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Training Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers – 4 days

Class overview :

Cybersecurity is a serious challenge today as attackers specifically target Web application vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to obtain confidential information and compromise organizational integrity.

Class goals :

  • Implement and test secure Web applications in your organization
  • Identify, diagnose and correct the most serious Web application vulnerabilities
  • Configure a Web server to encrypt Web traffic with HTTPS
  • Protect Ajax-powered Web 2.0 applications
  • Secure XML Web services with WS-Security
  • Audit Web application security with manual and automated scanning

Content of Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers

Setting the Stage

  • Defining threats to your Web assets
  • Surveying the legal landscape and privacy issues
  • Exploring common vulnerabilities

Establishing Security Fundamentals

Modeling Web security

  • Achieving Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA)
  • Performing authentication and authorization

Encrypting and hashing

  • Distinguishing public- and private-key cryptography
  • Verifying message integrity with message digests, digital signatures and digital certificates

Augmenting Web Server Security

Configuring security for HTTP services

  • Managing software updates
  • Restricting HTTP methods

Securing communication with SSL/TLS

  • Obtaining and installing server certificates
  • Enabling HTTPS on the Web server
  • Protecting the exchange of credentials

Detecting unauthorized modification of content

  • Configuring permissions correctly
  • Scanning for file-system changes

Implementing Web Application Security

Employing OWASP resources

  • The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten
  • Recognizing cybersecurity risks
  • Remediating identified vulnerabilities

Securing database and application interaction

  • Uncovering and preventing SQL injection
  • Defending against an insecure direct object reference
  • Limitations of encrypting database content

Managing session authentication

  • Protecting against session ID hijacking
  • Enforcing URL access control
  • Blocking cross-site request forgery

Controlling information leakage

  • Displaying sanitized error messages to the user
  • Handling request and page faults

Performing input validation

  • Establishing trust boundaries
  • Revealing and removing the threat of cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • Exposing the dangers of client-side validation
  • Preventing E-shoplifting

Enhancing Ajax Security

Ajax features

  • Identifying core Ajax components
  • Exchanging information asynchronously

Assessing risks and evaluating threats

  • Managing unpredictable interactions
  • Exposing JSON vulnerabilities

Securing XML Web Services

Diagnosing XML vulnerabilities

  • Identifying nonterminated tags and field overflows
  • Uncovering Web service weaknesses

Protecting the SOAP message exchange

  • Validating input with an XML schema
  • Encrypting exchanges with HTTPS
  • Implementing WS-Security with a framework
  • Authenticating access to Web services

Scanning Applications for Weaknesses

Operating and configuring scanners

  • Matching patterns to identify faults
  • « Fuzzing » to discover new or unknown vulnerabilities

Detecting application flaws

  • Scanning applications remotely
  • Strategies for testing and scanning
  • Testing Web applications with Netcat, Cryptcat and Wget
  • Intercepting traffic with OWASP WebScarab

Best Practices for Web Security

Adopting standards

  • Reducing risk by implementing proven architectures
  • Handling personal and financial data
  • Developing guidelines for logging

Managing network security

  • Modeling threats to reduce risk
  • Integrating applications with your network architecture

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

PIXYSTREE SCS

Rue Beeckmans, 53
1180 Bruxelles

Tel : +32 2 412 04 10
Fax : +32 2 412 04 19
Gsm : +32 485 212 722
Email : selossej@pixystree.com

http://www.pixystree.com

Training Designing Websites for Mobile Devices – 3 days

Class overview :

Mobile device web browsers provide the primary method of Internet access to an exponentially growing number of users. Traditional websites designed for desktop browsers do not provide an optimal experience for mobile interaction.

