Kelby Media Group and Michael Freeman join the Manfrotto School of Xcellence in its online photographic educational programme

Manfrotto School of Xcellence has teamed up with Kelby Media Group and Michael Freeman to publish scheduled editorial and videos from March until December 2011.

Kelby Media Group will provide to the School with a monthly video tutorial about different topics aimed at mainly at beginners who share their pictures online. The aim is to teach with a creative approach the basics of photography. In fact, the tutorials will consists in easy tips and tricks explained in a situational contexts.



Michael Freeman (pictured with camera) will provide the School with a weekly tutorial on different topics ranging from Colour Management toComposition, plunging the students into the many exotic and amazing places around the world that he shot. The beginners will be taken by hand and guided through a visionary and emotional photowalk that will teach them the core rules to get impact images to share with their Social Media mates.

Scott Kelby is Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of Layers Magazine and training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour. Scott is President National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), CEO of Kelby Media Group and author of a string of bestselling technology books. He is also Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo and author of numerous Photoshop training DVDs and online courses. He is co-host of PhotoshopTV, and D-Town TV. 10 jobs, little sleep.http://www.scottkelby.com
http://kelbymediagroup.com/

Michael Freeman is one of the most widely published photographers worldwide who has worked for most major international magazine and book publishers in a long career. A leading photographer for the Smithsonian Magazine for three decades (more than 40 assignment stories), Freeman has also published more than 120 books on subjects as varied as Angkor, Sudan, ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia, the Shakers, and contemporary Japanese design and architecture.

His 50 books on the practise of photography are standard works, and have sold almost two million copies in more than 20 languages. http://www.michaelfreemanphoto.com/

For more information about the contributors of the school and their articles, visit the website: www.manfrottoschoolofxcellence.com