Learn the tools and best practices for measuring and correcting color in Adobe Camera Raw. Photographer and teacher Taz Tally shows how to evaluate the color, tone, brightness, and contrast of your photos—by the histogram and by the numbers. Taz shows you how to accurately evaluate and adjust critical highlights and shadows. Then he'll cover correcting skin tones, performing white-balance adjustments, and warming and cooling images. Interested in improving your product photography? Learn how to perform targeted adjustments and correct poor exposure. Taz also shows how to make creative color adjustments to change the mood or add artistic touches. Some challenge videos help you to practice what you've learned along the way.

Staff author Justin Seeley explains how to set up your master page, build a custom navigation bar, and define content blocks on the master page. Then he shows how to import your graphics and text (from sources such as CC Libraries and Microsoft Word) and style all of the content. In chapter 4, Justin shows how to add the "infinite scrolling" behavior that is so emblematic of single-page designs.

This course provides everything you need to know to get started building websites with Bootstrap, and is built with our new practice environments in mind, which let you develop your code along with author Ray Villalobos. Ray will review Bootstrap's grid, CSS classes, and javascript components (dropdowns, modals, carousels, and more), and help you integrate them into your own sophisticated websites

Generate your own interactive website from scratch with Bootstrap, the mobile-friendly framework from Twitter, in this start-to-finish course with developer and author Ray Villalobos. First, you'll plan and prototype the interface with MindMaps and Balsamiq Mockups. Next, download Bootstrap and dive into organizing your site structure with its scaffolding feature—adding PHP includes to break your code into reusable modules and building in the core navigation. Ray then shows you how to build interactive carousels, modal features, and forms, and control these features with javascript. Finally, learn to style it all with LESS and prepare to publish the results online.

Android developers who need to manage and present data have many tools available to them in the application framework of Android. This course covers a variety of data persistence techniques, including storing data in shared preferences—key-value pairs—in JSON-formatted text files, and in relational databases with SQLite. Join David Gassner as he demonstrates these data management techniques. He also explains how to use relevant design patterns to model data with Java classes, and how to present data to the user with the Android SDK's ListView and RecyclerView components.

Learn everything you need to know to get started building Android apps with Google's Android Studio and Android SDK. David Gassner starts with a brief look at the history of Android and the latest iteration, Android 6.0 (aka Marshmallow). Then, after you set up your development environment, he shows you how to prepare virtual and physical devices for testing and create a new Android project: a shopping app for a fictional sportswear company. Using this example app, David demonstrates how to define the user interface with XML and widgets, control the app behavior with Java, set up "between screen" navigation, and display lists of data and images. Plus, learn how to enable support for the different screen sizes and pixel densities of the 24,000+ Android models on the market today.

To begin, Annyce Davis reviews using the de facto data persistence solution available on Android: SQLite. She takes you through basic SQLite concepts—such as how to create a database wrapper and insert data into a table—as well as a few more advanced topics. Next, she covers working with Cupboard, an open-source project dedicated to simplifying your SQLite interactions. To wrap up, she dives into working with Realm, an object database solution designed with mobile devices in mind. Throughout the course, Annyce discusses establishing relationships between database tables, creating and running queries, as well as performing data migrations.

After Effects CC Essential Training covers all of the fundamentals required to get new video editors and mograph artists up to speed with this powerful program. The first two chapters explore the key concepts, terminology, and interface of After Effects, and break down the six foundations of After Effects mastery—compositions, layers, animation, effects, 3D, and rendering.

Migrated to digital publishing? Don't stop there. These techniques will help you add engaging, immersive interactions and media to your Adobe Digital Publishing Suite projects. Author Keith Gilbert covers buttons, nested multistate objects, interactive quizzes, video, animation, and embedded PDFs. Plus, learn to create vertical and horizontal scrolling frames and interactive panoramas. Each chapter begins with examples that show the effects in action, so you can see how these techniques are used in the real world.

In this InDesign tutorial, we'll learn the different content and behaviors of 14 app components across Android and iOS platforms. We'll start by looking at the guidelines for both Android and iOS apps. From there, we'll look at various components of each platform and see how they compare with each other. By the end of this InDesign training, you'll have a solid understanding of the differences between the components that go into Android and iOS apps. Software required: Adobe InDesign 2014 CC.

