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FREE to watch: Nikon School Online classes

Nikon has joined the parade of “free to stream” with a handful of classes and tutorials at the Nikon Online School. The options are a mix of Nikon gear (SB-5000 Speedlight, Z50 video content, DSLR getting started) and Photography (Fundamentals and Beyond Fundamentals, Children and Pets, Macro, Landscape, Making Music Videos).

Duration is manageable for today’s context-switching generation, classes range from 15 to 69 minutes each…

NOTE: you have to sign in to watch. Otherwise Nikon’s marketing department would run to the server room and pull the plug on the computers 😉

April 8, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Starts Mon 3pm ET (FREE stream): AlphaUniverse with Colby Brown on Photography Websites

Streaming action, free to watch of course, Alpha Universe will be live-streaming starting at 12pm pacific (3pm eastern) on Monday 4/6/20 with Colby Brown on photography websites. The official title of the live stream is “The Anatomy of a Great Photography Website”…

Me on the other hand, I will be offering a parallel tutorial, “The Postmortem of a So-So Photography Website” 😉

April 6, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Photoshop and Lightroom Classes from $9 to $29 at CL

If you are looking for classes on different aspects of Photoshop and Lightroom, CreativeLIVE is running a Photoshop & LR Tutorials sale with classes ranging from $9 to $29, from many photo-teachers such as Lidnsay Adler, Matt K, Ben Willmore, Lisa Carney, and more…

April 6, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

20 classes for $20 each at C-LIVE

CreativeLIVE is back with another limited time promotion, 20 classes for $20 each. Subject matter includes portraiture, lighting, glamo(u)r, composite, video, fashion, macro, travel (well, not now), long exposure, landscape and making a DIY studio (a good idea if you have the time and energy and material and the downtime)..,

Speaking of CreativeLIVE, earlier on we posted the list of upcoming FREE to Stream classes at their ON-AIR schedule page…

April 4, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

FREE classes to stream at CL in the next few days

The weekend is coming, and time for some great indoors adventures for those working Monday to Friday. So how about some free classes streaming? That’s right, it’s the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule for the next few days, starting with Friday 4/3/20, with classes starting streaming at 9am pacific and continuing for 24 hours…

Of potential interest (not a comprehensive list):

  • Friday: “The Business of Photography”, “Social Media for Food Photography”, “Power your podcast with storytelling”
  • Saturday: “How to write and publish an ebook”, “Concertina Collage books”, “how to improve your SEO”
  • Sunday: “high volume senior photography business”, Illustrator CC, “fulfilled your creative purpose”
  • Monday: “Experimental Portraiture”, Personal Branding, Etsy 101
  • Tuesday: Mobile photography, branding
  • Wedn: “Music Photography” with Todd Owyoung, Adobe InDesign, “Write a Story”
  • Thursday: “Food photography”
  • Friday: Family Photography, LinkedIn
  • Saturday: home studio, languages
  • Sunday: Final Cut Pro X, online store, design
April 3, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

19 classes for $19 per class at CreativeLIVE includes Lens Classes (Canon or Nikon $19 each)

Creative LIVE is back with their “19 Square” deal, 19 classes for $19 each for a limited time only! A variety of subject matter is included, such as food photography, Lightroom Classic CC workflow, newborns, videography, Lightroom for Scrapbooking and more!

But wait, we are not done yet! For gear-heads and gear-interested photographers, they have three lensaholic classes as part of the sale for $19 each as follows, taught by resident gearhead John GreengoL

UPDATE: meanwhile, good until April 1st in 2020 at 11:59pm, Tor Books (books publisher) is offering for FREE the 300+ page scifi ebook “The Collapsing Empire” (Book #1 of a Trilogy) by John Scalzi. The trilogy concludes on April 14 when the third book is published, so you are guaranteed to get an ending to the story ~ something fans of “A Song of Ice and Fire” and “Kvothe” cannot 🙂

April 1, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: , , ,

Sun (starts 12pm ET): FREE to Stream: Photoshop Layer Tips, Color Fundamentals, Etc

An interest set of free-to-stream classes are scheduled, starting at 9am pacific time, for Sunday 3/29/20 at Creative LIVE ON-AIR. These continue repeating (depending on the length of the class obviously) for 24 hours…

OF potential interesT:

  • advanced Photoshop layer tips (under 2 hours)
  • color fundamentals (under 3 hours) {UPDATE: this is geared towards art/coloring/painting, not photography}
  • sound design 101 (under 3 hours)
  • screen printing

Given today’s durations, you can easily watch multiple classes even if you don’t have the whole 24 hour day available 🙂

PRO TIP: some classes have the first couple of lessons in a class available to stream for free at any time as a “class teaser/trailer”, so if there’s more than one class of interest, you can watch their intro chapters to see which one sounds more appetizing/interesting…

