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360 Degree Feedback Assessment Complete 360 Feedback Solutions Our web-based leadership assessment makes creating and launching online 360 surveys easy and effective. We provide a professional assessment service that ensures your 360 process is a powerful leadership development tool in your organization. We offer customized surveys aligned with your companya s leadership competencies, for one participant or thousands.  more...

Business Card Design Make a great first impression with your business card. A well-designed business card is an effective selling tool for highlighting the nature and forte of your business. Explore the basics of business card design and get inspired by illustrations of effective use of colors, fonts, designs, and borders.  more...

The Dinkum Oil on Aussie Expressions Do you need to know the meaning of expressions like "get the dinkum oil" in order to improve your written communication with your Australian associates? Learn the meaning and origin of a multitude of Australian idioms through entertaining and interactive exercises. Giving many examples, this tutorial teaches you what various common Australian expressions mean, when it is appropriate to use them,  more...

powerpoint design In this 6-lesson hands-on course, you'll learn PowerPoint training techniques for designing effective presentations: ones that are clean, clear, visually appealing, and engaging in their delivery of content. You'll learn how professional presentation designers develop custom slideshows with impact and edge, avoiding common design pitfalls. The course provides a thorough grounding in PowerPoint's  more...

photoshop basics Adobe Photoshop is the premiere image manipulation tool for both print and the Web. If you are planning on working with images in any way, you need to know it. Learn the basics of Photoshop in this thorough six-lesson beginner help course. You will learn how to select, enhance, distort, color, scale and manipulate scanned images and artwork or create them from scratch. Even if you just took  more...

photoshop advanced How well do you know Adobe Photoshop, the pro designer's tool of choice? If you've mastered the basics of Photoshop but you're still hungry for more, this course is for you. Transcend your current skillset to learn advanced illustration effects, 3D effects, photo-realistic painting, professional montage and color correction, and high-impact presentation methods. An extreme Photoshop expert  more...

photo retouching It doesn't matter how great a photographer you are nearly every photograph can benefit from retouching, whether it's to correct subtle color problems or make major changes to the subject or background. In this 3-lesson course, you'll learn how to turn good photographs into showstoppers. Using Photoshop's tools and filters, you'll learn to make seamless changes, realistically enhancing your  more...

Digital Arts Foundation Certificate The Digital Arts Certificate program focuses on developing technical skill and creative artistry in digital photography and imaging. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or equivalent digital imaging and vector drawing tools. Course projects include digital art studies, retouching, compositing, illustration, identity design, color matching and composition  more...

Web Design Foundation Certificate Program Sessions web design school offers a Web Design Certificate Program focuses on developing the visual graphic and information design skills required to create compelling Web sites. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, or equivalent software tools. Course projects include critique, digital imaging, color, typography, and composition, Web  more...

Graphic Design Masters Certificate The Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications for Adobe Photoshop  more...

Graphic Design Advanced Certificate The Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, design training, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications  more...

Graphic Design Foundation Certificate The Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications for Adobe Photoshop  more...

Sony Vegas 6 Sony Vegas 6 is a comprehensive video and production system that features native real-time SD, DV, and HDV editing. Vegas doesn't care what format your video or audio is in. If you can capture it or record it, you can place it on the timeline and Vegas will take care of the rest. Add unrivaled audio tools, a sensible, visual approach to digital production, outrageous power and lightning speed, and  more...

Adobe Photoshop Advanced Artistry II Adobe Photoshop Advanced Artistry II, is a course designed for professional designers and photographers who use Adobe Photoshop CS2. The course is designed to showcase cutting-edge creative techniques in many artistic disciplines such as digital imaging, color correction and manipulation, photo retouching, advanced production techniques and other popular graphic effects. This practical  more...

Adobe Photoshop Advanced Artistry Virtual Training Company author Jayse Hansen takes users through advanced aspects of Adobe Photoshop as it relates to fine art, commercial art, etc. He teaches users new advanced retouching and tone enhancement techniques. Learn subtle techniques for color correction, as well as more dramatic techniques for creating illusions intended to fool the eye. Learn to manipulate tone and create metal,  more...

Corel Painter 8 Corel Painter 8 is a natural media emulation tool. It allows users to create digital images and artwork that appear to be created with traditional sketch and painting tools. Painter 8 has over 400 brushes and 30 mediums to work with. The user can also create their own brushes. Experiment with life-like media such as Digital Water Color or create sketches from photographs. It's no wonder Painter is  more...

Adobe Photoshop CS Create the highest quality images more efficiently than ever before with this powerful upgrade from Photoshop 7.0. Adobe Photoshop CS is the industry standard for image editing. It is widely used for web design, pre-press production, fine art, and digital photography. Andrew Hathaway, veteran VTC Author and Adobe Certified Expert, trains from the basics, with the assumption that user has not  more...

Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Phil Hawkins has been a landscape Photographer in Yosemite National Park for twenty-two years and an avid user of Photoshop for the last seven years. In this tutorial, "Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration - Image Acquisition and Retouching", he will begin by teaching photography concepts: image color, film grain, tonal range and cropping techniques, will be covered. Next, he will move into  more...

Dynamic HTML DHTML Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is an umberella term for a combination of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and a client side scripting language such as Javascript, or VBScript. DHTML allows developers to create engaging web sites with content that can move, change shape, size, color, or otherwise react to user actions without requiring a trip to the web server, or browser plug-in. VTC author, Darcey Spears, shows users  more...

AutoCAD 2005 for Architects AutoCAD 2005 for Architects builds upon the previous title, AutoCAD 2004 for Architects. It is intended for intermediate to advanced users who want to take full advantage of AutoCAD in an architectural environment. This tutorial will guide the user to more advanced 2D features of AutoCAD and basic 3D concepts. VTC author, Ivanhoe Tejeda, begins the tutorial by creating working drawings for a  more...

Apple Final Cut Pro 5 An industry standard, Final Cut Pro 5 delivers powerful and precise editing tools that work with virtually any format, from DV and native HDV to fully uncompressed HD. With multicam editing tools, advanced color correction and intuitive audio mixing, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before. Whether you are editing a home video, or the next film that  more...

Adobe Photoshop 7 As Virtual Training Company Adobe-certified trainer Andrew Hathaway claims in this tutorial, Photoshop 7 is "the mothership of all imaging needs." You can create art, paint, edit images, create Web site content, and add special effects to images. Some of the exciting features new to Photoshop 7 allow you to preview all of your images with File Browser, save presets for your workspace, spell check  more...

Adobe InDesign 2 0 InDesign 2.0, Adobe's exciting new page layout application, shares the language of professional designers, delivering unparalleled creative freedom, productivity, and precision for designing superb pages. It works seamlessly with Adobe's PhotoShop and Illustrator applications, providing a single integrated system that does not interrupt your creative process. Among some of the new features are  more...

Adobe ImageReady 7 Adobe ImageReady 7 is a wonderful web production tool that allows you to create animation, image maps, web banners and backgrounds, and web layouts, and slice up and optimize graphics for faster downloading, as well as many exciting new features. In this Virtual Training Company tutorial, Mario Leone will guide you through 9 hours of exciting instruction as he helps you learn how to make  more...

ICC Color Management in Photoshop ICC (International Color Consortium) refers to a set of universal protocols adopted by several companies to ensure that color is described and interpreted accurately and consistently. These standards are supported by major applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and InDesign, as well as monitors, scanners, digital cameras and other hardware devices sharing the same tool set. In  more...

Scanning and PrePress Donny O'Quinn tackles important input and output problems in over six hours of QuickTime movies. Virtual Training Company's Scanning and Prepress training title teaches you how to use PhotoShop and other applications to get the most out of scanning and prepress techniques used by prepress professionals. Donny will take your hand and lead you through scanning line art, halftone and color images,  more...

Adobe Photoshop Special FX Adobe Photoshop is the world-standard image-editing solution for print and the web. Virtual Training Company's Photoshop Special F/X tutorial is targeted at the intermediate to advanced user with a minimum of 60 hours experience, who has taken a 16-hour class, or, ideally, someone who has viewed roughly 70% of the VTC Photoshop tutorial (ISBN # 1930519206). Expert author Rita Amladi teaches over 9  more...

Adobe Photoshop 6 for Photographers Virtual Training Company's Photoshop 6 for Photographers tutorial, instructed by professional photographer Andrew Hathaway, is aimed at those who have a basic knowledge of and some experience with Photoshop 6 and a general understanding of photography. This tutorial builds on the lessons taught in VTC's Photoshop 6 tutorial (isbn#1930519206) and focuses on using Photoshop as a darkroom tool and a  more...

Adobe Photoshop 6 Adobe Photoshop 6.0 is the world standard image editing solution. It is widely used for web design, prepress production, fine art, and digital photography as well. Virtual Training Company's tutorial offers an incredible thirteen hours of training. Author Andrew Hathaway begins training with the assumption that users have never worked with Photoshop or any other digital image editor. He explains  more...

Adobe PageMaker 6 5 Advanced Adobe PageMaker was one of the first page layout applications, and is still heavily used in many corporate production environments, as well as some studios and magazines. If you are looking for employment within corporate desktop publishing departments, learning PageMaker is a must. In Virtual Training Company's PageMaker 6.5 Advanced tutorial, author Diane Presler begins by making you comfortable  more...

