Scifi Environment Concept art done at a high level of finish. Quality is consistent with what is produced in high end Art departments for the Film Industry.

There are countless books, websites, and courses that teach Microsoft Excel. However, true mastery requires practice. You have to apply what you've learned in order to make it stick. This series, with Excel MVP Oz du Soleil, provides weekly Excel challenges taken from Oz's experience helping clients with real-world problems. Each video begins with a challenge, such as inconsistent cell formatting, duplicate line items, or incomplete data. Pause the video and download the related exercise file to work out your own solution using the powerful features built into Excel. When you're ready, you can restart the video to see how Oz solves the challenge. In just a few minutes a week, you can learn the most popular and useful Excel formulas and functions, including VLOOKUP, flash fill, COUNTIFS, relative and absolute cell references, and PivotTables. Tune in every Friday for a new technique.

As a fledgeling artist or illustrator, the process to find your style can feel overwhelming, especially when you look at the work of established illustrators that feels like they must have been drawing that way since birth. The common advice that you just need to make a lot of art may leave you feeling like you are missing a piece of the puzzle.

Now that cinemagraphs are back in the mainstream, the challenge is to create more interesting, and intricate movements while maintaining the allure of a living photograph. In this session we’ll take a look at advanced masking techniques, multi-instance and time-remapped instances of source video, creating inter-changeable elements for customization, as well as seamlessly looping simulated textures and particles.

ASP.NET Core, the Microsoft web development framework, includes an optimized developer experience, better performing runtime, and cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux. In this course, Jess Chadwick introduces the basics to get you up and running with ASP.NET Core, and creating your own professional quality applications. He explores setup and installation, working with the ASP.NET Core framework, and the techniques you need to manage data, reuse code, construct web APIs, and secure your new applications. All of this is included along with industry-standard best practices such as dependency injection and the model-view-controller pattern for more modular code.

 
Learn about the most important security concerns when developing websites, and what you can do to keep your servers, software, and data safe from harm. Instructor Kevin Skoglund explains what motivates hackers and their most common methods of attacks, and then details the techniques and mindset needed to craft solutions for these web security challenges. Learn the eight fundamental principles that underlie all security efforts, the importance of filtering input and controlling output, and how to defend against the most common types of attack. This course is essential for developers who want to secure their websites, and for anyone else who wants to learn more about web security.

A Beginner's Guide to Gouache

Video: .MP4, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 48kHz, 2ch | Duration: 31m

Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Size: 580 MB

How To Turn Bad Art Into Winners! Acrylic And Mixed Media Class For Intermediate Artists

Video: .MP4, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 48kHz, 2ch | Duration: 20m

Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Size: 380 MB

Join Lola in the creative course as she demonstrates how she creates her signature maternity portraits using simple lighting set ups. You will learn how to easily transition from a soft to a more dramatic look while creating a beautiful and diverse gallery for your client.

Lynda - Photo Gear Weekly (Updated 5/2/2019)

English | 6hr 30m | Video: 720p | Subtitles

Get your gear on! Join photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey every Friday for insights on camera gear of all kinds. In Photo Gear Weekly, Tim shares tips for mastering your camera's advanced features, recommends accessories that will streamline your shooting and expand your creative options, and spotlights hot gear—new and vintage alike—that you'll want to know about.

In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.

Watercolor on Journals - it’s easy, affordable and effective!

Video: .MP4, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44kHz, 2ch | Duration: 40m

Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Size: 455 MB

Watercolor Special Effects using Household Supplies

Video: .MP4, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 48kHz, 2ch | Duration: 1h

Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Size: 1,12 GB

Lynda - Social Media Video Strategy: Weekly Bites

English | 51m | Video: 720p | Subtitles

In the social media sphere, videos offer professionals a uniquely powerful way to grab attention, define their brand, and capture genuine human emotion in the process. Looking to create your own video content for social media? In this weekly series, Ashley Kennedy shows you how to get started. Ashley steps through how to understand your audience, craft compelling content, and post it at the right time (and on the right platforms). Discover how to properly use video in content marketing, determine the right length for your videos, repurpose content, and more. Tune in every Thursday for a new tip.