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. Event Photography

    3 Posts
    The title of ‘Event Photographer' might not sound particularly glamourous or exciting, but the role has far more to offer than simply shooting people holding awkward poses. Each event holds different challenges, so you need to think on your feet, and each client requires a different set of shots. In this Learning Guide you'll get a deeper look at event photography.
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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