Start with a step-by-step tour of the tools you’ll be using the most often while you retouch. Even if you think you know these tools already, Pratik goes into full detail on how to use them efficiently to achieve the best results in your portraits!

Join us for our Replicate the Light course! The beginning of this course is actually a Facebook LIVE event with Sue. She will walk you through a lot of the questions that fellow photographers had about different shoots that she has taught. Then, at about 39 minutes in, you will get to the replicate the light challenge. Sue’s followers chose a photo of Beyonce that they wanted Sue to teach how to replicate the light on.

Today is a special fly-on-the-wall look at one of my real glamour shoots. I’ve wanted to do something like this for year. This is what I’ve built my business doing for over 27 years. I’d love you to join me today.

In this course, you are going to learn all about curves, shaping people’s bodies and learning how to make them look good. The gorgeous Bailey and stunning Ally will model for us. Watch, as we put what we learned in the POSE course and use it for curvier women. This course will walk you through all the flow poses using the original guide. This will help you learn how to shape their bodies beautifully.

In today’s world of social media, the need for online headshots, otherwise known as personal branding, has opened new doors for attracting clients. Headshots are a great tool in your studio’s mix of services. Not only do they work for quick revenue, they provide a great introduction for longer-term relationships and up‑selling clients to full portrait sessions.

Today is all about the magic of natural light! That’s right, we’re going back to the basics. As you know, natural light is Sue’s first love and mastering it is one of the greatest things you can learn. Her new studio has inconsistent natural light windows and she had to learn how to control that light to get the results that she wanted.

This video from the Live Archive was shot at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when lockdowns and quarantines were sweeping the globe. Before getting into the class she has prepared, Sue offers words of encouragement, reminding everyone that they can still practice photographing themselves and their family and roommates they are quarantined with. Also, in doing so, everyone will be prepared to go back to work when it is possible to re-open their businesses under restriction.

For this course I am in the foothills of the Italian Dolomites at Graphistudio’s Castello Ceconi. I absolutely love this shoot, and I had to work hard for the results. The winds picked up, the clouds disappeared, the sun was sitting high noon… I found myself in the most beautiful places on earth with some of the worst lighting conditions you could ask for.

Join me live today. I will show you this shoot, and walk you through the creative process for both shooting and post production. I did this shoot with photographer and graphic designer Trisha Hadley. I used the same girl in every pose of this tutorial, but I cannot wait to do this with a large group or family. I plan to explore this further with more props and backgrounds in future projects.

Follow along as I go over how I edited this image by making my subjects pop off of a dramatic sky that was captured in camera.

Many photographers chase the golden hour, the cherished light that has captivated artists worldwide. But what if you could elevate that magic? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to augment flash with ambient light in the late afternoon, making backlight the star of your image. You’ll see behind-the-scenes footage that reveals the process, and I’ll explain exactly how and why I use flash to enhance the scene. If you’re a photographer that wants to incorporate flash and take your work to the next level, this tutorial is perfect for you!

Achieving great sharp skin tones of ALL hues within outside greenery and within various lighting situations can be a feat. I will simplify all of that for you with this tutorial. I will showcase my methods that will showcase how to tackle it all with ease! During this tutorial, I will showcase my method for achieving good skin tones during the photo shoot, and fine tuning  during post processing. I will go over ALL skin tones in various lighting ( within various natural lighting, and an example with created light). With this tutorial, you will learn my method step by step, but I will also simplify the basic steps I will show you and provide each purchaser with a Photoshop Action or Adobe Lightroom preset to shorten your post processing time.

This is a signature look for me! The beauty of this signature look that I am showing you is that, it was created in post! Here’s what inspired it… Often I see photographers who attempt to photograph at night, and the background is just black with the respect of any bokeh that may be in the background. They lose that tiny quality of ambient light in the air that gives the background DEPTH. Depth is a huge part of my work. In this tutorial, I show you exactly how to achieve an eye catching colorful night time image if it didn’t come out of the camera that way. This tutorial is SIMPLE, and straight to the point. It is a GREAT tool to have in your arsenal.

In this 5+ hour course illustrator, cartoonist, & director Tim Hodge (Brother Bear, Mulan, VeggieTales) explains his approach to Drawing & Painting Cartoon Animals.

Learn how to do Digital Painting in Photoshop with world renowned artist Aaron Blaise. Perfect for beginners or seasoned pros!

David Colman (Disney, Amazon, Sony) is an Emmy Award winning character designer & story artist. One question he is asked all the time is: “How do you find your Art Style?” Well, in this course we will explore similar subjects in multiple design styles focusing on maintaining the subjects integrity no matter what shape vocabulary is implemented. We will be exploring everything from environments to characters, creatures and props. Additionally we will deep dive into various references and historical resources as design style inspiration.