Sneak Peek! Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop: Introduction

Creative opportunities abound with Adobe’s Creative Cloud.  Last year, Adobe announced that it would no longer release new versions of its Creative Suite.  The plans for a cloud based software service that was first suggested in 2011, became a reality.

The Creative Cloud has many of the same features as the suite version, but there are new features as well.  There are also new mobile apps that give the end user more power and mobility in their creative expression.

Adding to our extensive library, we have recently completed recording on courses for Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop: Introduction and Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop: Advanced.  These courses will be available in the coming weeks on our website: www.knowledgecity.com

Enjoy this sneak peek:

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Ways to Use Excel

1. Create a budget to track your personal finance. This is a great way to see where your money is going in order to cut back on unnecessary spending. The benefit of a spreadsheet includes the ability to make formulas and work out complex sums easily, making financial planning that much easier. 

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2. If you are planning on travelling, you can create a spreadsheet outlining your vacation, including where you will stay, how you will get to each place, and how many days you will be at each location (this will greatly reduce stress if you are travelling to multiple places during one vacation, especially if it's your first visit).

3. Create a spreadsheet to track household chores, where you can include categories like daily, weekly, bi-monthly, and monthly chores. Be sure to leave a checkbox next to each entry!

4. Use spreadsheets for To Do lists—these can cover the week and be broken down into days. Include both weekly and daily tasks. Checkboxes on each task are helpful here too, and can give you a sense of accomplishment when you get to check off a completed task.

5. Create a spreadsheet to evaluate items you are considering purchasing, such as a new car.

6. Create a spreadsheet to track inventory if you have a business, or even if you just want to keep track of all your personal possessions.

These are just a few examples of how you could use Excel—the possibilities are endless. So now we're curious, what do you use Excel for?

Remember to check out the first 3 FREE tutorials for some great insight on how to use Excel 2010, the newest version of Excel. We also have both introductory and advanced courses available in earlier versions of Excel.

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Digital Imaging with Adobe Illustrator CS4 Training

KnowledgeCity's introduction to Digital Imaging with Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the first step toward creating professional graphics and visual effects. Learn the power of 2 and 3 dimensional vector artwork, including how to improve your productivity with brushes, create new formats for text along curved lines, within shapes, and as objects, and customize shape and object drawing and image tracing with the Pencil and Line tools. This course builds a firm foundation for a future of creating dynamic images with the number one graphics software in logo design, illustrations, and Web development.

Additional Course Topics

• Use of rulers and guides
• Changing colors of objects and paths with fill and stroke
• Creating precise shapes with the Pen tool
• Color management and selection
• How to instantly clip parts of an image or objects with masks
• Applying transparency effects to native and imported objects
• Use of gradients to fade and mix colors
• Creating smooth transitions between objects and colors with the Blend tool
• How to organize, isolate, mask, clip, select, move, and edit with layers
• Making fine adjustments to letter spacing with the kern/track options

Check out our computer software courses and other digital imaging courses, including more Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop!

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Free Learning

Earlier today, KnowledgeCity announced plans to reveal restricted course content to all KnowledgeCity.com visitors.

Previously reserved exclusively for KnowledgeCity registered members, complete course manuals will soon be available at the click of a button. Work is already underway to construct user-friendly access to all course training manuals. This innovative option allows prospective users to freely sample the course content and peruse and preview the manual before signing up to be a member.

As a leader in online career, computer, and financial training courses, this is not the first time KnowledgeCity has made high-quality educational products free for visitors to the Web site. In fact, KnowledgeCity is still offering the seven-day free trial of any courses, any time, anywhere. As always, KnowledgeCity’s all-you-can-learn format allows risk-free learning from high-quality online tutorials. Be part of the learning; sign up for the seven-day free trial and watch for the new availability of the manuals coming soon.

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