Class goals :

  • Develop streamlined mobile websites for efficient access to online information
  • Write compelling HTML5 and CSS3 content for mobile users
  • Employ JavaScript to maximize the potential of each browser platform
  • Extend the browsing experience with mobile-focused multimedia content
  • Harness geolocation capabilities to deliver targeted content
  • Leverage native extensions and exploit local storage for enhanced device integration

Content of Designing Websites for Mobile Devices

Surveying the Mobile Web Environment

  • Exploring key mobile web platforms
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Blackberry
  • Windows phone

Analyzing Requirements for Mobile Websites

Taking advantage of best practices

  • Creating vs. migrating web applications
  • Complying with W3C guidelines

Applying architectural principles and constraints

  • Selecting high-priority features
  • Simplifying the User Interface (UI) for enhanced performance
  • Designing for touch interactivity
  • Identifying bandwidth and memory limitations

Authoring HTML Content for Mobile Websites

Designing for platform independence

  • Maximizing site functionality with progressive enhancement
  • Constructing an appropriate layout for a mobile UI
  • Controlling zoom with the Viewport

Integrating HTML5 extensions

  • E-mail
  • Web addresses
  • Date pickers
  • Spin boxes
  • Autofocus fields
  • Search boxes
  • Dialing the phone from the page
  • Displaying a context-sensitive keyboard

Customizing Presentation with Cascading Style Sheets

Harnessing CSS3 capabilities

  • Selecting style sheets based on device orientation
  • Manipulating layout dynamically with transitions, transforms and animations

Styling layout and content

  • Optimizing styles for touch interactivity
  • Applying styles based on content
  • Simulating the native UI with CSS

CSS extensions for mobile

  • Mapping device Viewports to style sheets
  • Enhancing text readability with text-size-adjust
  • Highlighting touch content with tap-highlight-color

Supporting User Interaction and Mobile Features

Implementing common mobile features

  • Determining support for device capabilities
  • Touch
  • Tilt
  • Multimedia
  • Local storage
  • Detecting browser capabilities on the server and client

Enhancing interactivity with JavaScript

  • Employing key libraries: Modernizr and jQuery mobile
  • Responding to orientation changes

Comparing phone and tablet UIs

  • Differentiating between phone and tablet presentation
  • Adapting web content to respect platform conventions
  • Designing tablet-style, two-column views

Producing Graphics and Media

Processing video for mobile devices

  • Generating bandwidth-appropriate video content
  • Exploiting the HTML5 video element
  • Activating video content from JavaScript

Presenting graphic images

  • Optimizing graphics for mobile devices
  • Creating home screen graphic images

Leveraging Geolocation

Determining device position

  • Querying for the device location with GPS
  • Integrating with the native map application
  • Retrieving location-based web content

Integrating local storage

  • Persisting data onto the device
  • Managing locally stored data

Enhancing Site Functionality

Working offline

  • Enabling disconnected web applications
  • Detecting network status
  • Synchronizing offline data to enterprise databases

Consolidating the web with native extensions

  • Integrating with the home screen
  • Hiding the standard browser UI
  • Accessing native mobile hardware with PhoneGap
  • Camera
  • Contacts
  • Accelerometer
  • Compass

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

PIXYSTREE SCS

Rue Beeckmans, 53
1180 Bruxelles

Tel : +32 2 412 04 10
Fax : +32 2 412 04 19
Gsm : +32 485 212 722
Email : selossej@pixystree.com

http://www.pixystree.com

Training HTML5: Next Generation Web Development – 1 day

Class overview :

HTML5 empowers organizations to harness the future of Web development today while supporting legacy browsers. Providing specifications to improve accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), multimedia and user-friendly forms, HTML5 takes Web applications to a new dimension.

