How To Make A DIY Ring Light

Effective, attractive indoor lighting setups can easily eat into your photography business's budget if you let it; lights and lighting gear can run in the thousands of dollars. And if…

DIY: How to Make the Perfect Buttercream Frosting

Whether you're a baking novice or an old-hand in the kitchen, perfecting the holy grail of indulgent icing -- buttercream -- can be tricky business. Lucinda Larson, the Icing Diva,…

How Adrian Farr Escaped Corporate Life to Pursue His Dream

The CreativeLive community is full of incredibly talented individuals, with inspirational stories of how they started doing what they're doing - one of them is Adrian Farr, a UK-based fashion…

11 Things No One Tells You About Freelancing

Here is what I knew about working as a full-time freelance writer before I actually did it: Yoga pants and working from my bed. I have a feeling this is…

How TED Inspired a Whole Generation of Public Speakers

TED has been in the business of talking for over 30 years (it began as a one-off conference in 1984), and the massive success of NPR's TED Radio Hour, as well as…

13 Vintage Pet Photos to Make You Go ‘Awww’

Think pet photography is something that was invented with Instagram or possibly LOLCats? Hardly! People have been snapping pictures of their pets since the camera was invented; after all, man's…

9 Adorable Animated GIFs Made from Vintage Illustrations

Leave it to the Smithsonian Libraries to have a delightful collection of vintage GIFs which blend the Internet's love of moving pictures with everyone else's love of classic line drawings. A…

A New Shade of Blue – What Will You Discover?

If you're an artist, designer, or are at all interested in color theory you might think it's an understatement to call the discovery of a new color a "happy accident,"…