This class is part of a series of classes that cover the less known secrets about Adobe illustrator. The videos in the course will increase your productivity in the software to help you tackle some of those problems that may be giving you trouble. I will go over some shortcuts, hidden gems and tricks that will truly refine your Adobe illustrator skills and give you access to a new world of tools.

While going through the course, I will provide some examples of real life scenarios where these tricks and tools could be applicable but while going through the course, be sure to think of ways you could implement these things in your own work.

Master the art of creative page layout with Adobe InDesign CS6. InDesign training Taught by a leading Certified Trainer. This Adobe InDesign CS6 training course from O'Reilly Media teaches you how to use this powerful digital and print layout software. With the introduction of amazing new digital layout features, InDesign CS6 really is the industry standard when it comes to not only traditional media layouts, but also EPUB and other digital standards.

Starting with the absolute basics, this course assumes you have no prior knowledge in InDesign. This video based training begins with how to setup preferences and work in the InDesign interface. You will learn how to start you layout and begin adding text and objects to your design. As you continue on you cover features such as formatting your text, working with tables and graphics, adding color and effects, and even making your layout interactive. Finally you cover eBooks and how InDesign can expedite creating your EPUB publications, as well as publishing or printing your layouts.

By the time you have completed this computer based training course for Adobe InDesign CS6 you will have a deep understanding on how to utilize the powerful tools and techniques available to you in this software to create your own high-quality layouts. Working files are included to allow you to work with the same files that the author uses throughout the training course.

Learn continuous improvement and kaizen to improve your team or business with agile retrospectives and scrum

The unique reasons for taking this course are:

1. Complete, Concise, Confident Overview of sprint retrospectives - I cover the theory and give you examples of how the theory is used in industry.

2. Confidence in using scrum - In a very simple way, I teach you the fundamentals agile retrospectives and how to organize sprint retrospectives in industry without going into a class room or spending $£1000..

3. You get to ask me questions and see me respond to every single one of them thoughtfully!

What is sprint retrospective?

It is a method for boosting your team's efficiency. Based on my experience, it is the perfect way to learn from the past and take that learning to learn new in the upcoming sprints.

Who should take is course?

Whether you are a novice, an expert or simply someone who wants the answer to the question "what is sprint retrospective, this is definitely the class is for you.

What will I learn?

In this class you will learn:

* Concise overview of sprint retrospective - Including 29 easy tips to hold a sprint retrospective successfully

* The facts based on real industry experience and research - The correct terminology and use of proper methods is essential to mastering it. My experience in industry and research into the topic has been used to give you a solid grounding in the most concise way possible.

The course is video based with no supporting document necessary.

How is the course structured?

Each section features an overview of a particular aspect of holding a sprint retrospective and tips to organize it wonderfully. Examples are included throughout the course with excellent quality video and audio. All is based on real world experience.

eBay & Amazon Are Two Giants Of eCommerce - Cash In By Knowing The Key Differences Between eBay & Amazon!

If you've been an eBay seller for any length of time, the questions always hits you...

Would this item sell better on eBay, or on Amazon?

I started selling on eBay in February 1999 and on Amazon and Yahoo Auctions in 2000.

Seeing these two giants evolve over the years has given me a great perspective and understanding of how to profit from each website, and in it's own way.

In this course, you'll learn how - by just knowing these key differences - you can profit tremendously.

You'll also discover:

Differences in the types of listings these sites offer and how you can profit from these differences
Differences in terms of the customers on each site - specifically in regards to how they buy, what they expect, their feedback, the community, demographics, etc.
The different and unique ways each site partners with sellers
AND...

You'll also get real-world examples (from my own recent listings) of how I have profited nicely, using this knowledge to create arbitrage profits.

I show you example of a product you can buy on Amazon for about $25 and sell for up to $70 on eBay.
In another case, I show you how you can often get up to 50% more for an
item, just by selling it on Amazon instead of on eBay. (using my
"real-world" listings as an example)
Think of it as "knowledge and marketplace arbitrage" and now you can benefit from these real-world strategies!

