As a blogger, I wear many hats – from writer to photographer to designer and coder. While I went to school for a few of these skill sets, times have changed since 2001. Technology is changing and it’s important for me to stay up-to-date on whatever I can. Sure, there are $2,000 classes you can take for a day of intensive learning for one thing or another. But another, more affordable and more flexible option is a subscription to lynda.com.
I’ve known and used lynda.com for the past several years, both personally and professionally, as a great way to brush up and learn new skills and technologies, ranging from HTML5 to photography tips. If you want to dig into Photoshop 6 or just have an intro to stylesheets, lynda.com has a serious of video training tutorials that can benefit both new and advanced bloggers alike. Beyond that, lynda.com also offers training on different website and social media platforms, such as Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter.
Training with lynda.com is very easy. Simply browse for the skill, company, or software you want to train in and add it to your training library. Training modules usually have a table of contents that allows you to view all the training within that series. You can choose which videos you want to watch, or watch all of them. If you happen to find a video instructor you favor, you can watch all of their videos. Lynda tracks which training videos you’ve viewed so you can monitor your progress. Since it’s all online and available whenever you need, you can train at your own pace.
I’ve already added several HTML5 videos to my training queue and am enjoying the videos I’ve watched. Stay tuned for our next post where we’ll delve more into the actual training sessions!
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I would love to take the Foundations of Photography: Exposure course.
I need PhotoShop training, it’s taking too long trying to teach myself.
I want to take the Excel 2010 Essential Training course to freshen up my skills for getting back in the job market not that my son is going to school. We need my income back… badly! 😉
website! 😀
I need more help than that 😉
All of them, but especially photo , web & interactive design
I would like to learn it all. The more I know the more comfortable I will feel being online.
I want to take WordPress Essential Training
Wow so many-video, photoshop, and web-interactive just to start.
InDesign Secrets would be good!
I’d like to take digital camera training, like the Shooting with the Canon Rebel T3i course.
Photoshop CS6 Essential Training
I love Lynda! This deal is awesome, because at the moment I’m a little tight on budget but I just love their videos. I want to learn CSS and Java and other user interface programs.
Dreamweaver and WordPress 🙂
Lightroom software tutorials
I want to learn more about Photoshop. I’d take the Photoshop for Web Design course.
photoshop 6 please
I would like to take the Foundations of Photography classes – exposure and lenses look great!
I want to learn from the blogging courses and many of the others offered.
I’d love to learn how to design a restaraunt menu – and they have a specific Design class just for that!
photography
Food and Drink Photography
I would love to learn photo shop.
I’d like to learn Photoshop and Access.
Photoshop Basics!
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Photoshop CS6 Essential Training
I want to learn to better use basic business tools like Excel. I’m planning to work again soon and this would really help!
Food and Drink Photography
Presentations training
sibabe64 at ptd dot net
Food photography!
Photo editing!
I would love to learn more about photography and editing!
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Next, I would take training on Word so I could fully utilize it.
Then …
photoshoppe training for sure!
PHP for me
Create navigation menus with Jquery – I have been hearing a lot about that lately.
I’d love to learn HTML!
I need to brush up on the Excel 2010 Essential Training
I would love to learn Photoshop for Photographers: Creative Effects.
I would love to learn more about Photography:
Photoshop CS6 Essential Training
Photoshop CS6 Essential Training
Photography and video editing.
I want to learn more about photography and Photoshop.
with two beautiful kids, I need photography classes so I can capture their beauty properly
photo shop would be my choice
i want to learn photoshop
I’d love Photoshop for Photographers: Compositing
I want to learn word and excel
PHP!
I want to learn PhotoShop.
Photoshop
Photoshop and powerpoint.