Class goals :

  • Leverage HTML5 to create modern, feature-rich sites with next generation standards
  • Improve accessibility and SEO with semantic elements, ARIA and microdata
  • Design professional, eye-catching presentations with CSS3
  • Build user-friendly forms with new input types and advanced UI controls
  • Augment JavaScript-based Web apps with geolocation, local storage, messaging and background processing
  • Program engaging interfaces with drag and drop, Canvas-based graphics, audio and video

Content of HTML5: Next Generation Web Development

Advancing Web Standards to the Next Generation

  • Demystifying HTML5
  • Supporting legacy browsers with polyfils
  • Regressive enhancement

Improving Semantics, Accessibility and Forms

Enhancing markup

  • Adding structural elements in HTML5
  • Maximizing accessibility with semantics and ARIA

Assisting users with form completion

  • Guiding input with autofocus and placeholders
  • Validating data entry without scripting
  • Preventing errors with pickers

Enriching Site Design with CSS3

Manipulating borders and backgrounds

  • Grouping content
  • Rounded corners
  • Gradients
  • Images

Creating elaborate effects

  • Floating text and boxes with shadows and opacity
  • Animating transformations and transitions

Applying Web fonts

  • Customizing appearance with downloadable fonts
  • Installing fonts with @font-face

Optimizing Page Rank with Microdata

Improving search engine optimization (SEO)

  • Employing the Google data vocabularies
  • Testing Google Rich Snippets

Scoping and annotating markup

  • Offers
  • Reviews
  • Organizations
  • Addresses
  • Hiding values in custom data-*attributes

Providing Relevant Content with Geolocation

The geolocation API in JavaScript

  • Estimating user latitude and longitude
  • Demonstrating geolocation with mapping

Generating location-specific content

  • Calculating distance with the haversine formula
  • Filtering information by geographic location

Developing with Local and Session Storage, Messages and Web Workers

Persisting data

  • Saving key/value pairs in localStorage
  • Leveraging JSON, browser databases and object stores

Communicating between windows

  • Posting messages across domains
  • Processing a message from a different source

Incorporating third-party data with Ajax

  • Allowing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
  • Accessing external providers with XMLHttpRequest2

Exchanging information with WebSockets

  • Overcoming limitations of HTTP
  • Pushing data to clients

Increasing responsiveness with asynchronous processing

  • Leveraging Web Workers for CPU-intensive code
  • Creating a tag cloud using a background process

Simplifying Interaction with Drag and Drop

Dragging elements

  • Processing mouse drags
  • Transferring data with events

Identifying target destinations

  • Enabling drop locations
  • Responding to a drop event

Engaging Users with Multimedia Features

Drawing dynamic graphics with Canvas

  • Charting with lines and rectangles
  • Annotating diagrams with text and images

Alternatives to Canvas

  • Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
  • Comparing Canvas to SVG

Enhancing a site with audio

  • Embedding audio in a Web page
  • Supporting multiple codecs and containers

Adding video to the Web

  • Encoding media in an Ogg container
  • Converting to H.264 and WebM formats

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

PIXYSTREE SCS

Rue Beeckmans, 53
1180 Bruxelles

Tel : +32 2 412 04 10
Fax : +32 2 412 04 19
Gsm : +32 485 212 722
Email : selossej@pixystree.com

http://www.pixystree.com

Training Developing a Website – 4 days

Class overview :

Those involved in establishing, developing or maintaining a Web site and anyone wanting to gain more knowledge about Web technologies. A basic familiarity with Microsoft Windows, the Internet and the Web is helpful.

Class goals :

An in-depth case study provides the hands-on skills to generate a dynamic Web site. Exercises include:

  • Creating accessible, standards-based Web pages with HTML, XHTML and CSS
  • Building, testing and refining your Web site
  • Adding DHTML effects to Web pages
  • Enhancing your Web page with images and image maps
  • Configuring and testing a Web server
  • Processing user requests and generating dynamic pages as the response
  • Interfacing your Web site to a database
  • Incorporating multimedia effects

Content of Developing a Website

Introduction to the Web

  • Internet/intranet fundamentals
  • Web architecture
  • Exploring multiple browsers
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

Building a Web page with HTML and XHTML

  • Head and body elements
  • Formatting text with tags
  • Establishing hypertext links
  • Ordered and unordered lists
  • Designing tables to display data
  • Defining relative and absolute anchors

Adding graphic elements

  • Making your pages graphical with embedded images
  • Adding interactivity with « clickable » images
  • Utilizing animated images to liven up a Web page
  • Creating image maps to link multiple parts of a single image

