In Revit Architecture 2011 Essential Training, author Paul F. Aubin shows how to create compelling architectural designs using the modeling tools in Revit. This course covers the entire building information modeling (BIM) workflow, from design concept to publishing. It also covers navigating the Revit interface, modeling basic building features such as walls, doors and windows, working with sketch-based components such as roofs and stairs, annotating designs with dimensions and callouts, and adding 3D geometry. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
Introducing building information modeling (BIM)
Adding levels, grids, and columns to set up a project
Creating building layouts with walls, doors and windows
Modifying wall types and properties
Working with DWG files and CAD inserts
Adding rooms
Adding filled and masking regions and detailing
Generate schedules and reports
Understanding families
Using reference planes, parameters and constraints
Outputting files, including DWF and PDF files

In this course, Google Apps trainer Susan Cline demonstrates how to streamline the communication process using Gmail’s advanced and hidden features. The course shows how to create filters to manage the flow of messages and demonstrates Gmail’s powerful search function. The course also describes how to customize the inbox and organize names and email addresses using the Contact Manager.
This course was updated on 12/9/2011.
Topics include:

Taking actions on messages using the interface
Displaying and hiding labels and gadgets
Searching messages using the search tool
Navigating through conversations
Utilizing various search techniques
Controlling the flow of incoming messages with filters
Creating and applying labels and filters to organize the inbox
Importing and exporting contacts
Responding directly to emails with live chat messages
Using the built in voice and video chat features
Reporting spam to train the spam filter
Navigating Gmail Help and the Help forum

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Creating an Adaptive Web Site for Multiple Screens demonstrates how to build a web site that automatically adapts its layout to various screen sizes, orientations, and resolutions. Ray Villalobos shows how designers and developers can create a single HTML document and customize its display for desktop browsers and mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android phones, and tablets. The course covers creating a basic HTML5 structure and using reset templates, and styling the site with CSS. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:

Setting up testing servers and emulators
Creating and formatting a site template
Using free Google fonts
Preparing graphics
Creating style sheets
Loading external pages with AJAX
Creating mobile tabs
Detecting mobile devices
Using javascript to deal with scrolling and orientation changes
Testing and debugging site code

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Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals is the introductory installment of Deke McClelland’s four-part series on making photorealistic compositions in Photoshop. The course shows how to make selections, refine the selections with masks, and then combine them in new ways, using layer effects, blend modes, and other techniques to create a single seamless piece of artwork. Deke introduces the Channels panel and the alpha channel, the key to masking and transparency in Photoshop; reviews the selection tools, including the Color Range tool , Quick Mask mode, and the Refine Edge command; and shows how to blend masked images so they interact naturally. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

Setting up a workspace
Working with the seven key selection tools
Using the Color Range command
Automating masking
Matching a scene with Smart Filters
Choosing the ideal base channel
Converting a channel to a mask
Painting with the Overlay and Soft Light modes
Using History to regain a lost mask
Working with the Calculations command
Extracting a mask from a Smart Object
Masking and compositing light
Masking with black and white
Working with path outlines
Combining pixel and vector masks
Creating and feathering a vector mask

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In this course, professional photo restorer Janine Smith describes how to use Photoshop to restore, retouch, and enhance old or damaged photos. It covers evaluating scanned images for imperfections, using the Clone Stamp tool and other Photoshop tools, and addressing common problems and their fixes, starting with the basics (fading, spots, and paper texture) and continuing with more complex challenges (rips, adhesive tape, ink marks, mold, and more). Also included are methods for fixing exposure problems and colorcast as well as advanced techniques in photo restoration, such as replacing backgrounds and recreating missing facial features and body parts. The course includes a project that takes an image from damaged start to restored finish. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

Assessing the damage
Rebuilding color channels in a grayscale image
Removing small splits, specks, and spots
Repairing red eye
Reassembling torn photos
Removing stains
Fixing mold damage
Understanding the basics of levels and curves
Correcting color problems
Repairing and recreating backgrounds
Sharpening a photo
Comparing before and after images

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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.
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

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In Effective Email Marketing Strategies, John Arnold demonstrates how to get the most out of email marketing campaigns. The course offers strategies for building a quality list of subscribers and maintaining a company’s brand and reputation by complying with spam laws, creating valuable email content, and ensuring emails are branded consistently. It also covers crafting marketing emails—from format and design to content—and analyzing the effectiveness of email campaigns.
Topics include:

Building an email list
Collecting email addresses
Offering incentives to increase signups
Deciding on a format for emails
Including links
Sending valuable offers
Creating effective From address and subject lines
Combing email with social media and mobile devices
Managing bounced and blocked email
Evaluating email click-through data
Automating email marketing

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In this course, staff author James Williamson offers a high-level overview of Cascading Style Sheets. This course explores the basic concepts, terminology, and tools of the language. Beginning with an exploration of CSS syntax, James explains how CSS modifies text, borders, backgrounds, and color; demonstrates CSS and HTML integration; and contextualizes the current state of CSS. The course also tours some of the most popular CSS editors and frameworks and lists online tools and resources for further study. This course is for people who want a big-picture overview before taking hands-on courses.
Topics include:

* Understanding basic selector types
* Integrating CSS with HTML
* Examining browser rendering differences
* Exploring CSS specifications
* Checking browser support
* Understanding the box model
* Adjusting margins and padding
* Positioning elements
* Exploring basic layout concepts
* Understanding media queries
* Introducing CSS3
* Using CSS Reset

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In this course, author Joe Marini uses the jQuery Mobile framework to create visually rich, interactive web pages for mobile devices. The course examines the construction of jQuery Mobile pages, showing how to build page transitions, dialogs, buttons, and toolbars. The course also delves into generating mobile-optimized web forms and list views and explains how jQuery Mobile handles events, including touch gestures and changes in device orientation. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
*Understanding jQuery Mobile page architecture
*Including headers and footers
*Creating navigation bars
*Using text and search inputs
*Understanding the basics of mobile forms
*Working with radio buttons, check boxes, and toggles
*Using collapsible content blocks and sets
*Working with jQuery Mobile themes
*Configuring the jQuery Mobile API

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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.
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

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