Get started with Photoshop over your lunch break. In this course, Jesus Ramirez introduces you to how Photoshop works through a series of basic projects. Jesus starts with how to color correct photos in Photoshop. He shows you how to build layers, color correct with curves, use the eyedropper tools to get the exact colors you need, and then save and export your files. He describes how to change an object’s color in Photoshop, as well as the fine points to make the change look good. Jesus walks you through how to blur a background, including how to make the most of fills, filters, and masks. The next project is a social media graphic. Jesus shows you how to add layers, content, effects, and text to create your graphic.

Photographers and graphics designers—including professionals, hobbyists, enthusiasts, and students—use Photoshop to edit and refine their work. In this course, Deke McClelland takes you on a personalized tour of the basic tools and techniques you can use to make great images and graphics. Deke shows you how to open images from multiple sources, crop and straighten images, navigate panels and menus, and customize preferences. He guides you through how to edit images by adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting color, and retouching portraits. He demonstrates how to use layers to mask parts of an image and make composite artwork. He also covers formatting text, printing, preparing web graphics, and more.

Discover how to be the best Adobe Photoshop user you know. This comprehensive, project-based course is the second in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke doesn't just talk about the advanced features in Photoshop—he ties each concept to a clearly defined task, ensuring that you close out each chapter with a practical understanding of how things really work. Deke dives into the automated selection tools in Photoshop, as well as the Color Range, Focus Area, and Refine Edge commands. He covers such power features as Smart Objects, the Liquify filter, and the new Content-Aware Fill. Plus, you can learn how to use layer effects, Levels and Curves adjustments, Lens Correction and Perspective Warp, Smart Sharpen, and so much more.

This installment of Photoshop CC for Photographers goes beyond the basics and focuses on the features and techniques that will dramatically improve your photographs and maximize your efficiency. Photographer and teacher Chris Orwig first illustrates the strengths of Bridge, the Adobe Photoshop companion program, as an organizational tool and a device for batch processing photographs. He then moves on to mastering Photoshop, starting with layers—targeting, moving, and merging them with greater speed and efficiency. Then learn how to make better selections, refine their edges, and paint in adjustments, as well as increase the color accuracy of your images with Levels and Curves. Plus, learn to work with blending modes, apply creative color effects, and use the Burn and Dodge tools to improve contrast—a classic photographic technique updated for the digital age. Chris also covers correcting perspective and distortion, creating photo composites and panoramas, and working with DSLR video in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop has many powerful features designed specifically for photographers interested in creating better photographs. Learn how to turn them to your advantage with these tutorials from teacher and photographer Chris Orwig. In this introductory course, Chris combines practical tips and creative insights, showing how to enhance and improve your photographs. The course also includes live-action interludes designed to help you think photographically, and shoot with the capabilities of Photoshop in mind.

Discover how to be the best Adobe Photoshop user you know. This comprehensive, project-based course is the second in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke doesn't just talk about the advanced features in Photoshop—he ties each concept to a clearly defined task, ensuring that you close out each chapter with a practical understanding of how things really work. Deke dives into the selection commands, including Color Range, Focus Area, Select > Subject, and Sky Replacement. He explains the best ways to refine your edges and layer masks. He covers such power features as transformations, smart objects, and image reconstruction. Plus, he delves into the intricacies of vector-based shapes, blend modes, layer effects, levels and curves, and so much more.

Go one-on-one with world-renowned Photoshop expert Deke McClelland in this comprehensive course. Part one of a three-part series, this is your chance to learn everything you need to know about Photoshop, in the order you need to know it, complete with real-world examples and practical advice. Deke begins by explaining the many ways to open files in Photoshop. He steps you through working with layers and masks. Photoshop has almost as many ways of saving files as it has of opening them, and Deke covers all of them. He walks you through luminance, brightness, contrast, and color balance. He shows you how to develop photographic images in Camera Raw. He discusses the ability in Photoshop to edit an entire image at once or adjust a specific, selected region—and he walks you through every selection tool in the software. There’s so much more, including an entire chapter on retouching! To conclude this part, Deke explains how to save images for use on the web and mobile devices.

Discover how to be the best Photoshop user you know with reigning expert Deke McClelland. In this final installment of his comprehensive three-part One-on-One series, Deke explains how Photoshop works at its highest level. Get around Photoshop more quickly by loading dozens of new and revised keyboard shortcuts. Experience the power of Smart Filters, dynamic effects, and such seemingly mundane (but secretly awesome) topics as blur and noise. Discover how to mask images with the Calculations command, and manipulate paths with the Pen tool. Learn how to assemble 360° panoramas and work with such exotic features as layer comps, artboards, and actions. Leave each chapter with a sense of real accomplishment that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping artwork.

Sometimes, you want to sit down and really learn the ins and outs of a program. Other times, that’s a luxury you don’t have time for. In this course, Jan Kabili runs through a slew of quick Photoshop tips, aimed at quickly solving common problems and tasks. Jan’s tips include how to remove a background in one-click, make a double exposure, enhance eyes in an image, quickly change the color of an icon, and many more. These workflow-changing tips and tricks are each just a few minutes long—so you can get answers fast and get back to work.

From powerful shortcuts to precise masking, this course can help you see Photoshop adjustment layers and blend modes in a whole new light. In this course, Rich Harrington unlocks some of the least-used options for his favorite features in Photoshop 2020. Learn how to use adjustment layers and blend modes to color correct and tone images, convert photos to black and white, add style, and fix exposure—all completely nondestructively. Rich also explores the hidden power of the "auto" options, lookup tables, gradient maps, and Smart Objects, and shows how to limit your adjustments when you want to achieve a subtler effect. By the time you finish the course, you'll have a more advanced understanding of adjustment layers and blend modes, and know how to make complex, nondestructive changes to any image.

