PC maintenance and performance go hand in hand; when you correctly maintain your computer, you usually see a corresponding boost in performance. Happily, basic computer maintenance tasks are simple enough for anyone to accomplish. This course teaches the elemental skills related to PC maintenance. It's a good, thorough background for anyone who works with Windows-based computers. Dan Gookin helps you configure simple settings to make sure your system is running at its peak, including Windows security settings, backup and recovery options, and updates. Plus, learn how to make everything run faster and smoother by identifying resource hogs and using tools like ReadyBoost for external caching.

Maintain the performance of your PC. Learn how to make sure your system is running at its peak by adjusting Windows security settings, backup and recovery options, and updates.

Learn how to prepare electronic schematics for fabrication as printed circuit boards (PCBs) using the EAGLE PCB layout software from Autodesk.

Get up and running with OrCAD, a design tool for creating printed circuit boards (PCBs). Learn how to design and output a PCB using this industry-leading software.

Start investing in the brand of you. Learn how to turn yourself into a valuable brand with these personal branding tips.

Learn how to create new visual narratives with the power of photo compositing.

Learn how to repair and restore photos using Photoshop, Photoshop Fix, Lightroom, and Lightroom for mobile. Discover how to hide flaws, recover details, and more.

Master your camera's autofocus features and learn the creative options surrounding focus, bokeh, and depth of field.

Photojournalist Paul Taggart outlines the fundamentals of shooting a photo essay, from how to think about telling a story photographically to how to present your final photo story.

Learn to develop HDR photos with Photomatix.

Get up to speed with Apple's Photos software for OS X Yosemite. Learn to convert Aperture and iPhoto libraries and use all of the Photos editing and sharing features.

Discover actions and automation options in Adobe Photoshop and Bridge to speed up your workflow.

Learn how color works inside digital images, and get the basic skills you need to evaluate histograms, correct color, make creative image adjustments, and prepare images for output.

Learn the essentials of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018, the powerful image-editing software ideal for casual to intermediate photographers who want to achieve professional results.

For creative professionals, it’s no surprise that Adobe released Photoshop on the iPad. Photoshop is the industry standard in the creative world—there aren’t many applications so ubiquitous that they’re in the dictionary—so it was inevitable that Photoshop would show up on the world’s most popular tablet device. In this course, Tony Harmer gets into the basics of Photoshop on the iPad, working through projects to make composites, tune images, and make refinements. While these exercises may be familiar to many desktop Photoshop users, even if you’re an advanced Photoshop pro, the iPad app has many differences—the touch interface, for one—that you’ll want to explore. If you’re thinking about doing any Photoshop work on the iPad, this course will get you up and running.

Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to bring out the best in your portraits by retouching faces, correcting distortion, removing distractions, cleaning up the background, and more.

Start programming in PHP. Learn how to use this popular language to develop and maintain interactive websites.

Learn to create databases, design tables, import and export data, and run queries with phpMyAdmin.

Transform your passion for drones into a valuable business. Learn to use drones for data collection and 3D mapping with the Pix4D app suite.

If you're up and running with Pixelmator, but want a more comprehensive look at its image enhancement and design tools, this is the course for you. Pixelmator is a popular and affordable Mac OS X app, which offers support for Adobe file formats. With Pixelmator you can easily collaborate with other photographers and designers using the Creative Cloud. Join Rich Harrington for a tour of the complete Pixelmator workflow, including making accurate selections, performing targeted image adjustments, designing with text and shapes, retouching, masking, and making complex designs quickly with other effects. Rich also explores Pixelmator for iOS, which allows you to share projects between iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers and continue your work on the go. Once your project is finished, you'll learn how to export files in several popular formats for sharing, posting on the web, or using in other software packages.