Online Photo Courses (Page 2): Finding free tutorials is easy. I use chrome and start out with "how do I" and wind up getting loads of options. Also, Morganti and Photoshop Café with...

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Finding free tutorials is easy. I use chrome and start out with "how do I" and wind up getting loads of options. Also, Morganti and Photoshop Café with Colon Smith offer many free tutorials, from rank beginners to advanced users.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

CHG_CANON wrote:

More importantly: never spend money on photography 'training' until you've exhausted all the freely available training on utube and elsewhere. There's more free training available than you can ever watch in the rest of your lifetime. Don't pay money for what is available free via advising support of the author.

Thai certainly is the right answer! - and searching for whatever you want is not difficult; sometimes it just requires using a bit of brainpower. Others also may provide information, but I know ON1 provides all the tutorials and courses - very well presented - that one possibly could use, keyed to their software, of course. Personally, I see no reason at all to pay for any sort of instruction.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

rlv567 wrote:

Thai certainly is the right answer! - and searching for whatever you want is not difficult; sometimes it just requires using a bit of brainpower. Others also may provide information, but I know ON1 provides all the tutorials and courses - very well presented - that one possibly could use, keyed to their software, of course. Personally, I see no reason at all to pay for any sort of instruction.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

And when you find a video or author of many videos you find useful, save the name and the link. Then, you don't have to search it all over again.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

CHG_CANON wrote:

And when you find a video or author of many videos you find useful, save the name and the link. Then, you don't have to search it all over again.

YouTube is great for saving favorites as Subscriptions. I have over 200, and I look through them every couple of days to see if there are any new posts. In the list of Subscriptions, they will put a blue dot by the name of the channel when there is a new post.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Free today - Photoshop, with Ben Wilmore. 9:00 AM, Saturday, July 30.

https://www.creativelive.com/class/up-to-speed-with-photoshop-ben-willmore

CaptainPhoto

I signed up for a course with the "New York School of Photography" - It was a course in travel photography. It sort of started out OK until I submitted my first assignment for review by a "professional photographer". He made some comments on my photos and that was the end of the communication. If I had a question or wanted to further clarify his remarks I was not allowed to do that. During one lesson the instructor had his 12-14-year-old son doing the presentation. Really - I was paying the price of a college-level course and a 12-year-old kid was doing the lesson. After a while, I stopped doing the course and asked for a refund. I was told I would only get x-$ back because I had used up y-amound of time. It was a lesson learned and that is about all.

CaptainPhoto

I signed up for a course with the "New York School of Photography" - It was a course in travel photography. It sort of started out OK until I submitted my first assignment for review by a "professional photographer". He made some comments on my photos and that was the end of the communication. If I had a question or wanted to further clarify his remarks I was not allowed to do that. During one lesson the instructor had his 12-14-year-old son doing the presentation. Really - I was paying the price of a college-level course and a 12-year-old kid was doing the lesson. After a while, I stopped doing the course and asked for a refund. I was told I would only get x-$ back because I had used up y-amound of time. It was a lesson learned and that is about all.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

CaptainPhoto wrote:

I signed up for a course with the "New York S... (show quote)

Most online courses boast about letting you ask the instructor questions. I just filed that away as fluff.

LCD

I would pay for an online Photo Shop course that I can take mostly by video, but with the option of communicating with someone about the snags I run into that stop the process cold.

John O.

Take a look at PSA, The Photographic Society of America https://psa-photo.org/

They have FREE 10 online courses with an instructor you personally interface with.

They have a FREE PSA mentor program with 9 topics.

They also have 6 FREE Study and Discussion Groups.

The membership cost only $45 per year for a digital copy of their monthly magazine or $65 per year if you want a hard copy of the magazine sent to you via mail.

Go to their website and click on Education.

PSA was founded in 1934 and is worldwide. Click in their International Liaison Officers link which lists the countries and areas of the world that PSA covers.

This is NOT A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER'S organization!

It is for most of us you find on the Ugly Hedgehog.

kenpic Loc: Edmonds, WA

jerryc41 wrote:

One nice thing about CreativeLive is their series on specific camera models.

Here's a good one for $14.00. I wonder how similar the controls are on the other Z cameras.

https://www.creativelive.com/class/nikon-z7-z6-fast-start-john-greengo?via=autocomplete

And more Nikon -

https://www.creativelive.com/catalog/photography/nikon-tutorials?via=navpath_8314

I have taken a number of John Greengo's classes, live and online. He is amazing! The best photography teacher I have ever found!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I just remembered that CreativeLive runs its free courses all day long - continuously. You can start and stop watching as it's convenient. The Ben Wilmore PS course has been running since noon Eastern Time.

https://www.creativelive.com/class/up-to-speed-with-photoshop-ben-willmore

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

CHG_CANON wrote:

More importantly: never spend money on photography 'training' until you've exhausted all the freely available training on utube and elsewhere. There's more free training available than you can ever watch in the rest of your lifetime. Don't pay money for what is available free via advising support of the author.

Great point!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

flathead27ford wrote:

Great point!

And after you get your first camera, NEVER spend money on another camera.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

I bought the Great Courses Photography introduction by Joel Sartore. Very good, not expensive. IMO