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.

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  1. iOS From Scratch With Swift

    17 Posts
    Are you interested in learning how to develop native applications for iOS? There's no better time to start than today. This series will teach you how to develop iOS applications with Xcode 7.1 and Swift 2.1.
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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