Windows 8 Pro is the latest upgrade to come from Microsoft and it improves on the already brilliant features of Windows 8. This upgrade improves your all-round computing experience and takes it to the next level. Windows 8 Pro is designed to be vibrant and beautiful with the start screen available right on the desktop. The tile system on the start screen automatically highlights the new updates keeping you connected to your friends and family. Use actions such as swipe, tap, click and zoom to get access to your favorite apps, websites, folders, person or playlist quickly.

Shoot in color, but think in black and white. In this course, Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes shares his favorite techniques for transforming color photographs into black and white, a technique that provides more creative options than using your camera's black-and-white mode. Learn how to prepare and fine-tune your photographs in Lightroom, and then move them into Photoshop to take advantage of its nondestructive adjustment layers. The course also introduces techniques for using Photoshop to adjust the color of video clips.

Get up and running with the cutting-edge DAW Cubase 7 in this quick one-hour class. Author Pieter Schlosser shows how to use Cubase 7 to create your music, starting with the very first steps: setting up audio and VST connections, utilizing templates, and customizing your Cubase workspace. Then learn how to import audio, set your tempo, and create a click track and markers. The next chapter shows you how to record and edit audio tracks, including how to overdub and loop, as well as apply and edit fades and crossfades. Then, Pieter moves into MIDI recording and editing, covering how to choose sounds, edit performances in the Piano Roll view, and use MIDI controller lanes to enhance the performance. He wraps up the course with a chapter on adding effects, creating aux sends, automating your mix, and exporting the final track.

Take a look into the CSS horizon and explore Flexbox, aka the Flexible Box Layout model, an important part of the evolution of CSS3 layouts. Senior author James Williamson walks through the exciting new capabilities Flexbox offers for controlling layouts—with a fraction of the code previously required. Learn what browsers currently support Flexbox and how to define containers and use properties to control position, size, and display order. Throughout the course, you'll have occasions to test your understanding with engaging, hands-on Challenge exercises.

In this installment of the Lighting with Flash series, photographer and Strobist.com publisher David Hobby demonstrates using strobes to freeze action while capturing the strength and grace of a dancer in motion. After working through the lighting challenges of a dance studio, David sets up a white, seamless background and shoots some test shots, adjusting the flash units to create a white "blow-away" background that will enable the photo to be easily composited. Next, he photographs the dancer, working with her to capture a relaxed expression as she leaps and strikes various poses. After the action shots, David lights and shoots a portrait.

BatchConverter’s Advanced Batch Converter is a paid image processing application that is compatible with Windows-based computers.

Auction Auto Bidder automatically places your bids in the last seconds of an auction, ensuring no one will try to outbid you which means the price stays low and your chances of winning stay high. Auction Auto Bidder can also import watched items from ebay, supports bid groups and works as a fully featured tabbed Web browser optimized to make browsing the eBay Web site easier. The program supports multiple eBay accounts and can be used on any computer for a single purchase price. It also fully supports international eBay Web sites.

Easy DVD Creator provides you a handy tool to convert AVI/DIVX/XVID/DIV, MPEG/MPG/DAT, WMV/ASF/ASX, RM/RMVB, MOV/QT, 3GP/3G2, MP4/M4V, FLV and TOD into DVDs that you can watch in your home DVD player.With Easy DVD Creator, you can easily turn the vacation, wedding and family movies into DVDs that you can burn and share with your friends and family! Easily create DVDs in your own home! Just add video files into the file list, click "Start" and it's done!. Supports 8.5GB DVD disc, supports MultiThreading conversion.

With TextMage, you have a powerful tool at hand to edit multiple text files simultaneously. The program contains a variety of powerful features to adjust the contents of text files as needed. For example, you can number lines or move, remove, insert or replace text sections. You can also remove or insert line breaks, change the encoding of text files and more. All functions can be combined and saved as a template for reuse.

Media Composer is the top choice for professional film and video editing in the industry. Whether you edit movies, TV shows, commercials, or other video, this industry-standard nonlinear editor provides 64-bit performance, easy-to-use video editing tools, and streamlined HD, file-based, and stereo 3D workflows. Its open platform enables you to work with the gear you have or want and integrate into any workflow. Plus, it’s designed to eliminate bottlenecks, enabling you to work faster than ever.