Success as a wedding photographer requires more than just raw talent and the desire to be a professional photographer. To survive in this highly competitive industry, you need strong business skills and a deep understanding of your craft. In this documentary wedding photography experience, Susan Stripling will teach you how to launch and sustain a successful wedding photography business.

There's a common misconception that artists have a monopoly on creativity. But the very act of making something - shooting a photograph, designing a product, thinking critically, or building a business - is a creative one. These small actions come from our unique inner impulse to create.

Sometimes, we lapse into unproductive habits because we don’t know what else to do. That's why we worked with some of the best creators we know to bring these 28 daily creative project ideas to your inbox so you can get back in the habit of making.

Running your own business can easily become a game of defense instead of offense. Learn how build a profitable business and guard against the tides that overwhelm small businesses in this training course for entrepreneurs.

Custom quilts are the kind of heirloom craft everyone longs to create, but stitching together a unique pattern can be seriously overwhelming. In 10 Ways to Love Improvisational Quilting, Malka Dubrawsky will introduce you to new forms of quilting — with fresh color combinations, techniques, and patterns.

Spark Post—the easy-to-use graphic design software from Adobe—empowers users to create stylish, effective social media posts. Even if you're a graphic design novice, Spark Post can help you quickly create images that allow you to connect with—and grow—your brand's audience. In this course, learn how to get started with Adobe Spark Post. In addition to covering the basics—such as how to create layouts and add text— instructor Nicte Cuevas explains how to leverage this tool in a way that's intentional. Learn how to use imagery that resonates with your target audience and works with your layout; how to use your brand's colors in a way that creates an emotional connection; how to create branded templates that can save you time and money; and more.

Build on what you learned in Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition by taking a more advanced look at universal composition and layout principles. Instructor Sean Adams starts by teaching basic compositional elements, such as shape, color, and negative space. He then moves into advanced compositional topics, including how to use tension, scale, repetition, and hierarchy. After a look at proportion, he ends the course with a lesson on attributes. Learn about how minimalism can add interest to a composition, how to create a strong layout by cropping images and words in a somewhat unorthodox fashion, and more. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be equipped with techniques and concepts that can help you craft unexpected, visually intriguing design solutions.

Graphic design is a complex art. To become a graphic designer, you need to master many different skills and tools. This course covers the concepts and software that every designer needs to know and explains how they fit into a typical graphic design workflow. Instructor Tony Harmer introduces the creative process, including high-level concepts like layout, typography, and color. Then it's your chance to get hands-on, using Photoshop to creatively adjust, repair, and retouch the kinds of images used in graphic design projects. Tony then shows how to use Illustrator to build a custom logo and introduces important vector-drawing techniques. Last, he visits InDesign for an overview of the document layout and print preparation processes. By the end of the course, you'll have a better grasp of what graphic designers do and what you'll need to learn next. It's a great jumping off point for any graphic design career.

Whether you’re just learning to use WordPress or busy developing new WordPress websites and themes, having a local version is essential. Installing WordPress on your computer gives you full control for experimentation, development, and testing. You see the changes you make immediately—no need to upload and download files. Local by FlyWheel is a free application that makes it easy to get a local WordPress environment up and running fast. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen helps you install and run WordPress locally on both Windows and Mac using Local. He then shows how to take advantage of all its benefits, including Live Link, local file access, cloning, and Blueprints, a special Local feature that makes launching your next WordPress site even easier.

In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects

Learn Adobe InDesign, the world's most powerful page-layout application, on your lunch break. This short introductory course teaches you the basics of InDesign in under 30 minutes. Once you have these fundamental techniques out of the way, you can move on to more in-depth training and hone your skills in the areas you want to focus. Start here to learn how to add and edit text and graphics, move objects around your layout, and print your design or export it as a PDF for digital sharing.

Learn how to make interactive PDFs—the quick, efficient, and fun way—with Adobe InDesign. Interactive PDFs make great forms, magazines, presentations, prototypes, and even ebooks. They combine the security of the PDF format with the dynamic capabilities of the web—and they display equally well on desktops and mobile devices. In this course, InDesign expert David Blatner explains what interactive PDFs are, why they're so useful, and how to make them yourself with Adobe InDesign and Acrobat. Learn to take a new or existing PDF and add links and bookmarks; create buttons that play media, send email, and submit data; build forms with intelligent fields; and embed audio and video. Plus, discover how to add polish with page transitions and animation, and reduce the file size of your PDF so it's easier to share.