March 29, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

PWYW Photography $1+, KeepSolid VPN for $39, Etc

If you are looking for a new or another VPN, Stacksocial is currently offering KeepSolid VPN for $39 with a lifetime subscription. You can use up to five devices at the same time. You can only have five activated devices but you can add/remove one per week if needed… If you need more, the 10-devices plan goes for $59… It has around 5-stars based on 1000+ ratings…

Elsewhere on the site they have the Canon DSLR Photography A-Z Course for $11 (41 lessons, 3 hours)…

This is a general search for “camera” which brings up a mix of hardware and courses…

Speaking of Stacksocial, if you want to explore different topics without committing too much on them, they have a variety of Pay What You Want offers starting at $1. At $1+, you get some of the items listed there. If you meet or beat the average price, you get all of them. A total of 55 “Pay What You Want” (PWYW) offers are available. Of photography interest:

+ Complete Photography Bundle: $1+ gets you “DIY Food Photography” and “Advanced Creative Pho Skills” (Pho as in Photography, not Pho as in Food Pho), while $17~ gets you another seven classes…

+ note that the other PWYW Photography listing is “Assets”. You only get pictures for website/commercial use per the license. You don’t get photography lessons

+ Adobe Creative Cloud A to Z: $1+ gets you After Effects, $18~ gets you 11 more

+ other semi-related topics include design, coding/hacking, gaming, wordpress, music, etc

March 29, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Photoshop Retouching Certification Bundle for $25

Stacksocial too is on the photo-education bandwagon, they are currently offering their Professional Photoshop Retouching Certification Bundle for $25. A total of 8 courses are included consisting of 218 hours in about 19 hours of instruction time…

If you have any Stacksocial gift cards, store credits, coupons, etc, be sure to use them if they don’t appear automatically in your shopping cart…

March 28, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Top 40 Classes from $14 to $29 each at CL

Back to the e-Learnings, CreativeLIVE has brought back their Top 40 Classes sale, with each one going for $29 or less. It includes fundamentals/bootcamp style classes for Photography in general, Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop CC, Fine Art Photography, Posing, Lighting, and so much more. The price range of classes is $14 to $29

March 28, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Some Lighting Classes for $29 each at CL

Light is very important to photography (you have to be a 7th level Master Guru of Photography for this little nugget of wisdom!) and as such, classes about lighting are also important and CreativeLIVE is having a sale on select Lighting classes for $29 each, including JoeMcNally, Lindsay Adlair (“studio lighting 101”), Marc Wallace (“Speedlights 101”) and more…

Separately, coupon code MARCH10 takes $10 off a class purchase until 3/30/20. I do not know if this can be used on already-on-sale classes. As always, their shopping cart is the ultimate decider…

March 27, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Monday (Free to Watch starting at 12pm ET): Pets and People Photography

The Monday 3/23/30 rotation of free-to-stream classes starting at 12pm eastern time at CreativeLIVE On-AIR is headlined by the “Pets and People Photography” class by Vicki Tauper, 42 lessons running 13.5 hours. Given the #CoronaSituation2020, CL is mixing in a variety of other interest in their daily freebies, and today we have making your own tote bag (can also be useful for DIY promotional material for your home studio/photography freelancing), songwriting, watercolors and ganache (or is it gouache) paints and “What Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast” (spoiler alert: most of them have rich parents 😉

Looking at the new schedule here are some other potentially interesting classes coming this week:

  • Tuesday: Animal Photography
  • Wednesday: Business of Fashion Photography, Build a successful blog, become a working artist, songwriting class
  • Thursday: Typography fundamentals, turn personal projects into a career
  • Friday: Wedding Photojournalism, Color for designers
  • Saturday: commercial fashion photography, color techniques for drawing, story telling techniques
  • Sunday: advanced Photoshop layer tips, color fundamentals, sound design 101, screen printing
  • Monday 3/30: Pricing, Pitching Clients
  • Tuesday 3/31: Start-n-Grow your Photography business, Illustrator CC, Art Journaling, Command the Fees you Deserve
March 23, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Sunday (Free to Watch at 12pm ET): The Art of Wildlife Photography

The headliner of the free-to-watch online streaming classes at Creative LIVE On-AIR on Sunday 3/22/20 is the “The Art of Wildlife Photography” class by Tom Mangelsen. It has 24 lessons and runs for 10.5 hours.

The classes stream for 24 hours, so you can watch whenever it is convenient. Of course some may find it more helpful if they watch a class from start to end. Every day the new classes start at 9am pacific time. In the meantime, the classes from the previous day continue to stream. So in a way, if you wake up early or are in the eastern time zone, you can watch yesterday’s and today’s classes in marathon binge 🙂

March 22, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

FREE to Watch: Wellness and Health Classes from C-LIVE

To help us all cope with the current Corona-Not-The-Beer situation, CreativeLIVE has put together a dozen Health and Wellness classes that are free to stream 24 hours a day throughout the Corona Crisis 2020. Six are wellness (stress, happiness, meditation, etc), six are health related (yoga, etc).

