13 Top Rated Creativity and Design Courses
Some of these courses are free. But if you decide to purchase anything through the links below, the editor of Personal Growth (Dan — that’s me writing this) will receive a percentage of the sale as a finders fee. Thank you for your support. None of these courses or websites are recommendations. All I know is the courses below seem to have high ratings. The descriptions below are copied and pasted from the host websites.
Photography Masterclass: Your Complete Guide to Photography
This course is designed to teach you the ins and outs of photography, even if you have little to no experience with it. Understand How Cameras Work and What Gear You Need, Master Shooting in Manual Mode and Editing Photos, Follow Our Photo Adventures and See How We Shoot Photos Ourselves, and more.
Food Photography: Capturing Food in Your Kitchen
Whether you’re a food blogger, self-proclaimed master chef, or just an Instagram foodie, this course will give you the skills needed to take professional food photos. The goal is this course is to teach you how to take better photos of your food with any camera, wherever you are.
Wedding Photography: Complete Guide to Wedding Photography
Some of the things you’ll learn in this course: Setting up your wedding photography business. Getting your first clients. Putting together an awesome equipment kit for shooting weddings. Knowing exactly what goes on during a typical wedding day and how to navigate it. Shooting beautiful photos of every moment. And much more.
The Ultimate Drawing Course — Beginner to Advanced
This course will show you how to create advanced art that will stand up as professional work. It’s designed to take you from having little knowledge in drawing to creating advanced art and having a deep understanding of drawing fundamentals.
Graphic Design Specialization
This four-course sequence exposes students to the fundamental skills required to make sophisticated graphic design: process, historical context, and communication through image-making and typography. The goal is to equip learners with a set of tools for “making and communicating” in the field of graphic design.
Learn 3D Modelling — The Complete Blender Creator Course
Blender is a platform which enables you to make AAA-quality models which can be exported to any game engine, 3D printer, or other software. Why you want to learn Blender: Create assets for video games. Make unique 3D printed gifts. Design your dream house, car, etc. Express yourself through 3D artwork.
Build Responsive Real World Websites with HTML5 and CSS3
Easy-to-follow and hands-on web development with HTML5, CSS3 and some jQuery. The proven 7 real-world steps from complete scratch to a fully functional and optimized website. Simple-to-use web design guidelines and tips to make your website stand out from the crowd. And much more.
Ultimate Photoshop Training: From Beginner to Pro
Learn how to design icons, business cards, illustrations, and characters. Clean up face imperfections, improve and repair photos. Use creative effects to design stunning text styles. Remove people or objects from photos. Cut away a person from their background. Master selections, layers, and working with the layers panel.
Graphic Design Bootcamp
Get a clear understanding of how to work with both print and web projects in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. The skills and confidence to create things like flyers, business cards, web graphics, and more. How to build a skill set that can set you up to be employable in the creative industry as a graphic designer.
After Effects CC: Complete Course from Novice to Expert
Learn and Master Motion Graphics and Visual Effects in After Effects in this course. Understand the concepts behind Animation Techniques. Learn how to Design, Animate, and Sequence complete Motion Graphics Projects. Manipulate all transformations basic and beyond. And more.
UX & Web Design Master Course: Strategy, Design, Development
Everything you need to know about UX, including design, content, and coding. You’ll be exposed to principles and strategies, and you’ll learn how to apply these abstract concepts by coding three different websites for three very different audiences.
Interaction Design Specialization
In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You’ll learn how to generate design ideas, techniques for quickly prototyping them. You’ll also learn principles of visual design, perception, and cognition that inform effective interaction design.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creativity Workshop
The best-selling author of Eat Pray Love will equip you with the practical tools and inspiration to jump-start your own creative journey. You’ll learn why perfectionism, originality, and passion are overrated and why we should instead strive to be authentic doers who follow our curiosity.
