Outdoor Photography Classes Sale (63 options, $10 to $29)

If you are a fan of outdoor photography, you are in luck because for a limited time Creative LIVE is running an Outdoors Photography Sale with 63 classes participating and prices ranging from $10 to $29. Instructors include Art Wolfe, Franz Lanting, John Greengo (the Camera “Fast Start” Guy), Photoshop Matt K, Ben Willmore and more.

NOTE there are three pages of classes over there, so browse through them all if interested!

Meanwhile the Weekend Sale at DiscoMAGS includes a 3-year printed USA-addresses-only no-auto-renewal subscription to Outdoor Photographer for $13 total, calculating it to $4.33/year, which defeats their “default sale price” of $5/year…

1-Year CreativeLIVE Season Pass for $129

If you are interested in a variety of subjects, or want to sample many flowers like a bee and you like consuming media Netflix-style, for this weekend, CreativeLIVE has brought back the 1-Year Creator Pass offer for $129 for the whole year. This is the first year (365 days) of a new subscription. It cannot be used to renew existing subscriptions.

Almost all current and future classes are included but there are some exceptions due to prior agreements with instructors and such. You can find the exceptions at the Terms and Conditions page of the offer…

Big sale at CreativeLIVE, includes Camera classes

e-Learnings on an e-sale, there’s a big sale at Creative LIVE that includes many of their big classes, for example John Greengo’s 24.5 hour long “Fundamentals of Photography” goes for $29, while the 25-hour Ben Willmore “Adobe CC Complete Guide” goes for $19. There’s Lindsay Adler’s Posing 101 for $29, which is also the price of the Lightroom Classic CC Complete Guide. This is just a sampling…

But that’s not all. Another limited time sale has the $29 classes being on sale for $12 or less! This includes many of their camera guides [they call them the “Fast Start” classes] that go for $10 each. These are with the easy-going even-keeled John Greengo whose matter of fact style helps you focus on the subject and not the antics of a “personality/celebrity”…

FREE to Watch [starts Wedn 12pm ET]: Fuji X-T3 Fast Start Class

Fuji Learnings time! Starting at 12pm eastern on Wednesday 9/9/20, CreativeLIVE will be re-broadcasting for FREE their 5 hour and 12 minute Fast Start class with John Greengo on the Fuji X-T3 mirrorless camera. This goes through the camera in 23 lessons (controls, menus, etc). The list of chapters is shown over there. Once the free-streaming begins, you can watch it like over-the-air TV. You cannot rewind or start from the beginning [unless you buy it of course].

Since the free-streaming lasts for 24 hours, and the is 5 hours and 12 minutes long, the re-re-broadcast start-times are:

+ 12pm ET
+ 512pm ET
+ 1024pm ET
+ 336am ET
+ 848am ET [this will be incomplete because the 24 hour window closes just before 12pm ET]

This is a good opportunity to learn about the camera if you are curious about buying it. John Greengo has a very even-keeled matter-of-fact easy-listening teaching-style that is conducive to e-learnings…

PS: disambiguation: it’s easy to add or remove a “0” from Fuji camera model names, so this PS is certifying that this is indeed the Fuji X-T3, not the X-T30 🙂

1-Year CreativeLIVE Annual Pass drops to $129 [new members only]

Just in time for the Labor Day festivities, Creative Live has dropped the price of their 1-Year CreativeLIVE Annual Pass to $129. This is for access to almost all their classes for one year [365 days]. Netflix-style. The offer is for new members only. Existing members cannot use it to renew their existing subscription. You can also buy it as a gift for other people. The subscription includes the “Fast Classes” which are TL;DR versions of their existing classes for faster and easier learnings and digestion. Soda and chewing gum not included 😉

Due to agreements and such, five instructors (Art Wolfe and J. Kost among others) and some classes are excluded from the Netflix-style subscription. You can find the list of exclusions here

PS: separately, and not to be confused with the above Netflix-style offer, they have yet another variant of their storewide sale (you buy classes individually or as a bundle)…

70% Creative LIVE Bundles of Classes

If you are interested in topic-based learning, Creative LIVE is currently having a 70% off class bundles sale. The price you see on the individual product [bundle] page is the price you pay. No coupon is needed. This is a limited time offer…

Bundles include Lightroom, Photoshop, Night Photography, Studio Lighting, Wedding, Portraiture, Outdoors, Family, Foods, Mobile Photography, DIY, Composition, Masters of Photography, Beginner Photography, Adobe Bootcamp in general, and so on… There are also some instructor-centric bundles, eg, Franz Lanting, Nigel Barker…

CreativeLive Sales: Top 5 Instructors, 60% site-wide [and stackable $10 off coupon]

Creative LIVE has launched another sale, all classes from their Top 5 instructors are on sale for $29 or less. The Top Five [not to be confused with the Cylon Final Five] is Sue Bryce, John Greengo, Lindsay Adler, Ben Willmore and Andrew Scrinivari…

Separately, they are running a limited time 60% off site-wide sale. You see the price on the individual class page. No coupon needed…

… but if you want to save an extra $10, a coupon is needed, use coupon J4X79 and this can be stacked with the above discounts [in most cases I think]…

OR if you prefer to pay $0, do keep up with the free-streaming daily classes at the ON-AIR schedule. Note that these stream straight through, you don’t have Netflix-style DVR features while they are free-streaming…

Creative LIVE: 19 classes for $19 each [limited time]

It’s e-Learning time! For a limited time, Creative LIVE is having a 19 classes for $19 each sale… Classes include Peter Hurley’s “Build your Light Knowledge”, Lindsay Adler’s “Location Lighting 101”, Fine Art Photography Complete Guide, Wedding Photography, Final Cut PRO X [not to be confused with the Pink Floyd album], landscape photography, retouching, and things of that nature…

FREE-Streaming This Week at Creative LIVE

If you like free-streaming content and you have the time-flexibility to be able to watch them [some of those classes are looooong], here’s the schedule for the next few days of the free-to-watch classes at Creative LIVE ON-AIR:

  • Monday: Creative Portraits with Props, Creating your own stamps, YouTube ads, etc
  • Tuesday: LIVE LAUNCH: Black Women Photographers, Color Theory for Photographers, Illustrator, Stamping, etc
  • Wednesday: Sony a7 III Fast Start (over 5 hours long) with John Greengo, Facebook, Mixing Music, etc
  • Thursday: LIVE: Capturing History and Herigate; Posing 101 with Lindsay Adler, WordPress Themes, Snapchat, etc
  • Friday: Composition Basics, Instagram, Interactive PDFs, etc
  • Saturday: Black and White film photography, Linked IN (with bonus clipboard clips LOL), Graphics for the web and social media, etc
  • Sunday: Photography 101 with SLR Lounge, social media plan, etc

As usual, each day’s free-streaming classes begin at 12pm eastern and end 24 hours later. Classes that are under 24 hours in length continue repeating immediately after their end during the 24 hour window. There are no “Netflix controls”, so you have to watch the classes sequentially, you can’t jump around or rewind…

Save the Date [starts Friday 12pm ET]: 12-hour Nikon Lenses Complete Guide [FREE to Watch]

Save the Date if you are into Lenses or the Nikon system! There’s a 12-hour marathon coming! Per the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule, starting on Friday at 12pm eastern, they will be live-streaming for FREE the 11 hour and 36 minute “Nikon Lenses the Complete Guide” [CORRECTED LINK] class with their resident camera-gear-guru John Greengo. Lessons #1 and #4 are always available to stream for FREE, so you could watch them and see whether this class might be of interested.

