Free IT Ebooks and Video Training Download: 10/19/09

Oct 19, 2009

Digital Portraiture Lighting – Level 2

DVD-RIP, Experience Level: INTERMEDIATE FOR PROFESSIONALS / ADVANCED FOR NON-PROS, Running Time: 57 min
Whether your creating a great looking classic portrait for display on someone’s mantle, or using high key to capture the personality of an 8 year old, lighting is everything.

Using an elegant classic portrait set up, a “power couple” portrait, a business-like headshot, and a fun high key set up for kids, world class photographer Will Crockett shows you every step on how to choose, use, and not abuse your light quality for excellence in digital portraiture with plenty of example photos and pro level tips along the way.
Learn 5 pro lighting portrait set ups that you can use right away.
There’s no better way to learn lighting than to see every component setup, placed carefully, then added into the shot. This video shows you every step in clear and easy-to-understand detail presented by a skilled photographer and teacher.

Chapter ONE: Introduction
Lighting can smooth out the contrast, highlight detail, and exposure control differences between shooting negative film and shooting digital files.

Chapter TWO: Classic Portrait Light for Digital
Light modifier selection, lighting placement, power settings and metering to create an elegant portrait using four strobes. Hairlight options are also discussed.

Chapter THREE: Power Couple Lighting
Mainlight “feathering” , the “double kicker”and Will’s PowerFill techniques make this snappy, two subject blend of classic and contemporary lighting a real client pleaser. See every step of how to light this “money” shot.

Chapter FOUR: The Power Portrait Setup – Female
Part portrait, part corporate headshot – Will shows you all the tricks in this shot setup including giving your client options in background selection.

Chapter FIVE: The Power Portrait Setup – Male
You need to light men differently than women, this chapter shows you how and why. Light make up techniques for shine reduction is also discussed.

Chapter SIX: Fun Kids High Key
Lighting high key can be a challenge, but here’s Will’s simple and easy approach to capturing dynamic digital high key images of kids.
Image quality considerations like what type of background paper, lighting and metering the background, and battling lens flare are discussed.

Digital Portraiture Basics – Level 1

This 36 minute DVD is aimed at the serious hobbyist through professional photographer looking for easy to understand fact-based info on entering the world of digital capture portraiture.

If you’re looking for a super solid foundation to build your digital portrait work on, this is it!
In this DVD, we will be showing you the basics of portrait lighting ranging from types of strobe units and types of light modifiers that work best in the digital world, to proper light placement and a great basic portrait lighting setup you can use to get really great looking digital portraits – right away. We take a “step-by-step” approach by working with one light at a time, then combining two lights, three and finally blending all 4 traditional lights together in one perfectly lit and exposed portrait.
This title will make your photo lighting smooth and easy with solid info and plenty of example images from one of the top photographers and best photo educators in the industry

Chapter 1 – INTRO:
A brief look at what’s ahead and why this info is so vital to creating high quality digital portraits.

Chapter 2- Light Sources:
Which types of light sources work best for digital portrature?
We take a look how strobe systems as well as available light fits into the digital picture.

Chapter 3- Light Modifiers:
Get the digital results you want by analyzing example images created using these types of modifiers:
-Parabolic Bowl Relflectors.
-Bounce Panels.
-Umbrellas.
-Softboxes.
-Octabanks and BeautyBowls.

Chapter 4- The Basic Portrait Setup:
Defining the 4-light classic portrait setup components – Main, Fill, Hairlight and Background light.

Chapter 5- Main Lights:
Discover the sometimes subtle differences that various main lights present to your digital main lighting. Plenty of example images here to help you choose the right light for your work.

Chapter 6- Fill Lights:
Is it a good idea to use a fill card as a main light in the digital world? Nope. Gain control over your fill light type, placement, and value in this chapter. The “Lighting ratio” between the main and fill are also covered here.

Chapter 7- Hairlights:
Should you use a parabolic or a softer light modifier for your hairlight? How bright should it be set to? Hard and soft hairlights lights explored with great examples.

Chapter 8- Background lights:
Help to separate your subject from the background with the right light, and how to control the light using parabolics and grid spots.

Chapter 9- Light Values and Proper Exposure:
Digital capture is VERY picky about exposure, and it has a tough time maintaining highlight detail. In this chapter, you will learn about controlling your digital light values and proper exposure techniques from a world-class master of lighting. From judging proper shadow, midtone, and highlight values to how to meter for proper exposure, you will see “first hand” how to do it yourself.

