Join Mikkel Aaland as he shows you everything you need to know to get up and running on Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). Explore the ACR interface and its new powerful features, including the Graduated Filter, Adjustment Brush and Targeted Adjustment tools. Learn how to customize the settings and—most importantly—how to use ACR´s extensive tone-mapping controls to make an image look just the way you want. After you’re done watching, you’ll wonder how you could have survived so long without it!

Are you looking for creative ways to lower your energy costs, generate more of your own power, or become less reliant on the grid? Energy expert Paul Scheckel offers practical advice for taking matters into your own hands. Understand the fundamentals of solar, wind, water, and biofuel energy production as you make your home ready for renewables.

The Basics of Digital Forensics provides a foundation for people new to the digital forensics field. This book teaches you how to conduct examinations by discussing what digital forensics is, the methodologies used, key technical concepts and the tools needed to perform examinations. Details on digital forensics for computers, networks, cell phones, GPS, the cloud, and Internet are discussed. Also learn how to collect evidence, document the scene, and how deleted data is recovered.

What's the one thing you can do to improve both your business and personal life? Learn to negotiate. Negotiating effectively is the key to getting what you want when you want it. Negotiate well, and you maintain control in any situation, at home or at work.

Ready to learn professional video editing? We’ve got you covered. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is a high-end video editing program. This is a beginners course that shows you the first steps when it comes to professional video editing. You will learn how to properly start a project, cut your shots, and create a video with all the basic tools that Premiere Pro CS6 offers.

From fitness and martial arts expert Martin Rooney, author of top-selling Training for Warriors and Ultimate Warrior Workouts, comes a complete twelve-week workout and diet plan for anyone looking to shed pounds of fat and increase muscle mass. In Warrior Cardio, the creator of the world-famous Training for Warriors System provides the latest scientifically proven techniques for cardiovascular training paired with a weight loss plan that really delivers.

Getting S**t Done, written by comedian Alicia Dattner, is a parody of the cult time-management hit, Getting Things Done, by David Allen.
It's a hilarious spiritual, existential and personal look at time-management and organization in the 21st century.
And it contains over a dozen ludicrous tools and tips to increase productivity.

Those with interest, but absolutely no wire-working knowledge, will find this gradual guide a great introduction to every aspect of working with the enduring medium of wire. The chapters walk the aspiring craftsperson step-by-step through the entire process, from where and how to shop for wire and beads, to choosing the right kind and gauge of wire, and what tools of the trade they need to borrow or buy.

The first step in learning the fundamentals of web design is getting past acronyms like XHTML and CSS. In this user-friendly workshop, author and trainer Chad Chelius demystifies XHTML code, showing you the building blocks of a web page’s content, and explains the role that cascading style sheets (CSS) play in building web pages.
You’ll learn how to gain complete control over the appearance of your web pages and how to work with links, graphics, and alt text. Finally, you’ll see how to upload your files to a server, add meta tags, and test your website, and you’ll even get a glimpse of the future of the web: HTML5 and CSS3.

jQuery is rapidly becoming the language of choice for creating web applications and websites capable of running on multiple devices and screen sizes (think cell phone, tablet, desktop). It can dramatically reduce the amount of time spent coding both basic and complex functionality within a website or web application. In the workshop author and trainer Kevin Ruse teaches you the fundamentals of jQuery, which is essentially a code library designed to reduce your development time. You’ll learn how to work with the jQuery wrapper, selectors, elements, attributes, events, effects, and more. In no time, you’ll be up and running and ready to explore the more complex areas of jQuery development.

This Third Edition to Peter Block's Flawless Consulting addresses business changes and new challenges since the second edition was written ten years ago. It tackles the challenges next-generation consultants face, including more guidance on how to ask better questions, dealing with difficult clients, working in an increasingly virtual world, how to cope with complexities in international consulting, case studies, and guidelines on implementation. Also included are illustrative examples and exercises to help you cement the guides offered.

Infertility affects one out of six couples today. Dr. Lewis presents a groundbreaking alternative approach to infertility, explaining how she used traditional Chinese medicine to treat her own infertility, successfully conceiving and giving birth to two children.

In many cases the difference between the brightest and darkest areas of a scene is simply too great to capture in a single image, due to the inherent limitations of cameras.

This workshop will get you quickly up to speed on Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. You?ll master the program?s interface and learn about organizing and sharing your images, cropping and straightening photos, creating collages and calendars, retouching images, and more!

Have you ever seen a couple and thought 'what does she see in him?' He might be overweight, bald, badly dressed or just really 'reliable and average', and yet he's with a gorgeous girl. And there you are - smart, intelligent, funny...but single! So what's his secret?