Given the duration of the class, there are two full planned airings:
+ starts Friday at 12pm ET
+ starts Friday at 11:36pm ET
+ streaming ends Saturday around 11:50am ET

UPDATE: speaking of Creative LIVE, and for “post economy”, they have another limited time sale, 12 classes for $12 each that includes a class on Macro Flowers [Franz Lanting, 5 hours], portraiture, speedlights 101, long exposure, narrative, and more…

Keep in mind, almost all classes have at least one chapter/lesson available to stream for free always, so you can get some feel for the instructor and the nature of the class…

FREE Streaming: Choosing the Right Lens (4h17min) [ends Wedn 12pm ET]

Free-streaming until Wednesday 7/1/20 at 11:55am eastern time, headlining the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule is the 4 hour and 17 minute John Greengo class “Choosing The Right Camera Lens”. The class is FREE to watch during this time period.

The class repeats immediately after it ends, so the approximate start times are:

+ Tuesday 12pm ET
+ Tuesday 4:17pm ET
+ Tuesday 8:34pm ET
+ Wedn 12:51am ET
+ Wedn 5:08am ET
+ Wedn 9:25am ET [incomplete]
+ free-streaming ends Wedn 11:55am ET

Big Sales at Creative LIVE including Photoshop classes [most Camera Guides (Fast Start Classes) for $8 each

Big sales are happening right now at Creative LIVE. They have a sale on all their photography classes with 940+ options, their Photoshop tutorials (220+ classes!!!), and their Catalog in general (1800+ classes). Obviously too many to list here individually 🙂

But wait, there’s more! For all you gearheads or gear-learners, the sale includes their Fast Start Camera Guides with John Greengo. Each class goes for $8 and it includes all-star cameras like the Canon 5D Mark IV, Fuji X-T3, Nikon D850, the Canon and Nikon mirrorless full-framers, Sony’s a-full-framers, and many and more cameras of different makes including some Olympus and Panasonic and Leica…

And if you want a class to help you get started with the Nikon autofocus system, Mike Hagan has a 2.5 hour class on “Using the Nikon Autofocus System” for $14…

And for you lensaholics out there, there’s a 11.5 hour class by John Greengo on Nikon Lenses – The Complete Guide [CORRECTED LINK] on sale for $14. Two chapters are available to watch for free at any time or you can watch the whole class when it streams for free starting at 12pm ET on Thursday July 2nd…

Canon photographers have their class on sale for $14 as well, Canon Lenses – The Complete Guide also with John Greengo. The Canon class lasts about ten minutes longer than the Nikon class 🙂

The only other company that has a lens guide is the Olympus Lens Guide which goes for $8 BUT it only lasts for 2 hours and 20 minutes.

FREE Streaming at CreativeLIVE This Week

If you prefer to spend exactly $0 but want to listen and watch and learn about photography and other related creative fields, CreativeLIVE continues with their ON-AIR free-streaming classes. These begin free-streaming at 12pm eastern each day and run for 24 hours. IF the class is under 24 hours, it begins re-running immediately until the 24 hours are done.

So here are some potentially interesting classes:

+ Sunday: Vision-Driven Photography with David DuChemin (12~ hours)

+ Monday: Storytelling with Mobile Photography, WordPress, etc

+ Tuesday: Choosing the Right Lens with John Greengo (4 hours and 17 minutes), Street Photography, Logic PRO, Doing Less, etc

+ Wednesday: Stock photography, Lightroom for scrapbooking, etc

+ Thursday: Nikon Lenses – the Complete Guide with John Greengo, live-recording of the weekly CL “We Are Photographers” podcast

+ Friday: Skin 101, for photographers, not for cosmetics 🙂

+ Saturday: getting started with HD-DSLR cinema with Vincent LaForet

+ Sunday: Experimental Portraiture with Jeremy Cowart

Two Creative LIVE sales: 15 for $15, 50 under $20

We have a couple of sales in progress at Creative LIVE as follows: First up it’s a $15 classes for $15 each sale that includes Zack Arias [“Foundations of a Working Photographer”], Photoshop 101, Music Photography, Adobo Camera RAW, Mirroless Portraits, family, Nature Photography (Art Wolfe), Curvy woman posing, and more!

Next up is a 50 classes under $20 sale that includes Fine Art, Outdoor, Visual Story-Telling, weddings, light(n)ing [but not thunderbolt], newborn, videography, Capture ONE PRO, fashion, business side, macro, Lightroom CC, and many and more [there are 50 of them after all].

On the other hand, if you prefer not to pay anything at all, we got you covered as well as the ON-AIR schedule continues to free-stream classes daily. For a recap of the next few days of free-streaming, which starts and ends at 12pm eastern each day, check our earlier post

PRO PHOTOGRAPHY TIP OF THE DAY: when faced with a difficult exposure or impossible to detangle composition, USE THE FORCE!

FREE Streaming at Creative LIVE this week

A new week is already underway, so the time is right to spotlight some of the potentially interesting free-streaming classes at Creative LIVE ON-AIR during the next few days. Remember, classes start at 12pm ET and run for 24 hours. Reruns begin immediately after each run ends, so if you add the durations, you will find all the subsequent air times…

+ Tuesday: “DSLR Film Making”, “Graphic Design Portfolio”, “Screen Printing”, Etc

+ Wednesday: “Color Theory for Photographers”, Digital Scrapbooking, Drawing, Mixing Master Class, Etc

+ Thursday: Headshots, Craft Photography, online business, etc

+ Friday: Shooting & Editing on a smartphone, mixed media, etc

+ Saturday: “Fundamentals of Great Prints”, Design, Etc

+ Sunday: music photography, sketching, teaching craft classes

+ Monday: “food photography” with Penny De Los Santos [fun class from the parts I watched the previous time it aired], on being an artist, scrapbooking, graphic design, etc

+ Tuesday: Diversity your photography, DJ fundamentals, etc
+ NOTE: “Total Focus” is NOT about photography and AF/MF systems 🙂

+ Wednesday: “Commercial Portraiture”, Logo Design, Music Theory, Etc

NOTE: when browsing the Creative LIVE website on a laptop/desktop, note that they are making single button “open in new window” hard which I personally find extremely irritating 🙂

FREE to Watch: Yoga for Photographers

The current headliner of the free-streaming Creative LIVE classes at CL ON-AIR is a 5 hour and 20 minutes by Vanessa Joy, “Yoga for Photographers”. This consists of six lessons. It will repeat four times during its 24 hour window. First airing began 12pm ET, then 5:20pm ET, then at 10:40pm, then 4am on Saturday…

Yes, yoga for photographers – focusing on exercise that have to do with photography-related photographer-related troubles 🙂

In parallel, Creative LIVE is running a 50% off sitewide sale for a limited time. No coupon needed. You see the sale price on the class’s individual page…

And in parallel to that, for a limited time, coupon code SUMMER10 gets you $10 off almost any classes and it is stackable with the aforementioned site-wide sale and such…

Top 40 Sellers under $29 at CL

Creative LIVE is back with another Top 40 Classes sale with classes going for $29 or less. Some big ticket classes are included in this such as “Fundamental Photography”, Fine Art Photography Complete Guide, Photoshop CC Bootcamp, Lightroom Classic CC complete guide, Posing, Lighting, Nature, Flowers, Bird, film-making, and more…

Meanwhile at the ON-AIR schedule the following classes are streaming for FREE until Tuesday at ~11:50am ET:

+ Lifestyle Family Photography
+ Engagement Photography
+ Mastering People Skills
+ Persistence and Hard Work
+ Audio Home Recording
+ etc

21 Classes for $21 each at CL

Another day another flash sale at Creative LIVE, this time they have 21 classes for $21 each and this includes DSLR Film-Making, Portraiture, Newborn, Fine Art, animals, street, birds, landscapes and of course weddings…

PRO TIP: there are millions of wedding photographers, it’s a very crowded field. Instead, invest in a brand new field, divorce photography! 😉

Meanwhile at the free-streaming-for-24-hours starting at 12pm eastern every day ON-AIR SCHEDULE there’s a bird photography with Franz Lanting, a short drawing class [a relaxing hobby to pickup for downtimes and brain resets], and a music theory [for electronic musicians but it works for all people]…

The next wave of free-streamers starting at 12pm ET on Saturday includes the “Basics of Adobe Cash Cow” [OOOPS, Creative Cloud], filming families, copywriting, growing your photo business, etc…

Top Bootcamp CL Classes from $19 to $29 each

Running for 24 hours until Wednesday 11:50am ET is a 24-hour Wedding Photography class with Jasmine Star as the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR headliner for Tuesday 6/2/20…

Speaking of CL, they are having a Top Bootcamps sale for $19 to $29. These include Lightroom Classic CC, Portraiture, Premiere PRO CC, Fine Art Photography, Photochop CC, Weddings a plenty, Newborns, Final Cut PRO X [no, not the Pink Floyd album], BooDooAR, outdoors, Beginners, and more….

For some of the classes, to see the sale price you must needs visit the individual class product page… This is a limited time sale however, so the sale prices won’t stick around forever…

This Week (FREE CL streams): Weddings, Bird Photography, Photoshop CC, Light Painting, Etc

Let’s take a look at some of the potentially interesting classes that will be streaming this week, for FREE during each 24 window of each class, at Creative LIVE ON-AIR:

+ Monday: Fundamentals of Photography (24 hour class)

+ Tuesday: Wedding Photography with Jasmine Star
+ Using Pinterest to grow your business

+ Wednesday: Light Painting for Beginners
+ also Etsy shop and Facebook

+ Thursday: Photoshop CC Complete Guide
+ Illustrator CC Complete Guide
+ Grow your business using Snapchat

+ Friday: Art of Photographing Birds (with Franz Lanting)
+ Hype your brand on Instagram

+ Saturday: Basics of Adobe CC
+ Filming Families (modern family video)

+ Sunday: Environmental Portrait Photography
+ Etsy 101
+ build a social media plan that actually makes money

Tuesday Live Stream (FREE, Starts 12:30pm ET): Peter Souza on Photographing History

In addition to the ON-AIR pages that rebroadcast previously recorded classes, Creative LIVE has recently launched another feature at their website, the Creative LIVE TV streaming that features live interviews, presentations, smaller classes and such. One of the things they have streaming live on a weekly basis is their “We Are Photographers” podcast, every Wednesday at 12pm eastern…

But that’s not all. Today, Tuesday May 26 in 2020, starting at 12:30pm eastern (9:30am pacific/CreativeLIVE time) they will have a live-stream with Peter Souza on Photographing History. Souza has been a presidential photographer for two presidents (one of each party) among other things. Here’s his Wiki Bio

If you don’t have time and schedule flexibility to catch various classes when they stream for FREE at CreativeLIVE, they are currently having a Fine Art classes sale with prices ranging from $19 to $29, and the classes participating in this sale offer a wide gamut from experimental to documentary to DIY. A total of 25 classes are available…

18 Classes for $18 each flash sale at CreativeLIVE

CreativeLIVE is back with another flash sale, 18 classes for $18 each. The price drops to $18 when you visit the individual product page of that particular class. Classes include Lightroom Classic CC, wedding photography, the art of seeing, light, lifestyle, table-top photography, outdoors, strobe lighting, Illustrator CC, and mo(i)re…

Meanwhlie at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR, high-school/senior photography continues to be the theme, while in other topics, there are classes on branding and such…

Separately from the “ON AIR schedule”, CreativeLIVE recently launched a life-streaming channel, aka CL-TV, which has live-streams and re-runs, separate from the above ON-AIR classes. There is a weekly schedule for the live-streams, and also on-demand replays of previous recordings. This includes the actual Chase Jarvis live show…

60% off site-wide at CreativeLIVE: includes Camera Guides for $11 each

IF you have some classes in mind at Creative LIVE, you are in luck, they are having for a limited time a 60% of site-wide sale. No coupon needed. You see the final price on the individual product page of each class. For example John Greengo’s 24.5 hour “Fundamentals of Photography” class goes for $79, Ben Willmore’s Complete Guide to Photoshop CC for $39, etc…