PLUS- 6 PowerUser Secrets on Digital Portraiture:
These 6 segments are found in various spots in this video, and reveal a few tips on:
-Selecting strobe systrms for digital.
-Fill cards.
-Grid Spots.
-The “I’ll just fix it Photoshop” trap.
and more!

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6463A Visual Studio 2008- ASP.NET 3.5

About this Course

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create a fully functional Web application by using ASP.NET 3.5.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for application developers who know how to create applications in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Explain how to create dynamic Web pages by using ASP.NET.
Manage state, handle requests, and improve accessibility by using the features of ASP.NET.
Configure an ASP.NET application by using .config files
Create a user interface on an ASP.NET page by using standard Web server controls.
Create a user control and a custom server control and add them to an ASP.NET page.
Access and manipulate data from different sources by using ADO.NET 3.5.
Access and manipulate data from Windows Communication Foundation services or Web services.
Present data to the user by placing data-bound controls on an ASP.NET page.
Improve page responsiveness by using the ASP.NET AJAX controls.
Interact with the user, access services, and access the AJAX client-side library by using client scripts.
Find and eliminate bugs in an ASP.NET application.
Deploy an ASP.NET application to a production Web server.
Write pages that adapt to the capabilities of mobile devices.
Utilize controls that adapt to the capabilities of mobile devices.

Home: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/course.aspx?ID=6463A&locale=en-us
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6464A Visual Studio 2008- ADO.NET 3.5

About this CourseThis two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to access and modify data by using ADO.NET 3.5.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for application developers who know how to create applications in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe the purpose and structure of ADO.NET 3.5.
Explain the role of data providers in ADO.NET 3.5.
List the technologies and techniques available for managing data with ADO.NET 3.5.
Insert, update, and delete data by using ADO.NET Command objects.
Implement transactions to control data integrity and concurrency.
Define and use a DataSet for retrieving data.
Use a DataSet to update a database.
Use a DataSet as a local cache in an occasionally connected environment.
Define LINQ queries for selecting data from an in-memory data structure.
Use LINQ to SQL to query data in a database.
Use LINQ to SQL to modify data and save changes to the database.
Explain how to use the ADO.NET Entity Framework to map a database schema to a logical business model.
Use the ADO.NET Entity Framework to query and manage data.
Explain how Synchronization Services supports occasionally-connected solutions.
Use Synchronization Services to download data from a SQL Server database.
Use Synchronization Services to upload data to a SQL Server database.

Home: www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/syllabi/6464aprelim.mspx
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SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

Deliver intelligence where users want it

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Integrate

Integrate data from any data source. Build, manage and deploy scalable integration solutions or populate your data warehouse and build a holistic view of your business.
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Report

Report on enterprise-wide data. Create, manage, and deliver server-based reports with interactive views that provide valuable insights into here business is heading.
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Analyze

Analyze results. Provide a consolidated view across all business dimensions as the foundation for all relational, multidimensional, and predictive analysis, enabling deep insight into the key drivers impacting businesses today.

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Visual Studio 2008 curriculum guide for MCTs

This document is intended for Microsoft Certified Partners for Learning Solutions
and Microsoft Certified Trainers. It provides detailed audience and product
information for the Official Microsoft Learning Products for Visual Studio 2008.
This includes Microsoft Official Courses, Microsoft Official Distance Learning, and
Microsoft Certification Exams for Visual Studio 2008.

Exams are required to earn each of the MCTS Certifications.

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CBT Nuggets Cisco CCVP Exam-Pack: 642-444 CIPT

In this series, you’ll learn from the best — Jeremy Cioara. We get comment after comment about how good Jeremy is at breaking down a tough concept like VoIP into easy to understand — and, more importantly, easy to apply — nuggets of how-to information.

You’ll learn all about using CallManager 4.x — Cisco’s popular CallManager solution for Microsoft Windows. You’ll learn the fundamentals of Cisco IP Telephony, including:

* Call Processing
* Signaling and Device Control
* Dial Plan Administration
* Phone Feature Administration
* Directory Services
* Link to External Applications

Home: http://www.cbtnuggets.com/webapp/product?id=274

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Inspired CSS – Styling For a Beautiful Web

In Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design (New Riders), renowned designer and author Andy Clarke set the stage for the development of progressive Web site design using XHTML, CSS and other Web-standards technologies. In this streaming online video, Andy follows up on the core principles of transcendent CSS, taking you even further along the path to creating beautiful and accessible Web sites using minimal, semantic markup. In Inspired CSS: Styling for a Beautiful Web, Andy Clarke shows you how to take your design to the next level using typography, microformats, advanced CSS selectors, layout techniques employing floats, positioning, and margins, and CSS3. Throughout the steaming online video, Andy demonstrates these concepts using examples from a fictitious Web site he created. Files are included so you can follow along.

