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. 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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  2. 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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  3. Sports Photography

    7 Posts
    Photographing sports is a challenging but exciting and rewarding. It requires both technical skill and creativity to do well. In this Learning Guide you'll learn how to photograph sports.
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  4. Immersive Photo Mapping

    3 Posts
    You can create immersive maps just like the ones you see when using Google Maps’ Street View function. Photo spheres allow people to see the world from your perspective as if they were standing in the place where the photo was taken. You can pan left and right and up and down as if you were actually there looking around. With a few easy techniques and tips, you will be on your way to making stunning photo spheres and immersive maps.
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  5. The Wizard of Oz

    23 Posts
    For Halloween 2015, instead of posting spooky content, we're paying homage to the pop cult classic, the Wizard of Oz. Follow the story with themed tutorials posted in chronological order. 
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