Using Photoshop's layer comps can save you a lot of time when creating design concepts for a the web by giving you the freedom to cycle through these comps with ease without having to toggle the visibility of different groups and layers in your layers panel. We'll begin by learning how to create layer comps and demonstrate how they function using a very basic example. From here we'll spend a few lessons learning how to work with layer comps using a web page concept. Following this, we'll spend some time learning about features that don't work with layer comps and how you can easily work around these issues. Finally, we'll learn a couple of ways that you can export your layer comps to be shared with a client or members of your design team. After watching this course, you'll be able to use layer comps to speed up your workflow and have the freedom to compare, contrast, and create various iterations of concepts much more fluidly. Software required: Photoshop CC 14.2.

Adobe's primary pixel pusher, Photoshop, is well known for image manipulation, but most artists skip over its 3D capabilities. In this course, Understanding 3D in Photoshop, you will learn just how powerful, useful, and easy the 3D tools in Photoshop really are. You'll start with an exploration of the 3D interface in Photoshop along with a review of some of the terms and concepts unique to working in 3D. Next, you'll see how Photoshop uses extrusions to create 3D text elements, as well as how to import 3D elements into Photoshop for editing. Finally, you'll get an introduction to Fuse, which makes modeling a human easy before seeing how to finalize the scene by rendering it out. After completing this course, you'll be ready to tackle 3D projects using Adobe Photoshop.

In this series of tutorials, we'll learn some of the common issues to avoid and some of the best approaches you can take to create beautiful motion graphics, specifically in the kinetic typography space. We'll learn which questions are the most important questions to ask when beginning the work and how these will ultimately help us to make the best decisions for the piece later on. We'll learn how the method of delivery or the device that the piece will be viewed on makes a difference in the choices we should be making as designers. We begin to explore the concept of less being more when it comes to everything from writing fewer words of the script to using fewer typefaces. We also learn how following trends can sometimes harm your overall intent or message. By the end of this training you'll have a better grasp on some of the pitfalls and priorities when beginning a motion graphics or kinetic typography piece of work. Software required: These principles apply to motion graphics created in any software.

If you want your users or customers to retain information and have a more pleasant experience, then type is one of the single most important factors. In this course, we'll learn how to start thinking about type on the web by considering the many contexts for which we have to design. We'll go over how the browser renders type, different methods for using and pairing fonts on the web, and how to use readability, hierarchy, contrast, and white space to improve our typography for the web. This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of typography, and some of the discussion and concepts are explored using basic CSS.

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we are going to learn how to troubleshoot errors that you encounter when rendering in After Effects. We'll begin by learning some of the easiest ways to fix any problem that you may be encountering in After Effects by refreshing the program with a few different techniques. We then learn some of the most common issues that you may run into, and ways to fix those. After that, we learn how the Render Settings dialog can be set up to reflect the changes that you want to see in your final render without having to go back into your composition and change them there. This tutorial is a combination of rendering help, and tips for explaining some of the complex settings in After Effects so that you can be a more effective render artist. By the end of this After Effects training, you'll know how to fix most of the rendering errors that you will encounter with ease. Software required: After Effects CS6.

• In this series of lessons we will go through the different types of 2D tracking. We will learn how to do a simple one-point translation track, a two point track that also involves rotation and scale, as well as a four point track used for screen replacement. Throughout the course, we learn how to troubleshoot issues that arise while tracking, as well as best practices for getting the most accurate track possible. We explore using color correction, defining the channel information to use in the track, as well as a few other possibilities for assisting difficult tracks. Whether you are a beginner to tracking or just need to brush up on your tracking skills, this training covers all the knowledge you need to become a master tracker. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to perform all the different types of 2D tracks, as well as solve the problems you encounter while trying to get the perfect track. Software required: After Effects 12.2.0.52.

In this series of tutorials, we'll go over tips for lighting and materials in CINEMA 4D. These tips are common things you might encounter as you are creating motion graphics and you need a quick fix or a better way to make something look more realistic. We'll learn things like recipes for difficult textures such as metal and clear plastic, as well as adding a semi-transparent texture onto an existing texture on a single object. We'll also learn about a few tags that can help when you need specific settings for the way you'd like your texture to render. We'll learn how to achieve trendy looks like creating matte materials for a hybrid 2D/3D look. We'll also learn some great controls for lights and planes you can set up to create reflections. This training is for you if you're starting to get the hang of motion graphics in CINEMA 4D but you are beginning to realize that your lighting and textures need more realism. You could have beautiful models and animation, but without the right lighting or materials it can really detract from the rest of your work. By the end of this tutorial you'll have picked up a few new tools to make this aspect of your CINEMA 4D workflow much easier. Software required: CINEMA 4D R15.057.