Prbcorp.com offers several online tutorial workshops. Here is their Dreamweaver MX Tutorial Workshop that teaches the basic Dreamweaver features and functionality using screen shots and step-by-step instructions. You will need to know these Dreamweaver tasks in order to use this GUI web development application effectively. This tutorial can also be used to learn these topics in Dreamweaver 4.

Contents of Dreamweaver MX Tutorial:

• Opening Dreamweaver
• Installing a Template
• Defining a New Site
• Creating the First Page
• Using Tables
• Adding Text
• Formatting Text
• Inserting Images
• Making Links
• Creating Rollover Buttons
• Conclusion

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Prbcorp.com offers several online tutorial workshops. Here is their Excel XP for Administrators Tutorial Workshop that teaches advanced Excel features, such as copying tables, percentages, formulas, graphing, and charting using screen shots and step-by-step instructions. This tutorial can also be used to learn these tasks using Excel 2000.

Contents of Excel for Administrators Tutorial:

• Opening Excel
• Labeling Sheets
• Copy a Table
• Developing the Percentages
• Absolutes in a Formula
• Copy the Formula
• Finish the Percentages
• Complete the Percentages
• Graphing Levels by Data Range
• Graphing Levels by Series
• Graphing Levels by Series Continued
• Additional Chart Options

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Here is Prbcorp.com‘s Workshop Tutorial for Photoshop 6 – For The Web. This Photoshop tutorial covers the following web development features of this popular image editing application: creating a new image, creating text graphics, adding effects, cropping, using the rectangular and gradient tools, using filters, and adding text on buttongs.

Contents of Photoshop Workshop:

• Opening Photoshop
• Creating a New Image
• Creating Text Graphics
• Adding Effects – Shadow, Bevel, Stroke
• Saving Images
• Cropping Images
• Adding Effects – Inner Glow
• Using Rectangular Tool
• Using Gradient Tool
• Adding Inner Glow
• Using Filters
• Adding Text On Buttons
• Conclusion

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Here is Prbcorp.com‘s Microsoft Excel XP Workshop Tutorial. This Excel tutorial will teach you the following important Excel functionality: entering sequential data, numerical sequencing, formatting text, changing column width, aligning text, merging cells, sum and average functions, inserting rows and columns, border properties, and charting.

Excel Workshop Contents:

• Opening Excel
• Beginning a Budget Spreadsheet
• Entering Data & Manuevering through the Spreadsheet
• Entering Sequential Data
• Experimenting with Numerical Sequences
• Formatting Text in Cells
• Changing Font Size
• Altering Column Width
• Aligning Text
• Extending Text Across Multiple Cells
• Finding a Sum
• Finding an Average
• Adjusting Decimal Places
• Inserting Rows & Columns
• Manipulating Borders
• Fitting Text
• Using Charts

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This is the Word XP Workshop Tutorial hosted by prbcorp.com.  It covers and teaches several important features and functions of Microsoft Word, including: spelling and grammar check, moving text, creating bullets, footnotes, images and text wrapping, fitting text, styles, borders, table of contents, hyperlinks, section breaks, page numbers, previewing and printing.

Word Workshop Contents:

• Opening Word
• Screen Layout
• Opening a Document
• Inserting Text
• Moving Around Your Document
• Deleting Text
• Recognizing Invisible Characters
• Selecting Tex
• Saving Your Document
• Checking Spelling and Grammar
• Moving Text
• Creating Bullets
• Inserting a Footnote
• Wrapping Text around an Image
• Citing Your Resources
• Fitting Text
• Applying Styles to Main Headings
• Creating Borders around Paragraphs
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Using a Hyperlink in the Table of Contents
• Inserting a Section Break
• Using Section Headers and Footers
• Putting Page numbers in Section 1
• Putting Page Numbers in Section 2
• Updating the Table of Contents
• Previewing Your Document
• Printing Your Document

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HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language and is what the web is based on from the simplest to the most complex web site. If you are a Web Developer or Designer, or an aspiring one, you will need to understand HTML and know how to use it when creating and developing web pages. This tutorial article from Sitepoint, titled Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup, highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. 

