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April 7, 2009

InDesign CS2 Tutorial

Here is the Adobe InDesign CS2 Tutorial at Brown University. InDesign is a professional document layout program and works very well for working with documents that feature complex formatting and multiple pages, such as newsletters, resumes, reports, and handouts. These InDesign tutorials explain in detail InDesign’s Toolbox, Layer Manipulation, Screen Modes, Fill and Strokes, Text Wrapping. Also covered is the Pen Tool which is very commonly used.


Features Taught by this InDesign Tutorial:

InDesign Workspace:
 - Toolbox

Designing Pages In Adobe InDesign:
 - Adding and Deleting Pages
 - Adding/ Deleting Columns
 - Master Pages
 - Measurement Preferences

Layers In Adobe InDesign:
 - Creating Layers
 - Hiding Layers
 - Locking Layers

Screen Modes In Adobe InDesign:
This section discusses the ways of viewing the screen in InDesign.

Working with and Manipulating Type In Adobe InDesign:
 - Placing Text
 - Styles
 - Importing Styles
 - Fill and Stroke

Adobe InDesign Graphics:
 - Rectangle Frame Tool
 - Placing Images
 - Proportional Resizing
 - Rotating
 - Wrapping Text Around a Graphic

Wrapping Text Around a Graphic In Adobe InDesign:
 - Moving an Object
 - Scaling an Object
 - Rotating an Object
 - Shearing an Object

Adobe InDesign Pen Tool:
 - Typing on a Path

Colors:
This section covers importing colors in InDesign.

Paper Swatches In Adobe InDesign:
This section explains paper swatch setting in InDesign to see what your text and colors will look like on a certain shade of paper.

Saving Files In Adobe InDesign:
Saving a file from InDesign is explained in this section.

Popularity: 10% [?]


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    3 Outlook Tutorials

    The 3 Outlook Tutorials described below will have you up and running in setting up and managing Outlook to work efficiently for your needs. These Outlook Tutorials cover both 2003 and 2007 versions, and explain how to manage your mailbox and organize Outlook’s Calendar.


    Managing your Mailbox in Outlook 2003 Tutorial
    This Outlook tutorial explains Sending and Receiving emails, setting Rules for Outlook emails and using the Address book. It also describes the difference between the Mailbox Storage and the Local Storage concepts in Outlook. 

     - About Mailbox Storage and Local Storage for Faculty and Staff In Outlook 2003
     - Archive & Folder-Specific Archive Settings In Outlook 2003
     - Managing Messages with Rules In Outlook 2003
     - Sending & Receiving Email in Outlook 2003
     - Using Contacts In Outlook 2003
     - Using Tasks In Outlook 2003


    Outlook 2007 Calendaring
    The Calendar feature is an important and efficient method of setting up appointments and meetings with contacts in the Address Book and this Outlook tutorial explains this feature in detail. The level of customization in the Calendar is also discussed here.

     - New in Outlook 2007
     - The Outlook 2007 Calendar Environment
     - The Different Calendar Views In Outlook 2007
     - Creating Appointments/Events/Meetings in Your Outlook 2007 Calendar


    Managing your Mailbox in Outlook 2007
    This Outlook tutorial covers a range of small but significant topics that help the user have a much better Outlook experience. This includes managing messages and mails, schedluing tasks and contacts in Outlook.

     - New in Office 2007
     - About Mailbox Storage and Local Storage for Faculty and Staff In Outlook 2007
     - About Local Storage In Outlook 2007
     - Archive & Folder-Specific Archive Settings In Outlook 2007
     - Managing Messages with Rules In Outlook 2007
     - Sending & Receiving Email In Outlook 2007
     - Using Contacts In Outlook 2007
     - Using Tasks In Outlook 2007

    Popularity: 18% [?]


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    April 8, 2009

    2 Excel Tutorials

    Here are two excellent Excel Tutorials at Brown University. Excel is a spreadsheet application from Microsoft’s Office Suite and is the most widely used spreadsheet application in the world.


    Excel Tutorial
    This Excel tutorial covers the terminology used in Excel and its basic components such as Toolbars and Cell Navigation. The tutorial then moves onto data management that includes editing, inserting, deleting, copying and moving data between cells, not to mention sorting and filtering. One of the lesser known aspects of Excel is Natural Language Formulas which is switched off by default. Natural Language Formulas allows the use of column and row labels in formulas, rather than cell references, and this section covers this topic in depth.

    Definitions:
    This section goes over the defenition of terms used in Excel.

    Toolbars:
    This section explains about the toolbars in Excel.

    Navigating Cells:
    This section explains about the navigation of cells in Excel.

