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Learn to access and edit your Office documents on the go. Microsoft offers the same great productivity tools you use on your desktop in apps designed specifically for iOS. In this course, Jess Stratton shows you how to use the latest features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, and Outlook on your iPhone or iPad. Jess explores the shared common interface conventions, and then dives into the unique features of each app. Find out how to create great looking Word documents, build spreadsheets and charts in Excel, present slideshows from PowerPoint, and not only check your email, but also collaborate on files using Outlook.

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

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Whether you've been using your Olympus EM Series camera for a while or you just got the hang of it, there are a lot of options you can tweak. These cameras are packed with customization features that allow you to fine-tune the way they handle everything, from focusing to locking exposure. Plus, you can expand the uses for your camera by building lens kits and selecting essential accessories.

In this course Richard Harrington and Rhed Pixel demonstrate a set of customization strategies aimed at making your EM series camera far more responsive. They show you how to master the exposure by modifying ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and exposure compensation. They take you through several specialty shooting modes including Bulb, Art Filter, panoramic, and 3d mode. In addition to showing you how to get the most out of the in-camera settings, they show you how to control the camera remotely, connect the camera to Wi-Fi, record video, and more.

Get ready to go beyond the factory settings and make shooting with your Olympus EM-D series camera faster and more responsive with this collection of settings and customizing tips.

Translate your ideas into polished diagrams anyone can understand with OmniGraffle, the flexible diagramming application for the Mac. With this course, you'll be able to create org charts, space plans, wireframes, presentations, and much more. But first, learn the basics with author Jason Osder, as he demonstrates how to construct diagrams with shapes and lines, and save time with reusable graphics called stencils. Then dig into advanced topics such as drawing your own custom shapes with the Pen tool, adding logical section breaks in multipage diagrams, and notating hierarchies with the Outline sidebar. Last, find out how to print and export projects and take a look at the capabilities of OmniGraffle Pro, including tables and interactivity.

Get tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts that will increase your efficiency with Outlook 2016. Gini von Courter shares over 65 power shortcuts to save time, increase productivity, and help you stay organized—whether you're sending emails or managing your task list. Start with Gini's top 10 shortcuts, and power up from there. Learn techniques for quickly organizing your inbox, managing incoming messages, and replying to emails, and a few other cool tricks, like sending texts directly from Outlook. This course also helps you manage your appointments, share calendars, work with contacts, and stay on task with Outlook 2016.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Is procrastination getting in the way of your work? Take 20 minutes now to identify why you do it and set yourself up to overcome procrastination in the future. Author and Kelley School of Business lecturer Brenda Bailey-Hughes shows you how to separate procrastination from other behaviors, identify your stalls, and address your procrastination head on with strategies that will help you get more done.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Have you ever had stage fright? Then this course is for you! Although it may seem to come naturally to some people, public speaking is actually a skill that can be learned. Todd Dewett provides you with techniques to prepare yourself mentally and physically so that you can feel comfortable—or even enjoy—delivering your message to an audience.

Get your creative ideas out of your head and onto your canvas. This course takes everything you love about our Painter training and updates it for the 2015 version of the software. John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter authors, teaches the tools and techniques that will get beginners up and running with Painter and help old hands harness the best new features in Painter 2015.

Learn the basics of painting on a computer, and see how to set up your system (your Painter preferences, tablet and pen, and palettes) so it works best for you. John shows you how to mix and manage color; wield Painter's expressive brushes with maximum control; work with layers, selections, cloning; and integrate with that other digital-painting powerhouse, Adobe Photoshop. John also covers 2015 features such as the new Particle brushes, Jitter Smoothing, updated brush tracking, and improved custom palette tools. Dive in now and get your creative juices flowing.

Learn to paint on a digital canvas with the original digital painting software: Painter. Our Painter training helps you get creative ideas out of your head and into the computer. John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter authors, teaches the essential tools and techniques you need to create stunning works of digital art in Painter 2016.

First, learn the basics of painting on a computer, and see how to customize your Painter preferences, tablet and pen, and palettes, so they work best for you. John then shows how to mix and manage color; draw with hard media such as pencils and chalk; ink lines; color with markers; and wield Painter's expressive bristles and brushes. He also shows how to paint with special media such as watercolor brushes, clone areas of paintings, and troubleshoot Painter pitfalls.

