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In SharePoint 2010 Getting Started, author Simon Allardice walks through the first few hours a new user will spend with SharePoint working with Web sites, communities, content, and search. This course covers creating and using SharePoint sites, lists and libraries, how SharePoint streamlines teamwork, Office integration, and solutions for workflows and business intelligence.

This course guides you through the features and options available for producing creative black-and-white interpretations of your photos in Silver Efex Pro 2, part of the Nik Collection from Google. Author Tim Grey takes a look at all the darkroom-inspired controls, including selective adjustments, film effects, color toning, vignettes, and borders.

This course was created by Tim Grey. We are honored to host this training in our library.

This course helps you understand and use Skype for Business, the enterprise version of Microsoft's popular conferencing and communication app. First see what plans are available, then see how to best Skype with contacts. Author Gini Courter also explores the instant messaging (IM), audio, and video features, including how to send files, start and join conversations, and add contacts to existing calls and IMs. Plus, learn to schedule meetings and poll participants, use the presenter toolkit, and connect with mobile devices.

Meet mental ray, the render engine of choice for many 3ds Max users. In this course, Brian Bradley covers the basic and not-so-basic features of this production-proven renderer. The mental ray workflow, Arch & Design materials, lighting tools such as the daylight system and exposure controls, global illumination, and the Unified mode sampling options are all examined. Last but not least, Brian covers the creation of render effects such as caustics, depth of field, and motion blur.

Get a practical, hands-on approach to mobile security: securing your Android or iOS phone or tablet against hackers, thieves, and snoops. Mobile expert Ryan Spence explains the importance of securing a mobile device in today's risky technological landscape, and covers some general topics: choosing and safely disposing of devices, using passwords, and backing up device data. He will then cover the specifics of securing the two most common mobile operating systems: Android and iOS. Finally, he'll show how to secure the physical components of your device, including the camera, microphone, and radios.

Improve your lighting in post with Adobe Lightroom. Chris Orwig shows how to employ Lightroom's Develop module to enhance the lighting of portraits in two different ways. In the first project, he uses the Adjustment Brush to selectively paint light into a portrait. In the second, he uses the Radial Filter to brighten different areas of an image. Start watching to learn how to make your portraits pop.

Learn techniques for lighting a still-life scene and processing the images using Adobe Photoshop, in this "mini" course from John Derry. John demonstrates a lighting technique drawn from the theater stage, using light to direct attention and invoke emotion, drama, and mystery—without a lot of expensive equipment. In fact, you don't need much more than the timer on your camera, a tripod, and a flashlight. Once you've learned how to light and shoot your still life, watch the follow-up chapter to learn how to enhance the image with Adobe Photoshop.

Understanding the importance of lighting and the proper use of a light meter and colorimeter raises an average shot to a more sophisticated visual level. And it doesn't take a Hollywood budget. In this course, production veteran Eduardo Angel shows you how to use simple tools and techniques to make your lighting and your location work together, how to make the most of natural light and augment it with artificial lighting, and how to reveal or obscure objects and subjects in your scene. Along the way, he'll show you how to evoke certain moods and feelings with light.

This course was created and produced by Eduardo Angel. We're honored to host this content in our library.

Expand your lighting options and get the most out of your flash as photographer and teacher Brent Winebrenner takes a practical, hands-on look at the theory behind exposure, with a special emphasis on electronic flash exposure.

Even with today's automatic flash systems, there are good reasons to understand how flash exposure really works. Brent details these concepts in this course. The course describes how to calculate the true power of your flash and how to modify its output to match your needs, a technique that can extend battery life, reduce recycle time, and provide exposure control that is more predictable than fully automatic modes. The course concludes with several shooting scenarios during which Brent explores the creative use of gels, reflectors, and other light modifiers.

In the Lighting with Flash series, photographer and Strobist blog publisher David Hobby demonstrates how to use compact flash units in a variety of lighting scenarios. In this first installment, he covers the basics, starting with ambient window light and ending with a four-light shoot of a model. Along the way, the course covers a variety of fundamental lighting concepts as well as accessories such as ring lights and softboxes. The course includes diagrams and detailed explanations of the lighting setups.

Show off your hard work; display your photographs with the easy-to-build slideshows and web galleries in Lightroom. They're a straightforward way to display images on the web, on the desktop, or projected onto a screen. In this breezy segment of Lightroom 5 Essentials, Chris Orwig explains how to select your best images and group them into collections, apply a design template, and customize the look and feel of your web gallery or slideshow. Then learn about watermarking photos for copyright protection, uploading HTML and Flash galleries to a website, and adding a soundtrack and titles to a slideshow. Plus, discover how to create video-based slideshows, new to Lightroom 5.

Learn the essential commands involved in Linux administration, using Ubuntu. This course starts by exploring common filesystems and installing Linux. Next, working with the files in the terminal is covered. Then, important security steps are demonstrated. After covering these basics, you'll be ready to take on the Essential Commands section of the LFCS exam.

In this course, photographer, author, and educator Ben Long details a variety of workflow strategies for raw-format photography and mobile devices. He demonstrates wireless and USB techniques you can use to transfer raw images from a camera to a mobile device, and then shows how to process and export the images using Lightroom for mobile. Workflows for iOS and for Android systems are each covered. Additionally, Ben shows how to organize image by taking advantage of features like catalog, ratings, and flags.

Got a GoPro? This series covers all the essential skills you'll need to get out from behind the computer and start shooting in the field with your GoPro HERO or GoPro HERO4, whether you capture stills, video, or even time-lapse photography. In this installment, author Rich Harrington starts right at the beginning: getting the camera out of the box (trickier than it sounds) and setting up for your shoot. He'll also share his insights on the different menus and buttons to get you up and running quickly, without fussing over controls. Follow-up courses in this series will examine different creative uses for the GoPro.

Note: This course was updated in December 2014 to cover the new GoPro HERO4 line of cameras, including chapters on the menu system and shooting photos and video with the HERO4.

A syllabus should clearly communicate the scope and requirements of a course to students. It must be carefully crafted and organized, and accurately set expectations around course participation, assignments, and grading—all while meeting the specific requirements of your institution. Learn how to set up your students and your class for success by writing a well-organized and complete syllabus. Author Karl Kapp walks teachers through the various sections of a common syllabus, with best practices for making the syllabus a more valuable tool in any class. Learn what to leave in and what to leave out, how to add policies and grading criteria, and how to summarize exactly what students will accomplish by the end of the course. Plus, get tips for distributing a digital syllabus for an online class.

Copy is the heart and soul of almost every marketing endeavor. Get a great foundation for all your campaigns with this course. Ian Lurie shows how to write copy that tells your story and sells your product or brand. Learn about the different types of copywriting, the benefits of drafting on paper (yes, paper!), observing general rules, writing headlines, selling the page, and rewriting existing copy to optimize it for different outlets and platforms. Ian shows how to manage a copyediting team, a brand voice, and an editorial calendar.

One of the most popular and yet complex plugins for Adobe After Effects, Trapcode Form is a unique particle system that creates stunning and professional results. Instead of generating particles, Form's particles just exist. This course helps you bridge the gap to mastery of Trapcode Form. Author Chad Perkins introduces Form's properties, base forms, and particle types, and then moves on to mapping Form particles to 3D objects and creating effects like organic fireballs and 3D holograms. He also shows how to light particles in After Effects, integrate audio, and create 3D Form objects. The course includes three sample projects that are highly applicable to real-world client requests, including dissolving a logo design.

This course was created and produced by Chad Perkins. We are honored to host this content in our library.

Learn the key components of vSphere 6, VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform. VMware vSphere Fundamentals concentrates on the architecture, hardware, and software in the Standard and Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere 6, which offers better scale, resilience, and fault tolerance than ever before. Author Daniel Mangru shows how to gather necessary reference materials to support your day-to-day admin activities, and reviews components such as the ESXi hypervisor, vCenter Server, the Platform Services Controller, the vSphere web client, vMotion, and more. He also looks at licensing and support agreements, and the 11 Enterprise Plus features that might encourage your organization to upgrade. This close read of the vSphere components and features will help IT admins better manage and troubleshoot VMware's bestselling datacenter virtualization platform.