Learn what you need to know to implement cloud-based big data solutions using the right mix of Amazon Web Services-from big data and cloud architect and AWS community hero Lynn Langit. Starting with top-level categories of storage, data, computer, and services, Lynn guides you through planning your ideal AWS architecture, providing service demos using the AWS Console, command-line interface, and other tools. Learn when to use which service for which business case, such as Docker or Lambda or DynamoDB or Aurora? She shows how to script creation of services such as S3 buckets and EC2 instances, create and populate a managed data warehouse, and develop a data processing pipeline that works for you. Chapter 6 covers the AWS Internet of Things (IoT) services. These exercises can help you build proof-of-concepts, minimum viable products, and deployable solutions to scale and support big data initiatives at your company.

Topics include:
* Setting up your AWS account
* Using AWS tools
* Defining your minimum viable products
* Choosing computer, storage, and data services
* Using S3, SC2, or Docker for website hosting
* Developing an AWS website
* Using a data warehouse
* Developing a data processing pipeline
* Developing an Internet of Things project with AWS

Make sure every part of your Android mobile app works perfectly. Test your application at the unit level using unit testing and the built-in tools in the Android SDK. Learn to write the two basic types of unit tests-local and instrumented-and handle complex conditionals, exceptions, and even user interface testing. James P. White introduces tools from within and outside the SDK to speed up and automate unit testing. White also looks at mock objects, which help test code when real objects are unavailable (for example, a yet-to-be-created class). These simple testing techniques will help you create more stable codebases and deliver better quality apps to your end users.

Volume1 to graphic design theory using Canva.

Do you want to take your business and brand graphics to the next level? Have you ever wondered why some advertisements in social media stand out, while some you never even take a second look at? Do you want to catch your audience's attention so that you can promote your product?

What this course is about:

Canva Course: Graphic Design Theory in Social Media Volume 1 is the first part in a series of courses that are aimed to help you understand simple design theory for your business or brand. These ideas can be applied across multiple platforms, including your brand, eBooks, websites, social media graphics, presentations and more.

Canva is a very easy-to-use and free online software platform for creating stunning graphics in a very short amount of time. It's pre-made layouts and huge library of artwork make it the go-to graphics software for a lot of businesses and entrepreneurs.

What you will learn in this course:

This course will guide you through the basic principles and ideas that are in all sorts of visual media. You can expect to gain attention and an audience with your designs when you follow the simple procedures explained in these videos. The lectures include:

Information about Canva.
Elements of design.
Principles of design.
Color Theory.
Typography.
Composition.
Plus free updates and additions to the course in the future!
What you don't want to do:

Wait too long to enroll! This course is going to have evergreen updates added in the future, and the price will raise once the course meets certain milestones. The best thing to do is to enroll now so that you can lock in the price and receive all future updates for free. If you are still uncertain, you can always receive a full refund within 30 days of purchase through Udemy!

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If you enjoy this course and want to learn more about the principles and theory behind great graphic design, than be sure to check out the other volumes in this series:

Canva Course: Graphic Design Theory in Social Media Volume Intro

Canva Course: Graphic Design Theory in Social Media Volume 2

For more information on using Canva, check out my other course:

Canva Course: Beginner's Guide to Canva for Graphic Design

Pokemon Go has clearly taken over the world. No matter where you look, someone is near you catching a cute little monster on their phone. Love it or hate it, it is definitely a giant craze and it's taking the world by storm!

I happen to be in the love it category. I played when I was young and I'm back into it now. So if you are too, then it is time to illustrate a custom badge in your teams colours! Simply pick your favourite pokemon, draw it and customize your badge!
In this class we will be using Adobe Illustrator to draw your badge. We will use the pen tool, shape tool, pathfinder, type on path, layer masking, and much more. I move a little faster in this class than normal. But if you get lost, feel free to ask me a question or check out some of my other classes that expand on each subject.

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, it has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the word "photoshop" has become a verb as in "to Photoshop an image," "photo shopping" and "photoshop contest", though Adobe discourages such use.

It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space, spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop's featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

Photoshop's naming scheme was initially based on version numbers. However, in October 2002, following the introduction of Creative Suite branding, each new version of Photoshop was designated with "CS" plus a number; e.g., the eighth major version of Photoshop was Photoshop CS and the ninth major version was Photoshop CS2. Photoshop CS3 through CS6 were also distributed in two different editions: Standard and Extended. In June 2013, with the introduction of Creative Cloud branding, Photoshop's licensing scheme was changed to that of software as a service rental model and the "CS" suffixes were replaced with "CC". Historically, Photoshop was bundled with additional software such as Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Device Central and Adobe Camera RAW.

Alongside Photoshop, Adobe also develops and publishes Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Express and Photoshop Touch. Collectively, they are branded as "The Adobe Photoshop Family". It is currently a licensed software.

For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form-from Charles Darwin's early fascination with stems and flowers to Seymour Krelborn's distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. This course intends to present to you an intriguing and scientifically valid look at how plants themselves experience the world-from the colors they see to the sensations they feel.

Highlighting the latest research in genetics and more, we will delve into the inner lives of plants and draw parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. We'll learn how plants know up from down, how they know when a neighbor has been infested by a group of hungry beetles, and whether they appreciate the music you've been playing for them or if they're just deaf to the sounds around them. We'll explore definitions of memory and consciousness as they relate to plants in asking whether we can say that plants might even be aware of their surroundings. This highly interdisciplinary course meshes historical studies with cutting edge modern research and will be relevant to all humans who seek their place in nature.

By taking this course you'll be able to:

1. Describe basic plant biology and plant senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, balance).

2. Define the world of biological research and the scientific method.

3. Question life in general and what defines us as humans.

Syllabus
Week 1 - Introduction:
Why we study plants, plant influence on evolution of the Earth.

Week 2 - What a Plant Sees:
Over view of human vision, plant responses to light, Darwin and phototropism, phytochrome and flowering and modern research.

Week 3 - What a Plant Smells:
Over view of human olfaction, Introduction to the plant cell and membranes, ethylene and fruit ripening, Cuscuta and plants smelling plants, Baldwin's experiments and plant olfactory communication.

Week 4 - What a Plant Feels:
Over view of human physical sensory mechanisms, Venus fly trap, plant responses to shaking, Do plants hear?

Week 5 - How a Plant Knows Where it is:
Overview human proprioception, Early experiments in gravitropism, root structure and the gravi-sensing mechanism, phototropism and discovery of auxin, gravitropism in space.

Week 6 - What a Plant Remembers:
Overview of the human memory, electrical memory and Venus Fly trap, epigenetics and long-term memory.

Week 7 - The Aware Plant:
Theoretical discussion on the definition of memory and consciousness and a quick examination of "intelligence".

In this class you'll learn how to create an attractive HTML email signature for your brand, company or client.

The class is separated into 5 lessons:
Creating & designing the signature in Photoshop
Slicing the signature & generating automatic HTML code
Editing the code
Embedding into Gmail
Embedding into Mac Email App

This class is for designers, artists, authors; looking for ways to display their art beautifully across social media, in their portfolios or even in their online stores like Etsy for example. Learn how to easily edit any image to place your artwork straight into.

If you've never used Photoshop, no problem. I walk you through the whole process, step-by-step.

This is a (beginners) class and the result will be that you can mock-up your art in any picture frame, book cover or even greeting card.
This class is not just for artists. See below how you could use this to create your own book cover.

You will learn:
How to source good images for displaying your work.
How to prepare your image in Photoshop for your mock-up.
How to use the layers and folders in Photoshop effectively.
You will also learn about using smart objects in Photoshop to make life easy so you can re-use your images for other projects.
How to save your work to display or print.