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Video: My Top 5 Favorite Features in Adobe InDesign (2015 release): Dec 4, 2015; Chad Chelius, author of Adobe InDesign CC Learn by Video (2015 release), talks about his favorite features in the latest release of Adobe InDesign, including paragraph shading, converting a table cell to a graphic cell, and Creative Cloud libraries.

How to Be a Great Marketer in 64 Easy Steps: Dec 2, 2015; Being a marketer in today’s modern age is not easy, with the onslaught of digital and print messages consumers see daily. Drew Neisser, marketer and author of The CMO’s Periodic Table: A Renegade’s Guide to Marketing, introduces you to seven marketing mavens and shares their insights on a range of elements that nearly every aspiring marketer must consider.

10 New Studies About People That May Surprise Designers: Nov 30, 2015; Whatever you're designing, ultimately there's a person at the end of the product who's going to use it. How much do you really know about how people think and behave? Susan Weinschenk, author of 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, shares some of the new research in behavioral and brain science that may surprise you.

Aerial Videography Using Drones: Nov 26, 2015; Eric Cheng, the author of Aerial Photography and Videography Using Drones, discusses the details of aerial videography using drones, including image stabilization, using gimbals, camera settings, aerial video techniques, live aerial video streaming, post-processing and sharing, and the future of aerial videography.

The Best of Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Book Series: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me: Nov 23, 2015; In this excerpt from The Best of The Digital Photography Book Series: The step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pros'!, Scott Kelby shares five of the ten things he wishes someone had told him as a new photographer.

The Best of Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Book Series: Pro Tips for Getting Better Photos: Nov 19, 2015; Want to take better photos? Scott Kelby, author of The Best of The Digital Photography Book Series: The step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pros'!, shares his tips for improving your photos, whether you're brand new or a seasoned pro.

Adding Motion to a Static Shot in Adobe Photoshop Elements 14: Nov 17, 2015; In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 Classroom in a Book, learn how to add dynamic-looking motion to your photograph.

5 Easy Steps to Back Up Your Photos and Videos: Nov 16, 2015; If your Mac or its hard disk fails today, will your irreplaceable digital photos and videos survive? Jeff Carlson, author of Photos for OS X and iOS: Take, Edit, and Share Photos in the Apple Photography Ecosystem, outlines a photo backup strategy to protect your memories from technology failures.

Removing Distance Haze Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 14: Nov 12, 2015; In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 Classroom in a Book, learn how to remove distance haze from your photograph.

Flipped Textbooks: Engaging Student Learning by Design: Nov 11, 2015; Rose Gonnella, co-author of Design Fundamentals: Notes on Type, describes the thinking process behind the creation of the 'flipped' textbooks in the Design Fundamentals series, a new concept in book design.

Vector Basic Training: Getting to the Points: Nov 9, 2015; A Bézier curve or path is only as elegant, graceful, or accurate as the anchor points that control and shape it. To better control and edit anchor points, you first need to understand and recognize what qualifies as a good anchor point and path, a bad anchor point and path, and an ugly anchor point and path.

So Many Typefaces. So Little Time: Nov 5, 2015; Get a peek at the brilliant, wacky, inspiring pages from Notes on Type, and maybe learn something about typefaces, too.

Audio: Introduction to The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine: Nov 4, 2015; Author Chris Orwig introduces his book, The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, and talks about why the creative spark is a complex and unpredictable force.

Using Your Studio Like a Pro: Build It From Scratch, Then Take It Up a Notch.: Nov 2, 2015; Scott Kelby teaches you everything you need to know to build your own photography studio from scratch, including details on lighting, positioning, backgrounds, and tips on lighting subjects as diverse as large groups and athletes.

Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People: Peripheral Vision Determines where Central Vision Should Look: Oct 29, 2015; In this excerpt from 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk explains why you shouldn't base design decisions solely on eye-tracking studies, and why it would be a mistake to leave peripheral areas blank. Instead, include information that helps people decide where to look (with central vision) next.

The Creative Fight: Grit and Glory: Oct 27, 2015; In this chapter from The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, Chris Orwig explains that, like rock climbing, creativity is a subtle sport that’s easy to miss.

Organizing Media in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2015 release): Oct 22, 2015; Once you have some video and sound assets in your project, you’ll begin looking through your footage and adding clips to a sequence. Before you do, it’s well worth spending a little time organizing the assets you have. Maxim Jago shows you how in this excerpt from Adobe Premiere Pro CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release).

The Creative Fight: Nothing to Lose: Oct 20, 2015; The prospect of death can help us dream. In this chapter from The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine, Chris Orwig explores how our mortality can fuel our creativity.

Maximizing Image Detail in Lightroom or Camera Raw: Oct 19, 2015; In this excerpt from The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop, 2nd Edition, Jeff Schewe offers the most salient points when adjusting the Sharpening and Noise Reduction settings in Lightroom or Camera Raw.

Create Your Own Impulse Responses with Apple's Space Designer and Impulse Response Utility: Oct 15, 2015; Creative sound mixing can improve even the dullest recording. You're probably familiar with Space Designer's built-in impulse responses, but did you know you can create your own? David Dvorin, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro X Advanced Audio Production: Composing and Producing Professional Audio, shows how to add custom IRs that you can apply anytime, for any sort of sound design you have in mind.