Contents of 37 Steps to Perfect Markup (HTML):

1. What is HTML?
2. What are the different versions of HTML?
3. What about XHTML?
4. Is HTML case-sensitive?
5. What does the DOCTYPE declaration do?
6. What is a DTD?
7. What is the difference between Strict, Transitional and Frameset DTDs?
8. Which DOCTYPE should I use?
9. Why should I validate my markup?
10. Why does HTML allow sloppy coding?
11. Why does the validator complain about my <embed> tag?
12. What does character encoding (charset) mean?
13. What is a BOM?
14. What encoding should I declare?
15. How do I insert characters outside the encoding range?
16. Why do I need to write &amp; instead of just &?
17. How should heading elements be used?
18. What are block-level and inline elements?
19. Can I make an inline element block-level with CSS?
20. Why are external CSS and JavaScript files a good idea?
21. Should I use p or br?
22. What does “semantic” mean?
23. Should I replace b and i with strong and em?
24. Why are layout tables considered harmful?
25. Should I use divs instead of layout tables?
26. Are tables deprecated?
27. What is the correct use of the address element type?
28. What is the correct use of the dfn element type?
29. What is the correct use of the var element type?
30. Should I use quotation marks within or around a q element?
31. What is the difference between abbr and acronym?
32. Why is <feature X> deprecated?
33. Must I have an alt attribute for every image?
34. What is the difference between class and id?
36. Why doesn’t <a href=My Cool Page.html> work?
37. How can I include an HTML page in another HTML page?

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Here is a pretty good Outlook XP Workshop Tutorial, provided by prbcorp.com. It covers a lot of good techniques and things you should know how to do when using this email client. It covers features, such as adding a calendar appointment, creating a sticky note, creating a new contact, sending attachments, organizing e-mail messages, handling junk email, and using rules.  

Contents of Outlook XP Workshop Tutorial:

• About Email
• Things to remember
• Introduction / Quick Start
• E-mail for Everyone
• Starting Outlook
• Accessing Outlook e-mail
• Creating an e-mail message
• Adding an appointment to my calendar
• Create a “sticky note”
• Creating a record of one of my contacts?
• Communicating effectively with e-mail
• Creating, sending, and receiving messages
• Read, reply to, reply to all, and forward
• Sending an Attachments
• Avoiding the Attachment Blues
• Managing my e-mail
• Managing my Address Book
• Organizing my e-mail
• Handling Junk/Spam Mail
• Using Rules to Manage Email
• Configuring Outlook to send e-mail
• Properly citing e-mail in research papers
• Listserv Discussion Lists

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Here is a nicely illustrated PowerPoint XP Workshop Tutorial, hosted by prbcorp.com. It teaches many important PowerPoint features and functions, including these: Adding Title Information, Using the Screen Layout, Editing Text and Font, Using Bullets, Adding Notes, Adding Graphics, Music, Sound, Video, Animation, Slide Transitions, Color Schemes, Changing the Design, and Printing.

PowerPoint Workshop Tutorial Contents:

• Opening PowerPoint
• Beginning Your PowerPoint Presentation
• Adding Title Slide Information
• Using the Screen Layout
• Editing a Text Object
• Modifying Text
• Moving or Resizing a Text Object
• Moving to Next Slides
• Using Bullets
• Adding Notes
• Using a Numbered List
• Changing Font Color
• Adding Graphics
• Adding Music & Sound
• Adding Video
• Viewing Your Presentation
• Adding Slide Transitions
• Adding Animation
• Viewing Your Presentation
• Changing Color Schemes
• Changing the Design
• Applying Changes to All Slides
• Adding/Deleting Slides
• Providing Print Handouts
• Emphasizing Text

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Here are 20 excellent Advanced Photoshop Tutorials, provided by Photoshopsupport.com. These cover several advanced features and techniques of using Photoshop, including painting and color line art, matte painting, sharpening an image, working with shadows, creating a photomontage, retouching, automating tasks, and color management.


