Discover how to build web sites, prototypes, and more in this course on Adobe Dreamweaver CS6. Author James Williamson shows designers how to take control of their site by properly naming and structuring files and folders; how to create new documents and web pages from scratch or with starter pages; and how to add content such as text, images, tables, and links. James also provides a background on the languages that power projects built in Dreamweaver—HTML and CSS—and introduces the programming features in the application, for developers who want to dig right into the code. The last chapter shows how to finesse your project with interactive content such as CSS3 transitions and Spry widgets.
Topics include:
Choosing and customizing a workspace
Defining a new site
Uploading files to your site
Creating new documents and web pages
Formatting source code
Working with CSS
Placing images and background graphics
Creating links
Styling a basic table
Creating a web form with buttons, check boxes, and list menus
Adding Spry effects

Join author Paul Trani as he shows how to create a web site step by step with Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, one of the industry's leading web authoring tools. But not just any web site. A responsive HTML5 web site that works across multiple browsers and devices, complete with rich imagery and text, a robust portfolio, video content, and even a contact form. This course covers how to use web standards such as HTML5 for structure and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control colors, fonts, navigation, and more. The course also demonstrates how to test across multiple browsers and devices and upload your new site to the web.
Topics include:
Understanding basic web principles
Adding content to a web page
Linking to web sites and email addresses
Styling content with CSS
Creating a layout that fits multiple browsers and devices
Building an HTML5 layout
Inserting images and video
Adding a menu bar
Creating a contact form
Integrating a Twitter feed
Uploading and testing a web site

The third part of the popular and comprehensive series Photoshop CS6 One-on-One follows industry pro Deke McClelland as he plunges into the inner workings of Adobe Photoshop. He shows how to adjust your color, interface, and performance settings to get the best out of your images and the most out of Photoshop, and explores the power of Smart Objects, Shadows/Highlights, and Curves for making subtle, nondestructive adjustments. The course dives into Camera Raw to experiment with the editing toolset there, and returns to Photoshop to discuss toning, blur, and blend modes. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details and reducing noise, as well as creating quick and accurate selections with Quick Mask, Color Range, and Refine Edge commands.

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.
Topics include:
Performing automatic retouch, scaling, and more with the Content-Aware tools
Editing the histogram
Customizing a Levels adjustment
Making channel-by-channel Levels adjustments
Sharpening with the Smart Sharpen, Emboss, and High Pass filters
Working with vector-based type
Kerning and tracking characters
Creating text on a path
Drawing and customizing shapes
Creating depth, contour, and texture with layer effects
Liquifying an image
Simulating an infrared photo
Adjusting print position, size, and color
Creating the perfect JPEG image
Downsampling for the web

Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals is a concise and focused introduction to the key features in Photoshop, presented by long-time lynda.com author and Adobe veteran Deke McClelland. This course covers the image editing process from the very beginning and progresses through the concepts and techniques that every photographer or graphic designer should know. Deke explains digital imaging fundamentals, such as resolution vs. size and the effects of downsampling. He explains how to use layers to edit an image nondestructively and organize those edits in an easy-to-read way, and introduces techniques such as cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting and changing color, and retouching and healing images. These lessons distill the vast assortment of tools and options to a refined set of skills that will get you working inside Photoshop with confidence.
Topics include:
Opening an image from Photoshop, Bridge, or Camera Raw
Navigating, zooming, panning, and rotating the canvas
Adding, deleting, and merging layers
Saving your progress and understanding file formats
Cropping and straightening
Adjusting brightness and contrast
Identifying and correcting a color cast
Making and editing selections
Enhancing portraits by retouching skin, teeth, and eyes

In Photoshop CS6 Essential Training, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to produce high-quality images in a short amount of time, using a combination of Adobe Photoshop CS6, Bridge, and Camera Raw.

The course details the Photoshop features and creative options, and shows efficient ways to perform common editing tasks, including noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, retouching, and combining multiple images. Along the way, the course explores techniques for nondestructive editing and compositing using layers, blending modes, layer masks, and much more.
Topics include:
Organizing images in Bridge
Adding metadata such as copyrights and keywords
Editing in Camera Raw versus in Photoshop
Retouching in Camera Raw
Batch processing files
Customizing the Photoshop workspaces
Choosing a file format and resolution
Cropping, scaling, and rotating images
Working with layers, including merging and flattening layers
Creating selections and layer masks
Toning and changing the color of images
Adjusting shadows and highlights
Retouching and cloning
Creating panoramas from multiple images
Adding filters and sharpening
Working with blend modes
Adding type
Working with video in Photoshop CS6

This course provides in-depth training on Camera Raw 7, the Photoshop CS6 component that enables photographers to open and manipulate raw format images. Raw images are minimally processed in the camera; they're effectively the exact data recorded by the camera's sensor. Author Chris Orwig shows you how to control a raw image's appearance—exposure, shadow and highlight detail, color balance, and sharpness—with far more precision than is possible with JPEG images. The course also introduces the new workflow procedures and technical concepts and issues associated with raw content, so that photographers can best leverage this powerful format.
Topics include:
Comparing the raw, JPG, and TIFF formats
Converting or saving to the DNG format
Enhancing color and tone
Cropping and composing
Sharpening and noise reduction
Using the Camera Raw histogram
Batch editing
Correcting for under- and overexposure
Retouching blemishes
Making lens corrections
Calibrating your camera
Speeding up your workflow with actions

