Upcoming Live Classes

All live classes feature real time Q&A directly with the instructor

Production Speed: Images & Links in Adobe InDesign

Thu, Aug 13, 7–9pm ET Live Online

This course will be free to watch while streaming live on YouTube on 8/13/2026 from 7:00–9:00 PM EST and will be available for purchase after the event. Production Speed: Images & Links in Adobe InDesign is an intensive technical workshop designed to help you eliminate broken paths, blurry graphics, and unexpected layout shifts when working with external assets. InDesign does not embed images by default; it links to them. This crucial distinction can make or break a publishing workflow. In this session, you’ll learn how to import high-resolution graphics, manage the relationship between images and their frames, and use the Links panel to organize, track, and package large-scale design projects without losing data. By understanding how InDesign handles linked assets, resolution, color profiles, and fitting options, you’ll be able to prevent common file errors and build a faster, more reliable production workflow. What You'll Learn Master the relationship between graphic containers and the images inside them. Apply responsive frame fitting options to automate layout adjustments. Use the Links panel to track asset statuses, update modified graphics, and fix broken paths. Manage image resolution, color profiles, and layer visibility directly inside InDesign. Who It's For Production artists who want to prevent missing files, broken links, and layout errors. Catalog designers managing large numbers of images and external assets. Desktop publishers who want to better understand print resolution requirements. InDesign users looking to speed up and improve their asset management workflow. How to Join This class will be free to watch while it is streaming live on YouTube. The YouTube Live link will be sent to registered participants prior to the event. After the live event, the class will be available for purchase.

Anamorphic Cinematography on a Budget with Eugenio Solis De Ovando

Sat, Aug 15, 5–8:30am ET Live Online

Anamorphic Cinematography on a Budget is a practical class that explores one of the most recognizable looks in cinema and shows how to achieve it without expensive gear. In this session, you’ll learn what makes anamorphic video feel cinematic, from widescreen framing and horizontal flares to oval bokeh and distinctive lens character. This class is designed for photographers moving into video, videographers exploring anamorphic lenses, smartphone creators looking for a more filmic look, and hobbyists curious about cinematic storytelling. You’ll see how affordable anamorphic options work across smartphones, mirrorless cameras, vintage projector lens setups, and digital simulations, with a focus on choosing the right setup for your goals and budget. The class also covers a practical post-production workflow for desqueezing, editing, color grading, and exporting anamorphic footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. By the end, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to begin shooting anamorphic video intentionally, using the look not just as an effect, but as a visual language for storytelling. This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with Eugenio. What You'll Learn Understand what makes the anamorphic look different from standard video. Explain squeeze ratios, widescreen framing, horizontal flares, oval bokeh, and lens character in simple terms. Choose an anamorphic setup that fits your camera, budget, and experience level. Shoot cinematic video with a smartphone, mirrorless camera, or affordable anamorphic lens setup. Understand the difference between real anamorphic lenses, projector lens rigs, and digital simulations. Build a basic workflow for shooting, desqueezing, editing, and exporting anamorphic footage. Use anamorphic tools creatively for short films, social media videos, music videos, travel films, portraits, and personal projects. Who It's For Photographers who want to start creating cinematic video. Videographers who want to explore anamorphic lenses without a high-end budget. Smartphone creators who want a more filmic look for their videos. Hobbyists interested in cinema lenses, vintage optics, and visual experimentation. Content creators who want their videos to feel more intentional and cinematic. Short film, music video, travel, portrait, and documentary creators looking for a distinctive visual style. How to Join The class will be delivered via Zoom Webinars. You’ll need access to Zoom through a web browser or the Zoom app in order to participate. To reserve your spot, register using the Sign Up form and button above. Space is limited. A unique Zoom join link will be sent to the maximum number of participants per class. You’ll receive this link one hour before the class start time. About the Instructor Eugenio Solis de Ovando is a Senior Instructor at Noble Desktop in New York City, specializing in graphic design, web design, and visual communication. With over 20 years of experience in the creative industry, Eugenio is passionate about helping students develop strong technical skills and a solid design foundation across print, digital, and web platforms. Eugenio teaches a wide range of courses, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, WordPress, UI Design, and Artificial Intelligence for Graphic Design. His classes are known for their clear, hands-on approach, blending technical mastery with creative exploration to help students bring their ideas to life with confidence and precision. He holds a Ph. D. in Artificial Intelligence with a specialization in Human Performance Technology, where his research focused on integrating emerging AI technologies into adult education and training. As an Adobe Certified Design Master and Licensed Private Career School Teacher in New York State, Eugenio is dedicated to delivering high-quality instruction and sharing best practices in digital design workflows. He brings real-world insights into the classroom, guiding students through professional techniques in layout design, typography, color theory, image editing, and responsive web design.