With over 2 hours of instruction, you’ll discover:
•Proven techniques for creating inspiring designs that use semantic markup and CSS
•The latest advances in Web design, including the emerging CSS3 specification
•Inspiration from leading designers who embrace Web standards in their own work
•Advanced instruction on topics including relative and absolute positioning, attribute selectors and pseudo elements, the multiple column and media query modules in CSS3, and many more
•Mechanisms for binding your style to HTML documents using microformats and CSS selectors

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Video Copilot - Evolution

Video Copilot - Evolution | 4.2 GB

Evolution - is a collection of high quality animated elements for video professionals. Writes Andrew Kramer: "We have done for you all the tedious part of work, now your turn to be the artists'

Name of Manufacturer: VideoCopilot
Album Title: Evolution
Video: 60fps - NTSC or PAL
Video file format: mov

170 Design Elements:
- High Definition with Built-in Transparency
- 7 Video Tutorials and Advanced Gallery Page
- 10 Professional Design Projects and more
- High Definition, 20% higher resolution than 720p
- 60 frames per second. Use with NTSC or PAL
- Uncompressed QuickTime™ PNG Video & JPGs
- Template Projects at 720p HD, 60 FPS

Evolution:
Each design element is meticulously crafted and animated with extensive detail and quality. From the initial design phase through every step of the way, these elements are ready for broadcast.

Attention to Detail:
When animating these elements in High Definition, we had to make sure
each element looked perfect. The timing and flow of each animation was very important, especially when working on designs with over 100 pieces. All of the vines grow and the leaves sprout with a slight bounce.

Quality Control:
After each element was completed we ran them through a quality control phase where multiple artists would look closely at each design to repair the minor imperfections.

Diversity:
Each element is unique in every way and using the free Twister Preset, your design possibilities are endless.

Digital Tutors - Interior Modeling Techniques with XSI

Learn a time-saving workflow to interior set modeling and production techniques that can be used for Film, Architectural Visualizations, and Games. Contains 6 hours of project-driven training. Perfect for intermediate artists.

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Planning Using Primavera Project Planner P3 Ebooks + Video

Product Description
A user guide written for project planners in any industry including building, construction, oil & gas and software development.

From the Publisher
The book was initially developed as a training course manual but has been enhanced and updated so it may be used as:

A reference manual for those who are looking for a simpler alternative to the "User Manual".

A self teach book for people who are unable to attend a training course.

As originally intended, for instructors to use as training course manual.

The book is designed to teach planners and schedulers in any industry how to setup and use the software in a project environment to an intermediate level. It explains plain English and in a logical sequence the steps required to create and maintain a schedule. It highlights the sources of information and methods that should be employed to produce a realistic and useful project schedule. It draws on the author's practical experience in using Primavera software in a wide variety of industries. It presents workable solutions to real day to day planning and scheduling problems and contains practical advice on how to set up the software. It includes exercises, a large number of screen dumps, numerous tips and an index.

The book is aimed at:

Project management companies in industries such as the building, construction, oil & gas, software development, government and defense who wish to run their own training courses or provide their employees with an alternative text to the vendor supplied user manual.

Training organizations who require a training manual to run their own training courses.

People who wish learn the software but are unable to attend a training course but find the software manual reference manual hard going.

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for Beginners Part 04

ZBrush for Beginners Part 04
*.ZMT *.ZLI *.ZBP *.TIF *.BMP *.JPG *.PSD | 480 MB

This is actually the final part of the 4th Know. In this part of added alpha brushes, materials, textures and of course the most valuable thing. Here is a list of
Anatomy 2005:
Bamboo.
Box Modeling Precision Texturing.
Geometry.
Golden Idol.
Interface-all.
Interface-light.
Interface-marker.
Zbrush & Pozer.
ZBrush tutor 1.

And of course the culprit himself posts Pixologic ZBrush 3.1.
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