Fundamentals of Paint Shop Pro 7 The Fundamentals of Paint Shop Pro 7 course is meant for users who want to create and modify images in Paint Shop Pro 7. It explains how to add text, apply basic and special effects, and use colors and layers in images. Additionally, this course teaches users to create images using screen captures and picture tubes, and create animations using Animation Shop. After completing this course, users  more...

Fundamentals of Photoshop 5.5 The Fundamentals of Photoshop 5.5 WBT is the first course in the Photoshop 5.5 curriculum. It acquaints the students with the features of Photoshop 5.5. It also enables students to create images and use Photoshop tools to create images. List the features of Photoshop 5.5 Create an image in Photoshop Save an image in valid formats List the commonly used tools in the Standards toolbar List the  more...

Advanced Features of PhotoShop 5.5 The Advanced Features of Photoshop 5.5 WBT is the second course in the Photoshop 5.5 curriculum. It acquaints the students with the capabilities of Photoshop. It also enables students to prepare images for Web pages and other applications. After completing this course, the student will be able to: Perform different operations on PhotoShop images Convert an image to different modes Convert an  more...

Fundamentals of Photoshop 6.0 The Fundamentals of Photoshop 6.0 WBT is the first course in the Photoshop 6.0 curriculum. This course acquaints users with the features of Photoshop 6.0. Additionally, this course enables users to create and modify images using various Photoshop tools. After completing this course, the user will be able to: List the features of Photoshop 6.0 Set preferences for the Photoshop 6.0 interface  more...

Advanced Features of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 The Advanced Features of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 WBT is the second course in the Photoshop 6.0 curriculum. This course enables the users to edit images, apply various color modes, and make different tonal and color adjustments in the images. Additionally, it teaches the users to use different filters to produce artistic and special effects on an image and eliminate image flaws. After completing this  more...

Fundamentals of PowerPoint 2000 The Fundamentals of PowerPoint 2000 WBT is the first course in the PowerPoint 2000 curriculum. It familiarizes students with the capabilities of PowerPoint 2000 and enables them to create and format simple PowerPoint presentations. After completing this course, the student will be able to: List the features of PowerPoint 2000 Identify the components of the PowerPoint window Use the PowerPoint  more...

Web Design Basics The Web Design Basics WBT is meant for Web site designers who want to understand the basics of creating professional Web pages. The course describes the basics required for Web design, such as planning of sites, pages, and content. In content designing, it describes the issues involved in creating well-written Web pages, and effective graphics. It also describes other design issues apart from site  more...

Enhancing Images using Picture It! Photo 2002 The Enhancing Images using Picture It! Photo 2002 course is the third course in the Works Suite 2002 curriculum. This course familiarizes users with the features and interface of Picture It! Photo 2002. It also teaches users how to create projects using templates and add objects to the projects. Additionally, the course teaches users how to modify a picture and its objects and apply various  more...

Touching Up Digital Photos by Using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 The Touching Up Digital Photos by Using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 is the first course in the TDA curriculum. It introduces the users to edit digital photos by using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0. It enables them to rotate and crop photos, adjust the color, lighting, and sharpness in photos, remove red eye from the photos, and convert the photo to sepia tone or black and white. It also enables them to  more...

Using HTML The Using HTML course is the third course in the CIW Foundations curriculum. The CIW Foundations curriculum prepares the users for the CIW Foundations Certification Exam. This course acquaints the user with the fundaments of HTML and Web page development. The course explains the concepts involved in developing HTML pages, and adding text and graphics in Web pages. It also teaches users how to make  more...

Working with Advanced Features of Director 8 The Working with Advanced Features of Director 8 WBT is meant for end users and describes the various advanced features Director 8, and how to use them to create movies. Additionally, the course describes how to integrate a Flash movie with a Director movie, play movies on the Internet, and package movies for distribution. After completing this course, the student will be able to: Import sound  more...

Fundamentals of Flash 4.0 The Fundamentals of Flash 4.0 WBT is the first course in the Working with Flash curriculum. This course is meant for Web site designers and aims to teach users about how to use text and images in Flash 4. This course also describes how to use various tools, such as color and drawing, and how to create animations and apply tweening to animations. It will also enable users to build interactive  more...

HTML 4 and Cascading Style Sheets HTML and CSS WBT is designed to acquaint users with the features of HTML 4 and enable them to apply styles to Web pages. This course helps the users understand various page layout properties that can be applied to the Web pages using style sheets. After completing this course, the user will be able to: List the enhanced features of HTML 4 Identify the components of HTML 4 Define style sheets  more...

Managing Teleworkers An Online Course for Employers Washington State University Home  more...

