Join Justin Seeley as he introduces gradients, a somewhat hidden strength of CSS that allows you to add depth and texture to your web designs while reducing load times—creating a better viewing experience for your visitors versus static images. Discover how to create simple linear and radial gradients; apply them to backgrounds, buttons, and text; and write browser-specific syntax to ensure your designs look the same across multiple platforms. The course also shows how to create metallic textures, diagonal gradients, and repeatable patterns. Along the way, Justin demonstrates real-world uses for gradients and techniques to extend them beyond the basics.

This course presents a short series of CSS animation techniques, such as looping, playing, and pausing, and puts them together in a small project: an animated infographic. Author Val Head also addresses using CSS preprocessors, adding transitions, handling vendor prefixes, and understanding the best uses for CSS animations. Plus, discover how to measure the performance and current level of browser support for CSS animations and how we can expect the technology to change.

MacBooster provides a full arsenal of system-maintenance tools to make your Mac run faster.

The face is vital to broadcasting emotion and intent, but also beauty. Balancing these elements is at the heart of skillful retouching in Adobe Photoshop. Join Timothy Sexton, senior retoucher at New York's Gloss Studio, as he explains how to read faces before you retouch them and preserve the natural beauty and character of your subjects. Learn how to identify areas for selective enhancement, improve color and contrast, correct your model's posture, and use the Liquify, Patch, Clone Stamp, and Dodge and Burn tools correctly to soften or play up your model's features. Timothy also shares insights from his decades long career in high fashion photography.

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2016 Premium 15.0.0.73 (x64) | 459.43 MB

For high-quality video projects. Movie Edit Pro 2016 Premium combines all the new features of the Plus version with a unique selection of features from the world's best effects packages. The program lets advanced users turn even complex video project ideas into reality.

 Introduction to Photography with Ben Long

It takes more than a camera to be a good photographer. But with today's smart technology and training from lynda.com, it's easier than ever to learn how to take great pictures. This course, designed strictly for beginners, provides for a solid grounding in the skills and tools you'll need to explore the world of digital photography. Ben Long starts with a look at the different types of cameras on the market and guidelines for setting your camera up for success. He also introduces the theory behind exposure: controlling the amount of light that reaches the camera's sensor.

Design the Web: Creating CSS-Only Navigation Menus

Duration: 29m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 32KHz 2ch | 135 MB
Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Did you know you can add dropdown menus to your webpage with nothing more than HTML and CSS? Typically interactive menus are accomplished with jQuery or another javascript framework. But the truth is, with CSS you can create the same rich experience, including full support for iOS and touch-screen Windows devices.

Acronis True Image 2016 - Protect your digital life with the #1 backup solution. Back up your entire computer including your operating system, applications and data, not just files and folders to an external hard drive or NAS. Restore backed up data including your operating system, application and all your data to your existing computer or an entirely separate piece of hardware, or restore specific data as needed.

Acronis True Image 2016 - Protect your digital life with the #1 backup solution. Back up your entire computer including your operating system, applications and data, not just files and folders to an external hard drive or NAS. Restore backed up data including your operating system, application and all your data to your existing computer or an entirely separate piece of hardware, or restore specific data as needed.

Are you considering going freelance? Enroll in Monika Kanokova’s class to learn more about setting up a freelance business in the creative industries.

Capo lets you slow down your favorite songs so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played. With Capo, you can quickly tab out your songs atop a highly-detailed OpenCL-powered spectrogram display.

Digital Tutors - 'Daydreamer' Production Pipeline Volume 6 - Dynamics

Duration: 1h 22m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 32KHz 2ch | 1.3 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | +Project files

In this Houdini tutorial, we?ll take a look at the visual effects portion of the pipeline for a short we produced for SIGGRAPH. Throughout the tutorial, we?ll look at how to identify what?s needed from the FX department by breaking down the animatic.

BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 6.0.6 Multilingual | 21 MB

PhotoZoom Pro 6 not only creates larger images than any other software (up to 1 million by 1 million pixels), it also produces higher quality results. PhotoZoom Pro 6 is equipped with S-Spline Max, a unique, patented image resize technology which excels at preserving clean edges, sharpness, and fine details.

FileMaker Server 14 Advanced 14.0.3.302 Multilingual | 248 MB

FileMaker Server is fast, reliable server software to securely share information with groups of FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Go users and to extend your solutions to the web. Connect to data hosted on FileMaker Server using any combination of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go and FileMaker WebDirect clients.

DaVinci Resolve 11 focuses on major editing functionality improvements while including familiar “one tool/many task” responsive editing tools in an unrestricted format that includes features like mouse-free editing workflows, asymmetrical editing, resolution independent editing and exporting, and bezier controls for fine-tuning composites and animations.