This course is the third in a four-part series devoted to mastering the premiere graphics creation application, Adobe Illustrator, version CS6. Industry pro Deke McClelland takes a project-based learning approach to the key features in Illustrator, including Recolor Artwork, transparency, masks, blend modes, strokes and fills, and dynamic effects. The course also covers techniques for creating custom gradients, designing logos, generating photorealistic neon text, and wrapping type around objects. Plus, Deke shows how to call up the most essential features by organizing your workspace and employing time-saving keyboard shortcuts, how to manage the color settings, and how to adjust a few settings to make the program work even better.
Topics include:
Installing dekeKeys, Deke's free custom keyboard shortcuts
Understanding the color-managed workflow
Creating a multicolor blend
Establishing a clipping mask
Blending different levels of opacity
Combining a letterform with a path outline
Warping logo type around a circle
Adding neon blur and bokeh in Photoshop
Mixing and matching color harmonies
Recoloring artwork
Working with the Calligraphic, Scatter, and Art Brushes
Creating translucency
Editing attributes in the Appearance panel
Adjusting and updating dynamic effects

Join author and industry expert Deke McClelland as he teaches you how to take advantage of the next level of dynamic features in Adobe Illustrator CS6. This installment of his Illustrator CS6 One-on-One series starts by showing you how to effectively manage layers, clipping groups, and swatches, so that you can easily swap out colors and content. Deke then explains how to create customized strokes and patterns and build complex gradients with transparency and dynamic effects, and then apply these features to paths, groups, and editable text to create professional-quality artwork. He also highlights some of the most popular features in Illustrator: Live Paint and all ten of its Pathfinder operations. The final chapters show how to prepare your projects for print and save them for distribution on the web.
Topics include:
Creating layers, sublayers, and groups
Lifting a color and creating a swatch
Assigning colors to paths inside groups
Adjusting the stacking order
Using the Width tool to adjust line weight
Masking a pattern inside a background
Assigning and modifying a gradient fill
Creating a radial gradient
Drawing a linear spiral with the Polar Grid tool
Adding a credible 3D cast shadow
Contouring with the Blob Brush and Eraser
Creating and painting an overlapping path
Placing Photoshop images in Illustrator files
Previewing and printing documents
Optimizing documents for the web

This course is the first in a four-part series by industry-pro Deke McClelland on creating elegant, optimized graphics with the tools in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and Deke's special, branded techniques.

This installment covers subjects such as working with shapes and closed paths, including painting, grouping, and coloring, and placing and adjusting type. Deke shows you how to select fonts, create hanging indents, and tweak the kerning and leading of your text. Additional chapters cover drawing and editing paths (and their points) and moving and transforming objects in your artwork.
Topics include:
Rotating and duplicating objects
Grouping and stacking
Erasing and painting selected paths
Using the Shape Builder tool
Reflecting across an angled axis
Simulating beveled edges
Creating a network of interlocking paths
Placing and flowing text
Creating page margins
Adjusting type size
Creating and applying paragraph styles
Using the Glyphs panel
Inserting and removing anchor points

Adobe Illustrator can be used to accomplish many different design tasks, from illustration to app development. This course demonstrates core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow—for print, the web, or building assets that will find their way into other applications. Author Justin Seeley explains the elements that make up vector graphics (paths, strokes, and fills) while showing how to use each of the drawing tools, and demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths and organize them into groups and layers. The course also covers text editing, working with color, effects, and much more.
Topics include:
Understanding vector graphics
Creating and setting up files for print or web destinations
Selecting and transforming objects on the page
Creating spot colors
Applying fills, strokes, and gradients to artwork
Adjusting appearances and effects
Working with anchor points and paths
Drawing with the Pen tool
Creating text
Managing layers
Creating and using symbols
Printing, saving, and exporting artwork

This course provides a solid foundation in Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and shows how to create an assortment of Flash content. Author Anastasia McCune explains the different destinations for Flash projects—mobile devices, the desktop, or the web—and where ActionScript fits into it all. She shows how to create a new project, structure document layers and arrange objects on the Timeline, and how to get started drawing basic shapes and incorporate text, images, audio, and video. The course also explains the different types of symbols and tweens in Flash, and how to use them to build and animate content. The final chapters outline the publishing options available for Flash projects, including Adobe AIR.
Topics include:
Choosing a document type
Working with panels and workspaces
Importing bitmap and vector graphics into a project
Understanding the Timeline and frame rate
Defining frames and keyframes
Creating button, graphic, and movie clip symbols
Nesting timelines
Building shape tweens and motion tweens
Defining inverse kinematic (IK) motion
Applying filters, blend modes, and masks
Integrating audio and video
Using ActionScript code snippets
Configuring SWF and HTML publish settings
Publishing with AIR

This course introduces Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, using a project-based approach that introduces video editors to all the skills necessary to cut their own program. Using a short commercial project as an example, author Abba Shapiro walks viewers through a complete and logical workflow that begins with importing media, creating a basic rough edit, and then refining the cut with music and sound effects, transitions, visual effects, and titles. The course also includes troubleshooting advice, such as reconnecting offline media and using the History panel to undo multiple actions.
Topics include:
Customizing the window layout and the interface
Importing card-based media
Capturing media from tape
Marking and selecting the best takes from clips
Editing clips into the Timeline
Performing insert and overwrite edits
Performing more advanced editing tasks, such as 3-point editing, replace edits, and trimming using ripple and roll edits
Mixing audio
Editing more efficiently using markers
Working with stills and graphics
Creating speed changes on clips
Adding transitions and effects
Creating titles, credit rolls, and lower thirds
Demonstrating multicamera editing techniques
Stabilizing shaky footage
Exporting your final project to the web, mobile devices, and tape