All Courses

Explore the process of writing articles for publications and businesses large and small.

Covers the most common questions videographers encounter when shooting and editing with DSLR cameras, from choosing a frame size and frame rate to understanding moiré.

Bring 21st century instruction techniques into the classroom with the iPad.

Get a weekly serving of photographic insight, instruction, and inspiration from photographer, teacher, and author Ben Long.

Choose the best upgrade method and securely migrate your files, applications, and user settings from Windows XP to Windows 8.

Self-contained tips on the latest online tools, such as Google Apps, Skype, YouTube, Mint.com, Etsy, and more.

Join Grant Skinner at work and at play, designing cutting-edge interactive experiences, games, applications, and frameworks with technologies like HTML5 and Flash.

Photographer David Hobby captures the strength and grace of a dancer in motion, lighting her against a "blow-away white" background.

Get started using Office 365, the Microsoft hosted collaboration and productivity suite that allows businesses and teams to email, collaborate on documents, and share calendars.

Learn to motivate, communicate with, and manage a team.

Discover how to proactively manage project schedules.

Photographer David Hobby visits a conservation center and lights close-ups and portraits using a variety of strobes and light modifiers.

In a photo shoot with a model, photographer and Strobist blog publisher David Hobby demonstrates the basics of lighting with compact flash units.

Learn the basics of composing, sending, and replying to messages with Gmail, the free email service from Google.

Learn to manage your inbox with Outlook.com, the free web email service from Microsoft.

Create significantly more professional footage with tools that do everything from removing noise to performing high-end color grading.

Renowned photographer Douglas Kirkland explores the process of shooting a series of photos that connect to tell a story.

Learn how to coach, transform, and empower employees and teams in ways that increase retention and improve the bottom line.

Learn to protect you and your client's interests and ensure a great creative design with a well-written contract.

Follow along with a digital media producer and former TV news reporter as he plans and shoots a complete human-interest story.

Learn how to start a YouTube account, build a following, promote videos on Facebook and Twitter, and shoot and edit film specifically for a YouTube audience.

Follow Beeple, a motion graphics artist, whose Everyday Project drives him to learn new software, adopt fresh techniques, and create art for himself and others.

Learn to establish your identity as a leader and connect with your team when you first step into a management position.

Explains one of the most essential ingredients in audio mixing, reverb—the time it takes for sound to bounce, echo, and decay during a live performance or recording.

Learn how to work with your FileMaker database on the go and understand the design considerations that come with mobile access.

Provides tools and insights for self-employed designers just starting out.

Learn how to set up and master your Wacom tablet in ways that streamline your work, expand your creative options, and lighten the load on your wrists.

Industry-proven techniques for producing and shooting interviews.

Prepare yourself for a new career or transition to freelancing.

Learn how to quickly create and share professional diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2013.

Covers the new features of the EDUIS 6.5 real-time video-editing package, now offering advanced native stereoscopic editing support and a range of smaller but important improvements.

Join Stacey Williams-Ng, an interactive book designer, at her home studio in Milwaukee where she's animating her latest book, A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys, destined for the iPad.

Learn how to build and refine your story with the redesigned editing toolset in Final Cut Pro X.

Learn how to create a lab manual for your students with iBooks Author.

Walks through the process of getting your screenplay idea out of your head and onto the printed page.

Leverage the templates and intuitive toolset in iBooks Author to create custom course material.

Bruce Heavin, cofounder of lynda.com, gives an inspiring and whimsically illustrated talk about following your curiosity and embracing failure as the stairway to success.

Simple graphic design techniques from Before & After magazine to make your page, screen, or presentation look and perform its best.

Covers the best ways to create, edit, and customize a website with the easy-to-implement templates in Google Sites.

Do some trekking—photo trekking—with travel and lifestyle photographer Nick Onken.

Explores how delegating helps your team build experience while meeting business goals and introduces a four-phase model to delegate tasks and projects large and small.

Gives expert tips and techniques for getting the most out of the iPad.

Get up and running with Prezi, a cutting-edge tool for creating dynamic presentations and interactive stories.

Introduces the essential concepts and techniques necessary for shooting video with a DSLR camera.

Demonstrates how to use the Apple iBooks Author application to create and publish your own iBook, without extensive design or publishing experience.

Learn to manage a project and balance the goals, schedule, team members, and clients involved in a creative endeavor.

Develop a plan for analytics by asking the right questions, measuring the right numbers, and correctly interpreting the data.

Introduces creative professionals to the core concepts of location scouting for video and photo projects.

Walks you through the Element 3D third-party compositing plugin for After Effects.

Teaches the basics of creating, editing, and sharing presentations with PowerPoint 2013.