Photoshop Tutorials by Kevin Hulsey

Here are three excellent Photoshop tutorials from master illustrator Kevin Hulsey. Kevin says: “My use of Photoshop directly mimics the methodology of a conventional airbrush illustrator. The great thing about Photoshop is that there are so many different roads to the same conclusion.”

Painting Techniques – tips and techniques for painting in Photoshop
Ghosting Techniques – tutorial on how to create a transparent view using Photoshop
Cruise Ship Cutaway – tutorial on using Photoshop to color line art


Photoshop Tutorials and Articles by Mark Galer

How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Sharpening Techniques
Did you know that the highest quality sharpening is only to be found in image editing software, such as Photohshop.
The best sharpening techniques are those that give priority to certain areas and leave the smoother areas of the image alone. These advanced techniques are essential when sharpening images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise.

Working With Shadows In Photoshop – Advanced Shadow Techniques
Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds. This tutorial shows how to use textures to bring together two shadows comfortably within the same frame.


Matte Painting Tutorials - Sebastien Gaucher

These three matte painting tutorials by Sebastien Gaucher teach you how to create matte paintings in Photoshop. They are detailed and include large versions of the images so you can study the effects closely.

Matte Painting Tutorial – 1: “This tutorial is actually a ‘making of’ where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. If you don’t have a graphic tablet this is going to be hard but not impossible. At each step of the matte painting, create a new layer so that the work will be easier and mistakes avoided.”

Matte Painting Tutorial – 2: “This is my second matte painting tutorial. Here I wanted to change the season of a scene from summer to winter.”

Matte Painting Tutorial – 3: “Here is the making of my third matte painting, this time it is the Oratoire Saint-Joseph (in Montreal) under the rain!”


Create Stars and Planets in Photoshop

These two tutorials on Greg Martin’s site that are very well done. The Star Field tutorial will help you create awesome star fields, and the Planet tutorial shows how to create a simple, yet realistic-looking planet using Adobe Photoshop 7.

“Make a Realistic Star Field” tutorial
“Make A Planet” tutorial


Creating Photomontages with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook

This Photoshop tutorial by Odile Pascal guides you through the photomontage process and explains in detail how the original photo of a woman was transformed into an angel in Photoshop.

Download “From Woman to Angel with Photoshop” PDF sample chapter [2.0 MB]
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Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook

Artist Nicolas Fructus shows you how to go from sketch and digitalization when working with layers in this PDF tutorial. With detailed notes and sample files, Fructus guides you through the process of creating very complex and beautiful illustrations in Photoshop.
Download “The High Terrace” PDF sample chapter [1.6 MB]
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Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook

In this PDF tutorial taken from Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer’s Notebook, artist Thibaut Granier shows you how to use retouching and photomontage techniques to create a matte painting.

Download “Bloody Mallory” PDF sample chapter (1.3 MB)
Buy Photo Retouching with Photoshop at amazon.com (34% discount)


Photoshop CS Video Tutorials

Recording Actions To Automate Tasks
Learn how to change all open images to the same zoom level using the Match Zoom Command, and how to create Photoshop Actions to automate tasks.

Photoshop CS Color Management
Learn how to create the “ideal settings” for working with color in Photoshop CS.

Working With Vector-Based Shapes – Part 1
Learn how PS vector-based shapes work much like Illustrator.

Working With Vector-Based Shapes – Part 2
Learn how to create advanced vector-based shapes.

Colorization Tip
How to non-destructively take all the color out of an image, and add color back into an image in selected places.

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer
How to make a beautiful, rich looking Grayscale image by using a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer.

Color To Grayscale Conversion
How to use the Paint Brush Tool to paint into a color image and selectively convert parts of it into a Black and White, Grayscale image.

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