Total Training - Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended DVD

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Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended: Essentials is learning the way it needs to be; informative and engaging with fast results. Follow along with real-world techniques, and time-saving tips presented in a clear, concise manner that put the power of the world's leading image editing software in your hands.

Highlights
Five New Features covered in this title:
1. The Refine Radius Tool
2. Content-aware healing and fills
3. The Mixer Brush
4. Live Workspace updates
5. Mini Bridge

Chapter 1: THE BIG PICTURE (35 min)
1. Pixels & Resolution
2. Color
3. Exploring the Interface
4. Choosing File Formats
5. Viewing & Navigating Images

Chapter 2: SETTING UP LIKE A PRO (22 min)
1. Setting User Preferences
2. Choosing Color Settings
3. Customizing the Workspace
4. Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
5. Using Rulers & Guides

Chapter 3: GLOBAL EDITING (31 min)
1. Understanding the Histogram & Levels
2. Learning the Curves Tool
3. Exploring Hue & Saturation
4. Cropping & Straightening
5. Adjusting Color Balance
6. Creating a Black & White Image

Chapter 4: MAKING SELECTIONS (21 min)
1. Manual Selection Tools
2. Using the Quick Selection Tool
3. Creating Color-Based Selections & Saving Selections

Chapter 5: NON-DESTRUCTIVE EDITING (21 min)
1. Using Adjustment Layers
2. Understanding Layer Masks
3. Creating Gradient Masks
4. Applying Layer Blend Modes
5. Snapshots & the History Brush

Chapter 6: THE FIXER-UPPER (26 min)
1. The Retouching Tools, including Content-Aware Fill
2. Removing Noise from an Image
3. Cloning with Perspective with the Vanishing Point Filter
4. Adjusting Perspective with the Lens Correction Filter
5. Content-Aware Scaling

Chapter 7: TYPE DESIGN (35 min)
1. Working with Type
2. Paragraph & Character Formatting Options
3. Typing on a Path
4. Applying Layer Styles to Type

Chapter 8: VECTORS, SHAPES & PATHS (22 min)
1. Vectors & the Shape Tools
2. Creating Paths
3. Saving & Loading Paths as Selections
4. Subtracting, Adding Intersecting, & Excluding

Chapter 9: SMART OBJECTS (16 min)
1. Vector Graphics as Smart Objects
2. Creating & Replacing Smart Objects
3. Creating Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
4. Smart Objects Deserve Smart Filters

Chapter 10: ADOBE BRIDGE (24 min)
1. Exploring the Workspace
2. Searching & Organizing Files
3. Leveraging Metadata
4. Outputting
5. Using Mini Bridge

Chapter 11: PHOTOSHOP CAMERA RAW (37 min)
1. Using the Basic Panel
2. Applying Selective Edits
3. Converting to Black & White
4. Repairing an Image

Chapter 12: IMAGE LAYERS & ALPHA CHANNELS (18 min)
1. Manipulating Image Layers
2. Mastering the Layers Panel
3. Creating Layer Groups & Comps

Chapter 13: COMPOSITING IMAGES (18 min)
1. Combining Images & Merging the Best Elements
2. Creating Panoramas
3. Auto-Aligning Layers
4. Refine Edges

Chapter 14: WORKING WITH BRUSHES (27 min)
1. Exploring the Brush Panel
2. Creating a Custom Brush
3. Changing Brush Dynamics
4. Painting with the Mixer Brush

Chapter 15: PRINT & WEB OUTPUT (18 min)
1. Sharpening Images with Smart Sharpen
2. Setting Up the Print Dialog Box
3. Saving for the Web

WebSite: http://www.totaltraining.com/prod/adobe/photoshopcs5e_ess.asp

Windows XP and Windows Vista/7
Language:English
Size: 1.42 Gb

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Head First jQuery

O M | 2011 | ISBN: 1449393217 | 544 pages | PDF | 68.8 Mb

Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. With Head First jQuery, you'll quickly get up to speed on this amazing javascript library by learning how to navigate HTML documents while handling events, effects, callbacks, and animations. By the time you've completed the book, you'll be incorporating Ajax apps, working seamlessly with HTML and CSS, and handling data with PHP, MySQL and JSON.

