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Adobe Captivate—a leading elearning authoring tool—boasts capabilities that can help you create dynamic systems training. In this course, join Anastasia McCune as she explores how to use Captivate to record software simulations. Anastasia walks through the key features in Captivate that can best help you as you develop systems training. She shows how to incorporate formatting and slide interactions, add knowledge checks, and hold learners accountable through assessments. She demonstrates how to create a simple training by recording and editing a series of on-screen steps, as well as how to record a training for an offline process.

Localizing your elearning content allows it to be received by a broader audience. You can use Adobe Captivate to create multiple translations and adaptations of your courses to ensure the information is understood in varying contexts. Join Pooja Jaisingh as she demonstrates how to use the localization capabilities of Captivate. She covers the how to create courses with localization in mind, including how to modify metadata, work with variables, use multistate objects, and more. By the end of the course, you should be able to create single-branched courses that are location-aware with conditional behaviors and responses.

You can create great learning content and distribute it online by yourself using Adobe Captivate Prime—a self-help learning management system (LMS). Adobe Captivate Prime integrates seamlessly with Captivate to deliver responsive elearning courses. Join Adobe expert Pooja Jaisingh as she demonstrates the features and options available in Adobe Captivate Prime, while exploring best practices for creating a digital learning environment. The course covers getting started with most essential features, and a few more advanced topics, such as badges, skills, certifications, leading synchronous and asynchronous training, and gauging learning effectiveness. By the end of the course, you should be able to create and deliver your own online course or individual learning plan.

Adobe Captivate Prime is a new learning management system (LMS) that integrates seamlessly with Captivate to deliver online responsive elearning. Adobe elearning evangelist Pooja Jaisingh demonstrates the features and options available in Adobe Captivate Prime, while exploring best practices for creating a digital learning environment. The training covers the basics of getting started with Captivate Prime's most essential features, and a few more advanced topics, such as using badges, skills, and certifications for gamification and learning effectiveness. By the end of the course, you should be able to create your own online course, learning program, or individual learning plan with Captivate Prime.

Captivate Prime is a new kind of learning management system, designed to integrate seamlessly with Adobe Captivate and take advantage of all the flexibility of the cloud. Join Pooja Jaisingh for your first look at Captivate Prime, including adding users, creating courses, and developing learning and certification programs that allow you to track student progress and engagement at every step in the process. Plus, find out how to use Captivate Prime's mobile learning and gamification features to increase access to and interest in learning at your organization.

With Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Libraries, you can manage and access design assets—like frequently used brushes and icons—from anywhere. In this brief, informative course, Justin Seeley shows graphic designers how to leverage the power of CC Libraries across key design applications. To begin, Justin explains what CC Libraries are, how to create them on both desktops and mobile devices, and how to share your libraries with colleagues. Next, he explains how to work with CC Libraries in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as which objects you store in each one. Justin wraps up with recommendations for other courses that can help you grow your CC knowledge.

The world is full of inspiring color combinations. With Adobe Color, you can explore color in a whole new way, using new tools, an active online community, and even the camera on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. The color themes you create are automatically saved to Creative Cloud Libraries: to use in your designs, layouts, and illustrations or to share with other designers.

Join Justin Seeley as he explores the essential features of Adobe Color. He shows how to create themes using the online color wheel, edit themes with color rules, participate in the Adobe Color community, and use your themes in Illustrator and Photoshop. He also shows how to turn photos into color themes with the Adobe Capture mobile app.

Adobe Comp CC enables designers to quickly sketch out ideas on their iPads. Imagine drawing a box with an X in it and the box instantly converts into a live image object for storing images from your gallery. You can also draw horizontal lines that convert to lorem ipsum—and that's just the beginning. Comp CC combines access to Typekit and Creative Cloud images with efficient scaling and drawing gestures, making it a productive "take anywhere" tool for developing designs. In this course, Justin Seeley gives you a first look at this incredible app, covering basics such as drawing with gestures, working with placeholder text and images, and sending your compositions (aka "comps") to other Adobe programs, like Photoshop and InDesign.

Get started with Adobe Connect, the popular web conferencing software from Adobe. Join instructor Garrick Chow as he demonstrates how to use Adobe Connect to bridge real-world gaps and help anyone with an internet connection link up online. Garrick begins by showing how to set up meetings, establish audio connections, and create users and groups. Next, he covers managing attendees, including how to manage passwords and assign user roles. Garrick also explores all the features of running a presentation, from using the Share pod to providing downloadable content and managing participant questions.

Learn how to use Adobe Connect to run meetings, connect with learners online, and record standalone presentations. Garrick Chow shows how Connect bridges real-world gaps and helps anyone with an Internet connection link up online. Watch this course and learn how to create new meetings; establish audio connections, whether over the computer or on the phone; open pods to chat, video conference, or share content; share your screen; and make content available for download over Connect. You don't need to have everyone in the same room to have a great meeting; you just need to Connect.

Get started with Adobe Connect, the popular web conferencing software from Adobe. Join instructor Garrick Chow as he demonstrates how to use Adobe Connect to bridge real-world gaps and help anyone with an internet connection link up online. Garrick begins by showing how to set up meetings, establish audio connections, and create users and groups. Next, he covers managing attendees, including how to manage passwords and assign user roles. Garrick also explores all the features of running a presentation, from using the Share pod to providing downloadable content and managing participant questions.

Digital distribution is the wave of the future for magazines and other print publications. Get on board now, with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). DPS tools are included with InDesign and can help you create rich interactive publications for mobile devices, such as the iPad, as well as Android and Windows 8.1 devices—with no code! Bob Levine shows you how to create DPS folios in InDesign with striking cover artwork, create and import articles, and add various interactive features, like buttons, audio and video, HTML content, links to outside sources, and even animation. He also shares his advice for publishers targeting more than just the iPad, as well as useful scripts and extensions for automating parts of your workflow.

Migrated to digital publishing? Don't stop there. These techniques will help you add engaging, immersive interactions and media to your Adobe Digital Publishing Suite projects. Author Keith Gilbert covers buttons, nested multistate objects, interactive quizzes, video, animation, and embedded PDFs. Plus, learn to create vertical and horizontal scrolling frames and interactive panoramas. Each chapter begins with examples that show the effects in action, so you can see how these techniques are used in the real world.

Adobe Dimension CC empowers graphic designers to achieve photorealistic 3D effects as never before. From advertising and product pitches to fine art and technical illustrations, Adobe Dimension promises to be a game changer. In this course, Mike Rankin helps you get started with Adobe Dimension by showing how to use it to create, edit, and render a photorealistic 3D product image. He demonstrates how to find and import 3D models, and then edit them by applying materials, lighting, and background images. After the complete image is rendered, he shows how to take it into Photoshop for post-processing, applying effects in order to perfect the final composition.

Adobe Dimension CC is an easy-to-use app that helps you create striking photo-realistic renders from 3D models. This course covers both basic and advanced techniques for working with 3D models in this powerful program. Instructor Steve Caplin shows how to combine a 3D model with a background, and adjust the lighting in a scene; how to build a box, size it to the proportions of your product, and map your own artwork onto it; and how to combine multiple objects in a scene, render them, and then access the individual objects in Photoshop for color and tone adjustment. Finally, Steve looks at advanced techniques such as adjusting the depth of field, using the Magic Wand tool to change the texture on part of an object, and speeding up your work with keyboard shortcuts.

This quick course explores the e-signature, continuity, and document administration and control features of Adobe Document Cloud, a new service for managing PDFs across multiple devices and platforms. Author Garrick Chow also shows how Document Cloud integrates with Acrobat DC, how to fill out forms, and how to use Mobile Link to keep PDFs in sync.

Learn more about Document Cloud family of products in < a href="http://www.lynda.com/Reader-tutorials/Up-Running-Acrobat-Reader-DC/191091-2.html">Up and Running with Acrobat Reader DC and the upcoming Acrobat DC Essential Training.

Adobe Draw is made for illustration on the go—drawing anywhere inspiration strikes. Here Von Glitschka shares his favorite uses for this iOS and Android app. New and seasoned artists alike will benefit from watching over Von's shoulder to see how he transitions a hand-drawn sketch to the iPad and adds details and color with Adobe Draw.

