This lesson will introduce you to text, dimensioning and the concept of layers.


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Now it's time to learn a few more commands. Like all of the commands learnt so far, these too will be ones that you will use regularly.


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This lesson will introduce the common modifying commands. In AutoCAD, you may actually use modifying commands more often than drawing commands. Now that you know that basics, here's some more commands to add to your collection. Three commands, Trim, Extend and Offset are used standard AutoCAD work.


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AutoCAD allows you to have access to a large number of commands. The general rule is that you will use 20% of the commands 80% of the time. We will start by introducing you to the most common drawing commands. When you combine these with the basic modify commands, you will be able to make elaborate drawings quite quickly.


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Welcome to the world of CAD - In this tutorial you will be learning the basics of AutoCAD. The course is designed so that the commands and instructions should work on almost any version of AutoCAD, although this version is designed specifically for AutoCAD 2008. By the end of this level you will have the skills to develop basic 2D drawings and print them out to scale.


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Before the days of color film all photos were black and white. This led to the art of hand tinting photos to give them color. This technique can still be done today with kits that allow you to paint right on the photo. As you might have guessed, this can be done in Photoshop as well. This tutorial will show a technique I use for adding color to a black an white print to give it a subtle hand tinted look. It can be used for touching up old photos you have or restoring color to faded color photos.


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There are times when the image size of your camera just isn't big enough. I know that I've been on beaches that just seem to go on forever, but my camera is limited in that it takes only so much of the scene in. In some cases you can buy a wide angle lens that will see most of the beach, but many cameras don't have that option. Fortunately, Photoshop offers a solution. If you take a series of photos, Photoshop will stitch them together for you and provide one long photo. This process is automatic and easy. This tutorial will show you how it's done and how to take photos for this reason.


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It's very likely that you have seen a portrait where the subject looks soft and dreamy. It's done to soften the edges (and wrinkles) in a portrait to flatter the subject. 99% of the time the subject is female and you may have noticed old movies also use this effect. The Man will look sharp and chiseled, while the Woman looks soft and vulnerable. In the day of film this was often achieved with a filter added to the lens which would create a softer halo on the negative. In the digital age, this can be done with Photoshop - and very easily as well. The advantage of doing this digitally is that you can preserve the original image and create another image with any degree of softness you like.


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I'm sure you've seen photos of tall buildings and noticed the walls lean in at the top. This is a common effect that happens when you take photos and although the photo records the perspective, it's not always a desirable look. Photoshop allows you to correct this quite easily. You can also distort the image in other ways and I'll show you the common methods.


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So you have your brand spanking new digital camera that takes great, huge photos - and you can't wait to show them off. So you take a photo of your dog and email to your best friend. The response is lukewarm. Why? Because you sent him a huge 10 meg file that's taking forever to download over his dial-up modem. After putting a stranglehold on his email for 30 minutes, it doesn't matter how great your photo is, your friend is going to block you from sending more. Sound familiar? Maybe that's an exaggeration, but you need to know how to use images on the web. This tutorial will give you some guidelines on resizing and quality.


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