Improve your photography with our free library of downloadable PDF tutorials on everything from night sky, to Lightroom, landscape, cultural imagery, and everything in between. We update this section frequently. Don’t forget to check back often.
Lightroom Essentials — Muench Workshops Online
A year in the making, we’ve built a highly potent and visual learning experience to master photo processing and management with Lightroom Classic. With Lifetime Access to our private community, you will get personal attention from the team of pros at Muench Workshops.
Shooting Handheld Panoramas
This tutorial will help you create large high-resolution panoramic images by stitching together multiple images, without the need for specialized cameras, lenses, or other equipment.
Photographing Birds
Birds are an intriguing photography subject: colorful, varied, and active. Most of us have had the experience of encountering an unusual bird on our travels, and perhaps struggling to capture it well.
The Traveling Photographer
This tutorial is going to cover the basics of file management: preparing your library for travel, developing a backup strategy to safeguard your images, and some basic tips for the traveling photographer.
Photographing Stunning Autumn Color
Autumn color season is one of the most eagerly anticipated times of the year for restless nature photographers. Here are 5 essential tips to help you make the most of the autumn color season.
Using Aperture to Control Depth of Field
Download this PDF if you enjoy wildlife photography. Kevin Lisota discusses how different apertures have both a positive and negative effect on your images.
Focus to Infinity
Taking great shots of stars means making sure that they are in focus, but sharp focus can be challenging to achieve at night. Download this PDF and learn Kevin’s technique.
Focus Stacking: Finding More Depth
Download this PDF to learn the skills of photo stacking. Kevin Lisota will walk you through taking the images and preparing them in post processing to create an image with more depth.
Think Like a Naturalist
Have you ever wondered how great wildlife photographers get that “lucky” shot? Download this PDF and learn how our resident Naturalist, Lisa LaPointe creates such impactful wildlife images.
Creating Emotions in Your Images
Download this PDF and learn how Kevin Pepper creates emotion and tells a story while capturing images in his travels around the world.
How to Photograph Fireworks
Download this PDF and learn how Kevin Lisota suggests making the most of your firework photography.
Focus Stacking for Night Photography
Wayne Suggs covers tips for shooting in the field, focus stacking at night and teaches how he masks images in post processing to create impactful night images.
Our Content-Aware Fill Process
Content-aware fill is a useful tool for extending the edges of your image and eliminating unwanted elements in your photos. This tutorial is written for use with Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop.