the old standby features and hone in on the numerous enhancements in this version. You'll learn the tools to increase reliability, efficiency and security that will optimize the user experience as never before.

Lynda.com: Flash Professional CS5 Animation Projects-QUASAR | ISO | 235MB
Genre: Video Training

In Flash Professional CS5: Animation Projects, Paul Trani shows how to create dynamic and visually rich animations in Flash Professional CS5. This course demonstrates how to create and import assets, and then take those assets and bring them to life with dynamic motion. It also shows how to create more unique and natural movement by adding special effects, 3D, masks, and even bones to animate characters. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include

Creating graphics and reusable assets
Importing graphics
Making an object move
Animating a mask
Using and customizing motion presets
Morphing shapes
Animating in 3D
Adding bones to a character
Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript
Randomizing content

Video2Brain Flash CS5 GERMAN
TEAM BLZiSO | 1.32GB
Genre: eLearning

Flash web designer not to come by! André Reinegger introduces you to this video tutorial, step by step in all tools. There are also techniques that allow you to create animated interactive Flash movies with graphics, sound and video. It should also mention the 3-D and bone tools and the new layout options for text. Equipped with the practical knowledge you will be able to realize projects of the banner animation to interactive web content for your customers. Two bonus chapters give a short introduction to ActionScript and explain how Flash CS5 Catalyst is used.

From the contents:

Introduction
Meet in the introductory chapter the basics of Flash. In addition to the customization of the desktop you are presented here including all the interactive tools from the toolbox. Here you will learn in a short video about the functions of the different tools. For example, you learn to work as Selection, selection, gradient and type tool, spraying, Bone and retention tool and the eyedropper tool to get such a good reference book.

Drawing with Flash
After getting to know the general user, you will learn in this chapter to create and edit individual shapes and objects. Learn also how to work with the color palettes and gradients produce.

Bitmaps in Flash
Not all content that you can use in Flash, you create in Flash. In this chapter you will learn about importing and dealing with bitmap graphics in CS5.

Working with Text
The content on Flash presentations not only consist of vector and bitmap graphics. Naturally, Flash CS5 some text tools that can be adapted for different purposes. Look at the possibilities of text formatting in Flash in this chapter.

Animation in Flash
Armed with the knowledge from the previous chapters, it is time to devote themselves to the interesting part of flash - the creation of animations. You learn in this comprehensive section the operation of the timeline to know better and you will learn which types of animation Flash has in store for you.

Sound and Video in Flash
Only with the right sound to an animation experience. This section will demonstrate André Reinegger the uses of sound. You will also see how to spice up with Flash video in HD quality your sites even more.

ActionScript 3 code fragments
ActionScript 3 code fragments to help the designer to bring interactivity into the application. How you use these code fragments profitable, you will learn in this chapter.

Publish
Your work is done - now is the time where you want to present your work to the public. This chapter is all about the publication settings in Flash.

Integration - Flash in combination
Flash can best work together with programs of the Creative Suite. Learn in this section, such as how to develop together with Device Central applications for mobile devices or how to produce directly from InDesign pre-flash files.

Short Introduction to ActionScript 3
Sascha Kersken
ActionScript 3 is the main programming language of Flash CS5. Compared with ActionScript 2, many impressive new features added and the language is not backwards compatible with their predecessors. In this chapter some aspects of programming with AS3 will be put under the microscope: the reaction to events and changing and adding movie clips.

Catalyst Flash CS5 - An Overview
Constantin Ehrenstein
Flash Catalyst is designed to close the gap between programmers and designers who want to develop the tools of the Creative Suite applications for the Flash platform. Watch this bonus movie as you use the "Team Player" Flash Catalyst.

Homepage: http://www.video2brain.com/de/products-594.htm

VTC - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 Tutorials Collection
BIN | ISO | 85MB + 450MB + 450MB

VTC - QuickStart! - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010

Autodesk AutoCAD, is the world s most widely used Computer Aided Design
(CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate your ideas with ease and efficiency. This QuickStart! course provides users an introduction to the new features and tools of AutoCAD 2010, and gives insight on existing tools already available.

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VTC - Video Tutorials Collection for Web Designing Collection
12 VTC Video Training from Various Authors | Total 2.2 GB | RS & DF

Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 x86/x64 English with VTC Tutorials Collection

Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 x86/x64 English with VTC Tutorials Collection | 5.63GB

QuickStart | Basic 2D Concepts | Intermediate 2D Concepts | Advanced Concepts
New features of AutoCAD 2010 is called a true technological breakthrough, which will please many millions of users of this software product. AutoCAD 2010 has a parameter, and now any changes between objects are supported by user defined relationship. This significantly reduces the time to make changes to projects. The emergence of tools to work with arbitrary shapes became possible to create and analyze the most complex three-dimensional objects. In addition, 3D printing is now supported, so it's easier to get prototypes and physical prototypes. In this publication the following materials: Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 x86/x64 (English) and VTC - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: QuickStart, Basic 2D Concepts Tutorials, Intermediate 2D Concepts and Advanced Concepts

Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 x86/x64 (English)
Year: 2009
Version: 2010
Developer: Autodesk
Platform: Windows
Compatibility with Vista: complete
Language: English
Medicine: Present

System requirements:
Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Service Pack SP1
Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, Service Pack SP1
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Service Pack SP1
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Service Pack SP1
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 or later
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or later
Intel Pentium 4 or Dual-Core Processor AMD Athlon, the frequency of 1,6 GHz or higher, SSE2 technology
2 GB of RAM.
Video adapter with 128 MB of memory is recommended 3D graphics adapter class workstation with 256 MB memory or higher, supports Direct3D.

VTC - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 Tutorials Collection

VTC - QuickStart! - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010
Autodesk AutoCAD, is the world s most widely used Computer Aided Design
(CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate your ideas with ease and efficiency. This QuickStart! course provides users an introduction to the new features and tools of AutoCAD 2010, and gives insight on existing tools already available.

VTC - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts
Autodesk AutoCAD is the world’s most widely used Computer Aided Design (CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate ideas with ease and efficiency. AutoCAD 2010 has new features that make tasks easier and quicker too. This VTC course provides users with the essentials needed to master AutoCAD 2010 with emphasis on how to create, edit and plot AutoCAD drawings. Use AutoCAD to communicate your ideas, concepts or designs to customers, colleagues and peers! Work files are included. To begin learning, simply click the movie links.

* The AutoCAD Work Files used in this course are in the AutoCAD 2007 DWG file format, and cannot be read by versions of AutoCAD before AutoCAD 2007.

VTC - Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Intermediate 2D Concepts
Autodesk AutoCAD is the world’s most widely used Computer Aided Design (CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate ideas with ease and efficiency. AutoCAD 2010 has new features that make tasks easier and quicker too. This VTC course provides users with the knowledge to master intermediate 2D concepts. Work files are included. To begin learning, simply click the movie links.

VTC Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 Advanced Concepts
Autodesk AutoCAD is the world’s most widely used Computer Aided Design (CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate ideas with ease and efficiency. AutoCAD 2010 has new features that make tasks easier and quicker too. This VTC course provides users with the knowledge to master advanced concepts, giving the user the ability to create, edit and plot complex AutoCAD drawings. Work files are included. To begin learning, simply click the movie links.

VTC Training Video Tutorials for Adobe Photoshop Collection | 3.40 GB | RS - MU - HF

Video Training → Drupal 7 Best Essential Training(Advanced 1by1)

Drupal 7 Essential Training | Training | 1.34 GB

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for a variety of platforms. It has a robust user community and easy-to-use administration features.
Introduction
What Is Drupal?
Installing Drupal
Understanding Drupal Administration
Understanding Drupal Administration
Establishing Your Site’s Identity
Keeping Your Drupal Site Running
Building Content Nodes
Managing Site Content
Drupal Essential Training covers all the important aspects of installing, configuring, customizing, and maintaining a Drupal-powered website. Instructor Tom Geller explores blogs, discussion forums, member profiles, and other features while demonstrating the steps required to make Drupal perform. He also teaches fundamental concepts and skills along the way, including installation, backups, and updates; security and permissions; flexible page layouts and CSS; menu navigation; and performance monitoring and disaster recovery. He also discusses how to select and install the community-supported modules that further expand Drupal’s capabilities, and gives experienced PHP programmers tips on customizing page templates. Example files accompany the course.

Lynda.com Drupal 7 New Features | 192.83 MB
Genre: eLearning

In Drupal 7 New Features, author Tom Geller demonstrates changes to the Drupal 7 administrative interface and other enhancements that have come out of its three-year development period. This course covers its simplified installation process, new themes that will help kick-start design projects, the customizable shortcut bar that puts often-used commands in easy reach, update procedures that leverage its browser-based interface, and a new way of defining fields to create complex content types without additional modules.

Topics include:

* Configuring the new Dashboard
* Using contextual link controls
* Exploring new themes
* Reviewing the new modules
* Understanding the expanded block system
* Using images in content
* Allowing users to delete accounts
* Testing modules with the Testing module
* Building themes using Drupal Gardens

Lullabot All Drupal Packages
Video Training | 11.16 GB
1 Understanding Drupal
2 Site Building With Drupal
3 Administering Drupal
4 Learning CCK
5 Learning Views
6 Theming Basics
7 Advanced Theming

That's over 17 hours of content.

Lynda.com - Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes
English | Bin | 404Mb
Genre: eLearning

Drupal is widely recognized as a powerful back-end system for web sites, but Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes shows how the application can also be used to manage the look and feel of a web site. Web architect Chris Charlton introduces the core themes that ship with Drupal. He shows how to install and administer new themes, change color schemes, and add sub-themes to existing themes. He also demonstrates how to build a custom theme from scratch; integrate HTML, CSS, and javascript; and apply themes to specific nodes and blocks. Exercise files are included with this course.

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Lynda - Drupal Essential Training | 617MB
Tom Geller | English | HF | ULD

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for a variety of platforms. It has a robust user community and easy-to-use administration features. Drupal Essential Training covers all the important aspects of installing, configuring, customizing, and maintaining a Drupal-powered website. Instructor Tom Geller explores blogs, discussion forums, member profiles, and other features while demonstrating the steps required to make Drupal perform. He also teaches fundamental concepts and skills along the way, including installation, backups, and updates; security and permissions; flexible page layouts and CSS; menu navigation; and performance monitoring and disaster recovery. He also discusses how to select and install the community-supported modules that further expand Drupal's capabilities, and gives experienced PHP programmers tips on customizing page templates. Example files accompany the course.
Topics include:
* Understanding the inner workings of Drupal
* Creating stories, pages, blogs, forums, and polls
* Managing users and comments
* Setting and customizing themes
* Exchanging content via RSS
* Stopping comment spam with a CAPTCHA
* Launching a site and joining the Drupal community

Homepage: http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=620

VTC Video Tutorial---- HTML 4 And 5 With CSS Tutorials DVD

VTC HTML 4 And 5 With CSS Tutorials DVD
Author:James Gonzalez | ISBN: 1-935320-93-9
Release Date: 2009-12-31 | Duration: 10.5 hrs / 142 tutorials | 687 Mb | RS | HF

With more than 250 million North American users now on the Internet and more than 1.6 billion worldwide, it’s wonder that HTML has stayed the course as the most popular web programming language. In addition, the skills learned in the study of HTML are fundamental to more advanced programming technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, Flash ActionScript and many others. This course covers all the important features of HTML4 and HTML 5, and includes an introduction to styling web documents using CSS. The working scripts and step-by-step examples found here will have you quickly creating the kind of web content demanded by today’s web sites. With the help of the instruction in this course, you will quickly be adding text, links, images, sounds, and videos to your web pages and expertly formatting everything using the latest and most powerful CSS techniques. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

Introduction
What is HTML? (05:08)
About this Course (05:22)
Tools Needed to Code HTML (05:16)
Services Needed to Publish HTML (06:30)
Versions of HTML (06:51)
HTML 5 (07:43)
Creating Your First Page (06:03)
HTML Building Blocks
HTML Elements (04:46)
HTML Attributes (02:49)
IDs & Classes (03:41)
Text & Comments (02:49)
URLs (05:08)
HTML Structure
Document Type (05:36)
Head Elements: Titles (04:32)
Head Elements: Meta Elements (04:39)
Head Elements: Script & Style Tags (05:08)
Block & Inline Elements (04:18)
Paragraphs (03:49)
Section Headings (05:00)
List Elements (03:33)
Divisions (05:13)
Inline Spans (03:36)
Tables (03:21)
Forms (04:38)
Basic Formatting
Paragraph vs. Line Breaks (04:18)
Bold & Italic (03:15)
Superscript & Subscript (02:58)
Preformatted Text (02:37)
Rules & Blockqoutes (04:08)
Abbreviations & Acronyms (04:46)
CSS Text Properties (03:07)
Color & Images
Color on the Web (07:05)
Color Schemes (05:37)
Creating & Naming Graphics (03:46)
Image Resolution (03:29)
Image File Formats (06:50)
Getting Images to Load Faster (06:50)
Background Images & Color (05:41)
Image Maps (02:38)
The IMG Tag (06:41)
IMG Tag Attributes (03:19)
Links
The Anchor Element (02:19)
Absolute vs. Relative Links (06:38)
Writing Relative Links (04:40)
File Structure & Linking Tips (04:33)
HREF & Target Attributes (03:09)
Internal Links & the Name Attribute (04:55)
Changing Link Colors (06:32)
Tables
Tables vs. Div Tags (03:58)
Setting Table Widths (04:51)
Cell Padding & Spacing (02:57)
Positioning Tables & Contents (04:11)
Table Headers (03:34)
Spanning Columns & Rows (03:18)
Nesting Tables (04:15)
Forms
Intro to Forms (03:05)
Input Fields (03:21)
Radio Buttons (02:43)
Checkboxes (02:38)
Dropdown & Selection Lists (02:39)
Large Text Input (01:44)
File & Hidden Fields (02:16)
Submit & Reset Buttons (03:59)
Image & General Buttons (03:51)
Making Forms Easier to Use (03:14)
Organizing Forms using Fieldset (04:33)
Tips for Formatting Forms (03:02)
Processing Form Data (08:13)
Style Sheets
What is CSS & Why Use It (05:03)
Style Syntax & Structure (02:14)
Writing & Applying Your First Styles (04:47)
Intro to Selectors (03:16)
Base/Tag Selector (03:07)
The Class Selector (06:18)
The ID Selector (03:08)
Context Selectors (04:04)
When to Use ID or Class (03:26)
Managing Multiple Styles
How Styles Cascade (03:34)
Cascade & Inheritance Rules (04:24)
Cascade & Inheritance Tips (02:38)
Inlining Styles (02:58)
Embedding Styles (02:19)
Importing Style Sheets (03:38)
Linking Style Sheets (07:04)
CSS Building Blocks
The Box Model (05:37)
The Div Tag (03:11)
Child Divs (04:15)
Width & Height (02:33)
Margin (06:24)
Padding (03:46)
Borders (06:52)
Formatting Text
Why Text Formatting is Important (05:18)
Choosing Fonts (05:32)
Browser-Safe Fonts (04:54)
Font Size (04:52)
Applying Styles to Text (02:54)
Setting Line Height (04:38)
Letter Spacing (Kerning) (04:16)
Other Font Properties (05:01)
Tips for Improving Text Legibility (06:26)
Styling Lists / Colors / Images
Styling Lists with CSS (06:56)
CSS Background Color (03:17)
CSS Background Images (04:02)
Setting Image Opacity (02:30)
Laying Out Pages with CSS
CSS Layout Structure (03:03)
Block vs. Inline Display (05:26)
Containing Blocks (02:30)
Positioning Schemes (07:18)
Static / Fixed / Absolute Positioning (05:01)
Relative Positioning (07:04)
Floating & Clearing Content (05:56)
Using Floats in Layouts (03:33)
Fixed-Width Layouts (02:59)
Liquid / Fluid Layouts (07:10)
Elastic & Variable Fixed Width Layouts (03:12)
Tips for Creating & Applying Styles (07:10)
HTML 5
What is HTML 5? (04:12)
HTML 4 vs. HTML 5 (03:58)
New HTML5 Structural Elements (05:34)
The Article / Section / NavElements (04:02)
Aside / Figure / Legend Elements (04:20)
Video & Audio Elements (04:55)
Playing Video & Audio (03:30)
Controlling Media Playback (02:36)
The Canvas Element (03:02)
Additional HTML 5 APIs (03:18)
Where You Can Use HTML 5 (03:59)
Easing the Transition from XHTML (05:01)
Advanced Topics
XML (03:30)
Adding Multimedia (06:31)
Multimedia Players & Platforms (05:50)
JavaScript (03:25)
Dynamic HTML (04:06)
AJAX (05:50)
Publishing your Web Site
Understanding Web Page Publishing (04:37)
Site Setup & File Transfer (06:41)
Site Management & Organization (04:46)
Site Troubleshooting Tips (06:31)
Promoting Your Sites pt. 1 (06:12)
Promoting Your Sites pt. 2 (05:06)
Conclusion
Wrap-up (03:38)
Credits
About the Author (01:21)

VTC Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the Web | 610 MB

Photoshop, the de facto graphics application in the world of print design, turns its sights on web design! In this course, Geoff Blake will demonstrate many practical and useful techniques for working with Photoshop in a web design capacity. You'll learn the fundamentals of web design, including HTML and CSS basics, the challenges of web browsers, and how monitor resolution affects design. Geoff will also demonstrate how to coordinate Photoshop and Dreamweaver so that you can edit layout images in Photoshop. You'll master Photoshop selections, how to use layers to organize your layouts, and how color works in an online environment. Finally, you'll construct an entire layout from scratch in Photoshop and discover techniques for exporting it for online use. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

Introduction & Setting Up
Welcome & About this Course (01:58)
The Role of Photoshop in Web Design (01:30)
Working with Photoshop & Dreamweaver (03:38)
Internet & Web Design Fundamentals
How Web Delivery Works (02:59)
Web Browsers (04:20)
Understanding HTML & CSS (03:11)
Web Page Structure (04:30)
Monitor Resolution (02:54)
Photoshop Basics
Setting Photoshop Preferences pt. 1 (03:25)
Setting Photoshop Preferences pt. 2 (04:10)
Setting Photoshop Preferences pt. 3 (02:48)
Exploring the Photoshop Toolbox (04:07)
Tool Settings on the Options Bar (02:22)
Photoshop Application Bar (02:26)
Exploring the Panels (04:28)
Touring the Document Window (04:11)
Working More Efficiently pt. 1 (04:23)
Working More Efficiently pt. 2 (03:02)
Getting Around
Navigating Through Images (05:26)
Creating New Images (03:03)
Using Grid/Guides/Rulers (06:06)
Saving Your Work (04:41)
Understanding Web File Formats
Raster vs. Vector (02:29)
Web Graphic File Formats (03:25)
Basic Image Optimization for GIF (05:01)
Saving a Transparent GIF (02:51)
Basic Image Optimization for JPEG (04:30)
Basic Image Optimization for PNG (03:18)
Resizing Images for Web Output
Understanding Resolution (04:44)
Touring the Image Size Dialog (02:34)
Resizing Fundamentals (05:14)
Working with Selections
Shape-Based Selections pt. 1 (05:40)
Shape-Based Selections pt. 2 (02:32)
Transforming Selections (04:36)
Color-Based Selections pt. 1 (04:43)
Color-Based Selections pt. 2 (03:49)
Using Quick Mask Mode pt. 1 (02:47)
Using Quick Mask Mode pt. 2 (02:34)
Using Quick Mask Mode pt. 3 (03:43)
Saving & Reusing Selections (02:35)
Editing Alpha Channels (04:40)
Organizing Web Projects with Layers
Understanding How Layers Work (05:35)
Removing Objects from Backgrounds (04:13)
Combining Images Together (03:03)
Using Free Transform (02:31)
Organizing with Layers (03:22)
Opacity & Blending Modes (03:32)
Special Effects with Layer Styles (04:48)
Creating Web 2.0 Buttons pt. 1 (04:19)
Creating Web 2.0 Buttons pt. 2 (02:41)
Typesetting Fundamentals (04:52)
Type on the Web (04:47)
Understanding Styles (04:48)
Creating a Website Header pt. 1 (04:41)
Creating a Website Header pt. 2 (06:59)
Creating a Website Header pt. 3 (06:24)
Color on the Web
Understanding Color Modes (05:27)
Mixing & Specifying Colors (05:11)
Using Web Safe Colors (05:35)
Using Color Between Applications (05:38)
Optimizing Images
Optimizing Images as GIFs (06:29)
Creating GIF Animation (04:35)
Optimizing Images as JPEGs (03:13)
PNGs with Alpha Transparency pt. 1 (04:55)
PNGs with Alpha Transparency pt. 2 (03:33)
Creating Backgrounds & Textures
Background Techniques (04:25)
Tiling Background Examples (05:36)
Creating Gradient Backgrounds (04:24)
Building a Full Layout
What We Will Build (02:22)
Laying Out the Guides (04:39)
Creating the Main Layout Blocks pt. 1 (03:35)
Creating the Main Layout Blocks pt. 2 (03:30)
Creating the Main Layout Blocks pt. 3 (03:00)
Laying Out the Banner Ad Blocks (04:48)
Getting Organized in the Layers Panel (05:20)
Finishing Up the Layout (07:40)
Adding Content to the Layout
Formatting the Overall Layout (05:52)
Building the Lead Story Box (06:43)
Building the Story 1 Box (04:40)
Building the Story 2 Box (02:10)
Building the Story 3 & 4 Boxes (04:25)
Building the Feature Box (02:11)
Creating Title Text (06:56)
Inserting Placeholder Text (04:23)
Formatting the Footer (04:04)
Inserting the Header (02:04)
Slicing a Photoshop Layout
Creating Slices by Hand (07:02)
Guide-Based Slices (04:12)
Layer-Based Slices (03:44)
Dividing Slices (04:50)
Slicing Apart the Layout pt. 1 (02:25)
Slicing Apart the Layout pt. 2 (03:20)
Slicing Apart the Layout pt. 3 (02:00)
Setting Slice Properties pt. 1 (02:52)
Setting Slice Properties pt. 2 (02:54)
Exporting a Photoshop Layout
Slice Export Settings (04:47)
Exporting a Table-Based Layout (02:05)
Viewing the Table Results (03:59)
Exporting a CSS-Based Layout (01:44)
Viewing The CSS Results (05:04)
Final Exporting & Results (02:42)
Replacing Text (03:12)
Formatting the Layout (03:52)
Conclusion
Wrap Up (01:16)
About the Author (00:36)

Lynda.com - Flash Professional CS5: Code Snippets and Templates in Depth

Lynda.com - Flash Professional CS5: Code Snippets and Templates in Depth | 300 MB
Genre: eLearning

In Flash Professional CS5: Code Snippets and Templates in Depth, David Gassner shows designers how to use Flash Professional CS5's Code Snippets panel and file templates to get started with ActionScript 3 and implement best practices. This course describes how to insert snippets into existing Flash presentations, includes a detailed explanation of the code behind the snippets, and shows how to use the many templates included with Flash Pro CS5 to quickly create customized presentations. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:
•Touring the Code Snippets panel
•Adding simple and complex code snippets
•Handling mouse and keyboard events
•Starting and stopping video and sounds
•Loading external SWF files, images, and text
•Customizing code snippets
•Understanding template types and categories
•Replacing template content
•Creating a slide show

Lynda.com AIR 2 with Flash and Flex Essential Training-QUASAR | 273Mb
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In AIR 2 with Flash and Flex Essential Training, author James Talbot shows how to develop and deploy Flash-based native applications with Adobe AIR 2. The course includes demonstrations in all supported development environments: Flash Professional CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, and Flash Builder 4. The course explains how to build and deploy native desktop applications that are integrated with the operating system and use many of the runtime's features, including native installers, offline capability, interacting with other processes, and more. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

* Explaining runtime applications
* Installing and using the Adobe AIR 2 SDK
* Compiling a project in Flash Builder
* Packaging an AIR application in Flash Professional
* Converting a Flex project to an AIR project
* Creating application windows
* Moving and copying files across the operating system
* Opening files in default applications
* Displaying HTML content
* Interacting with other AIR applications
* Using the built-in database
* Securing applications

Lynda.com Flash Professional CS5 Animation Projects | ISO | 235 MB
Genre: eLearning

In Flash Professional CS5: Animation Projects, Paul Trani shows how to create dynamic and visually rich animations in Flash Professional CS5. This course demonstrates how to create and import assets, and then take those assets and bring them to life with dynamic motion. It also shows how to create more unique and natural movement by adding special effects, 3D, masks, and even bones to animate characters. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:
* Creating graphics and reusable assets
* Importing graphics
* Making an object move
* Animating a mask
* Using and customizing motion presets
* Morphing shapes
* Animating in 3D
* Adding bones to a character
* Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript
* Randomizing content

Lynda.com - ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training-QUASAR | 567 MB
Genre: eLearning

In ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training, Todd Perkins shows Flash designers how to incorporate ActionScript code into their projects and create interactive presentations and applications. The course includes a review of ActionScript language basics and the object-oriented programming (OOP) methodology, a tour of those Flash Professional CS5 features designed for developers, such as code hinting and the Code Snippets panel, and instructions on interacting with objects in the Library and placing code on the Timeline. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:
•Understanding the building blocks of ActionScript
•Working with the display list
•Using dot syntax
•Navigating the Timeline
•Creating document classes
•Linking classes to Library objects
•Adding drag/drop functionality to objects
•Creating a slide show
•Loading and running code in an external SWF
•Working with text
•Accessing XML data
•Playing audio and video with ActionScript

VTC.com - AutoDesk Maya 2011
English | MP4 | 800x600 | AVC 76.7Kbps | AAC 48Kbps | 1.03 GB
Genre: Training
This training series looks at the multiple tools within Maya 2011 and an example of how to use them. Maya is a vast program that covers a great amount of workflows from 3D modeling to full blown animation, but it's the tools that bind you and your imagination to the program. This training helps new artists who have never used Maya all the way up to the Maya pros. Also included are some workflows that take you through the steps necessary to create a fully textured model within the software. So sit back and enjoy the one program everyone that has ever played video games wanted to learn.

Main Topics include:

1. Introduction.
2. Navigation.
3. Attributes & settings.
4. Basics.
5. Polygon Tools.
6. Modeling Demo.
7. UVs & Hypershape.
8. Materials & Textures Demo.
9. Rendering.
10. Animation.
11. Rigging.
12. Dynamics.
13. Conclusion & Credits.

VTC.Com.Autodesk.Auto.Cad.Dynamic.Blocks.And.Tool.Palettes.Training-iRONiSO
404MB | RS & HF | Release Date:November 18, 2009

http://www.vtc.com/products/Autodesk-AutoCAD-Dynamic-Blocks-and-Tool-Palettes-Tutorials.htm

VTC.com QuickStart AutoCAD 2011 | 103 MB
Genre: eLearning

AutoCAD 2011, written by software vendor Autodesk, is the latest release of the world’s most widely used 2D Computer Aided Design (CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate your ideas with ease and efficiency. Creating your designs in AutoCAD 2011 is easy, regardless of what you might think! With the appropriate use of the new features and new design tools in AutoCAD 2011, you can easily communicate your design intent, making you more effective!. AutoCAD 2011 has many new features that make design, plotting, publishing and scaling so much easier and quicker. Its new user interface makes commands easy to find and allows users to be trained easily and quickly. This new features course provides you with the tutorials needed to master the new features in AutoCAD 2011 and develop your AutoCAD knowledge to a competent user level, giving you the ability to plot, publish and scale with ease, impressing your customers and colleagues!.

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VTC.com Adobe Illustrator CS5 CompleteTrainig

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is the latest version of the industry standard vector drawing application. Now with new features such as the Perspective Tool, the Bristle Brush, Beautiful Strokes and new drawing modes, there are more tools than ever for the creation of stunning art. Professional illustrator, television animation art director and writer Dwayne Ferguson takes you on an in-depth look at Illustrator CS5, taking you through the tools you'll need to master it quickly. The end of the course includes three fun yet practical hands-on projects. Work Files are included.

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1.) Unrar
2.) Burn/mount
3.) Enjoy

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VTC.com QuickStart MySQL 5 Tutorials | 116 MB
Genre: eLearning

MySQL is one of the mst popular database systems in the world. As a free and open alternative to proprietary database systems it has been used by sites and applications all over the web including Flickr, Wikipedia and even Google. In this VTC QuickStart author John Mangino will help the beginner dive into MySQl and provide a solid foundation for building and developing your own MySQL databases and ultimately incorporating them into your own sites and applications.

Course Contents

Introduction
Welcome

Installing MySQL
Windows WAMP
Mac MAMP
Linux LAMP
Accessing MySQL
Changing Password WAMP/MAMP

Naming & Column Types
Element Names
Column Types - Text
Column Types - Numbers
Column Types - Dates
Other Column Properties

Creating & Retrieving Data
Create & Select a Database
Create a Table
Inserting Records pt. 1
Inserting Records pt. 2
Selecting Data & Conditionals pt. 1
Selecting Data & Conditionals pt. 2
Special Conditionals LIKE & NOT LIKE
Sorts & Limiting pt. 1
Sorts & Limiting pt. 2
Update a Record
Delete Data

Functions
Using Functions
Text Functions pt. 1
Text Functions pt. 2
Numeric Functions
Date & Time Functions
TIME_FORMAT

Conclusion
Wrap Up

Credits
About the Author

VTC.com: Microsoft Excel 2007 | .ISO | 517MB

Though Microsoft Excel has been around for many years, Excel 2007 has an entirely new look and feel. Many new features have been added to improve productivity and workflow. In this in-depth VTC course, VTC Author Cheryl Brumbaugh-Duncan explores using Excel to create, manage, and analyze spreadsheet data. Users will learn to develop all the necessary worksheets and workbooks for financial and informational data, for a company that distributes healthy snacks to companies throughout a city. The course steps the participant through the various topics and skills needed to master Excel 2007 and provides a fun project for applying the new knowledge.

VTC.com QuickStart Adobe After Effects CS5 Tutorials | BIN | 170 MB
Genre: eLearning

Course Outline

Overview
Welcome

Footage
File Types
Import Movies
Image Sequences

Layers
Layers
Adjustment Layers

Compositions
Basic Comp pt. 1
Basic Comp pt. 2
Basic Effects pt. 1
Basic Effects pt. 2

Rotoscoping
Roto-Brush
Refine Edge

Cartoon Effect
Cartoon Effect pt. 1
Cartoon Effect pt. 2
Puppet Tool
Work with Pins
Record Motion
Conclusion
Final Thoughts
Credits
About the Author

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VTC.com QuickStart Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Tutorials

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 has all the tools you’ll need to edit, add audio and transition effects onto your footage. Create animated titles that scroll and crawl across your footage and build powerful metadata schema to quickly find your assets. In this VTC course, videographer and producer Mark Struthers takes users on a tour of Premiere Pro CS5, teaching the fundamentals to help users get rolling quickly. Work files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the QuickStart! - Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 movie links.