    Data Mangemnet In Excel:
     - Editing, Moving, and Copying Data
     - Inserting, Deleting, and Clearing Data
     - Using Autofill
     - Controlling Your View of the Data
     - Sorting and Filtering Data

    Formulas In Excel:
     - Autofill with Formulas
     - Cell References
     - AutoSum
     - Functions
     - The Function Wizard
     - AutoCalculate

    Using Natural Language Labels In Excel:
    This section reviews this convenient labeling feature in Excel.

    3-D References In Excel:
    This section explains how formulas on one worksheet to access data on another worksheet.

    The Chart Wizard In Excel:
    This section explains the Chart Wizard in Excel.

    Pivot Table In Excel:
     - Arranging data on the table.

    Printing In Excel:
     - What if you want to print only part of the spreadsheet?
     - Not able to highlight the region you wanted to print?

    Troubleshooting:
    Common sources of errors occured in Excel explained here.


    Riveting, Pivoting Tables Tutorial
    Riveting and Pivoting tables are tables that summarize large volumes of data – this Excel tutorial covers the intricacies of Pivot and Rivet Tables including changing, formatting and grouping of data.

     - Pivot Tables In Excel
     - The Pivot Table Wizard In Excel
     - Changing Pivot Tables In Excel
     - Pivot Table Options In Excel
     - Drilling down
     - Formatting
     - Grouping Data

    Popularity: 17% [?]


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    2 Photoshop Tutorials

    These 2 good Photoshop Tutorials at Brown University will teach you the fundamentals of using Photoshop, along with several intermediate tasks. These Photoshop Tutorials help you learn and understand the bulleted features listed below relevant to graphical design.


    Photoshop Basics Tutorial
    This tutorial explains the opening and creation and saving of image files, layer and text handling and the color spaces and selection in Photoshop. Also discussed are Photoshop tools such as Filters and Paths, the Clone and Heal brush tool, and the options in the Crop tool.

     - Opening and Creating Files In Photoshop
     - Object manipulation In Photoshop
     - Layers In Photoshop
     - Text In Photoshop
     - Photoshop Color Spaces
     - Photoshop Color Selection
     - Image Sizing and Resolution In Photoshop
     - Crop In Photoshop
     - Photoshop Levels/Histogram
     - Equalize and Variations In Photoshop
     - Trim In Photoshop
     - Clone Stamp / Healing Brush In Photoshop
     - Patch In Photoshop
     - Photoshop Filters
     - Photoshop Paths
     - Saving Files In Photoshop


    Intermediate Photoshop Tutorial: Retouching
    Retouching an image in Photoshop involves the series of simple and easy-to-understand tutorials given below. The Photoshop tools involved in retouching include sharpening, feathering, red-eye reduction and layer masks. Color reduction, curves, actions and droplets, and the alpha channel are discussed here.

     - Sharpening In Photoshop
     - Traditional Photo Retouching In Photoshop
     - Feather In Photoshop
     - Curves In Photoshop
     - Photoshop Channels
     - Adjustment Layers In Photoshop
     - PhotoshopLayer Masks
     - An Alpha Channel Is a Selection Is an Alpha Channel
     - Color Reduction In Photoshop
     - Posterize and Threshold In Photoshop
     - Actions & Droplets In Photoshop

    Popularity: 9% [?]


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    April 9, 2009

    Quick Flash Tutorial

    Here is a quick Flash Tutorial at Brown University. This Flash tutorial discusses the use of the timeline in Flash programming. The tutorial also explains how to create symbols and animate objects, and another section describes object rotation and tweened animation, which causes objects on the screen to change shape and size. Embedding of audio and music in Flash movies is also demonstrated. A most important use of the Flash movie is to embed it in an HTML file and this aspect is also discussed in detail in this Flash tutorial.


    Flash Features Taught by this tutorial:

    Tools and Timeline In Flash:
     - Timeline
     - Creating Symbols
     - Tweened Animation
     - Motion Guides
     - Shape Tween
     - Object Rotation

    Buttons In Flash:
    This section has a step by step explanation of creating a button to replay the animation.

    Sound/Music In Flash:
    Do you want to add sound/music to you animation? This section describes how to do that.

    Saving Flash Files:
    This section explains how to save a flash file..

    Embedding Flash into an HTML File:
    If you want to embed Flash into an HTML file, this section helps you do that.

    Popularity: 10% [?]


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    April 20, 2009

    CSS Tutorials from htmldog

    These good CSS Tutorials at htmldog.com teach you the essentials of CSS. CSS is a style sheet design language that describes the presentation of a web document. Below CSS Tutorials provide quick and essential tips for beginners, intermediate and advanced users of CSS.


    CSS Beginner Tutorial
    The beginner tutorial explains how web designers can apply CSS in HTML, CSS properties and values, colors and text. Also explained are the alignment and structuring of the user interface using margins, padding and borders.