Continuing as usual are the free to watch ON-AIR schedule classes at CreativeLive, with all kinds of subjects, an opportunity to pick up a new hobby or rekindle an old one (crafts, music, design, arts, etc) in addition to photography and such…

And on the FREEbies front, good until 3/20/20 at 11:59pm ET, giving them your email can get you the full-size scifi ebook “RedShirts” by John Scalzi (not a sampler, you get all 300-some pages of it {yes, RedShirts, that’s the Star Trek term}) from the Torbooks website. This is without DRM, and you can download in ePUB (for many devices and apps) and/or .mobi (for Amazon devices). If you are of the ePUB persuasion, since it is DRM-free, you don’t have to use Adobe’s vile ebook DRM abomination 🙂

March 19, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials

Corona DownTime Idea: Watch the FREE CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes

If the Corona-Virus kerfuffle has given you new unexpected downtime, one way to productively spend it (instead of watching the never-ending screeching drama of the national and local news) is to learn and read! Time to learn or rekindle a music instrument, make progress on your book shelf or digital bookshelf, or learn new skills. Or you can watch the various free-to-watch CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes.

Each day has a list of about half a dozen classes you can watch for free during the 24 hour calendar day window. You can watch any and all, these repeat over and over during the 24 hour window. Better yet, there’s a schedule of the upcoming classes, so you can plan ahead if you see topics of interest. About half of them are photography-n-video related, the rest are general creative classes (business, marketing, etc), along with other creative endeavors (music, arts and crafts, etc)…

For example, the schedule below is for Wednesday 3/18/20…

March 16, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

CreativeLIVE Annual Pass for $149 (includes recently launched “Fast Classes”)

If you prefer Netflix-style learnings instead of digital-ownership of individual classes, CreativeLIVE is currently offering the first year of their 1-Year Creator Pass for $149. No coupon needed. The price you see is the price you pay. These includes almost all of the current and future classes in their system. The exceptions are classes that are excluded by contractual agreement with select instructors…

OR if you only need to watch a small number of classes in a short period of time (eg CoronaVirus downtime) they offer a monthly subscription as well, but if you need more than a couple of months, then the annual pass wins on bang for the educational buck…

A “Fast Class” is a video class TL;DR. It is a highlight reel of some of their existing classes so you can and learn in bite-size fashion. For example, a 10-hour class becomes a 1-hour summary video. This is a relatively new feature with more of them getting added. This is the list of current Fast Class classes. These cannot be purchased individually, you can only watch them if you have the Creator Pass (Netflix-style subscription). You can always purchase the full version of the class, so you are not missing any new content ~ you are just not getting the condensed milk version of the class 🙂

March 16, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

12 Classes for $12 each at C-LIVE

And after buying all that gear, now time for some learnings! Good for a limited time only, CreativeLIVE is offering 12 classes for $12 each with topics including posing, beginners, Lightroom Classic CC, Astro-Landscape, podcasting, video, food photography, videos, and more…

March 15, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

$99 Bundles at CL: Photoshop Week 2019 or Photo Week 2018

If you prefer to digitally-own your photo-classes instead of Netflix-style subscriptions, you can load up on classes during the Creative Live $99 bundles sale. Two $99 bundles are offered…

The first one is “Photoshop Week 2019”, the classes that were part of last year’s PW, a total of 18 classes included… The second one is “Photo Week 2018” with a total of 22 classes included covering a variety of topics…

March 11, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

60% off near sitewide at CreativeLIVE with many Camera Fast Start Guides at $11 each

CreativeLIVE is back with another limited time promotion, this one is a 60% off near-sitewide sale but that’s not all. It is also stackable with limited time $10 off coupon code SPRING10. The 60% off sale is automatically factored in the prices you see on their website. The coupon code must needs be entered manually by your hands or your digital voice assistant 🙂

If you are a gearhead, this is a good opportunity to pick up their Camera Fast Start classes with John Greengo. Many of them currently go for $11 each and cover most of the pro and mid-range caliber cameras along with some popular entry-point cameras. Also covered are other technical classes like Using the Nikon AutoFocus system for $19 with Mike Hagen.

