Get your designs from the rest of the CS3 suite out to the web and ready for the masses with Adobe Fireworks CS3. This program picks up where Adobe's old ImageReady left off and comes packed with new features to set your designs up using html, java, and even CSS. With John Ulliman as your guide, you'll learn how to adjust, crop, and use filters on your digital pictures, scans and stock art. Plus, how to create composite images using layer techniques, adjustments and effects.

Discover the power of Dreamweaver, an award-winning Web design program with this in-depth tutorial. From the basics of how to create Web pages, set links, and insert images, to more advanced techniques for creating page layouts with tables and CSS, you'll learn everything you need to create and publish a web site. You'll also learn how to use Dreamweaver's more advanced features to insert Flash, video, and audio files, and use Dreamweaver's JavaScript behaviors to create interactive effects, like rollovers and image swaps. With these easy to follow lessons, you'll get up to speed quickly with Dreamweaver CS3.

Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool. With the release of Excel 2007, it's become even more powerful — with lots of new features and a dramatically changed interface. CBT Nugget’s detailed video series carefully explains this new interface and how to make the most out of Excel 2007's updated features. Trainer Emily Berry fast-forwards you through the program. She shows you exactly what you need to know to accomplish your familiar tasks within the changed interface. The skills you learn will make your workload more manageable and impress current and future employers. Emily’s videos map directly to Microsoft certification exam 77-602 for the MCAS: Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Your only course prerequisite is a willingness to try out all the cool tools demonstrated in the videos.

Vector Art Portrait Turn a Photograph into beautiful vector art.
Dreamy Background Create Sci-fi looking spiral backgrounds.
Liquid Metal The ultimate Liquid metal technique that can be applied to text and objects.
Smoke Create Psychedelic and Natural Smoke to incorporate into your artwork. Soap Bubbles Use soap bubbles to add flair to your projects.
Water Bubbles Use these water bubbles to infuse imagination into your projects.
Underwater Scene Create an underwater illusion with just the tools in Photoshop.
Swap Animal Skin Take skin from one animal and place it over another.
Stylized Character Turn a sketch into colorful art.
Masking Mastery Special video that explains many masking techniques used by the pros.

Flying out of Bounds Create the classic “out of bounds” effect with a very cool masking trick.
Reaching out of Bounds Creating the illusion of arms and hands reaching out of a picture frame.
Chocolate Milk Frog How to make a frog covered in chocolate.
Covered with Wax Choose an object and cover it with melting wax.
Grunge Look Create a unique grunge background that can be used for almost anything. Square Fruit Play with mother nature by changing the shape of fruit.
Invisible Man How to make a person vanish from their clothing.
Metal Collage How to create a Robot with pieces of a Photo and then place it into another world.
Morphing Creatures Morph animals and reptiles together to create interesting creatures. Using Layer Comps How to create multiple layouts in one Photoshop file using Layer Comps.

Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous Javascript and XML, is a set of technologies that allows you to create Web applications that don't need to refresh Web pages in the browser. You can operate behind the scenes, connecting to the server, uploading and downloading data, and display the results in the browser using dynamic HTML. Using Ajax gives your Web pages the feel of a desktop application-the whole display will no longer flash when you click a button. VTC Author Steve Holzner helps you get started developing and building your own Ajax capable web pages. A familiarity with JavaScript, XML, PHP is recommended for this course.

Painting a Portrait Digitally paint a portrait from a photographic reference. Swapping Faces How to take the face from one photo and place it into a completely different one. Pop Art Turn a Photograph into artwork that was popular in the mid 1950’s. Applying Tattoos How to apply henna and tattoos to skin. Masking Fur Seamlessly remove the background from furry animals. Vanishing Point What Vanishing Point is and how to edit images with perspective. Web Graphics Learn how to create commonly used web graphics and screen shots. Shattered Type Create the illusion that text is being shattered like glass. Flower Greeting Card Use the vector tools in Photoshop to create an elegant looking Greeting Card. Creating DVD Covers Mark shows you exactly how he created the Photoshop Top Secret DVD covers.

InnerWorkings .NET Training provides practical, self-paced training for .NET  developers. Using hands-on coding challenges, you learn about key .NET techniques in a realistic learning environment.

With this sample, you get one hour of FREE hands-on learning material on the LINQ to SQL functionality available in .NET Framework 3.5.  You will learn to generate strongly typed LINQ to SQL data context and entity classes using the ORM designer, and use them to retrieve data from a database. You’ll also learn to create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) database data through a strongly typed LINQ to SQL data context and its associated entity classes.

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The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. As he builds transitional blended layers, fashions a depth map, makes edge adjustments, and takes on extreme channel mixing, Omni Award-winning expert Deke McClelland teaches Photoshop users that where there's a will, there's a way. Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: Advanced Techniques covers mapping texture on an image, turning flesh into stone, using vector masks, working with all different channels, creating a rustic edge effect, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Just released by Mark Monciardini, Photoshop? Top Secret? is an Extreme Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe? Photoshop?. This student-friendly home study course includes four DVD-ROMs with over 16 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. It also comes with a full-color gallery book (printed, not pdf) that shows the end result of each project in the course. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors. Create Posters, Movie Covers, Surreal Graphics and More!

The course will teach you how to become the ultimate Photoshop? "black belt" for fun and/or profit. You'll learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book jackets, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a tremendously wide range of print ads and Web site graphics.