In Photoshop for Designers: Color, Nigel French focuses on the tools and features in Photoshop designed for choosing, applying, and editing color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes exercises on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color channels, hand coloring black and white images, and designing with a reduced color palette.

Lynda.com Photoshop for Designers Color-QUASAR

Exercise files are included with the course.

Author Paul Trani demonstrates how to create, test, and publish a mobile app that works across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, and BlackBerry Tablet OS) and adapts to either a smartphone or tablet display. The course also tackles the issue of various screen sizes and density and how to scale and adjust content.

Lynda.com Building Mobile Apps for Multiple Devices with Flash Professional-QUASAR

Exercise files are included with the course.

In this course, Garrick Chow provides in-depth instruction on all aspects of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch (OS 5.0): making calls, emailing, browsing the web, managing time, getting around town, taking notes, shooting photos, and listening to music. New features in iOS 5, including iMessage, the streamlined Notification Center, and Apple's new online storage solution, iCloud, are discussed in depth.

Lynda.com iPhone and iPod Touch iOS 5 Essential Training-QUASAR
The course also includes hands-on demonstrations of how to accurately type and efficiently use finger gestures, and includes tips for setting up the iPhone and iPod Touch so they behave as expected. An extensive section on troubleshooting helps when the occasional glitches happen.

In this installment of his popular Masking & Compositing series, Photoshop guru Deke McClelland shows how to select hair—down to the individual strands—and composite portraits against new backgrounds. The course covers how to mask out hair, paint in detail, blend hair, merge channels, and match light sources. Deke also explores special techniques for working with both dark and light hair, as well as extracting hair from complex backgrounds. Exercise files accompany the course.

Lynda.com Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Hair-QUASAR

Topics include:
Understanding the Calculations command
Calculating masks with the Subtract and Add modes
Enhancing a mask with Apply Image
Creating a traditional blue screen mask
Masking dark hair against a busy background
Painting in missing hairs with a Wacom tablet
Masking blonde hair and flames
Performing selective edits with Dodge and Burn
Masking a difficult image in multiple passes

In this course, Trish and Chris Meyer introduce a series of creative tools inside After Effects. The centerpiece is Paint, where Trish demonstrates how to use the Brush, Eraser, and Clone Stamp tools to draw on a layer, remove portions of it, or repeat elements around a composition. These tools can be used for artistic purposes as well as to repair problem areas in footage. Chris shows off the Puppet tools for distorting layers, Brainstorm to break through creative blocks, and the Cartoon effect to lend an illustrative look to live footage or 3D renders.

Lynda.com After Effects Apprentice 13 Paint and Puppet-QUASAR

Topics include:
Creating, erasing, and animating brush and clone strokes
Using Paint to reveal a layer over time
Creating animated distortions to flat artwork with the Puppet tools
Employing Brainstorm to explore complex effects and alter keyframed animations
Getting the most out of the Cartoon effect, including pre- and post-processing

Big on creative inspiration but short on time? Crunching deadlines again and can?t quite figure out how to get your ideas out of your head and on to the screen? How to Cheat in Photoshop comes to your rescue once again. Nobody knows more about working fast under pressure and pushing the envelope to craft creative images that capture imaginations than hands-on graphic artist, working illustrator and master of magic, Steve Caplin. With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce award-winning illustrations, Steve is THE go-to guru for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, retouchers, and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource unlocks your creativity and helps you save time in the software so you can spend more time creatively.

Data, data everywhere…take control of your database and learn to manipulate it with the tried-and-true Structured Query Language (SQL) in Oracle Database 11g. Whether you’re an IT pro who wants to add Oracle DBA and SQL querying to your tool belt, a DBA in another technology who wants to dive into Oracle, or a newcomer to relational databases who yearns to learn SQL, this series will give you what you need to reach your goal.

This is the first Compilation in a series of Photoshop Tips and Tricks tutorials That Have Been Featured in Our WatchandLearnPhotoshop.com newsletter. This collection of Photoshop tutorials is a must have for any Photoshop enthusiast.

HDR is one of the hottest trends in digital photography. And now Photoshop CS5 has an entirely new set of features aimed at getting you great HDR photos right out of Photoshop (with no 3rd party plug-ins). In this course, HDR Pro Matt Kloskowski shows you how to put those new features to work to create some killer HDR photos.

If you have ever wondered where and when to sharpen your photos in Photoshop (and Lightroom) then join Matt in his latest class. You will learn about why you sharpen in the first place and what kinds of things you can do to your photos that will affect how sharp they appear. Then he jumps into the most efficient sharpening techniques used in Photoshop and Lightroom. Finally, the class finishes off with 2 start-to-finish videos that show you exactly where sharpening fits in and just how much time is spent on it. If you want your photos to look tack sharp, no matter where they are displayed (print, on screen or the web), then this class is for you.