And for lens-a-holics, they have a trio of Lenses Complete Guide, Olympus going for $11, while Canon and Nikon [they have more lenses after all] go for $19 each… These too by John GreenGo…

PS: “near site-wide” because some classes are excluded because of prior agreements and such…

March 8, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Portraiture Classes for $29 each at CL

For a limited time, portraiture classes are on sale for $29 each at Creative Live. The price you see is the price you pay. While this promotion is running, you will see the $29 price on eligible prices. When the promotion expires, the prices may/will change…

March 8, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

CL: Top 50 Classes from $12 to $29 each

CreativeLIVE is celebrating “leap year” too with a Top 50 Classes Under $30 sale, with prices ranging from $12 to $29. Classes include Fundamentals, Wedding, Portraiture, Newborns/Babies, Glamour, Photoshop/Lightroom/etc, “Understanding Light” (with Mark Wallace), Flowers, Nature, Landscape, Speedlights and Flashes, posing, family, astro, and lots mo(i)re…

PS: no, there’s no class dedicated to mo(i)re 😉

February 29, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

19 classes for $19 each [CreativeLIVE]

If you prefer to digitally-own photography classes instead of signing up for subscriptions, CreativeLIVE is back with another sale, the theme this time around is 19 classes for $19 each and topics include food photography, motherhood, animal, portraits, compositing, commercial, flowers, nature, docs, and lots more. No coupon is needed, the $19 price is shown on the website while this promotion is running. When the sale ends, the prices will likely change…

February 26, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

23 Classes for $18 each at C-LIVE

CreativeLIVE is back with another featured sale, this time it is 23 classes for $18 each with a variety of topics including Lightroom and Photoshop CC, Portraiture, Landscapes, Weddings, Motion, Food, business/selling, color fundamentals, and more…

February 23, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

$10 off CreativeLIVE coupon and 60% sale on most classes

For a limited time, coupon code VIP10 gets you $10 off your purchase at the CreativeLIVE website where they are also running a near sitewide 60% off sale. The sale price is reflected. The $10 off coupon must needs be entered in the shopping cart.

PS: a few classes are not eligible per previous agreements with the instructors.

February 17, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Most Classes for $29 at Creative LIVE [limited time]

IF you have been interested in some of the more expensive classes offered at Creative LIVE, you are in luck! For a limited time, they are offering almost all of their classes for $29 (or less). No coupon is needed. The price you see is the price you pay. When the promotion ends, the prices you see on their website will increase. The sale includes their various Bootcamp classes… Happy learnings 🙂

February 16, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Up to 70% off on new classes at Creative LIVE (includes E-M1X, EOS R, Z6/Z7, X-T3)

On the learnings side of things, CreativeLIVE is having a sale of up to 70% off on new classes added there. Topics include Bird photography, docs, iPhone filmmaking, Lightroom CC Workflow, landscape, astro, Olympus E-M1X fast start and Olympus lenses, macro, LR, masking, HDR, retouching, Nikon Z and Canon EOS R and Fuji X-T3 fast starts, and lots more!

February 3, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

20 Classes for $12 (Canon 5D IV) to $20 at C-LIVE

It’s another limited time sale at Creative LIVE, this time around twenty classes are offered between $12 to $20 each. This is digital ownership. Or if you prefer Netflix-style, their Annual Subscription/Pass has frequent promotions for $150 per year…

The $12 classes include (among others) HD-DSLR film-making, Lightroom CC for beginners, Composition, and the Canon 5D Mark IV Fast Start class with John Greengo (25 lessons with 6 hour runtime).

The $20 tier includes Portraiture, Weddings, finding your niche, making a short doc, and more…

February 2, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Advanced Photography Classes for $12 to $14 [CLIVE]

Tired of seeing “beginner” or “photography 101” type of sales? Well you are in luck because Creative LIVE is now running a limited time promotion on Advanced Photography classes ranging from $12 to $14 each.

Topics include LR workflow, FauxtoChop techniques, real world lighting, advanced portrait retouching, advanced lighting for adventure photography, advanced photo restoration, Capture One, color correction, advanced RAW processing, advanced masks and many and more…

January 27, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

CreativeLIVE Flash Sale, $12 to $29 [15 options]

Creative LIVE is back with another limited time flash sale, this time around 15 classes are offered with prices ranging from $12 to $29. The $19 tier includes a class on Lighting by Peter Hurley, Photoshop beyond the basics, Professional headshots, and such. The $29 tier includes wildlife photography, fine-art portraits and/or compositing [but not composting], commercial photography, and such. The $12 tier is headlined by Ian Shive’s Photographing the National Parks…

January 26, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

CL’s Bootcamp sale ($19 to $29, select options)

CreativeLIVE has brought back their Bootcamp sale with class-bootcamps ranging in price from $19 (Best of Lighting, Beginner’s Pho Crash Course, Portrait Startup) to $29 (various Wedding Photography classes, Photochop, Portraiture, Business Pho, Newborn, Lightroom CC Classic, Fine Art, boudoir, outdoor, business-of, etc)…

This is a limited time offer. No coupon needed. The price you see is the price you pay while this promotion is running…

January 22, 2020 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: