lyndacom
Lynda.com provides training to more than 2 million people, helping individuals as well as university, corporate, and government members learn what they need to succeed.
Courses for every skill level cover more than 140 specialties in these subjects:
- 3D + Animation
- Audio
- Business
- Design
- Developer
- Photography
- Video
- Web
Learn anytime, anywhere. The entire library is available through our website, mobile site, and our free iPhone and iPad app.
Efficient, focused learning. Make the most of your online learning with these tools:
- earn and share certificates of completion
- track your progress with course history
- organize and prioritize with queue and bookmarks
- find answers fast with searchable transcripts
- practice while you learn with downloadable project files
- closed captioning
Subscription Information
| Monthly | Annual |
| Popular & affordable | $239.88/year |
| $24.99/month | $19.99/month |
|
No long-term commitment Over 104,000 tutorials Anytime access |
Save $50 per year Over 104,000 tutorials Anytime access |
|
|
|
|
Monthly Premium |
Annual Premium |
| Affordable premium plan | $359.88/year |
| $34.99/month | $29.99/month |
|
Includes exercise files No long-term commitment Anytime access |
Includes exercise files Over 104,000 tutorials Anytime access |
|
|
|
Course List
This installment of Start with a Theme shows how to set up a video blog using WordPress and three different free themes that result in three different looks for your site. Series author Morten Rand-Hendriksen explains how to get up and running quickly with Twenty Twelve, Origami, and Sundance, and reviews the benefits and drawbacks of all three themes as they apply to video content in particular. Learn how to add video from services such as YouTube and Vimeo, enhance the visibility of your posts, add a video slider, and more.
Add to course comparison | | View your course lists
Switching from Windows to the Mac focuses on the similarities and differences between the two operating systems, highlighting the new terminology and interface that can initially be mystifying for first-time Mac owners. Author David Rivers explores not only the software—Mac OS X Lion and its bundled applications—but also important hardware subjects, like understanding keyboard and mouse differences, interacting with gestures, and connecting to printers and cameras. The course also covers transferring files and mail from a Windows computer to a Mac, and installing and working with applications. Along the way, David shares a few of his favorite free apps and tips for adjusting the system preferences, so you can get the most out of your Mac experience.
Add to course comparison | | View your course lists
Realistic and compelling textures bring video games to life. Learn to create textures and add color, reflectivity, and other surface detail to your games with Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, and Adobe Photoshop. Author Adam Crespi shares techniques ranging from painting with photo references to modeling and rendering high-polygon objects for baking textures. His workflow places an emphasis on optimizing textures for tiling and reuse, both as standalone textures and as part of a texture sheet used on multiple objects.
Add to course comparison | | View your course lists
Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you the company, market, and customer focus that strategic leaders employ to make business decisions and anticipate new trends. This course shows you how to make crucial and insightful connections between your company's needs and future and those of the market you operate in and the customers you serve. Discover how you can identify trends, gather and address customer feedback, and proactively deliver what your company needs for competitive advantage.
Add to course comparison | | View your course lists
Effective time management is an indispensible skill. In Time Management Fundamentals, Dave Crenshaw explains how to sensibly allocate time in order to achieve greater productivity. Starting with an exploration of productivity styles, Dave details a set of principles for staying organized, consolidating the workspace, keeping a clear mind, and developing a time budget. Also covered are techniques for managing a full inbox, processing email, and reserving time for the most important activities. Exercise files accompany the course.
Add to course comparison | | View your course listsIn this course, author Rafael Hernandez creates native iOS and Android applications from a single codebase with the open-source Appcelerator Titanium platform. The course explains the difference between browser-based JavaScript and Titanium JavaScript, shows how to create a basic application, and demonstrates building buttons, sliders, switches, and pickers. The course also covers creating tables, implementing maps, providing feedback to users, incorporating multimedia, detecting gestures, and preparing finished apps for distribution.
Add to course comparison | | View your course listsIn this course, author Maria Langer explains how to use Twitter, the social network for sharing short bites of information instantly. The course walks through building and customizing an individual profile, reading and sending Twitter updates (called tweets), and building a network of followers. The training also describes how to get the most out of Twitter by following trending topics, configuring privacy settings, establishing a business presence, and tapping into third-party resources that make it easier to follow, send, and schedule tweets.
Add to course comparison | | View your course listsJoin author Anne-Marie Concepción as she shows you how to leverage the power of tweeting for business promotion and customer engagement. This course reviews the basics of tweeting for business and shares smart ways to set up an account that reflects your brand. It explains how to tweet strategically in order to engage customers and attract followers. Anne-Marie also offers suggestions for creating a richer Twitter experience, managing your feed and activity using third-party apps and utilities, and integrating Twitter with other marketing endeavors.
Add to course comparison | | View your course listsLearn how to choose fonts for a web site and create beautiful, legible type. Author Laura Franz shares how to create designs that maximize readability (and keep visitors on the page) by paying attention to details in size, line-height, line length, alignment, color, vertical space, and more. Laura also demonstrates how to incorporate web fonts, style type with CSS, and pick fonts that work well together.
Add to course comparison | | View your course listsTake an in-depth look at nCloth, the Maya toolkit for simulating high-resolution mesh cloth for 3D characters and animations. Author Aaron F. Ross explains the roles played by the various "actors" in an nCloth simulation, including the nucleus solver, nCloth objects, passive colliders, and nConstraints. The course begins with basic simulations such as flags and ropes, then progresses to building a simple garment, until finally integrating animation and special effects like falling leaves and tearing cloth. Aaron also covers performance optimization techniques such as nCloth and nucleus solver settings, proxy objects, collision layers, the Wrap deformer, and more.
Add to course comparison | | View your course lists