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The online marketing world is a gold rush.  One thing always stays the same, in any gold rush, boom, bubble, secular ascent, whatever you want to call it, there comes a point where an inordinate amount of money begins flowing towards those selling the shovels, no matter if the diggers are getting rich or not. Copywriters are selling shovels. We will teach you how to brand yourself into high demand. We turn down most job offers and you will too! It does not matter if you are brand new or a seasoned writer.

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Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is an affordable yet powerful graphics program. With automatic photo fixes or precision editing controls for fine-tuning, both novice and professional alike can take charge of this application. Create and work with bitmapped or scalable vector graphics and use "life like" art media tools, effects and filters as well. In this tutorial, VTC author Robert Correll, teaches the essentials, starting with the interface, tool sets, palettes and organizer before moving on to demonstrate more advanced drawing and painting techniques, photo retouching, special effects, masks, scripting and more.
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Painter 11 continues to blur the line between traditional and digital painting. From the RealBristle Painting System, which simulates real brushes, to the new Hard Media Controls and Dry Media which replicates markers, pencil and chalk, Painter gives you full control over your digital creativity. From oils, to watercolor, to pastels and even animation, Painter 11 handles them all with style. Join professional illustrator / television art director Dwayne Ferguson as he takes you on an in-depth look at Corel Painter 11. Work files are included.
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Corel Painter 12 is a completely revolutionary update for the popular natural media emulator. Awesome new features, massive computing power improvements, and a completely redesigned user interface make this version a must have for anybody serious about producing artwork on a computer. Taught by longtime illustrator and fine artist Jason Maranto, this VTC course is designed to quickly familiarize you with the core features of this powerful application. Focusing on all the main tools and functions with an in-depth but easy-to-follow style, this course will help you to master Painter and create with confidence like never before.
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Corel Painter 12 is a completely revolutionary update for the popular natural media emulator. Awesome new features, massive computing power improvements, and a completely redesigned user interface make this version a must have for anybody serious about producing artwork on a computer. Taught by longtime illustrator and fine artist Jason Maranto, this Corel Painter 12 Advanced course is designed to quickly take your understanding of this powerful application to a higher level. Focusing heavily on the highly customizable nature of Painter while using an in-depth but easy-to-follow style, this VTC course will help you to master Painter and create with confidence like never before.
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Delve headlong into Corel Graphic Suite X4 and discover the possibilities! VTC author, Geoff Blake, begins by giving you a foundational understanding of raster and vector graphics and teaching you techniques for navigating through the many options provided by the CorelDraw interface. He will then guide you through using shapes, custom objects, fills, fill effects, and more. Geoff then demonstrates key techniques for achieving amazing effects and building flexible files using layers, multiple pages, and threaded text frames. Finally, you will learn how to optimize your work for output both online and in print.
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This step-by-step project demonstrates how to create an interactive homepage marquee using Adobe Edge Animate, a tool for creating smooth motion and transitions for multiple screen sizes, and a combination of HTML5, CSS, and a little custom jQuery. Author Chris Converse shows how to build the buttons, captions, and navigation elements; detect rollovers and other interactions; animate the artwork and effects; and ensure your design works equally well with mobile and tablet layouts.

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In this course, author Chris Converse shows how to implement and customize an interactive rotating carousel animation with jQuery. The course covers preparing the carousel images and captions, creating the carousel containers with HTML and CSS, and activating the carousel with JavaScript. The course also explains how to add images to the carousel container, set the caption based on the image in focus, and add animated transitions between captions.

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Learn how to implement and customize an interactive rotating carousel animation with jQuery and Adobe Dreamweaver. Author Chris Converse covers preparing the carousel images and captions, creating the carousel containers with HTML and CSS, and activating the carousel with JavaScript. The course also explains how to add images to the carousel container, set the caption based on the image in focus, and add animated transitions between captions.

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A tabbed panel interface is a classic feature to incorporate in your website design, but they're usually static elements. This course shows how to build a dynamic sliding tabbed panel from scratch using a combination of HTML, CSS, and jQuery. Author Chris Converse leads you through the process from start to finish, from building the containers to styling the text, tab, and panels, and adding click events to make the tabs interactive. He also shows how to incorporate progressive enhancement techniques, so visitors who don't have JavaScript, for example, can still access the content.

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