Controlling page styles and layout with CSS

  • Attaching style properties to HTML tags
  • Creating and applying style sheets
  • Implementing a styled navigational menu
  • Choosing and applying styles with class and ID attributes
  • Ensuring a consistent look across all pages of a site

Implementing a Web Server

Web server functionality

  • Web server/browser communication
  • The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Configuring a Web server

  • Setting up the server directory structure
  • Deploying access configuration/security
  • Ongoing server administration

Programming on the Server

Server-side scripting

  • Client/server/script interaction
  • Exploring the operation of server-side Web applications
  • Accessing data on the Web server
  • Creating dynamic Web pages
  • The difference between GET and POST requests
  • Including a consistent navigational menu on all pages
  • Reading and writing browser cookies

Processing user data with forms

  • Capturing user input with HTML forms
  • Adding text fields, selection lists, check boxes and radio buttons to a Web page
  • Configuring a form to invoke your server-side program when submitted
  • Processing form input with dynamic Web pages

Interfacing to a Database

Relational databases and the Web

  • Characterizing database records
  • Using SQL to manipulate the database

Database-driven Web pages

  • Opening a connection to a database
  • Storing data captured from forms
  • Performing dynamic queries on the database
  • Generating a Web page response displaying the results of a query

Creating Dynamic Web Pages

Adding interactivity with JavaScript

  • Incorporating JavaScript that executes in the Web browser
  • Enhancing client-side functionality
  • Validating form content to ensure forms are filled out correctly
  • Reacting to user actions

Incorporating multimedia

  • Embedding animation and video content in Web pages
  • Adding interactivity with plug-ins

Creating interactive Web pages with Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

  • Combining JavaScript and CSS
  • Supporting multiple browsers
  • Dynamically positioning content within a page
  • Revealing and hiding page content
  • Implementing rollover graphics with DHTML

XML and HTML5

  • Fundamentals of XML
  • Implementing an RSS feed on your site
  • Introducing HTML5

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

PIXYSTREE SCS

Rue Beeckmans, 53
1180 Bruxelles

Tel : +32 2 412 04 10
Fax : +32 2 412 04 19
Gsm : +32 485 212 722
Email : selossej@pixystree.com

http://www.pixystree.com

Training Cloud First: Overview, Strategies and Options for Government IT Managers – 1 day

Class overview :

As the world’s largest consumer of information technology, the United States government encounters barriers to achieving optimum productivity and efficiency. Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery.

Class goals :

  • Evaluating cloud computing technologies to improve government service delivery
  • Applying light technology and shared solutions for improved operational efficiency
  • Selecting the best cloud deployment model to meet requirements
  • Aligning cloud solutions with project requirements to identify first movers
  • Examining potential barriers and pitfalls to government cloud adoption
  • Analyzing government-wide initiatives to illustrate successful cloud implementations

Content of Cloud First: Overview, Strategies and Options for Government IT Managers

Cloud Computing Initiative: Defining a New Strategy for Government IT

Exploring the cloud computing landscape

  • Business case for the Cloud-first policy
  • Mapping agency priorities to cloud attributes

Analyzing cloud computing delivery models

  • Public
  • Private
  • Hybrid
  • Community
  • Layering cloud services to create a coherent architecture

Achieving System Agility with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Implementing IaaS for operational efficiency

  • Improving infrastructure procurement lead time
  • Cost-effective, scalable and reliable data storage with Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3)
  • Immediate response to dynamic system requirements
  • Auto-scaling infrastructure capacity to handle unpredictable demands

Federal, state and local agency case studies

  • Computing intensive tasks with hundreds of servers at minimal cost
  • Hosting a scalable Web application with Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)

Integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) to Lower the Cost of Government Operations

Benefiting from SaaS

  • Exploring best practices of the SaaS delivery model
  • Minimizing administration costs
  • Improving productivity and collaboration
  • Replacing capital investments with pay-per-use

Federal, state and local agency case studies

  • Implementing a SaaS vulnerability assessment system to reduce costs and increase security
  • Managing and maintaining customer relationships with Salesforce.com

