Aperture 2 Essential Training
Duration: 5.75 hours
DVD-ROM coming soon!
with: Derrick Story

Derrick Story refers to Aperture as "a professional photo management application that anyone can use." In Aperture 2 Essential Training , he shows how novice photographers and professionals alike can make their image organization, retouching, and presentation routines more fun and efficient. Derrick demonstrates capturing and importing images from different sources; adding captions, ratings, and keywords; and sharing work in the form of web galleries, prints, and even books. He reveals his best image adjustment tricks, as well as tips on customizing the Aperture workflow to suit each photographer's unique style. Example files accompany the course.

Topics include:

* Understanding Aperture terms, interface, preferences, and workflow
* Creating metadata presets and adding keywords on import
* Importing images from a digital camera, hard drive, or iPhoto library
* Using tethered shooting
* Viewing images with previews, slideshows, and metadata overlays
* Comparing, selecting, and organizing images
* Correcting white balance, exposure, levels, and color
* Using Retouch, Straighten, Crop, Vignette, and other image adjustments
* Applying sharpening and noise reduction adjustments
* Searching for images and creating Smart Albums
* Exporting, archiving, and backing up photos
* Designing books, publishing web galleries, and printing images

AIR for Flash Developers

Duration: 7 hours
DVD-ROM coming soon!
with: David Tucker

Rich internet applications become more popular and powerful every year, but they have been limited to what can be done from within a web browser. Adobe AIR allows web developers to leverage their Flash, Flex, HTML, and AJAX skills to create multi-platform desktop applications. In AIR for Flash Developers, David Tucker uses Flash CS3 Professional to create several AIR applications, exploring the workflow and features of the AIR extension and runtime along the way. He discusses how to integrate with an operating system; how to incorporate HTML and PDFs; how to use the local SQLite database for information; how to package, distribute, and update AIR applications; and much more. Example files accompany the course. Note: This course will be most valuable to those who are familiar with ActionScript 3.0 and XML within Flash CS3 Professional.

Topics include:

* Exchanging data with the Clipboard
* Supporting drag-and-drop functionality
* Performing file system actions
* Managing multiple native windows
* Using application, window, and context menus
* Monitoring network connections
* Synchronizing online and offline data

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