Particle and dynamic speckle brushes are new to Painter 2015 and 2016. They allow artists to create sweeps of "particles" (speckles, lights, dust, etc.) across the canvas with a single stroke. They are physics inspired, designed to mimic real-world particles as well as the behavior of brushes with individual hairs. In this course, John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter developers, introduces the new brushes and shows how to control the size, shape, density, and randomness of the effects.

You will learn what particles look like and how they are generated, and how to use the brush controls, Opacity slider, Shape attributes, and Color Variability and blending palette to influence the appearance of your brushstrokes. John demonstrates all these concepts using a nondestructive, layer-based workflow and a sci-fi-inspired painting of the night sky, featuring the Milky Way.

Recreate the color palettes of nature and learn how to paint more evocative landscapes with this painting class from Will Kemp. The course teaches painting techniques for quickly capturing the mood of a landscape throughout the four seasons, from a vibrant summer's day to a muted winter snow scene.

Will explains how to simplify and separate tonal values into areas of light and shadow, how to use warm and cool colors effectively, and how to mix a naturalistic green palette — a major color stumbling block in landscape painting. A vibrant spring green, for example, can be easy to mix, but hard to balance. The same is true for warm autumnal colors and the vivid blues of summer skies. Will shows how to build these palettes and use gestural impressionistic brushstrokes to paint different landscape scenes. By introducing washes and glazes, he demonstrates how to simulate the atmospheric light of each season. So break out your brushes and paints. Start watching to learn how to mix color for the landscape and approach painting the seasons with confidence.

This course follows a proven methodology for conducting thorough and effective technical security audits and assessments based on guidelines from NIST. Learn how to develop the testing methodology essential for technical security reviews. Discover how to identify and analyze targets, use key technical testing tools, identify and mitigate findings, and more. Performing technical information security audits and assessments is essential to protecting information assets. By the end of this course, you'll know how to determine if your network is secure.

Pressure is an inevitable part of work and our daily lives. Those who are able to maintain their cool in challenging, high-pressure situations—or even thrive—put themselves in a better position to succeed. In this course, learn how to identify pressure situations and tackle them with confidence. Instructor Eddie Davila helps you identify your unique pressure points, and explains how to approach them through preparation and planning, as well as what to do when the big moment arrives.

In OneNote 2010 Essential Training, instructor David Rivers demonstrates how OneNote can be used to take notes, organize thoughts, do research, and collaborate with others on projects. This course shows how to quickly add rich content to notebooks, format the content with OneNote's new formatting and styles capabilities, organize information to suit individual needs, and retrieve information effectively. It also shows how to take advantage of the robust OneNote 2010 sharing and collaboration features like Outlook integration, change highlighting and page versioning, wiki-style linking, and the OneNote web applications. Exercise files accompany the course.

In this course, author David Rivers shows you the basics of using Microsoft OneNote 2013 to create, edit, and save notes. Discover easy ways to format your text, organize notebooks, use stationery, work with tables, perform research, and integrate your notes with Outlook. For new notetakers, the "Getting Started" chapter provides an overview of the complete workflow, so you can quickly get up and running with OneNote. Plus, learn about new features included in OneNote 2013, such as how to sync notes with SkyDrive.

To create and manage a regular stream of video content, it takes planning and hard work. Video is a big investment, and Facebook and YouTube are crowded with competitors. You need to do it right. In this course, marketing and media strategist Roberto Blake provides a formula for creating a winning online video content strategy: from planning, production, and post, all the way to delivery and search optimization. Get an overview of the online video landscape, learn how to nail down exactly who you're making content for, discover best practices for production and post, and find out what kinds of content works best on what platforms. High-quality content and attention to detail are the keys to building a large audience-learn the techniques the professionals use to do online video right.

OpenCV is an open-source toolkit for advanced computer vision. It is one of the most popular tools for facial recognition, used in a wide variety of security, marketing, and photography applications, and it powers a lot of cutting-edge tech, including augmented reality and robotics. This course offers Python developers a detailed introduction to OpenCV 3, starting with installing and configuring your Mac, Windows, or Linux development environment along with Python 3. Learn about the data and image types unique to OpenCV, and find out how to manipulate pixels and images. Instructor Patrick W. Crawford also shows how to read video streams as inputs, and create custom real-time video interfaces. Then comes the real power of OpenCV: object, facial, and feature detection. Learn how to leverage the image-processing power of OpenCV using methods like template matching and machine learning data to identify and recognize features.