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP) Advanced This course will enable students to create better business presentations using the advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. Readers will learn how to use templates, the Slide Master and color schemes to create presentation designs and to incorporate tables, graphs, organization charts and transitions into slide shows. Readers will also learn how to create action buttons, add hyperlinks and  more...

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 Introduction This training course aims to give you the skills you need to create professional looking quality graphics using MS PhotoDraw 2000. Readers will learn how to work with picture files and templates, compose pictures, retouch photographs, work with text, color and special effects, and print out their work.  more...

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP) Advanced This course will enable students to create better business presentations using the advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. Readers will learn how to use templates, the Slide Master and color schemes to create presentation designs and to incorporate tables, graphs, organization charts and transitions into slide shows. Readers will also learn how to create action buttons, add hyperlinks and  more...

3D Modeling Using Form_Z Course Did you marvel at the animation in Toy Story and wonder just how they did it? Or are you a computer game enthusiast, intrigued by virtual reality? Or an architect, interior designer, or planner looking for a way to digitize your designs? Maybe you're just on the lookout for new design techniques to spice up your graphic or Web design portfolio. Whatever the case, this fun, project-based course  more...

Advanced Graphic Design Course ...sign that demands a creative, playful approach. LESSON 4 Color and Composition Every graphic designer's skillset should include a mastery of color and composition. Lesson Four focuses on proportion, balance, and perspective, looking at examples of geometrical composition that have stood the test of time and are considered design classics. Architects and engineers utilize geometry throughout  more...

Advanced Logo Design What's in a name? Everything, if you're a logo designer. An effective logo represents much more than a company, product, or service. In the words of the late Paul Rand, logos should be like flags: universal, timeless, and durable. In this 6-lesson course, you'll build your portfolio by tackling a series of challenging logo and branding design projects. Lessons will cover such important logo  more...

Advanced Typography Course Typography, technology, and culture are intertwined. The letterform (in the right hands) has the power to communicate meaning and mood through its quirks and beauty, its history and diversity. In this 6-lesson course, you'll learn advanced concepts in typography, building your portfolio through hands-on projects. You'll experiment with type fusion, learn the details of text layout and  more...

Advertising Design Course Ready to put on your Madison Advenue shoes? Buckle up, because there's no better time to become an ad designer. In this 6-lesson course, you'll learn the principles of the advertising design from both a creative and a business perspective. Case studies from print, Web, and TV showcase advertising concepts at work: persuasion, color psychology and composition, copywriting and typography, and brand  more...

After Effects I Course Adobe After Effects is a powerful application used to create motion graphics and visual effects for film and video. After Effects is used in a variety of contexts, including broadcast graphics, music videos, feature films, video rotoscoping, corporate presentations, and conferences. In this 6-lesson training course, you'll study with a leading animator and learn how to use After Effects to create  more...

Color Correction Course ...s, and creating target-based correction curves. LESSON 4 Color Image Evaluation Now it's time for the nitty-gritty of colors-identifying diffuse and specular highlights, color casts, midtones, and shadows. Photoshop Levels histograms are explored in detail to help you evaluate these key image components. With professional evaluation techniques, you'll know where your images need to be  more...

Color Theory Course Color is probably the most relative medium in art. Each color has a specific property, whether it's the particular wavelength in optical perception, the molecular construction of pigments or an RGB value for a monitor. Though each of those properties may be fixed, the expression and perception of a color may change within different contexts. Understanding color requires that you understand its  more...

css essentials Tired of coding HTML, one tag at a time? Then consider CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technology that allows the Web designer precise control over almost every aspect of page's design and layout. In this practical 3-lesson course, you'll learn how CSS works to give you fast and easy control over such page elements as: fonts, lists, color, backgrounds, borders, relative positioning, even  more...

design for non-designers Need to think like a designer? This course gives you a primer on the basic elements of design: typography, images, color, and layout. Through a series of real-life case studies, you'll go inside the design process and learn how to evaluate designs using such time-honored principles as consistency and alignment. Through interaction with the instructor and other students, you'll with develop your  more...

digital video editing I Ready to make digital videos? Editing film and video is about movement, choreography, the play of light, color, and graphics. And beyond all that, it's all about psychology. In this 6-lesson course, you'll learn the art and craft of editing videos from two award-winning filmmakers. The course explores techniques that can be applied in a range of non-linear editing programs, including Avid, Final  more...

Avid Xpress Pro 4 0 Loaded with features and functionality, Avid Xpress Pro software lets users edit DV, mix resolutions in the timeline, and save space using the new 15:1s offline resolution. Editors can access 24 video and 24 audio tracks with unlimited layers, apply 2D and 3D OpenGL-based effects, edit true 23.976 media, trim and edit using JKL keys, and customize their workspaces. Built-in software "experts" such  more...