    Applying CSS
    The web designers can apply CSS in the HTML in different ways. This tutorial explains that in detail.
    Selectors, Properties, and Values
    This tutorial explains how to set selectors, properties and their values which help you to make your CSS.
    Colours
    CSS helps us to set the colors for the contents used in the HTML files and this tutorial help you in that direction.
    Text
    This tutorial teach us how to set different shapes of the texts in CSS.
    Margins and Padding
    Do you want to know how to set the spacing and margins in the web pages, this CSS tutorial helps you in that.
    Borders
    This tutorial teach you how to set borders in the web page using CSS.
    Putting It All Together
    This tutorial explains most of the well used methods and properties in CSS with code example.


    CSS Intermediate Tutorial
    This tutorial for intermediate users of CSS explains the classes and ID selectors, how to group properties to do away with code redundancy, writing Pseudo classes, setting shorthand properties and background images.

    Class and ID Selectors
    This tutorial explains the way you can define the selectors in the form of Class and ID Selectors.
    Grouping and Nesting
    This tutorial is helps you in understanding the way you can group the properties which can be avoid the repeated code. This tutorial also explains how we can set selectors within the selectors.
    Pseudo Classes
    We can define the state of the selectors using the Pseudo Classes. In this tutorial teach you how to use the Pseudo Classes.
    Shorthand Properties
    This tutorial teach you how we can set different properties, such as borders and margins in to one line with space.
    Background-images
    This tutorial talks about the background properties and it’s amalgamates.


    CSS Advanced Tutorial
    The advanced section of the CSS tutorials explains the layout and positioning of components to create a proficient user interface. CSS allows users to import other style sheets and set different media types and embedded fonts and a section below explains this in detail. The Specificity section discusses the problems of duplicated rules and how to resolve them.

    Display
    This tutorial explains the visual representation of HTML files using display property.
    Page Layout
    This section explains about the position and other properties used to set the layout of the HTML pages.
    At-Rules
    This tutorial teaches you to import style sheets. It also talks about different media type styles , character set of a stylesheet and embedded fonts.
    Pseudo Elements
    This tutorial explains the way of embedding Pseudo Elements to Selectors.
    Specificity
    This section talks about the conflict of duplicated rules in the CSS class.

    Popularity: 10% [?]


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    2 Word 2007 Tutorials

    Here are 2 Word 2007 Tutorials at Brown University. These Word Tutorials explain some of the advanced topics in Word, namely Mail Merge and Special Page Numbering.


    Word 2007 Tutorial on Mail Merge, Merge Fields and Rules
    Mail Merge is a process by which a series of documents can be created from a single template and a data source. The data for each document is procured from the data source and inserted into placeholders for the specified data. This tutorial discuss setting up of the data source, framing the document, establishing a connection to the data source and finally previewing your document. Also explained are advanced Mail Merge topics such as Conditional Text Rules and Merge Fields.

    The General Process:
     - Setting Up the Excel Source
     - Setting Up the Letter
     - Starting the Mail Merge
     - Connecting to the Excel File
     - Inserting a Merge Field
     - Previewing the Results
     - Finishing Up

    More Advanced Tricks:
     - Using Preformatted Blocks
     - Conditional Text (Rules)
     - Viewing Merge Fields
     - Inserting Merge Fields in Rules / Manually Editing Merge Code

    Example: Planning a Nested Conditional:
     - First Conditional – Have you met them?
     - Second Conditional – If you met them, when did you last see them?


    Word 2007 Tutorial – Special Page Numbering
    This tutorial explains the entry of page numbers on special pages, such as the first few pages of a dissertation or a project report, perhaps. Since these page numbers would differ from others in that these pages would be numbered using Roman numerals or other special numbering.

    Popularity: 12% [?]


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    22 Fireworks CS4 Tutorials

    Here are 22 Fireworks CS4 Tutorials at layersmagazine.com that provide an overview of Fireworks and its various tools. Fireworks is a vector graphics editing application, which was originally developed by Macromedia and is now developed by Adobe. Fireworks is mainly used by web designers for vector image creation and manipulation.

    The overview of Fireworks is divided into several simple and easy-to-understand tutorials that cover import and export of various image formats in Fireworks, including the Adobe PDF format, slicing and linking images. These Fireworks Tutorials also discuss the color management, symbols and the layout tools in Fireworks. The AIR package command and the integration with Photoshop is explained in depth.


    22 Fireworks Tutorials:

     - Photoshop Image to Web using Fireworks CS4
     - Fireworks 101
     - Creating Rain in After Effects
     - Fireworks CS4 Symbols
     - Fireworks CS4 CSS Export
     - Fireworks CS4 AIR Demo
     - Fireworks CS4 Color Management
     - Fireworks CS4 Photoshop Integration
     - Fireworks CS4 Flex Skinning
     - Fireworks CS4 Layout Tools
     - Fireworks CS4 Styles Management
     - Fireworks CS4 Exporting to PDF
     - Fireworks CS4 Beta for Web Design
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 10 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 9 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 8 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 7 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 6 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 5 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 4 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 3 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 2 of 10
     - Fireworks CS4 Overview – Part 1 of 10

    Popularity: 7% [?]


