All Learning Guides

Find the very best free tutorials and video courses on a range of popular creative and technical subjects, all in one place. What will you start learning today?

With the Design & Illustration learning guides, for example, you can learn important subjects like magazine design or creating Photoshop actions in all the detail you want. Each guide comes with an extensive array of links to other tutorials and courses, so you can start by getting an overview and then dive deeper into the areas that interest you.

And it’s not just design either—you can use these learning guides to become an expert developer, learn new web design skills, succeed in business, and more.

  1. SpriteKit Basics

    5 Posts
    SpriteKit is Apple's 2D game engine—a rendering engine built on top of OpenGL. It was introduced with iOS 7, and each subsequent release has brought great additions to the framework. With the use of textured sprites, a built-in physics engine, and the very powerful SKAction class, you can very quickly build functional 2D games.
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  2. Code a Real-Time NativeScript App

    4 Posts
    NativeScript is a framework for building cross-platform native mobile apps using XML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this series, we'll try out some of the cool things you can do with a NativeScript app: geolocation and Google Maps integration, SQL Lite database, Firebase integration, and push notifications. Along the way, we'll build a fitness app with real-time capabilities that will use each of these features.
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  3. The Complete Guide to Adobe Alternatives

    7 Posts
    It's always a good idea to know as much as possible about all the tools at your disposal. With a little exploration you might find there are tools out there, other than the obvious Adobe choices, that perfectly suit your daily tasks and workflows.
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