One day before sales start in stores, there are Mac & i extra workshops winter 2020 / 2021 in the Heise Shop – either on paper or as PDF.

In 12 workshops, professionals show how it’s done: Learn from Best-selling author Cay Rademacher on how to write a good crime novel. Let the SEO expert Niels Dahnke reveal to you what you have to do to make a website move up in the Google search hits. Read Alexandra-Katharina Kütemeyer’s tips on how to gain followers on Facebook, Instagram & Co and set up successful campaigns.

Monika Gause, lecturer for image processing and computer graphics, using the example of logos and business cards, explains what is important when designing with Affinity Designer. The photographer Markus Linden describes how you can manage and improve your image collection with Luminar 4 and the architect Daniel Busch uses a cute wooden baby cradle to demonstrate that you can even use a free program like Autodesk’s Fusion 360 can model professional 3D workpieces. The font expert Antje Dohmann gives tips for the skilful use of typography, the website professional Daniel Berger makes WordPress users advanced and Richard Kurz helps with tinkering with microcontrollers.

Dr. Raimar Heber, Art Director at the German Press Agency, gives an insight into what makes good infographics. Michael Malzahn, who specializes in professional information management, shows how to set up a paperless office with the Mac program Devonthink.

A first look at Mac & i extra workshops (12 pictures) Three makers from the film industry – Udo Flohr, director, Patrick Jacobshagen, executive producer, and Sven Pape, cutter in Hollywood – describe how to make your own Feature film produced. Last but not least, you will learn from Xojo Evangelist Ulrich Boguhn how to write a cross-platform app.

Most of the programs used in the articles are free or very cheap to get and run under macOS as under Windows.

Mac & i extra workshops comes to well-stocked newsagents on November 5th. Mac & i subscribers have already received it.

You can now read the booklet in your browser, as a PDF or prepared for reading on iPhone and iPad, Android devices and Kindle Fire in the Purchase Mac & i apps. Plus subscribers have access to the paper and digital edition, which is enriched with bonus material, interactive reading mode and search function.

The very successful last edition is out of print on paper, but is still available as a PDF. In Mac & i workshops 2019 bestselling author Andreas Eschbach reveals how to write a novel. A rheology professional shows what makes a good presentation. It is also about vlogging on Youtube, blogging with WordPress, teamwork on the internet, project management, DTP and layout, slide shows with iMovie, creating your own grooves with Ableton Live, 3D modeling with Blender, programming games in Unity and editing images Affinity Photo.

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