Oracle 12c Release 2 introduced new features for improved performance, high availability, development, and more. Also, Oracle 12c Release 2 was the first Oracle database that was launched as a cloud-first database powered by the Oracle Cloud platform. In this course, explore some of the most interesting new features, and learn what you need to know to create and connect to a database in the Oracle Cloud. David Yahalom shows how to register for an Oracle Cloud account, and create new databases using the user interfaces. He also provides hands-on demos of some of the most exciting new features available exclusively in Oracle 12c Release 2, including new features for pluggable databases (PDBs) and partition management.

Sometimes emotions take precedence over logic. By appealing to this facet of human behavior, you can create products that draw people in and direct them down your preferred path. Chris Nodder continues his Persuasive UX series in this course, where he shows how to use scarcity, time constraints, anchors, and other strategies to harness this emotion and build truly persuasive designs.

Your catalog of digital photos may contain tens of thousands of images, scattered across multiple devices. But they're not just files; they're family memories. So what are you doing to preserve your photos, particularly your very best shots?

Backup is important, but it's not enough. Using keywords and other organizational features is also important—but also not enough. A complete, long-term photo archiving strategy involves multiple techniques: identifying those shots you want to preserve for generations, and then taking the steps necessary to make that happen. In this course, photographer and family historian Erika Thornes outlines a roadmap for storing, sharing, and archiving your family's story through pictures. From culling and keywording, to backing up and producing archival prints and photo books, Erika details the steps that will make your collection of digital images accessible now and in the future.

Get your gear on! Join photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey every Friday for insights on camera gear of all kinds. In Photo Gear Weekly, Tim shares tips for mastering your camera's advanced features, recommends accessories that will streamline your shooting and expand your creative options, and spotlights hot gear—new and vintage alike—that you'll want to know about.

From a group picture on a hiking trail to a professional headshot, your photos encapsulate important parts of your life—and perhaps your career, as well. Keep your shots safe and sound by cultivating a solid backup workflow. In this course, Tim Grey goes over issues to consider when planning your workflow—such as the time required for a backup job and which risks to worry about—and goes into different backup options, from cloud-based storage to hard drive and RAID systems. Learn best practices for protecting your photos and create a long-term backup solution that you can feel confident about.

Want to quickly find all the photos you took a year ago today? Or in a certain place? Or with a specific set of camera and lens settings? Thanks to metadata, searches like these are easy.

Metadata may not be glamorous, but it's a priceless tool for managing and organizing photos. Your camera records metadata with every shot: the date, time, camera and lens settings, and much more. You can also add metadata using programs like Adobe Lightroom.

In this course, photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey demystifies metadata, describing what it is and showing how it's an essential part of photo management, from categorizing photos to creating fun searches, such as "show me all the photos I took a year ago today."

In this course, photographer Derrick Story teaches the concepts and techniques behind efficient photo management and backup, which becomes increasingly important as a photo collection grows. The course begins by showing how to transfer and organize photos "by hand"—that is, by copying them from a memory card to a hard drive without using software. In the second portion of the course, discover how to take advantage of the photo-management features provided by programs such as Lightroom and Aperture, by assigning descriptive keywords, by giving photos ratings and color-coded labels, and how smart album features can automatically collect photos that meet certain criteria.

The course concludes with a look at aspects of a good backup and archival strategy, ranging from the best file format for long-term backup to the best hardware options for offline storage.

Whether you have a private office, home office, or shared office space, there are many ways to organize your work area for maximum efficiency. In this course, professional organizer Suzanna Kaye covers different organizational styles and options so you can choose the best setup for your situation. She explains how to maintain proper posture and select the right furniture, technology, and lighting; reviews storage options; and walks through filing concepts to help track paperwork and get more done.

Outlook 2003 Essential Training with David Rivers is a movie-based tutorial designed to help new and existing Outlook users get a basic to intermediate understanding of this latest version of Microsoft Outlook. The training begins with a basic overview of the newly designed Outlook interface and quickly advances to cover such topics as sending e-mail, using contacts, tasks, the calendar, notes, mailbox options and much more. Exercise files accompany this training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.