V-Ray for Blender combines V-Ray's flexibility and unprecedented speed with one of the world's most famous open-source 3D applications. Build your rendering skills while you learn new tools for expanding your creative possibilities, in this course on V-Ray 3.0, the most recent version of this powerful lighting and rendering plugin. Brian Bradley introduces V-Ray's lighting tools for natural-looking daylight and artificial illumination, the Global Illumination system, and the Physical Camera, which gives you real-world parameters for camera control (such as f-stop and focal length). Then learn how to use V-Ray's texturing tools to build realistic surfaces, including diffuse, reflective, and refractive surfaces. Last but not least, explore V-Ray's sampling controls for adjusting the quality of your final renders.

IBM Watson Analytics (WA) is a smarter solution for data analytics, providing automated discovery and visualization features that you can't find anywhere else. Learn how to use this powerful yet easy-to-use cloud-based tool for data science and business analytics. Chris Dutton shows how to use features such as machine learning and predictive analytics—minimizing the learning curve and maximizing your proficiency with Watson's tools. Discover how to import and refine data from local or cloud-based sources; build new calculations, hierarchies, and data groups on the fly; and leverage cognitive starting points, natural language queries, and dynamic insights. Find out how to auto-detect trends and correlations and generate predictive models and decision trees quickly. Plus, learn how to create and share visualizations, dashboards, and infographics to bring your insights to life.

Whether you realize it or not, you are already using web components when you develop. Elements like forms, HTML tags, and more are all web components native to web browsers. Beyond these standard elements, you can also create custom web components to further simplify the process of building and maintaining web applications. This course explains how to make custom encapsulations, imports, templates, and built-in elements by using web component specifications and following web standards.

Joe Marini starts the course by going into HTML templates, which provide a browser-native way to declare sections of HTML markup that will be used frequently in your app. Next, he covers HTML imports, explaining how to use them and create reusable modules. Then, he takes you through working with custom elements. To wrap up the course, he discusses Shadow DOM and how to create Shadow DOM to define custom element structure and rendering within a page.

With more than one billion users globally, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. In this course, join the conversation by learning the basics of how to set up and use WhatsApp. Nick Brazzi begins by walking you through the setup process, showing you how to add new contacts, and send and receive chat messages. Next, Nick demonstrates how to initiate group chats and send files through WhatsApp. He also explains how to send voice recordings to contacts and place voice calls. Finally, Nick demonstrates how to migrate your WhatsApp contacts and data when you get a new phone or change your phone number.

Small businesses may not deploy same number of Windows installations as large businesses, but they can encounter just as many problems. To deploy Windows 10 successfully, it's critical to identify the correct method for rollout. In this course, author Matt Hester will cover "high touch" options for deployment of Windows 10—the best choices for organizations that don't have a dedicated IT staff or a lot of resources. Concentrating on the most common scenarios, an upgrade and a fresh install, Matt will review performing a manual installation via a DVD, creating your own install DVD or USB with the media creation tool, and building custom Windows 10 images with the Microsoft Deployment Tookit (MDT).

Dive into this introductory course and learn how to migrate to Windows 7, explore the different versions of Windows 7, and review the new installation process. Author Steve Fullmer also explores basic navigation, personalized settings, restore points, and advanced disk management.

This course provides an introduction to the Windows Phone 8 platform and the basic tenets of the Modern UI design style, through the development of a basic tip calculator application. First, author Doug Winnie shows how to install and set up the Visual Studio tool to build your application. Next, learn how to use XAML to build a basic structure for your application's interface and customize its design with user- and system-defined styles and options. This user interface connects to application logic with a process called code-behind files, which are written in C#, one of the three languages available to build Windows Phone 8 applications. Finally, discover how to add icons and other design elements to your application and then submit it to Microsoft for inclusion in the Windows Store.