If you work in Azure development, this course from CloudSkills.io can show you some best practices for setting up a development environment in AWS. Instructor Philip Afable introduces you to Terraform and shows you how to download and start using it. Philip covers the Lambda function, including how to set it up, write it, troubleshoot it, and update it. He explains how to create a Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue and link this new queue to your Lambda function. Philip concludes with how you can use WorkSpaces and manage regions in your development and production environments.

Note: This course was created by CloudSkills.io. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

In this audio-only course, host Zach Nunn speaks with Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work, about how he transformed the company into a Fortune 100 best place to work. Michael shares what he believes executives should consider when it comes to building better trust within organizations. He recounts his first one hundred days as CEO and how he used analytics to help make the workplace more inclusive. Michael talks about becoming a CEO as a black man and where he sees Great Place to Work expanding to capture more marginalized voices and experiences.

Zach Nunn is part of Living Corporate, a multimedia diversity, equity, and inclusion platform that centers and amplifies black and brown professionals in the workplace through narrative storytelling.

Note: This course was created by Living Corporate. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

The power of creating an intriguing title sequence can take a movie, TV show, or documentary to another level. There's even an entire community of title enthusiasts out there, as evidenced from online resources such as Art of the Title. In a way, title sequences help bridge the art of filmmaking even closer to graphic design. The Creating a Mograph Title Sequence series looks specifically at this art form. In this course—the first installment in this two-part series—Eran Stern and Nick Harauz break down the steps involved in visualizing and planning out a title sequence. Using a real-world title intro, Eran and Nick look at everything from the initial pitch, to being creative on a budget, to creating a rough storyboard. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have a strong foundation in the steps required to prepare striking motion graphics assets for a title sequence.

In the first installment of the Creating a Mograph Title Sequence series, instructors Eran Stern and Nick Harauz demonstrate how to visualize and plan out a stylish motion graphics title sequence. In this course—the final installment in this two-part series—Eran and Nick step through how to bring those ideas to life. After explaining how to refine fonts and colors and design the typographic style for your project, they share how to import your Premiere Pro project to After Effects. There, they show how to begin the work of animating your title sequence. Discover how to create primary and secondary animations, work with animation presets, and tackle the compositing process, including how to color correct a sequence, remove unwanted content, and create a water displacement. To wrap up, Eran and Nick show how to create your packshot. Learn how to add a 3D planet, atmosphere, and starry galaxy to add interest to your final title sequence.

As a designer, have you ever experienced a scenario where you met with a client, agreed on the direction of a project, enthusiastically got to work, showed the client your progress, only to realize you were not on the same page at all? How can you avoid situations where your vision and your client’s expectations are not in sync? With a mood board. In this course, Tina Huffman teaches designers about mood boards—what they are, why they are key to a successful project, and how to use them to build a client's brand. She starts with the basic components of a mood board like colors, imagery, and fonts, then delves into sources of inspiration. Tina also covers different creation tools and platforms for mood boards, like Pinterest, Canva, and Adobe Spark, and includes a challenge exercise to create a mood board based on specifications from a hypothetical client. Finally, she shows how to repurpose your mood board for use on social media to showcase your design work and grow your business.

In this course, adapted from the podcast al empire, Dana Ballout interviews Hebah Fisher about the founding of Kerning Cultures Network, a media company run by Arab women. Hebah shares the behind-the-scenes of the trials and success of being a first-mover to the podcast industry in the Middle East. She traces her personal journey and career shift from microfinance to media, how to build a regional network of storytellers from the ground up, and how she attempts to lead a healthy, balanced life.

Note: This course was created by al empire. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Do you know how your customers perceive their complete experience with your company, from first encounter through purchase experience and beyond? Providing an excellent customer experience requires thoughtfulness, tact, and the willingness to look at every interaction from the customer's point of view. In this course, customer experience expert Jeannie Walters walks you through creating a positive customer experience. Jeannie explains how to understand your customer’s end-to-end experience, or customer journey, and goes over the steps to build an effective customer experience strategy. Jeannie offers steps you can take to create and maintain a customer-centric culture—from creating a customer experience mission statement to getting executive buy-in and purposefully using tools like Net Promoter Score (NPS) to measure customer feedback. She concludes with advice on understanding customer expectations and key moments you can optimize in the customer journey.