Breaking Down a Commercial Brand Photo Shoot with James Patrick

Tue, Aug 18, 7–10pm ET Live Online

This course will be free to watch while streaming on YouTube Live on 8/18/2026 from 7:00–10:00 PM EST and will be available for purchase after the event. Most photographers can take a nice portrait of a model. But can they run an actual commercial brand shoot? Taking a real client's creative direction, building out the concept, directing talent through various set ups, and delivering a finished, usable set of brand images, all in a single session. This is a full production system: planning, lighting, directing, and executing a commercial brand campaign for a real client, built and demonstrated live. Viewers will get to watch the entire process unfold. Pre-production and creative direction. Prepping and briefing the models. A live shoot followed by culling, reshooting, and finalizing the selections, on the clock, the way a real production actually operates. This isn't just a theoretical breakdown of someone's shoot. It's a real brand shoot with the decisions spoken out loud as they happen. This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with James Patrick. What You'll Learn Translate a brand's creative direction into a concrete concept, mood board, and shot list before a single frame is captured. Build and light two distinct setups, a clean high-key commercial look and a conceptual movement/action look, inside one compressed production window. Direct two professional models through two different physical and emotional registers using a repeatable directing toolkit. Read body language and energy in real time and adjust direction before stiffness or fatigue shows up on camera. Run a shoot at real commercial pace, recognizing when a look is already banked instead of overshooting it. Cull and review live, identify gaps against the shot list, and make fast, prioritized reshoot decisions inside a fixed time window. Walk away with a repeatable framework for producing a two-concept brand shoot, with or without a full crew. Who It's For Aspiring commercial and brand photographers who want to see a full client shoot run start to finish, not just a lighting demo. Photographers who can light and shoot but may struggle to direct real people into distinct, brand-appropriate performances. Anyone who has been handed a client's creative direction and wasn't sure how to turn it into a mood board and a shot list. Photographers who want to see how a single shoot day can cover two completely different visual concepts without doubling the timeline or the crew. Photographers who get technically strong images but freeze up directing people more than they freeze up directing light. How to Join This class will be free to watch while it is streaming live on YouTube. The YouTube Live link will be sent to registered participants prior to the event.After the live event, the class will be available for purchase. About the InstructorJames Patrick is a commercial photographer and media strategist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the course of his career, he has photographed more than 800 magazine covers across the health, fitness, and wellness industries. His work has appeared in major publications including Muscle & Fitness, Men's Fitness, Sports Illustrated, Golf Magazine, and Women's Running. James specializes in creating bold editorial imagery and helping photographers develop both their creative voice and their professional brand.

Fundamentals of Building Icons in Adobe Illustrator with Jason Hoppe

Thu, Aug 27, 7–8:30pm ET Live Online

Professional icons look clean because they’re built on math, not guesswork. In this hands-on, technical class, Jason Hoppe teaches you the structural discipline behind unified, scalable icon sets in Adobe Illustrator — the kind you can drop into any UI without a single wobbly edge. Jason breaks down the systems that separate amateur icon work from professional-grade libraries: construction grids, geometric primitives, and Illustrator's boolean operations. You'll move past sloppy path-drawing and start building pixel-perfect vector assets with the kind of precision and consistency that makes an entire icon set feel like one cohesive family, not a pile of mismatched shapes. This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with Jason Hoppe. What You'll Learn How to build pixel-perfect construction grids that keep every icon crisp, not blurry, on screen How to combine simple shapes into complex icons using Illustrator's advanced shape-building tools How to optically balance geometry so icons look visually centered, not just mathematically centered How to apply consistent stroke weights, corner radiuses, and bounding boxes for true proportional unity How to use boolean operations and geometric primitives to work faster and cleaner Who It's For UI/UX designers who want to build custom icon systems instead of relying on stock libraries Digital illustrators looking to sharpen their vector precision and construction technique Graphic designers ready to move from freehand shapes to a structured, repeatable icon workflow Anyone who wants their icon sets to look unified, professional, and screen-ready How to Join The class will be delivered via Zoom Webinars. You'll need access to Zoom through a web browser or the Zoom app in order to participate. To reserve your spot, register using the Sign Up form and button above. Space is limited. A unique Zoom join link will be sent to registered participants, up to the maximum number of participants per class. You'll receive this link one hour before the class start time. About the Instructor Jason Hoppe is an Adobe® Certified Expert and Adobe® Certified Instructor with more than 20 years of experience in high-end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and creative workflow management. He's been immersed in electronic production since the earliest days of the industry, and has taught prepress and design fundamentals to hundreds of Seattle-based creative professionals through one-on-one tutoring, classroom instruction, live webcasting, and large group training. A founding instructor at CreativeLive, Jason currently teaches the Adobe® Creative Suite at The School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works, and Seattle Central College. He's also an Adobe MAX Master and the author of a book on Illustrator technique, and he keeps an active blog of Illustrator tutorials on his own site. Jason's teaching style comes from decades spent solving production problems under deadline — he brings that same practical, no-fluff approach to every class, breaking down complex tools into systems anyone can actually use.

