In this comprehensive Blues Guitar program designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy, you learn techniques, scalesiВїВЅand tricksiВїВЅtoiВїВЅtake your blues guitar playing to the next level. You will develop lead techniques like bending, vibrato, hammer-ions, pull-offs and more. Learn Blues turn arounds, the shuffle feel, Jazzy blues and fast Blues progressions. There are entire blues riffs, leads and rhythms that you will apply over the full band backing tracks that give you the feel of playing in your own band.

"Everyone's camera can tell a story," says world-renowned photographer Douglas Kirkland. Follow along as he explores the process of shooting a series of photos that connect to tell a story.

Creating a well-crafted data visualization is a hands-on process. Challenge yourself with this series of real-world data visualization scenarios in Processing, an open-source drawing and development environment. Barton Poulson, author of the companion Interactive Data Visualization with Processing course, reinforces core concepts with mini-projects that help you practice drawing and interacting with data. A comprehensive challenge at the end of the course shows how to take data from a spreadsheet to a full-fledged online, interactive experience.

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.

WordPress plus Easy Digital Downloads is the simple way to sell digital products like music and ebooks online. Learn to set up, configure, publish, and manage an online store for digital goods in this course with Morten Rand-Hendriksen. Morten shows how to navigate the delivery, tax, and style settings; add products; manage sales; and plug into external services for payment processing.

Learn how to add clouds and dramatically alter the sky of your images to bring depth and mood, even if there is a tree in the way. This Intermediate Photoshop tutorial covers everything you need to know about coloring and stylizing an image. This PRO Tutorial covers every detail of this image in full over 1:25 hours of intensive learning!

HDR is an acronym for High Dynamic Range. If you use some special HDR software, you can see all the light in the final photo that you can see when you are standing on the scene. Perhaps you’ve been in a beautiful spot and taken a photo and it comes out flat and disappointing. With HDR processing there is no longer a need for that — now the final image can be as truly evocative as it was when you were there.

Learn how to enhance the natural beauty of a landscape photo with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In this short start-to-finish editing project, author Jan Kabili walks you through corrections for common issues you may have in your own landscape photos. She shows you how to create a mood with white balance, enhance contrast and detail with tonal adjustments, increase image intensity, make corrections to specific areas of the photo, and export the final processed photo.

In this course, business coach Lisa Gates teaches managers to harness the power of coaching in the workplace. Learn the benefits of developing your team and helping employees build their skills in ways that transform and empower them to do more productive and engaging work. Then discover how to build your own leadership and coaching skills and equip yourself with tools that encourage insight and growth. The course wraps with a look at how you can maintain the coaching momentum in the workplace and address common challenges.

If you have ever needed to cut someone out of their background and place them onto a new one, this tutorial is perfect for you. We cover very advanced techniques for cutting objects out, and creating amazing layer masks. We also go over some special techniques for matching color. One of the hardest parts about cutting someone out of their background is getting hair and detail perfectly selected. In this Photoshop Tutorial, you will learn our unique method that will work perfectly every time.