All Learning Guides

Find the very best free tutorials and video courses on a range of popular creative and technical subjects, all in one place. What will you start learning today?

With the Design & Illustration learning guides, for example, you can learn important subjects like magazine design or creating Photoshop actions in all the detail you want. Each guide comes with an extensive array of links to other tutorials and courses, so you can start by getting an overview and then dive deeper into the areas that interest you.

And it’s not just design either—you can use these learning guides to become an expert developer, learn new web design skills, succeed in business, and more.

  1. Architectural Photography

    10 Posts
    Architecture is a varied, plentiful and fascinating subject. It can be quite daunting to get a good, unique photograph. In this Learning Guide you'll learn how to look closer at the structure you’re photographing and its surroundings, to help you compose something that’s visually interesting and, hopefully, branch out a bit from the ‘norm’.
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  2. The Beginner's Guide to DSLR Video

    6 Posts
    Do you wonder whether to choose a camcorder or DSLR when filming? Maybe a professional camcorder is out of your budget and you're wondering if a DSLR will do the job. This Learning Guide will get you started with DSLR video production.
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  3. Black and White Photography

    8 Posts
    There is something magical about black and white photographs, but unless you suffer from an extreme form of colour blindness, you don’t see the world in black and white. To capture the best black and white images, you need to understand how a scene is recorded and rendered as a range of tonalities, without colour. In this Learning Guide you'll learn how to overcome the limits of black and white and take advantage of the creative power of the monochrome image.
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  4. Digital Asset Management for Photographers (Learning Resource Guide)

    18 Posts
    The great thing about digital photography is you can take photographs without worrying about costs. The challenging thing about digital photography is you can take lots of photographs. Instead of boxes, filing cabinets, and binders spilling a chaos of negatives and prints, we have computers, memory cards, and external hard drives packed full of image bits and bytes. It can get overwhelming, fast.
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  5. Better Photo Workflows: Post-Production

    6 Posts
    Photographic post-production in the process of taking a raw image or images through all of the steps required to evaluate, correct, adjust and export a finished image. There are many ways to do post-production. In this Learning Guide you'll learn how to create a strong, fast, and flexible post-production workflow for your style of photography.
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  6. How to Null Test Your Gear

    2 Posts
    Audio engineers and musicians have a habit of collecting things. Not only do they collect things, they collect things that are similar in nature and believe they are distinctly different. Furthermore, they collect them without actually testing to see if they are indeed different.
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