And if you are a fan of camera classes, most of their Fast Start Camera Guides go for $11 each. These include most of the mid-range and above cameras, APS-C and full-frame, along with a few consumer-tier models. And it’s not just Nikon and Canon. There’s plenty of classes for Sony and Fuji and Olympus, and a few Leica and Panasonic too… Meanwhile the Canon and Nikon AutoFocus system classes go for $19 each…

Photoshop Tutorial Sale: $14 to $29 each

If you are interested in Photoshop-related learnings, for a limited time only, Creative LIVE is running a Photoshop Tutorials sale with prices ranging from $14 to $29 per class. It has a mix of basics and beyond-basics classes, general and specific Photochop topics, and there’s even a class dedicated to Adobe Camera RAW. There are multiple pages of classes, not just the first page you see there…

FREE to Stream (Next Few Days at CL): Lots of High School Photography

It’s that time of the year once again, the start of the Grads & Dads season, and to celebrate that, the next few days at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR are headlined photography-wise by high-school related photography classes. A plus if you are interested in this market segment, a minus if you are not interested…

FREE to Watch (starts Sun 12pm ET): Photoshop CC Complete Guide

The headliner of the Sunday 5/17/20 CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes starting at 12pm eastern and running until 11:50am ET on Monday is the Ben Willmore class Photoshop CC – The Complete Guide. The class actually runs for a bit over 25 hours, but each day there’s a hard cut-off on streaming, so the last 80 minutes or so will not be broadcast. That’s when Daenerys and SPOILER does SPOILER with SPOILER and then all goes SPOILER!

20 Classes for $20 each at CreativeLIVE

There’s 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, and then there’s Twenty classes for Twenty, that’s the latest limited-time CreativeLIVE sale, which includes the “30 days Wedding Photography” class, “Wedding Photography Bootcamp”, newborns, posing, Capture One PRO (it’s not 100% Adobe after all), Nature, Composition, Food, Final Cut PRO X, indie films, alt-processing, Lightroom CC for beginners and more…

FREE (Starts Thur 12pm ET): Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

If you are quarantined indoors and you have enough caffeine to keep you awake for 22 hours straight, starting at 12pm ET on Thursday 5/14/20 at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR is a 22-hour class free streaming until Friday at 11:50am ET on Photoshop. More specifically, it’s the “Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp” wth Blake Rudis… Also streaming is an Instagram Hype class, a product line strategy, a website planning and wireframing class and a music class…

Starts Wedn 12pm ET (FREE to Stream): Adobe Premiere Pro CC Complete Guide

If you are dabbling into video and want to learn video-editing using Adobe Premiere PRO CC (Cash Cow edition, OOOOOOOPS Creative Cloud edition), starting at 12pm eastern on Wednesday, as the headliner of the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes is a free stream of the Abba Shapiro class “Adobe Premiere Pro CC Complete Guide”. This runs for 18 hours and 2 minutes, so after the first full airing, it will re-start on Thursday at 6:02am ET but it will end mid-way at the daily cut-off point, Thursday at 11:50am ET…

FREE Streaming: Adobe Lightroom Classic CC Complete Guide

Streaming for FREE until 11:50am ET on Tuesday 5/12/20 is the Ben Willmore 24-hour class “Adobe Lightroom Classic CC: The Complete Guide” at Creative LIVE…

Speaking of CL, they have a Lighting and Portraiture sale with prices for $29 or less. This includes “crappy light”, studio lighting, first-flash shooting, speedlights, cinematic lighting, headshots, posing, engagements, lifestyle and lots more…

UPDATE: speaking of dailies, the Adorama daily deal (changes Tuesday 10am ET) is the new condition HP Omen 27″ QHD LED Gaming Monitor for $450 with free US shipping…

Meanwhile among the NewEgg dailies you can get the new condition 120GB Patriot Burst 2.5″ 120GB SATA III Internal SSD (model PBU120GS25SSDR) for $24, up to three per customer, no coupon, no mail-in rebate, sold by NewEGG itself…