If you want to learn�and understand�how to create interactive web pages, unobtrusive script, and cool animations that don't kill your browser, this book is for you.
-Use jQuery with DOM to overcome the limitations of HTML and CSS
-Learn how jQuery selectors and actions work together
-Write functions and wire them to interface elements
-Use jQuery effects to create actions on the page
-Make your pages come alive with animation
-Build interactive web pages with jQuery and Ajax
-Build forms in web applications

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VTC - Facebook Application Development Tutorials

VTC - Facebook Application Development Tutorials
eLeaning | 363.78 MB

Author : Jesse Feiler
SKU : 34058
ISBN : 1-935320-81-5
Release Date : 2009-11-23
Duration : 7.5 hrs / 92 tutorials
Work Files : Yes

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Windows Server 2008 For Dummies

Author : Ed Tittel, Justin Korelc
ISBN : 978-0-470-18043-3
Pakage : 412 pages
Release : March 2008
Price : $24.99

If you’re curious, but hesitant, about finding your way around Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 For Dummies is the book for you. This friendly reference shows you everything you need to know — from installation and deployment to building and running a Windows Server 2008 network.

Server-based networking really is a big deal, and this 100% plain-English guide helps you make the most of it. You’ll find out about Windows Server 2008’s important functions, capabilities and requirements; develop a network implementation plan; take a step-by-step walkthrough of the installation process; and get valuable tips on how to boost your bandwidth beyond belief! Before you know it, you’ll be configuring connections to the Universe, working with active directory, and treating domains and controllers like old pals.
Discover how to:

• Build and connect your network
• Install and configure Windows Server 2008
• Set up and manage directory services
• Manage users and groups
• Install and manage print servers
• Secure your network
• Troubleshoot active networks
• Plan for installing Active Directory
• Proclaim and manage your own domain
• Resolve names between TCP/IP and NetBIOS
• Manage shares, permissions, and more
• Develop and implement a regular backup protocol

Windows Server 2008 For Dummies may be easy-going, but it’s simply packed with need-to-know stuff that will send you diving into Windows Server 2008 experience just for the fun of it. So start now!

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HTML5 Graphics and Animation with Canvas [Lynda.com]

HTML5 Graphics and Animation with Canvas
Author: Joe Marini

One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles, adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to incorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation.

Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include :
* Understanding the differences between Canvas and SVG Graphics
* Drawing shapes
* Drawing arcs and paths
* Rendering text
* Using clipping paths
* Drawing images and video
* Transforming objects with the translate tag
* Manipulating raw pixels
* Applying a custom transformation
* Creating an animation or slideshow control with Canvas


INSTALLATION
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Unpack, burn or mount and enjoy.

HomePage Link :
http://www.lynda.com/HTML-5-tutorials/HTML5-Graphics-and-Animation-with-Canvas/80782-2.html

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Optical Flares Pro Presets 2 Complete

VideoCopilot - Optical Flares Pro Presets 2 Complete
50 New Presets | Tutorials (.flv) | Footage | Fonts | 117MB

PRODUCT FEATURES
Expand your creativity with All New Presets

Featuring:
• 50 All New Lens Flare Presets
• Realistic Anamorphic Elements
• Many based on real lenses
• 10 Template Projects
• 3 New Video Tutorials

Ideal Uses:
• Visual Effects Compositing
• Music Videos
• Motion Graphics
• Commercials
• Simulate Expensive Lenses

SIGNATURE FLARES
Choose from 50 unique presets or mix and match new combinations

POWERFUL SELECTION
Choose from 50 unique new presets or mix and build new combinations

ADVANCED TRAINING
All New Tutorials to push the limits of Optical Flares

MORE TUTORIALS!
These tutorials are designed to show artists how to achieve natural looks & unique results with Optical Flares.
• Advanced Lens Flare Compositing
• Highlight control in 32bpc
• Abstract Flares
• Custom Lens Flares Textures
• Modifying design templates

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Candy Making For Dummies

Author: David Jones
Release: 2005
Publisher: For Dummies
Format: Paperback 392 pages
ISBN: 0764597345 (0-7645-9734-5)
ISBN 13: 9780764597343 (978-0-7645-9734-3)
List Price: $19.99
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How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces! If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You'll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!