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    April 21, 2009

    Excel 2007 Tutorial

    This excellent Excel 2007 Tutorial at Brown University discusses and teaches Excel 2007 in detail. Excel is a spreadsheet application from Microsoft’s Office Suite and is the most widely used spreadsheet application in the world. This Excel tutorial explains the new features of Microsoft Office 2007, and how it compares with its predecessors. The various definitions used in Excel, cell navigation and data manipulation which include editing, moving, copying and the Autofill feature in Excel is discussed in detail. For more advanced Excel users, Excel formulas, Natural Language Labels, Pivot table and Excel sheet printing is explained. As a footnote, a section on troubleshooting in Excel is also presented.


    New In Office 2007:
    This section talks about the new features added in the Office 2007.

    Definitions In Excel 2007:
    This section list out and define the different words used in Excel 2007.

    Navigating Cells In Excel 2007:
    This section talks about the different ways of navigations used in cell.

    Data In Excel 2007:
     - Editing, Moving, and Copying Data
     - Inserting, Deleting, and Clearing Data
     - Using Autofill
     - Using Autofill with a text series
     - Using Autofill with a numeric series
     - Controlling Your View of the Data
     - Sorting and Filtering Data

    Excel 2007 Formulas:
     - Autofill with Formulas
     - Cell References
     - AutoSum
     - Functions
     - The Function Wizard
     - AutoCalculate

    Using Natural Language Labels In Excel 2007:
    This section talks about the labelling feature in Excel.

    3-D References In Excel 2007:
    This section explains how we can access the formulas from one sheet to another.

    The Chart Wizard In Excel 2007:
    This section explains the way to create different charts using the Chart Wizard in Excel.

    Pivot Table In Excel 2007:
     - Arranging data on the table.

    Printing In Excel 2007:
     - What if you want to print only part of the spreadsheet?
     - Not able to highlight the region you wanted to print?

    Troubleshooting In Excel 2007:
    This section details the common sources of the errors occurred in Excel.

    Popularity: 15% [?]


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    33 Adobe Acrobat Tutorials

    Here are 33 Adobe Acrobat Tutorials at layersmagazine.com explains the intricacies of Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is a series of programs from Adobe Systems that creates, manipulates, and manages files in Adobe’s native PDF format, which is their proprietary, but open, file format. These Adobe Acrobat Tutorials cover security, comment tools and comment management, color and output views and digital signatures. The design and creation of PDF documents within Adobe Distiller and InDesign is also discussed. Acrobat provides Interactive Forms that allow data entry, and this feature is discussed in detail here. Other features such as Live Collaboration, Custom Profiles and Custom Portfolio creation are explained with the use of video tutorials.


    33 Adobe Acrobat Tutorials:

     - Adobe Acrobat Article Tool
     - Build a Better Portfolio with Adobe Acrobat
     - Customize Preflight Profiles with Acrobat
     - Managing Comments in Adobe Acrobat
     - Full Screen Slideshow in Adobe Acrobat
     - Acrobat 9 PDF Security
     - Bookmark Interactivity in Adobe Acrobat
     - Introduction to Acrobat’s Commenting Tools
     - Managing Bookmarks in Acrobat
     - Introduction to Using Bookmarks in Acrobat
     - PDF for Graphic Files Using Acrobat
     - Interactive Forms in Acrobat
     - Acrobat: Getting Into Form, Part 2
     - Distributing Forms with Acrobat
     - Acrobat 9: Output Preview and Color Conversion
     - Acrobat 9: Live Collaboration with ConnectNow
     - Acrobat 9: Creating Custom Portfolios
     - Acrobat 9: Adding Layers to PDF Documents
     - Getting into Form with Acrobat 8
     - Prepress-Perfect PDFs with Acrobat 8 Professional
     - Digital Signatures in Acrobat 8 Professional
     - Under Review in Adobe Acrobat
     - Getting into Form with Acrobat 8
     - Prepress-Perfect PDFs with Acrobat 8 Professional
     - Digital Signatures in Acrobat 8 Professional
     - Under Review in Adobe Acrobat
     - Using Acrobat 8 to Create PDFs within Distiller and InDesign
     - Customize the Adobe Acrobat 8 Interface
     - Access files quickly
     - Preview Color Separations On-Screen
     - Include Adobe Reader users in reviews
     - Reduce PDF file size
     - Transform any PDF document into a fillable form

    Popularity: 7% [?]


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