Increasingly, companies are shifting from using external design firms to bringing design in-house. The truth is, no one knows the client better than the people that work there, and this gives in-house designers a tremendous advantage. However, in-house designers need to be sure they're in tune with their colleagues, and that everyone is using the same methods and up-to-date assets. In this course Claudia McCue walks you through the best practices for a smooth InDesign workflow. Learn how to set up your workspace, documents, and templates for maximum efficiency; how to import and format text; how to store the assets you use over and over again in Creative Cloud Libraries, and how to create shareable swatches. Plus, discover how to format tables and build an automatic table of contents that takes just one click to create and one click to update. Claudia also shows how to export your work to PDF for review or web distribution, and how to prepare files for sending to a commercial printer.

Creating Long Documents with InDesign shows designers how to plan, create, and output book-length documents using InDesign CC features and third-party plugins. Publishing veteran Mike Rankin focuses on long-document elements such as page and chapter numbering, tables of contents, cross-references, and indexes. The course also provides strategies and best practices for document construction, from creating master pages and applying consistent formatting with styles, to placing text and images and outputting to both print and interactive PDF.

Want to make your own ebooks? Get a basic introduction to the exciting and evolving world of digital books. In this beginner-level course, Anne-Marie Concepción explains how to use, create, and sell ebooks, including reflowable, fixed-layout, Kindle, PDF, and multitouch ebooks. Anne-Marie's tips can help you choose the right format and the best tools to build your ebook. She demonstrates professional page layout software such as Adobe InDesign, free apps, and trustworthy services that will do the work for you. Plus, learn about important housekeeping details for selling ebooks, such as creating an ISBN and creating store accounts for the Kindle and iBooks.

A stylish poster both attracts attention and speaks well to the event or idea being advertised. After all, if a poster is clever, professional, and cool, onlookers will likely think the same of the event. In this project-based course, designer and educator Nigel French demonstrates how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create eye-catching posters. As Nigel shows how to approach several poster concepts—including a gig poster for a band, a public information poster, and a poster advertising a bike-to-work event—he covers key aspects of the design process. He explains how to set up a document, generate ideas, format text, prepare your document for printing, and more.

Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating your design. In this project-based course, Nigel French shares effective design and production techniques by taking you from start to finish through the process of designing a newsletter. He uses Adobe InDesign—with some help from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop—to craft an eye-catching and impactful design. Nigel covers how to set up a document, work with text, and choose and manipulate images. Plus, he shows how to create both a print-ready PDF and a screen PDF of your finished newsletter.

Media and marketing efforts often rely on data visualizations to quickly prove a point. But poorly designed visualizations can be misleading. Whether it's choosing the wrong charts or graphs, misinterpreting the data, or showing it without context, inaccurate designs can become a source of global scrutiny.

Fonts have a subtle—but powerful—effect on how users experience content. This is particularly true when it comes to apps and games, where information is presented quickly and often in tiny spaces. An off-putting or difficult-to-read font can distract a player or worse: prevent them from understanding what you have to say. The right font reinforces the theme you've chosen—from the ancient to the futuristic—and helps keep players engaged. If you have an idea for a font for your app or game, this course will help you make it a reality.

Many creative people are familiar with the frustrating experience of discovering that their work is being used online without their permission. But not all of the artists whose work is being copied and resold know how to properly manage the situation. In this course, Von Glitschka dives into the subject of copyrights, sharing key information that you need to know to protect your work. Von explains what a copyright is, what needs to be copyrighted, and how to register one. He also explores copyright infringement, explaining where it commonly happens and how to know if you're a victim. From there, he and his lawyer take you through the process of responding to infringement, and demystify some common misconceptions about copyright law.

CSWPA-DT certification shows proof of SOLIDWORKS expertise—the type of cutting-edge skill that businesses seek out and reward. Everyone who passes the CSWPA-DT (Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Drawing Tools) exam has proven their mastery of the SOLIDWORKS drawing tools. This course prepares you to take the exam and stand out from the crowd in today's competitive job market. Gabriel Corbett shows you where to download the testing software, and goes through each of the objectives in detail, focusing on effective use of time and the most relevant knowledge needed to pass the exam. He covers creating complex projections and views, building a bill of materials (BOM), linking custom properties, adding notes and equations, and sorting and configuring the BOM. In the "Sample Exam Questions" chapter, he provides six sample questions and demonstrates how to address them using SOLIDWORKS.

After you've created a storyboard for your animated project, you're ready to tackle the next phase of the pipeline—actually assembling your scenes and rigging your characters. In this course, learn how to use Adobe Animate CC to assemble and animate a scene, and set up a complex rig for both a human character and a robot. Dermot O'Connor shows how to properly line a character, place the pivots, and set up the scene symbol. Plus, he shows how to animate a dynamic action scene, import audio, and export your scene.