CreativeLive Photography Classes Online

Turn photography from a casual interest into a skill you can keep developing, with expert-led classes covering everything from camera fundamentals and lighting to portraits, editing, and photography business. CreativeLive gives you the freedom to build your own learning path across a deep catalog of photography classes, with on-demand lessons you can watch at your own pace.

Access 2,000+ on-demand classes, including a broad photography catalog covering fundamentals, creative specialties, editing, lighting, and photography business.

What this is

CreativeLive is an online learning platform with a dedicated photography catalog covering foundational skills, creative techniques, specialized genres, post-processing, and photography business.


The photography library includes classes such as Fundamentals of Photography, Portrait Photography Bootcamp, Studio Lighting 101, Adobe Lightroom Classic: The Complete Guide, Nature and Landscape Photography, and How to Start a Photography Business.


Classes are professionally produced, pre-recorded video lessons that you can watch on demand and at your own pace. The annual subscription provides unlimited access to 2,000+ on-demand classes, along with exclusive access to live seminars with instructors.

Who it's for

  • Beginners who want to learn photography fundamentals and understand how to get more from their camera.
  • Photographers looking to improve specific skills such as lighting, posing, composition, or photo editing.
  • Creators interested in developing a particular photography style or specialty.
  • Photographers exploring areas such as portrait, landscape, food, street, wedding, commercial, documentary, or mobile photography.
  • People interested in the business side of photography, including classes focused on starting a photography business.

What you get

  • In-depth instruction on photography fundamentals including cameras, technique, composition, exposure, focus, and creative decision-making.
  • Training on lighting, posing, natural light, flash, and studio setups to give you greater control over the way your images look.
  • Guidance on developing skills in specialized areas including portrait, landscape, wildlife, food, wedding, documentary, commercial, mobile, and real estate photography.
  • Practical instruction on Lightroom and Photoshop covering photo editing, organization, retouching, color, and post-processing workflows.
  • Access to a broader creative learning library through the annual subscription, with 2,000+ on-demand classes across photography, video, design, music, business, and other subjects.

Why this is useful

CreativeLive is built around learning directly from working photographers and other creative professionals, with classes designed around practical skills and real workflows.


Its photography catalog is unusually broad: the current library includes 902 photography classes spanning fundamentals, lighting, posing, post-processing, commercial photography, portraiture, landscape, wildlife, wedding photography, mobile photography, and more.


That makes CreativeLive particularly useful when your photography goals evolve. You can strengthen your fundamentals, move into a specialty, improve your editing, and explore the business side of photography within the same learning platform.

Understand Your Camera, Not Just Point It

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