Follow along for a tour of Adobe Draw's best features and get techniques for refining line work, coloring a sketch, drawing, and adding shadows and highlights. At the end of the course, Von shows how to create new brushes and textures with Adobe Capture and then shifts his illustrations to the desktop to capitalize on the full-fledged power of Illustrator and Photoshop CC.

Get a first look at Edge Code, the impressive new code editor from Adobe, and its open-source cousin Brackets. Learn about the differences between the open-source and the commercial flavors of the software, and the exclusive features you get with Edge Code, such as Quick Edit, Live Previews, and integration with Creative Cloud features like Typekit and Edge Inspect.

Keep up with your digital marketing campaigns, engage with your customers, and maintain your brand using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). In this course, Kevin Schmidt provides a tour of the AEM interface and shows you step-by-step how to create pages with text, add images, modify properties, manage assets, and publish. He also shares best practices for how to optimize your web content. He helps you quickly grasp the basics of content authoring and asset management so you can get started with AEM.

Working with green-screen footage can be a daunting task. The Adobe suite of video tools provides a wide array of choices, but how do you know which to use? This course aims to answer that important question. Instructor Rich Harrington guides you through the keying process in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and popular third-party keying tools. Get an overview of the import process, and discover the strengths of each keyer. Learn how to use Ultra Keyer, KEYLIGHT, Red Giant Keying Suite (including the Primatte Keyer), and Light Wrap Fantastic, while discovering ways to work with transparency and create great backdrops in Photoshop.

Working with green-screen footage can be a daunting task. The Adobe suite of video tools provides a wide array of choices, but how do you know which to use? This course aims to answer that important question. By providing an overview of the import process, and then moving into Premiere Pro, After Effects, and popular third-party keying tools, author Rich Harrington guides you through the keying process. Learn how to use the Ultra Keyer, KEYLIGHT, Primatte Keyer, zMatte, and more, while discovering ways to work with transparency and create great backdrops in Photoshop.

This course was created and produced by Rich Harrington. We're honored to host this material in our library.

Have you ever changed data manually to make multiple copies of the same design? If so, you know it can be tedious and time consuming. Learn how to dynamically populate new information into a design and quickly generate multiple versions with Adobe Illustrator Variable Data.

Designer John Garrett appreciates the many different types of variables and their practical uses, including generating business cards and direct mailers. In this course, he explains how to use variable data including managing linked images, graphics, tables of data, and graphs. He covers the entire workflow, from setup to exporting dynamic batches.

The Adobe mobile apps are here and better than ever, putting both new and familiar tools within easy reach on your iPad or Android tablet. And they're included with any subscription to Creative Cloud. In this short course, staff author Justin Seeley shows how to set up and sign in to Adobe's mobile platform and gives you a tour of each app:

• Capture CC, for creating color themes and brushes
• Photoshop Mix, for image editing and compositing
• Photoshop Fix, for retouching
• Photoshop Sketch, for hand-drawn projects
• Illustrator Draw, for vector drawing
• Comp CC, for creating layouts on the go

Find out how these new tools can unlock your creativity—wherever it takes you.

Accelerate your design workflow by incorporating mobile apps from Adobe into the mix. In this course, Tony Harmer dives into the key features offered in six apps—Adobe Capture CC, Adobe Photoshop Fix, Adobe Photoshop Mix, Adobe Comp CC, Adobe Illustrator Draw, and Adobe Photoshop Sketch—and shows how to get up and running quickly with each one. Discover how to create Photoshop brushes with Adobe Capture CC, make skin smooth with Adobe Photoshop Fix, draw with Adobe Illustrator Draw, and more.

Become more proficient with the Adobe Pen tool by learning advanced techniques, including the proper way to create Bezier curves. In this course, Deke McClelland takes a deep dive into the intricacies of this Adobe standby, and helps bolster your expertise by explaining its mechanics and features. Deke starts off by discussing Bezier curves in anatomical detail—all the way down to their anchor points, control handles, and segments. In addition, he explains the difference between constrained and unconstrained path dragging, and shows how to create smooth and cusp points. Next, he explains how curves really work, providing their mathematical underpinnings. He then gives you an advanced look at how pen functionality works across the three main graphic design programs in the Creative Cloud suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.