Selecting the Right Cloud Deployment Model

Leveraging public clouds

  • Enabling shared solutions for reduced cost and increased efficiency
  • Choosing a public cloud vendor
  • Identifying the right services to move to the cloud

Implementing private clouds

  • Determining when a private cloud is required
  • Deciding on a private cloud architecture

Federal, state and local agency case studies

  • Improving resource utilization with private clouds
  • Leveraging public clouds for Federal systems

Improving Application Delivery with Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Leveraging PaaS to simplify deployment

  • Employing off-premise execution platforms
  • Instantaneous provisioning
  • Achieving transparent application scalability
  • Exploiting prepackaged configurations with Windows Azure and the Google App Engine

Live, in-class demonstrations

  • Deploying applications to the Google App Engine for dynamic scalability
  • Hosting ASP.NET data-driven applications in the Windows Azure cloud

Evaluating Potential Barriers to Adopting the Cloud

Security implications in the cloud

  • Complying with FISMA requirements
  • Achieving acceptable reliability and service-level agreements
  • Aligning security requirements with cloud solutions
  • Assessing cloud vendors authorized by FedRAMP

Building a strong governance foundation

  • Establishing cloud computing standards
  • Changing to a pay-per-use procurement model
  • Evaluating the impact on employee skill requirements
  • Best practices for government cloud services procurement

Live, in-class demonstration

  • Investigating FISMA certified vendors

Moving Forward to Cloud Adoption

  • Conducting a cloud-based alternatives analysis
  • Selecting services for cloud migration
  • Determining first movers
  • Identifying a pilot project
  • Creating a decision framework for your agency
  • Streamlining RFP processes to relevant cloud services

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

PIXYSTREE SCS

Rue Beeckmans, 53
1180 Bruxelles

Tel : +32 2 412 04 10
Fax : +32 2 412 04 19
Gsm : +32 485 212 722
Email : selossej@pixystree.com

http://www.pixystree.com

Training Adobe Photoshop Level 1 – 1 day

Class overview :

Course Description As a graphic designer, you are starting to familiarize yourself with image creation and editing using Photoshop. Understanding the different tools and features available in Photoshop will help you to maximize your creative potential. In this course, you’ll work with several tools and features to edit images using Photoshop.

Class goals :

  • explore the Photoshop interface and use several tools for selecting parts of images, and will move, duplicate, and resize images.
  • learn to use layers, and to apply layer effects and filters to create special effects.
  •  use painting tools and blending modes to create shading effects, and will perform adjustments to contrast and color balance.
  • save images in formats for print and web use.

Content of Adobe Photoshop Level 1

This course is intended for new users of Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Level 1
Training Adobe Photoshop Level 1

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

Course Description As a graphic designer, you are starting to familiarize yourself with image creation and editing using Photoshop. Understanding the different tools and features available in Photoshop will help you to maximize your creative potential. In this course, you’ll work with several tools and features to edit images using Photoshop.

Training Final Cut Pro Advanced – 3 days

Class overview :

This Final Cut Pro training course is an advanced, hands-on course to help students learn hard-to-find advanced editing and finishing techniques. Learn how to create polished transitions, fix screen direction errors, edit multi-camera projects, work with nested sequences, create fantastic effects use filters creatively and composite like a pro.

Class goals :

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Use asymmetrical Trimming and Advanced Trim edit window techniques
  • Multicamera Edit
  • Work with filters, variable speed and slow-motion techniques
  • Nest sequences and render settings
  • Work with filters
  • Finish and finally output

Content of Final Cut Pro Advanced

Overview of Editing Basics

  • Review of Basic Editing Techniques
  • 3-point Editing Rule

Advanced Editing Techniques

  • Smart Clip Loading
  • Using Match Frame
  • Using Replace Edit
  • Ganging Playheads

