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Master Portrait Artist Jane Conner-ziser shares her abundant knowledge and experience in pro portrait retouching with you in this full, all-inclusive learning experience, Portrait Retouching For Everyone. Far beyond Tips and Tricks (but including many), you will learn how to recompose images, cut out hair, work on clothing and backgrounds ?

Join one of the world?s foremost Photoshop experts, Colin Smith. Colin shares his mouth-watering recepies, that will turn your photographs into jaw-dropping masterpieces. He reveals how to mimick the coolest traditional darkroom techniques and a whole lot more that would usually require thousands of dollars of special gear.

THE award-winning A-Z guide to using Lightroom (PPA Hot One Award winner). One of the most-loved training resources is new for Lightroom 4! Learn all the new features and workflows. No matter your level, you can quickly master Lightroom 4 with effortless ease.

You have upgraded Photoshop, now upgrade your workflow. Not only will you discover the essential new features, you will learn how to integrate them into your daily Photoshop habits. There are a lot of new features in Photoshop CS6, (One of the biggest upgrades ever) discover the best way to save a ton of time and get unbelievable results.

Join Joseph Lowery in Site Navigation with CSS in Dreamweaver as he explores current design trends in site navigation and shows designers and developers how to create robust CSS-based navigation. The course shows how to convert HTML lists to graphical controls that integrate seamlessly with an existing site design, and how to build menus with a wide range of navigation options, all in standards-compliant CSS. Exercise files accompany the course.

Ever find yourself wishing that CSS had features like variables, functions, or reusable classes? Look no further. LESS and SASS are CSS style sheet tools called preprocessors that add these features and more, simplifying the creation of complex CSS styles. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the LESS and SASS tools in a two-part manner. The first section focuses on LESS (Leaner CSS) and how it can be used on both the client and the server. The lessons show how to work with variables, mixins, nested rules, and other features to easily create maintainable CSS. The second section introduces SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets), which contains many of the same features as LESS, along with a few new ones. Joe also compares and contrasts the two tools, and explains how your platform and needs may influence which tool you choose.

Despite the tremendous growth of the internet, magazines remain undeniably cool and much needed. Even our newspapers are becoming ever more magazine like. Yet despite the huge growth in web-based publishing, the independent magazine sector is stronger than ever. In this course, Nicki Hart will cover the basics to get you started thinking about how you can set up, design, export and what options you have for publishing your magazine. So, lets get started!

Manage your Drupal sites even more efficiently with Drush, the shell interface for managing and scripting Drupal site development. In this quick course, author Jon Peck describes what Drush is, how to install it, and how to use it effectively for everydayвЂ"and exceptionalвЂ"tasks. The course describes how to manage users, download and install modules and themes, archive and restore your entire site, manipulate remote sites, and employ site variables for fast, full control over your Drupal sites. Plus, discover how to script an entire Drupal site installation with and without site profiles.