1. Photo & Video

Photo & Video Learning Guides

Learn the photography and video skills you need with these specially curated learning guides to help you master everything from video editing to creating masterful photo effects.

Each learning guide consists of an overview of the subject along with a hand-picked selection of links to relevant tutorials and courses to help you master a particular subject. In Learn Photoshop Actions, for example, you'll discover what Photoshop actions are and how to install and use them. Then you'll get links to free tutorials and premium video courses to help you learn more. With so much to discover, your only problem is deciding what to learn first.

  1. Do-It-Yourself Video Studio

    6 Posts
    Every studio starts with an empty room, and that's where we start with this series. Along the way, we'll talk through all the decisions that go into building and using a do-it-yourself video setup.
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  2. How to Broadcast Live Video

    5 Posts
    Live video is a powerful, affordable great way for creative people to connect with others and share their talents with the world. If you struggle with shyness or what to broadcast, however, you may be a little hesitant to go live. In this learning guide, you'll learn how get started with your own live video stream.
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  3. How to Teach Photography

    4 Posts
    In order to make sense of our times we need to think again about photography and how we teach it. How do we use photography to communicate in a changing physical, political, and media landscape? Are there new ways for our images to find purchase with audiences? The world needs better photography and better photography instruction.
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  4. Look at This! Great Photographs Revisited

    18 Posts
    Photographs offer another layer of experience—a reading experience as rich as any written prose—if we take the time to observe and process the photograph’s visual language. In this Learning Guide you will read examples and do assignments to train your eye to look at images.
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  5. 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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  6. Video Lighting

    4 Posts
    In this Learning Guide, you will learn how to create a simple and beautiful video lighting that works great for interviews, presentations, instructional videos, short films and much more!
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