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In this workshop author and expert Tom Green is your guide to Fireworks CS5.1, the latest iteration of Adobe’s web graphics and rapid interactive prototyping tool. You’ll get a comprehensive overview of the interface, the various file formats that are output through Fireworks, and the imaging tools it contains. Along the way you’ll learn how Fireworks integrates with Flash Professional CS5.5, Catalyst CS5, Dreamweaver CS5.5, and other tools in the Adobe Master Collection. Using a project-based approach to the techniques presented, this course will show you where Fireworks fits into the workflow for digital media projects ranging from simple web page prototyping to interface design for rich Internet application projects.
$44.99
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In this workshop Jeff Foster — video producer, compositor, visual effects artist, and author of "The Green Screen Handbook" — teaches you the basics of green screen compositing and setting up a streamlined roto workflow with After Effects and a Wacom tablet. You’ll get real-world tips on getting the best mattes and keys from your green screen shots, stabilizing and tracking footage in After Effects, and using the Roto Brush feature to create quick and accurate mattes of anything that moves in the frame. You’ll also learn how to create more believable composites by matching your foreground and background plates, using roto-spline masks, and applying match-moving techniques.
$34.99
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PHP is the most popular server-side language used to build dynamic websites, and though it is not especially difficult to use, non-programmers often find it intimidating. This workshop from author and trainer David Powers is designed to change that by teaching you PHP through a series of clear, focused, easy-to-follow lessons. After briefly explaining what PHP is and how it integrates with HTML, David will guide you through the setup and configuration of a PHP development environment on both Windows and Mac OS X. Then you’ll learn the features of the PHP language through a series of hands-on exercises before embarking on a larger project that involves building a script to validate and email user input from an online form. Through this project you’ll come to understand the value of creating reusable code, the importance of PHP security, and how to deal with multiple-choice form fields.
$39.99
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Getting good landscape shots requires a special set of skills, both technical and creative. In this Learn by Video course, published in partnership with Peachpit Press, renowned landscape photographer Phil Hawkins shares his extensive knowledge of the subject. You’ll work along with Phil as he decides on the best equipment, settings, and compositions for a series of photographic projects in the Sangre De Cristo range of the Southern Colorado Mountains. Then you’ll see how he handles post-processing in Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, and Photomatix — applying global adjustments, manually balance the dynamic range, creating high dynamic range images, performing black-and-white conversions, and more. You’ll also get helpful tips for preparing your images to be shared either through prints or on the web.
$34.99
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Life moves fast, and you can’t just press “pause” to get the exact photo you want. Nor is it easy to find a lot of time to fix your images after the fact. In this workshop author and expert Tim Grey shows you how to use Photoshop Elements to make a big impact on your digital photographs in a short time. After getting a quick overview of the Elements interface, you’ll learn how to fix problems with lighting, color, noise, and red eye. If you like, you can then move on to explore more advanced techniques like removing unwanted objects from an image, replacing the background, reducing depth of field, and more. When you’re done you’ll have all the skills you need to create images with staying power.
$29.99
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The advent of HTML5 has opened up new frontiers in the world of web design, and in this course you’ll learn how to exploit the power of HTML5 to make the best-looking, smoothest-functioning, and easiest-to-use web pages possible. After getting an overview of HTML and CSS concepts, you’ll work along with author and trainer Sally Cox to create an entire blog site from scratch. Starting with the concept, you’ll proceed to build a wireframe and add text, images, a header, a nav bar, an interactive form, and even multimedia content. Along the way you’ll learn about the new tags in HTML5 and get lots of tips on web design, such as which graphic formats to use and the best way to save your graphics for the web. This Learn by Video title is published in partnership with Peachpit Press.
$34.99
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Sometimes the most difficult part of creating a website is a step that is often overlooked: converting a graphic design into HTML/CSS files to be used on the web. In this workshop, expert web developer and trainer Candyce Mairs shows you how use a design created in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as the basis for a website created with Dreamweaver. You’ll learn how to “slice” a graphic design for conversion, optimize and export your images for the web, and plan how you are going to organize your website. Then, as the course moves into Dreamweaver, you’ll use HTML and CSS to create web pages, add content, and format and position that content. Finally, you’ll see how to test your pages in a variety of browsers to make sure you get the best results.
$44.99
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A time-lapse video essentially compresses time into a smaller space, creating some entertaining and evocative results. In this workshop author and expert Tim Grey explores the tools, techniques, and concepts involved in creating great time-lapse videos from still captures. You’ll learn how to choose the right equipment, get the right settings for your camera, and compose shots in a way that will be easy to work with later. Then you’ll follow Tim through a series of time-lapse projects where he photographs both fast-moving and slow-moving subjects, as well as one where the camera itself is moving.
$34.99
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Making good decisions in typography — choosing the right typefaces, fonts, sizes, spacing and so on — can have a major impact on the quality of your designs. In this one-of-a-kind workshop, art director, illustrator, and motion graphic designer Angie Taylor introduces you to the essential principles of typography. After exploring the terminology, history, and anatomy of traditional and computer-based fonts, she brings you all the way up to the present day by looking at how text is formatted in today’s creative applications. You’ll also learn specific software techniques for creating your own lettering from hand-drawn text, animating text on a path, using operators and effects to customize existing fonts, working with 3D text, and more.
$34.99
]]> http://www.video2brain.com/en/products-181.htm http://www.video2brain.com/en/products-247.htm Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:22:00 GMT


ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language that has a wide reach on the web, the desktop, mobile devices, and beyond. If you want to be able to hit many targets with one code base, ActionScript is a great way to do so; it also lets you build a variety of application types, from 2D and 3D games to enterprise applications, video players, and more. In this workshop, expert software engineer Joseph Labrecque teaches you the very fundamentals of programming in ActionScript 3 using both Flash Professional and Flash Builder. You will learn how to use core constructs and object types such as variables, arrays, and functions, as well as more advanced types like video, sound, XML, and JSON.
$34.99
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