Trimming Basics

  • Basic Rippling
  • Basic Rolling
  • Extend Edit
  • Splitting Edits

Advanced Trimming

  • Trimming from the Keyboard
  • Trim Edit Window
  • Dynamic Trimming
  • Multitrack Trimming
  • Asymmetrical Trimming

Audio Editing

  • Adjusting Levels on the Fly
  • Adjust Levels Dialog
  • Applying Normalization Gain
  • Using Audio Filters
  • Sending to Soundtrack Pro
  • Using the AudioMixer Window

Multicam Editing

  • Basic Multicamera Edits
  • Working with Multiple Angles
  • Editing Audio and Video Separately
  • Collapsing and Uncollapsing Multiclips
  • Match-framing Multiclips
  • Applying Effects to Multiclips
  • Multiclips and External Video

Compositing in Final Cut Pro

  • Basic Compositing Review
  • Creating Travel Mattes
  • Adding Graphics from a Layered Photoshop File
  • Keyframing Basics
  • Keyframing in the Timeline

Mastering Filters

  • Customizing Filters
  • Understanding Filter Order
  • Filter Timing
  • Limiting Filter Effects
  • Creating Favorite Filters
  • Hiding and showing Filter Controls
  • Working with Smoothcam

Nesting Sequences

  • Understanding Nested Sequences
  • Using Basic Nesting
  • Nesting in Place
  • Working Around Render Order
  • Mixing Sequence Sizes
  • Nesting as an Editing Tool
  • Nesting Master Filters and Unnesting

Preparing for Finishing

  • Nesting Sequences
  • Unnesting Sequences
  • Adding Widescreen mattes
  • Adding BITC
  • Managing Audio Outputs
  • Using the Media Manager
  • Exporting EDLs and XML Files

Troubleshooting Tips

  • Fixing Screen Direction Errors
  • Stealing Audio from Another Shot
  • Removing a Boom

Outputting

  • Sharing to Apple Devices
  • Sharing to DVD and Blu Ray
  • Sharing for the Web
  • Using Compressor
  • Outputting Audio
  • Exporting Still Frames
  • Exporting QuickTime Movies
Final Cut Pro Advanced
Training Final Cut Pro Advanced

Onze voordelen :

  • Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
  • 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
  • Offer request : Response within 24 hours
  • 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
  • Free parking, lunch & drinks
  • Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …

Training An Introduction to Aperture 3 – 2 days

Class overview :

This comprehensive course starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture’s powerful photo editing, image retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features.

Class goals :

After completing this course, students will be able to understand:

  • Introduction to the Aperture interface
  • Using Stacks to organize your photos
  • Working with Projects, Albums, Smart Albums
  • Using Loupe and Zoom tools
  • Working with metadata
  • Understanding the adjustment controls
  • Creating images using versioning
  • Building Web Galleries
  • Creating customized books
  • Printing contact sheets
  • Working with external editors

Content of An Introduction to Aperture 3

Exploring the Aperture Workflow

  • Opening Aperture
  • Getting to know the Aperture Interface
  • Using the Aperture Layouts
  • Customizing the Workspace
  • Understanding Camera RAW
  • Working with Aperture’s File Structure
  • Selecting an Alternate Aperture Library
  • Quitting Aperture

Importing Images Into Aperture

  • Importing Images from a Disk
  • Adding Metadata
  • Adding Custom Filenames
  • Importing Images from iPhoto
  • Importing Images from a Memory Card

Organizing and Rating Images

  • Working with Stacked Images
  • Organizing Imported Images
  • Emailing Images from Aperture
  • Rating Images
  • Exploring the Viewer
  • Making Selects Using Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Evaluating Images at Full Resolution
  • Navigating the Browser
  • Rating Stacked Images
  • Managing Multiple Projects
  • Creating a Smart Album

Image Adjustment Basics

  • Preparing Images for Adjustments
  • Framing Your Images
  • Making Automatic Adjustments
  • Analyzing Image Information with the Histogram
  • Using the Spot & Patch Tool
  • Using the Lift and Stamp Tools
  • Adjusting Spot & Patch Options
  • Comparing an Adjusted Image to the Master Image