Adobe mobile apps enable designers and artists to take their sketching and ideation workflows on the go—anywhere they can bring a smartphone or tablet. In this course, instructor Tony Harmer introduces a variety of Adobe mobile apps that complement the company's desktop tools, showing how to leverage each app to pull together a simple poster design. Tony shows how to use Photoshop Sketch and Adobe Fresco to sketch out your ideas, create a color scheme for your project, create shapes using Adobe Capture, and work with images using Photoshop Fix, Mix, and Photoshop on the iPad. Follow along to learn about the power of these apps and how this toolset can play an important role in your creative process. Tony finishes by taking the project into Adobe Comp and showing how to create and export your final poster.

React is one of the key technologies that the new and modern web is being built upon. In this course, instructor Brett McLaughlin shows you how React and a complete web development ecosystem work together in building applications. Brett goes through all the steps in getting your React app set up, deployed, connected, and supported. Next, he steps you through creating React components to organize and display your content. Brett teaches you how to add cloud services like a database using JSON data and encourages you to ensure your code works on the cloud platform you're targeting. He covers how to interact with AWS and DynamoDB through the command line, then how to create and use a DynamoDB table. Next, Brett goes into how to create, load, and test a new role that can execute Lambda functions and interact with DynamoDB. He walks you through creating and deploying an API gateway. Brett concludes by showing you how to connect your React code to an API Gateway endpoint.

Explore the art and science of color grading, an often underused aspect of filmmaking. Learn about why color is important in the filmmaking post-production process, how to adjust the grade to accurately reproduce the colors that were shot, and how correcting color can completely transform bland or poorly shot footage. See how the process of color grading can correct common issues, create a more believable composite in visual effects, and establish or alter the artistic intent and mood of a scene. Plus, find out how to solve real-world workflow issues when exporting nonlinear editor (NLE) timelines for the color grade. Along the way, instructor Chad Perkins explores some of the most popular color correction tools, including DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, and Redcine-X.

Note: This course is one of a 13-part series, showing the actual techniques filmmakers use to create cinema-quality films. Explore more of the series here.

This course was created by Chad Perkins. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Photographers like Ansel Adams taught us to look differently at nature: not in terms of color, but instead emphasizing tone and contrast. Converting images to black-and-white reveals these hidden depths of composition and focus a viewer's attention on forms, textures, and fabrics. In this course, Taz Tally teaches you how to use modern techniques to transform color images into majestic black-and-white landscapes, using the modern photographer's favorite tool: Photoshop. Learn how to evaluate images with the Info tool, convert RGB color images using Photoshop's time-saving black-and-white presets, and make more advanced adjustments with the black-and-white custom sliders, masks, and adjustment layers. Plus, learn finishing techniques, like sharpening, that will make your images look their best when it comes time to print.

WordPress theme development is changing, and block patterns are at the heart of it. With the block editor and full site editing, there will be less reliance on coded templates and more focus on flexible layouts. That's where block patterns come in. In this course, experienced course developer Joe Casabona shows you how to take advantage of block patterns to create more flexible WordPress without needing to know code. Joe explains what block patterns are and why they are important. He steps through the full process of making block patterns, then presents a block patterns cookbook of different features you can add to your site. He also covers how to use refactoring to add your own block pattern category and reduce the wall of repetitive text you may have.

Learn how to design concrete buildings that stand the test of time with Revit Structure. In this course, Eric Wing takes you through the process step by step, starting with laying out levels and a structural grid. Then he shows you how to add concrete columns and foundational elements like piers, pilasters, footings, and retaining walls, and add concrete framing and slabs. And of course, no concrete structure is complete without reinforcing: the final chapter guides you through the ins and outs of placing rebar perpendicular to a wall face, as well as area reinforcing and freely sketching rebar and selecting ties from the Rebar Shape Browser.

