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[caption id="attachment_6606" align="alignnone" width="650"] Beautifully color-balanced skin. Photo by Lindsay Adler[/caption] Flawless skin is essential in glamour and fashion photography, but even models with a clear complexion can look uneven in less-than-ideal lighting.

This week, NPR reported on a study that found that the human brain, regardless of a person's perceived ability to keep a beat, can still keep time. The findings further underscored a long-running theory that music truly is a universal human language, as old as time and as thoroughly rooted in our brains as the need to breathe.

[caption id="attachment_6383" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image: Amanda Diaz[/caption] DIY fashion is as much about style as it is about saving some scratch,but DIY fashion photography? That's a whole other ballgame.

Jagged rocks that would impale any unfortunate soul who fell on them. Wild winds that could choke your throat in black sand and send any navigator off course.

The histogram on your camera can tell you a lot about the quality of your photo, but for beginner photographers, interpreting what the chart is trying to tell you can be overwhelming and confusing. Lucky for us, John Greengo offered up an easy explanation of the histogram in the course, The Photography Starter Kit.

[caption id="attachment_6117" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo by Garry Knight. [/caption] John Greengo is the master of explaining everything from ultra basic photography functions to high-level concepts.

[caption id="attachment_6110" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Felix Kunze[/caption] It's been a short week for most of us, but over on our CreativeLive’s YouTube channel, we've packed in a lot of learning. This weekend, take some time to catch up on viewing with videos about everything from how to connect you camera to your smartphone to how to be smart about ordering at meals at restaurants.