Creating Web Output

  • Organizing the Projects Panel Using Favorites
  • Preparing the Project
  • Creating a Web Journal
  • Adding Images and Pages
  • Choosing a Site Theme
  • Customizing Text
  • Adding Text
  • Sizing and Positioning Images
  • Previewing Images in a Slideshow
  • Exporting a Web Journal

Evaluating Images

  • Preparing the Project
  • Creating a Light Table Album
  • Adding Images to the Light Table
  • Evaluating Images in the Light Table
  • Evaluating Images in Full Screen Mode
  • Switching Between Views
  • Printing the Light Table

Finishing, Delivering and Archiving Images

  • Preparing the Project
  • Customizing the Full Screen Mode
  • Adjusting Luminance
  • Adjusting Tint and Saturation
  • Matching Color Between Images
  • Applying Adjustments to a Group of Images
  • Creating a Smart Album
  • Printing Contact Sheets
  • Authoring a Disc of Final Images
  • Backing Up the Library

Advanced Organization and Rating

  • Preparing the Project
  • Creating and Editing Stacks
  • Editing Stacks During Import
  • Using Keywords
  • Assigning Keywords to Images
  • Editing Metadata in Batches
  • Choosing Image ‘Picks’, Applying Ratings to Images
  • Creating Albums from Stacked Images
  • Searching and Filtering Images

Advanced Editing

  • Preparing the Project
  • Adjusting RAW vs. Non-RAW Images
  • Adjusting White-Balance Temperature Extremes
  • Using Metadata Sets
  • Adjusting Highlights and Shadows
  • Converting Color Images to Grayscale
  • Applying a Color Monochrome Adjustment
  • Sharpening and Noise Reduction
  • Sharpening and Noise Reduction for RAW Images
  • Taking a Closer Look at Exposure
  • Working with an External Editor
  • Deleting Versions

Advanced Output

  • Soft Proofing Images
  • Using Multiple Displays
  • Creating Book Albums
  • Creating a Smart Web Gallery Album

Advanced File Structure and Archiving

  • Preparing the Project
  • Exporting a Master File
  • Moving the Aperture Library
  • Creating Multiple Libraries
  • Backing Up and Archiving
  • Creating Multiple Vaults
An Introduction to Aperture 3
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Training An Introduction to Final Cut Pro 7 – 3 days

Class overview :

This three-day, hands-on course teaches students to perform basic editing functions while becoming familiar with the Final Cut Pro user interface. In this course, you will cut a scene from the TNT television series Leverage, create a promo for Seaworld’s Believe documentary, aswell as master filters and effects as you edit a segment of Playing for Change, the international music-creation event.

Class goals :

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Mark clips, using insert, overwrite and drag-and-drop editing
  • Trim edit points
  • Use Ripple, Roll, and Extend edits as well as the Slip and Slide tools
  • Apply filters and changing Motion properties
  • Edit audio and audio creation
  • Finish and final output

Content of An Introduction to Final Cut Pro 7

Editing in Final Cut Pro

  • Launching Final Cut Pro
  • Final Cut Pro Interface
  • Following a Workflow
  • Starting a Project
  • Importing Clips
  • Navigating Clips
  • Marking and Editing Clips
  • Playing and Navigating a Sequence
  • Organizing Project Elements
  • Saving, Hiding and Quitting Final Cut Pro

Building the Rough Cut

  • Working with Projects
  • Editing a Rough Cut
  • Making Overwrite Edits
  • Managing Timeline Tracks
  • Making Insert Edits
  • Editing Audio Clips
  • Moving Clips in the Timeline
  • Creating a New Version
  • Drag-and-Drop Editing
  • Changing the Volume of Edited Clips

Finishing the Rough Cut

  • Adding Cutaways
  • Editing to Narration
  • Editing to Music
  • Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Positioning Clips
  • Screening and Sharing a Sequence