Discover how to
* Choose the proper utensils and ingredients
* Melt, temper, and mold chocolate
* Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets
* Create special holiday treats
* Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts

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Cracking the New GRE, 2012 Edition

Cracking the New GRE, 2012 Edition

Princeton Review | 2011 | ISBN: 0375428186, 0375428194 | 496 pages | PDF | 33,8 MB

Description :
Cracking the New GRE with DVD, 2012 Edition has been completely revised and updated for the changes coming to the GRE in August 2011. It includes:

• Access to 4 full-length practice tests (2 online and 2 in the book)
• Practice questions with detailed explanations for every question
• Key strategies for solving Text Completions, Sentence Equivalents, Numeric Entry, Quantitative Comparisons, and more
• Thorough review of all GRE topics, including everything on the new GRE
• DVD supplement (completely overhauled in 2011!) with tutorials and helpful information from The Princeton Review’s top GRE course instructor

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Drawing Techniques, by Scott Burdick

Scott Burdick is known for his bold brushwork and lush color in his figurative paintings. What underlies those powerful paintings is a mastery of figurative drawing and anatomy. In this new four hour program, Scott demonstrates how to use various drawing media to create masterful drawings in red conte, traditional charcoal and wet brush charcoal powder.
Burdick is a master of many media, which this program will introduce to you. Working with the live model, he takes you through a drawing session that begins with five-minute gestures and ends with 20-minute long poses, over a period of three hours. The last demonstration is a portrait executed totally in a charcoal wash that is, powdered charcoal applied with brush and water.

Always an articulate instructor, Burdick will demonstrate how to begin a drawing session relax into longer poses and gather the most information for the model. The program has been edited to present to the viewer the most information you would wish to see, including the posed model and close-up views of the drawings as they are created.

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Total Training Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials (COMPLETE)

Total Training (2010) | English | Type ISO | 958 MB

Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials will teach you all you need to know to get up to speed quickly and easily with this powerful vector design tool. Join award-wining designer Steve Holmes as he shows you how to wield the sheer power of this incredible design and artwork program. Learn real-world techniques and solid processes for creating stunning artwork and layouts for print and digital media, utilizing the biggest and best tools Illustrator has to offer.

Chapter 1: ILLUSTRATOR INTERFACE and SETUP (32 min)
1. Opening and Arranging Multiple Documents
2. The Interface
3. Customizing and Saving Workspaces
4. Setting Preferences
5. Navigation
6. Zooming and Panning
7. Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Chapter 2: DOCUMENT SETUP, TEMPLATES and ARTBOARDS (37 min)
1. Creating a New Document
2. Editing Existing Documents
3. Editing Document Size via Artboards
4. Setting Up Multiple Artboards
5. Editing Multiple Artboards
6. Artboard Ruler Origins
7. The Artboards Panel
8. Creating and Saving Templates

Chapter 3: CREATING OBJECTS, GUIDES and LAYERS; (35 min)
1. Rulers, Guides and Grids
2. Points, Paths, Fills and Strokes
3. Outline and Preview Modes
4. Default Fill ans Stroke
5. Creating Shapes of a Specific Size
6. Creating Circles from the Center Point
7. Drawing with the Star Tool
8. Using the Split Into Grid Command
9. Using the Paste Remembers Layers Command

Chapter 4: OBJECT EDITING ESSENTIALS (26 min)
1. Utilizing the Selection Tools
2. Free Transforming
3. Stroke Scaling
4. Using the Transform Panel and Nudging
5. Grouping
6. Working in Isolation Mode
7. Changing Object Stacking Order

Chapter 5: TRANSFORMATION, DUPLICATION and ALIGNMENT (29 min)
1. Rotating
2. Reflecting
3. Scaling
4. Progressive Scaling
5. Alignment
6. Power Duplication

Chapter 6: COLOR, GRADIENTS and PATTERNS (29 min)
1. Creating Dense Black
2. Creating and Using Global Swatches
3. Applying Pantone® Spot Colors
4. Creating Gradients and the Gradient Annotator
5. Creating Basic Pattern Swatches
6. Fine-Tuning and Scaling Patterns
7. Updating and Replacing Patterns

Chapter 7: DIFFERENT STROKES (18 min)
1. Adding and Distributing Lines
2. Adding Strokes
3. Working with Stroke Alignment  and Dashed Lines
4. Applying Arcs and Arrowheads