Introduction
Welcome (04:49)
Getting Started
First Project (04:41)
Interface Overview pt. 1 (05:26)
Interface Overview pt. 2 (02:00)
Importing Media pt. 1 (04:54)
Importing Media pt. 2 (02:40)
Organizing Folders pt. 1 (05:02)
Organizing Folders pt. 2 (02:26)
Timeline in Close Up pt. 1 (02:43)
Timeline in Close Up pt. 2 (04:35)
Essential Functions
Quick Functions (06:43)
Basic Editing (06:56)
Transitions (05:08)
Timecode Principals (03:47)
Workspaces & Efficiency (06:55)
Getting Creative
Effects Overview (06:09)
Using Audio (04:14)
Keyframing (07:03)
Time Manipulation (03:25)
Pan & Zoom (06:07)
Further Features
Capturing Footage (06:11)
Titles (06:53)
Exporting pt. 1 (04:39)
Exporting pt. 2 (02:42)
Adobe Integration (03:02)
Wrap Up
Final Thoughts (02:20)
Credits
About this Author (01:02)

Homeapage: http://www.vtc.com/products/QuickStart!-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CS5-Tutorials.htm

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VTC.com - Adobe Advanced Photoshop Artistry - Video Training (2010)

Virtual Training Company author Jayse Hansen takes users through advanced aspects of Adobe Photoshop as it relates to fine art, commercial art, etc. He teaches users new advanced retouching and tone enhancement techniques. Learn subtle techniques for color correction, as well as more dramatic techniques for creating illusions intended to fool the eye. Learn to manipulate tone and create metal, stone, and porcelain skin textures with ease. Traditional photographic techniques such as creating cross-processed, chroma key, or infrared looks are all covered. To start learning today, simply click on one of the movie topics below.

Introduction
Welcome (01:48)
Learning in Pictures from the Lessons (05:20)
About this Course (02:38)
About Me (02:05)
Who this Course is for (03:28)
Short Tips for Super Learning (03:40)
Technical Issues with this CD (01:39)
Mac to PC Differences (01:26)
My Computer (02:40)
Copyright Notice (00:46)
Utilities
Useful Things: Basics for Your Machine (01:52)
PS Preferences (06:40)
Super Simple Essential Shortcuts (01:27)
Must know PS Shortcuts (02:22)
Navigation Shortcuts (02:09)
Imaging Shortcuts (04:52)
Tool Shortcuts (01:27)
Workspace Shortcuts (00:58)
Shortcuts: Quick Review (01:44)
Setting Up Your Workspace (04:57)
Retouching
Pro Techniques (04:31)
Assessing the Image (06:14)
Analyzing the Histogram (05:11)
Analyze Texture, Contrast and Lighting (03:58)
Analyze the Focus: Examples (05:37)
Contrast Controls (03:49)
Explanation: Levels of Contrast (02:34)
Using Levels (05:15)
Levels with Adjustment Layer Masks (05:17)
Using Curves (06:31)
Enhancing Color: Color Casts (04:35)
Advanced Saturation-Avoiding .jpg Artifacts (04:25)
Using the Healing Brush (05:20)
Using the Patch Tool (06:41)
Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning pt. 1 (07:55)
Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning pt. 2 (04:41)
Reducing Red-Eye (01:59)
Focus and Center Of Interest Adjustments
Sharpening Out-of-Focus Images pt. 1 (05:32)
Sharpening Out-of-Focus Images pt. 2 (05:00)
Enhancing Depth of Field (05:40)
Flashing or Burning Edges (05:27)
Fine Art Tone
Generating Black and White from Color pt. 1 (05:13)
Generating Black and White from Color pt. 2 (03:43)
Sepia Toning (03:38)
Selenium Toned (03:31)
Digital Cyanotypes (06:23)
Gradient Maps (03:15)
Fine Art Photographic Effects
Soft Focus (06:46)
Angelic/Dramatic (02:26)
High Key pt. 1 (04:41)
High Key pt. 2 (05:38)
High Contrast (02:46)
Cross-Processed (03:59)
Fine Art People Skin Techniques
Perfect Skin (02:43)
Dramatic Glowing/Radiant Skin (03:56)
Metal Skin pt. 1 (01:23)
Metal Skin pt. 2 (05:27)
Metal Skin pt. 3 (03:13)
Using Displacement Maps (05:17)
Infared/Translucent Skin pt. 1 (03:49)
Infared/Translucent Skin pt. 2 (03:59)
Fine Art Landscapes-Atmosphere Techniques
Enhancing Skies pt. 1 (04:14)
Enhancing Skies pt. 2 (06:06)
Adding Skies from Other Photos (06:50)
Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning pt. 1 (04:33)
Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning pt. 2 (05:53)
Non-Destructive Dodging and Burning pt. 3 (01:47)
Natural Media Art Techniques
Art History Brush pt. 1 (05:27)
Art History Brush pt. 2 (06:44)
Art History Brush pt. 3 (05:33)
History Brush (01:54)
More Art History Brush pt. 1 (06:42)
More Art History Brush pt. 2 (07:49)
More Art History Brush pt. 3 (01:27)
Creating a Hand Drawn Look pt. 1 (07:18)

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