Trimming Clip Duration

  • Understanding Trimming
  • Rippling Edit Points
  • Rippling in the Viewer and by Numbers
  • Trimming Clips on the V2 Track
  • Trimming One Track of a Linked Clip

Refining Edit Points

  • Trimming Two Edit Points
  • Slipping One Clip
  • Rolling Two Edit Points
  • Sliding Clips to Refine Position
  • Dragging Clips to New Locations
  • Keeping Linked Clips in Sync

Refining the Edit Process

  • Labelling Project Elements
  • Creating Subclips
  • Adding Markers to Clips
  • Using Markers to Align Actions
  • Using Storyboard Editing
  • Performing Replace Edits
  • Editing Multicam Footage

Customizing Final Cut Pro

  • Reconnecting Media
  • Working with Mixed Format Sequences
  • Working with Master Clips
  • Logging Information in Browser Columns
  • Finding Project Items
  • Customizing Shortcut Keys and Button Bars
  • Saving and Loading Layouts
  • Optimizing User Preferences

Capturing & Transferring Footage

  • Connecting Sources for Capture
  • Choosing Preset Format Settings
  • Previewing and Marking Your Source
  • Logging Clips
  • Choosing Clip Settings
  • Choosing Capture Settings
  • Choosing Capturing Options
  • Setting Capture Preferences
  • Transferring Files from Tapeless Sources

Applying Transitions

  • Evaluating the Project
  • Understanding Transitions
  • Viewing Transition Options
  • Applying Transitions
  • Modifying and Copying Transitions
  • Using the Transition Editor
  • Changing Transition Parameters
  • Previewing and Rendering Effects

Mixing Audio Tracks

  • Preparing the Project for Mixing
  • Organizing and Editing Audio Effects
  • Monitoring and Adjusting Audio Levels
  • Applying Transitions to Fade Volume
  • Setting Keyframes to Change Volume
  • Using the Audio Mixer
  • Recording a Narration Track
  • Importing Audio Files

Creating Titles

  • Working with Video Generators
  • Adding a Lower Third
  • Applying a Boris Title
  • Adding Mattes, Effects and Still Images
  • Creating a Credit Roll
  • Using Master Templates

Changing Motion Properties

  • Entering Speed Changes
  • Using the Speed Tool
  • Creating a Freeze Frame
  • Changing Motion Parameters
  • Animating Motion Parameters

Applying Filters

  • Applying and Viewing Video Filters
  • Viewing and Modifying Filter Parameters
  • Applying Audio Filters
  • Using a Color Correction Filter
  • Animating Filters

Finishing and Outputting

  • Detecting Audio Peaks
  • Adjusting Video Levels for Broadcast
  • Sharing Clips and Sequences
  • Exporting a QuickTime Movie
  • Using Other Export Options
  • Exporting a Still Frame
  • Outputting to Tape
  • Making a Timecode Window
  • Burn and Backing Up Projects
An Introduction to Final Cut Pro 7
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Training Adobe Illustrator CS5 Advanced Techniques – 2 days

Class overview :

This Advanced Illustrator training course lets you build on your existing skills and explore some of the more advanced techniques available when working with this increasingly powerful software package.

Class goals :

Whether you’re a large corporation or a small studio, you can take advantage of the power of Illustrator CS5 to create distinctive vector artwork, using features like the gradient mesh tool, perspective drawing, beautiful strokes and lots more.

Content of Adobe Illustrator CS5 Advanced Techniques

Intro to the Advanced Illustrator training course

Using the Appearance panel

Creating Complex Illustrations

Effects and Styles

Colour

Brushes

Tracing graphics – Live Trace Advanced

Coloring Artwork Using Live Paint

Symbols – Advanced

More about paths

Color

Outputting Documents

Blending shapes

Exporting Graphics for the Web

Gradient Mesh tool

Creating an Interactive PDF

Perspective Drawing

Beautiful Strokes

Bristle Brush

Multiple Artboards

Shape Builder Tool

Using Illustrator for Flash

Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Advanced Techniques
Training Adobe Illustrator CS5 Advanced Techniques

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