Virtually all digital images need some degree of sharpening to look their best, but it’s not always easy to find the right way to go about it. This workshop from leading Photoshop expert Tim Grey will dispel many myths and misunderstandings about sharpening, teach you the underlying concepts involved in sharpening, show you a wide variety of methods you can use to apply sharpening, and help you determine which technique is best for a given image.

Calvin Hollywood, award-winning photo artist based in Heidelberg, Germany, shares the secrets of his success in this in-depth workshop. Starting with the nuts and bolts of image editing in Photoshop – including working with layers, masks, color correction, and RAW conversion – he moves on to more advanced topics like beauty retouching and creating composite images from multiple sources. Every step of the way he shows you his own personal techniques and workflow, so you can bring the Hollywood look to your own work. Calvin loves to explore paths you won’t find in any other documentation or textbook. So if you really want to make your photos stand out, be inspired by the best of Calvin Hollywood!

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.

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.

Learn the nuts and bolts of advanced web application programming! Join Edward Tanguay as he dives into PHP programming. In his workshop, you will learn that it only takes a few minutes to get an Apache web server, a MySQL database, PHP 5.3, and the Eclipse editor up and running using the free XAMPP installation tool. Edward will then cover the PHP syntax, such as operators, loops and variables, before moving on to make you a PHP expert, tackling object orientation, databases, XML parsing, web services, security and much more. The training also includes important new features of PHP 5.3, such as namespaces, lambdas, and late static binding. Once you complete this video training, you will have the skills you need to build next-generation dynamic websites.

So werden Sie zum Videoschnitt-Experten mit Premiere Pro 2.0. Nach einleitenden Kapitel widmet sich das Training den Themen Video- und Audiobearbeitung, Schnitttechniken, Blenden und Effekte und neuen Features, wie HDV oder das Multi-Kamera-Schnitt. Durch das Training fuhrt der erfahrene Softwaretrainer Sven Brencher.