The Modern Tethered Workflow: Tethering Made Easy with Vail Fucci

Sat, Aug 29, 7–10pm ET Live Online

This course will be free to watch while streaming on YouTube Live on 8/29/2026 from 7:00–10:00 PM EST and will be available for purchase after the event. The Modern Tethered Workflow: Tethering Made Easy is a practical class taught by professional photographer Vail Fucci that takes the intimidation out of tethered shooting. Tethering can seem complicated if you've never tried it, but getting started is easier than you might think—and it can completely change the way you work. By viewing your images on a larger screen as you shoot, you can evaluate focus, lighting, posing, backgrounds, wardrobe, product placement, and other important details in real time, make adjustments immediately, and more efficiently create the final image you want to deliver to your client. You'll learn what gear you need to create a reliable tethered setup and how to shoot directly into Lightroom, Capture One, and Evoto, while discovering the advantages of each platform and when you might choose one over another. Vail will demonstrate tethered workflows for headshot and portrait photography as well as product photography. You'll also explore how tethering can allow clients, art directors, and other members of a creative team to view images remotely as they're being created, making it possible to collaborate, provide feedback, and approve images in real time. You'll also discover how automated retouching is changing the modern tethered workflow, allowing you to shoot for the edit, refine your images as you create them, and get closer to a finished, delivery-ready image while you're still shooting—all while dramatically reducing post-production time after the shoot. This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with Vail Fucci. What You'll Learn Identify the gear you need and set it up for reliable tethered shooting. Tether your camera directly into Lightroom, Capture One, and Evoto. Choose the right tethering platform for different types of photography and workflows. Evaluate focus, lighting, posing, backgrounds, wardrobe, product placement, and other important details while you're still shooting. Use tethering during headshot and portrait sessions to refine your images and collaborate more effectively with clients and creative teams. Use tethering for product photography to evaluate lighting, focus, reflections, placement, and small details in real time. Share images remotely as you shoot so clients, art directors, and creative teams can review, provide feedback, and approve images in real time. Incorporate automated retouching into your tethered workflow to shoot for the edit and make creative decisions based on a more finished version of your image. Get closer to a finished, delivery-ready image during the shoot and dramatically reduce post-production time. Work more efficiently and reduce the need for reshoots. Who It's For Photographers who are curious about tethering but have been intimidated by the setup or don't know where to begin. Portrait and headshot photographers who want to refine their images while they shoot and create a better client experience. Product and commercial photographers who need to evaluate details accurately while shooting. Commercial photographers who need to collaborate with clients, art directors, or creative teams during a shoot. Photographers looking to reduce post-production time by incorporating automated retouching into their capture workflow. Photographers who want to understand the differences between tethering with Lightroom, Capture One, and Evoto. Any experience level. No previous tethering experience is required. How to Join This class will be free to watch while it is streaming live on YouTube. The YouTube Live link will be sent to registered participants prior to the event.After the live event, the class will be available for purchase. About the Instructor Vail Fucci is a Boston-based event and headshot photographer known for her warm, high-energy presence and ability to deliver polished, share-ready images in real time. Her positivity and instinctive connection with people allow her to create authentic, elevated photographs—even in fast-paced live environments. Vail has photographed high-profile individuals and events for major global brands and organizations, including Live Nation, Takeda, Eli Lilly, New Balance, Visa, the NFL, Nike, WIRED, Formula 1, and the Boston Celtics. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Post's Page Six, Forbes, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Boston Magazine. Before focusing on corporate events and headshots, Vail spent more than a decade as a professional wedding photographer and was named one of Boston's Best Wedding Photographers by CBS Boston. She also photographed New York Fashion Week behind the scenes in the tents at Lincoln Center as well as on the runway from the pit. At the heart of Vail's portrait work is her desire to help people see how beautiful they truly are. By guiding clients to view themselves in a whole new light—both literally and figuratively—she creates images that build confidence as much as they capture appearance. This transformative approach, along with her Ph.D. in bioethics, earned her the nickname "The Headshot Doctor," taking high-end headshots of people from all walks of life, from new hires to Nobel Prize winners. Today, Vail specializes in intentional in-camera capture, efficient on-location lighting, and instant image delivery that reduces post-production while elevating the client and guest experience. A passionate educator, she was a speaker at Imaging USA 2026, a guest lecturer at NYC Salt, and a Westcott Ambassador. Through workshops, online education, private mentoring, and digital content, she teaches photographers how to work smarter, stand out in competitive markets, and build profitable, sustainable businesses.

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