Chapter 8: SHAPE BUILDER and PATHFINDER (21 min)
1. Exploring Drawing Modes
2. Using Select Same and Pathfinder Options
3. Combining with the Shape Builder Tool
4. Trimming with the Shape Builder Tool
5. Using Transform Each

Chapter 9: CUSTOM SHAPE CREATION  and EDITING (16 min)
1. Cutting and Joining Paths
2. Applying a Stroke Profile and Merging Swatches
3. Using Pathfinder to Create a Custom Shape
4. Utilizing Points and Segments to Create a Custom Shape

Chapter 10: DRAWING and REFINING PATHS (23 min)
1. Freeform Drawing with the Pencil Tool
2. Refining a Shape with the Warp Tool and Pathfinder
3. Drawing Corners and Bezier Curves with the Pen Tool
4. Constructing More Intricate Shapes
5. Adding the Finished Shapes to the Main Artwork

Chapter 11: TYPE, STYLES and TYPOGRAPHY (37 min)
1. Creating Single-Line Type
2. Kerning and Styling Type
3. Grouping and Scaling the Logo Type
4. Working with Area Type
5. Placing Type
6. Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles
7. Flowing Text between Custom Frames
8. Adding Type around a Circle
9. Adding Baseline Shift to the Type around a Circle

Chapter 12: WORKING WITH IMAGES and MASKS (29 min)
1. Placing Images and the Links Panel
2. Using Edit Original
3. Creating a Clipping Mask to Mask an Image
4. Continuing with Clipping Masks to Mask Artwork
5. Working with Layered Photoshop® Files
6. Applying Effects and the Appearance Panel

Chapter 13: LIVE TRACE TIPS and TRICKS (14 min)
1. Live Tracing an Image
2. Outputting Live Trace Spot Colors to Swatches
3. Merging Live Swatches with Pantone® Swatches

Chapter 14: THE POWER OF APPEARANCE (27 min)
1. Using Transparency and Blend Modes
2. Saving and Using Graphic Styles
3. Editing and Auto-Updating Graphic Styles
4. Creating Compound Paths
5. Applying Strokes with the Appearance Panel
6. Adding and Editing a Drop Shadow Effect

Chapter 15: ADDING SOME POLISH (15 min)
1. Designing an HD Interstitial Graphic
2. Creating a Reflection
3. Creating a Transparent Gradient

Chapter 16: PRINTING, EXPORTING and PDF FILES (15 min)
1. Setting the Print Area with the Print Tiling Tool
2. Adjusting Basic Print Options
3. Format Options for Exporting
4. Exporting a PDF for Print

Chapter 17: WEB PREPARATION and EXPORT (16 min)
1. Using Pixel Preview and Align to Pixel Grid
2. Adjusting Anti-Aliasing on Type
3. Creating and Naming Slices
4. Saving for the Web
5. Credits




Bonus: Project Files (98.1 MB)
Instruction: Extract, Mount/Burn, Play Learn

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How To Lock a Folder and HD with No App - MUST SEE

Hi all i came across this cool batch script recently it lets you lock and unlock external hd's and folders for keeping files hidden without using software once the folder is locked you can unlock it by clicking on the bat and typing in the password

1- make a new folder ( name it as you like )

2- inside this folder make a (.TXT ) file and copy the following inside it:

@ECHO OFF
title Folder Private
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Private "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Private
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Private
echo Private created successfully
goto End
:End

3- After u copy the command go to line ( 23 ) u will find "password here"
Change to any password u want.

4- After that, save it as locker.bat (the txt file will change to an application file)

5- Now go back to the folder and you will find a this locker.bat file.

6- Click on it and you will find a new folder called Private.

7- Now copy what u want in it and after that go to locker.bat by clicking it, it will open and ask you if you want to lock your folder? Y/N ?

8- Type Y

9- If you want to UNLOCK your folder, go open locker.bat & type your password and the Private folder will be made visible again.

Download this bat to exe converter as it lets you make exes as administrator and add icons

http://download.cnet.com/Bat-To-Exe-Converter/3000-2069_4-10555897.html?tag=mncol

Make a backup of your bat script to your computer then add it in the bat to exe converter and you can change the icon and copy the exe to drive or folder and not the bat Very Happy

Download Lock Icons For Exe File Here

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