Expand your thinking beyond Gaussian Blur. The new set of creative blurring tools in Photoshop CC 2014 allows you to take your photography and digital art to new heights. In this course, photographer and educator Chris Orwig shows how to use the filters in the Blur Gallery (including Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, and more) in creative projects like these:

• Adding movement and energy to photos
• Creating illustrations
• Enhancing portraits
• Building a book cover with typography and blur
• Improving color
• Crafting an ethereal look

So grab your copy of Photoshop CC and get started taking your imagery to a new creative level.

PHP is one of the most prominent programming languages in the world, so it’s vital to keep your skills sharp and aligned with current demands. This course from Joe Casabona presents a number of challenges to help you reinforce your PHP knowledge. The challenges start off with simple, common problems like writing sorting functions, and increase in difficulty to more complex tasks like encrypting strings and namespacing. Most solutions can be found in less than 25 lines of code, and many of the videos can be watched on their own, so you don’t need to complete the previous challenges if there’s a specific knowledge set you want to test. Whether you’re just learning PHP or an experienced pro looking to stay sharp, this course will give you a good idea of where your PHP skills stand.

Learn how to paginate a list of items or database records using PHP. In this course, Kevin Skoglund reviews the fundamentals of pagination, a helpful design pattern for breaking down large data sets into smaller, more manageable sections. He provides use cases and shows how to write the actual PHP code to find records and display a certain number per page. He then shows how to paginate records from a SQL database, add links to pages, and use object-oriented programming to define pagination functions inside a single class and create links between pages. Each chapter contains practical, hands-on programming lessons that will help you build your PHP skills.

Hackers target PHP web applications more often than other sites because most PHP code is written by developers with little security experience. Protecting web applications from these attacks has become an essential skill for all PHP developers. PHP: Creating Secure Websites shows you how to meet the most important security challenges when developing websites with PHP. Instructor Kevin Skoglund covers the techniques and PHP code needed to develop sites that are more secure, and to avoid common mistakes. Learn how to configure PHP properly and filter input and escape output. Then check out step-by-step defenses against the most common forms of attack, including cross-site scripting and SQL injection.

Do you need to know how to apply best practices for user authentication in PHP? This course walks you through a series of best practices that you can apply to your own PHP projects to avoid costly security pitfalls. Instructor Kevin Skoglund gives you an overview of user authentication in PHP, then dives into how you can implement it. He steps through creating the database table, adding new users, logging users in and out, and controlling access to pages and functions. Kevin shows you how to work with strong passwords, prevent weak ones, and reset forgotten ones. He shows you how to secure user authentication by preventing insecure direct object references (IDOR), using HTTPS, protecting access tokens, and keeping track of logins. Kevin concludes with a challenge/solution set exploring how to write PHP code that expires a user login after a set amount of time has passed.

If you're planning on moving your organization to the cloud, Azure—the popular cloud services platform from Microsoft—is worth a look. In this course, Sharon Bennett provides a thorough introduction to cloud computing, focusing on the various Azure technologies designed to help support and protect your company as it scales. Sharon explains how to build a base of operations with Azure resource groups, virtual networking, and storage—the foundations of your infrastructure—and ensure business continuity using out-of-the-box Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery services. She covers how to set up virtual machines and manage users and access with Azure Active Directory. This introduction is a perfect primer for IT pros who want to move clients to the cloud, and business owners who are looking for more efficient alternatives to a traditional IT infrastructure.

Planning and logistics are essential functions within every organization. This course from Michael Management gives you a high-level overview of the logistical planning functions in SAP. The course explains the basics of forecasts and demand planning, then goes into supply and demand. This course introduces you to the benefits of MRP (material requirements planning) and RPP (reorder point planning). The course concludes with SAP demos that walk you through practical applications of the concepts that were introduced.

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

Remote work is here to stay. To recruit and retain top talent—and build a more diverse, efficient, and inclusive organization—leaders must embrace a remote-first culture. In this course, instructor Chris Herd details why and how companies can develop the ability to operate in this way. Learn how a shift to remote work can lead to happier and healthier organizations and employees. Get insights into different remote-first models, including asynchronous work, and learn about key tools that can help your teams communicate and collaborate efficiently from anywhere. Plus, Chris outlines the key challenges of going remote, so that you can sidestep these common mistakes in your own transformation.

Making your own website may be easier than ever before, with the amount of services, sites, and tools at your disposal, but all those options and choices may lead to decision paralysis. What domain do you pick? What hosting service do you use? How do you design the site to match your brand? Let longtime LinkedIn Learning instructor Jen Kramer show you the way. In this course, Jen covers the important decisions to be made in the no-code website realm, from the first decisions, to building the site, to maintaining the site after creation. She covers factors to consider when making personal aesthetic choices such as fonts, tone, and imagery, as well as technical aspects like choosing a platform, optimizing images for the web, and improving website performance. If you have an idea or brand you want to promote with a website, this course will give you the tools to help you get up and running.

Industrial control systems cannot—unlike humans—see, hear, and monitor processes by themselves. Instead, they use industrial sensors to convert mechanical, magnetic, thermal, optical, and chemical variations into electric voltages and currents. In this course, Zahraa Khalil covers the most common types of industrial sensors used within the field of industrial automation. She looks at proximity, temperature, pressure, and level sensors, and explores the operating principles and common applications of each. If you’ve got the basics of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) programming down and want to see what you can do with industrial sensors, join Zahraa in this course.