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. Magento Theme Development

    11 Posts
    In this tutorial series, we’ll be developing a Magento theme from scratch. During the series you’ll get very familiar with Magento terminology and how things are developed in it. I’ll try to explain everything as we go along, developing each component of the page step by step.
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  2. People and Portrait Retouching

    8 Posts
    Portrait photographers strive to achieve beautiful skin in their images. Getting beautiful skin that is also realistic and preserves natural skin texture is a portrait photographer’s holy grail. Expertly applied makeup and good lighting are the foundation for beautiful skin, but retouching is the polish. In this Learning Guide, you'll learn great techniques for retouching skin and will find out which situations benefit from each technique.
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  3. Core Data and Swift

    12 Posts
    The Core Data framework has been around for many years. It's used in thousands of applications and by millions of people, both on iOS and OS X. Core Data is maintained by Apple and is very well documented. It's a mature framework that has proven it's value over and over.
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