Fontself Maker is an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to turn any lettering into unique OpenType fonts. In this course, instructor Tony Harmer shows you how to get the most out of this powerful extension. After stepping through how to install Fontself Maker, Tony goes over some basic typography terms to help you grasp the mechanics of designing type. He then demonstrates how to create fonts in Illustrator, explaining how to set font metrics with guides and use Live Paint to create color font glyphs that can be used to create an OpenType-SVG color font. Next, he delves into font creation in Photoshop, including how to create both bitmap and vector fonts. Plus, get tips for refining your font by adjusting glyph sizes, spacing, and kerning attributes.

This course provides an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then teaches you how to design your own icons using Adobe Illustrator. Instructor Bart Van de Wiele explores why you need icons, how you use them, and why scalability is important. Bart steps you through how to set up your Illustrator document before you begin your design process. He describes how to organize your work using Illustrator artboards for arranging, naming, and exporting your icons. Bart walks you through ways to import your sketch into Illustrator, then goes over how to clean up your sketch digitally. He shows you how to use simple, complex, and compound shapes to build your logo digitally, then explores several more advanced techniques. In conclusion, Bart covers best practices for exporting your icons for the web, for print, and for use in other applications like Photoshop.

Illustrative design involves using an illustrative approach, such as a new brand identity or icon, to solve a design problem. This type of approach can be challenging for designers who aren't illustrators. In this course, designer and illustrator Von Glitschka breaks down the process into beginner-friendly steps. Von explains illustrative design and how it differs from graphic design. He shows you how to prepare by defining your theme, subject matter, and style, then gathering reference material. Von covers several drawing processes, stepping through deductive drawing, thumbnail drawing, rough drawing, and a final refined drawing. He walks you through building and coloring vector art, then concludes with helpful tips on finalizing your designs and presenting them to clients.

It's common for individuals to take a course, attend a seminar, or read a book and feel inspired to make a change. Unfortunately, it's also common for people to avoid taking action—or for that change to last less than a month. This course identifies the reason why this happens and provides specific steps you can take to not only overcome this issue, but also create a pattern for continual, long-lasting change. Productivity expert Dave Crenshaw shares strategies for focusing on realistic short-term progress in order to make changes that stick. Dave also provides tips for finding a person to keep you accountable, measuring your growth, crafting a long-term plan for progress, and more.

Note: This course was created by Dave Crenshaw and Invaluable Inc. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

3D movies are more popular then ever, and many blockbuster films today are made or reissued in 3D. Although the process may seem very complex, it is surprisingly easy to create these effects in Maya. In this course with industry pro David Mattingly, you'll learn how to set up and render stereoscopic 3D environments in Maya. First, you'll become familiar with stereoscopic 3D basics and the important terms you need to know. Next you'll use a simple 3D environment to become proficient with adding a stereo camera and adjusting it to match the scene. You'll learn where to buy the inexpensive 3D glasses needed to view your scene in true 3D on a regular home computer. In the last section, you'll open up a full 3D environment, add and animate a 3D camera, and render out a viewable 3D scene. In just an hour, you'll be up to speed on creating your own stereoscopic 3D environment.

Most people cringe at failure and avoid it whenever possible. Failing isn’t pleasant, but it isn’t fatal. In this course, executive coach Audrey Genevieve Daniels draws on her long experience leading organizations through disruptive change to help you to evolve from past failures and move past adversity stronger than before. Audrey shares actionable insights that help you not just to own your failures, but to thrive because of them. She shows you how to use mindfulness as a superpower to embrace failures as opportunities to grow. Audrey explains how to unlock the secrets of self-awareness that help keep negative thoughts under control. She goes into how to master your own preparedness and face failures head-on, adopting a growth mindset that gets your mind back into critical thinking mode. She discusses how to break the cycle of self-blame that holds your leadership journey back, then concludes with how to shut down self-doubt and unleash the leader you know is inside of you.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Remote teams present some unique benefits and challenges for managers and for the employees on the teams. In this course, UK-based instructor Amy Brann walks you through practical approaches based on the latest neuroscience to create a productive environment for your virtual team. Amy explains how our brains perform immersive work and shows you ways to create a healthy, productive remote work environment that help learners focus on substantive work. She goes into how you can help your team build habits that support creativity and innovation, as well as how to create environmental “nudges.” Amy covers potential challenges and how to leverage brain science to implement solutions that will work around the challenges. She discusses strategies to coach and develop your team virtually, then concludes with tips for developing positive tech habits.