DIGITAL PHOTO MENTOR

Photography tips, tutorials and guides for Beginner and Intermediate Photographers.

From Capture in Camera Through Mastering of Your Final Edit

Whether you’re a beginner photographer or seasoned shooter, you’ll find photography articles here to help you take better photos in the first place, and then master your photo editing skills as well.

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Learn the Photography Basics

If you have just gotten your camera and want to learn photography, our FREE 9-part course on photography basics for beginners is just what you need.

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Photography Challenges

If you’ve had your camera for a while and already have some experience using it, then you’ll then want to get our FREE e-book, 10 Photography Challenges, to help you get out and practice.

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Learn About Photo Editing

Learn how to use photo editing software programs and apps such as Luminar Neo, Luminar AI, Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz. Video tutorials and detailed examples of photo editing.

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Master Your Photo Editing Skills

Enroll in one of our photo editing courses: Luminar Neo, Lightroom or Photoshop.

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Luminar Neo Training

Whether you’re brand new to editing, have used older versions of Luminar, or want to add Luminar Neo into your workflow as a plugin – this course can help you set yourself up for success.

You’ll gain confidence in your photo editing abilities, speed up your workflow and create stunning images after completing Luminar Neo – the Complete Course.

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Learn Lightroom Classic

Learn how to use Lightroom Classic photo editing software in this Lightroom for Photographers: The Complete Course. The lessons in this course, collectively become the ULTIMATE Lightroom tutorial and guide.

From start to finish, this Lightroom course will help both beginners and experienced users alike to easily learn and understand how to use Lightroom.

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Photoshop for Beginners

With over 12 hours of instruction, Photoshop for Photographers: The Complete Course is the end to end guide for creative photo editing use the Adobe product.

If you want to learn how to use Photoshop, by itself, or in combination with Lightroom or Luminar Neo, this course is perfect for you.

Designed with beginners in mind.

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